Community Organizer

Names: Susan Kang and Joyce Kim Website: Soompi.com, an online community for anyone who loves Korean music and entertainment Location: Irvine and San Francisco, Calif. [ad#336] Oftentimes, the most successful…

A Rite of Passage

…taste of ministry. He attended the University of California, Irvine in Orange County and discovered St. Thomas Korean Catholic Center, one of the largest churches in the county, which attracts…

The Making of Peter Rhee

…a civilian surgery residency program at the University of California, Irvine, in 1988, he said he wanted to be a good general surgeon—which was the wrong answer, according to his…

Hallyu Fever at KCON 2015

…didn’t necessarily expect is how truly ‘national’ the event has become in a short time frame.” This was the first year KCON, which debuted in 2012 in Irvine, Calif., held…

Redemption Song

…to a Korean church in Irvine his junior year of high school, and it seemed to work. “Nice church kids, and they embraced me,” Kim says. “I was a church…