…hub that was suddenly emptied after President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order that sent Japanese Americans on the West Coast to internment camps. After World War II ended, some…
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The Right to Say, “I Do”
…filed by 23 same-sex couples and the fourth by the city of San Francisco — challenging the state’s current ban of same-sex marriage that resulted from Proposition 22. The 2000…
Tuesday’s Links: NKorea Building Disaster; New SKorean PM; Dan Matthews at UW
…President Park Geun-hye’s nomination of former Supreme Court Justice Ahn Dae-hee for Prime Minister on May 22 is raising questions about whether the choice can save her and the ruling…
The 1% Factor
…rumors that there was no Holocaust. Remember, those survivors wanted to forget their painful memories and move forward. Ditto the Japanese American survivors of the internment camps. A handful of…
“We Are Hokies”
…feel it.” The 22-year-old Seattle native also says Cho’s identity struck an uncomfortable chord with him. “I’m Korean, I’m also an English major like him, I’m also a senior,” he…
Steven Yeun To Adapt And Star In ‘The Aquariums of Pyongyang’
by RUTH KIM In addition to killing off zombies in the post-apocalyptic world of The Walking Dead, actor Steven Yeun will take on a new role as North Korea defector…
Link Attack: Fugitive Yoo May Be Armed, Forever 21 Exec’s New Brand, Best Books On NKorea
…when it comes to North Korea, the appetite for information is huge. From first hand accounts of prison camps survivors to defectors once part of the top echelons of government,…
South Korean Teens & Boot Camp
photo credit: Los Angeles Times Apparently, the new fad for South Korean parents is sending their children to boot camp–physical, labor-intensive Marine-operated camps where children as young as 7 spend…
Korea vs Libya
…residents, a missionary named Koo and a farmer named Jeon, on charges of breaking Muslim law. Libya detainment camps are often used to hold African refugees who attempt to illegally…
September Issue: Schooling the Next Generation of Fathers
…famous “boot camps,” conducted in Korean, there has been an increasing demand for a school for the next generation of fathers. This past May’s Father School retreat in the Cleveland…
January Issue: The Real Story Behind College Student Turned Libyan Freedom Fighter Chris Jeon
…base camps.” BY MORNING, he’d decided to go home. Chris Jeon was scheduled for a full load of classes the fall term of his senior year—linear algebra, differential equations, game…
Op-Ed: John Cho Speaks On COVID-19 Racism
…darker stereotypes that prevail. My wife’s families were incarcerated in camps during World War II, even while her great-uncles were serving in an all-Japanese American battalion of the U.S. Army….
Kim Jong-Un’s Ex-Girlfriend Among 12 Executed by North Korea for ‘Pornography’
…the accused were made to watch on as they were executed, the newspaper reported. Afterward, they were reportedly sent to prison camps under North Korea’s principle of guilt by association….
Actor Rich Ting Is Ditching The Dojo For A ‘High Castle’
…Ting, whose childhood home was often devoid of his Japanese heritage. “My grandparents were born in California and were the quintessential Japanese Americans that were interned in the concentration camps…
New Additions To Your Bookshelf
…the United States. Their reality is thrown into chaos as the siblings are put through refugee camps and detention centers and eventually end up in the United Kingdom, where they…
