I Am KoreAm: Bill Yoon

…South Korean government offers free trips for US military veterans of the Korean War. Why doesn’t the South Korean government offer free trips to the surviving Korean Pioneers? There aren’t…

Korea’s Berlin Wall

…as the standoff remains, so will the division. To those of the Korean diaspora, Mrs. Shin urges more vocal participation in demanding that the United States changes the Korean War

Man On A Mission

…6, 1938, in North Korea. When the Korean War broke out in 1950, a 12-year-old Buck and three of his nine siblings fled to the South. Though the rest of…

Free, Free Chol Soo Lee

…birth to Chol Soo at a roadside inn on Aug. 15, 1952, amid the Korean War and on the seven-year anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese occupation. Banished by her…

On Motherhood

…aid after the Korean War. But few people seem to question why overseas Korean adoption peaked in 1985, decades after a cease-fire was signed in 1953. These numbers show that…