by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com The driver of a big rig truck that struck and killed an LAPD officer last year in Beverly Hills has been charged […]
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Serial Robber Targeting Korean Women in L.A.
by STEVE HAN | @steve_han editor@charactermedia.com Police are seeking a man suspected of assaulting and robbing four Korean women in Los Angeles between November and December of last year, […]
KoreAm Archive: On Forgetting and Remembering 4.29
Photograph by ©Hyungwon Kang. To mark the 22nd anniversary of the Los Angeles riots this week, KoreAm has been releasing related stories from our archives. This story comes from our April 2002 issue. […]
Korean American LAPD Officer Killed in Crash
Colleagues of Nicholas Choung Lee will remember the recently deceased veteran Los Angeles police officer for his lasting legacy. Lee died in a severe car crash on March 7 when a big rig […]
Asian American Woman Critically Injured After Falling Out Of Moving Cop Car
Kim Nguyen, a 28-year-old accounting and marketing graduate student at Loyola Marymount University, is suing LAPD after falling out of a moving cop car and sustaining critical injuries from […]
December Issue: LAPD Gives Jindo Recruits the Boot
Photo credit: Hyungwon Kang by EUGENE YI It would have made a wonderful story. South Korean Jindo dog enthusiasts donated two puppies to the K-9 division of the Los […]
LAPD To Jindo K-9 Cadets: You're Fired
The Los Angeles Police Department pulled the plug on a months-long project to train two Jindo dogs from South Korea to add to their K-9 unit, according to the […]
The 1% Factor
By K.W. Lee At the dawn of the last century, two leaders of the freed slaves were engaged in a great debate over the correct path toward attaining freedom, […]