“Quantico” star Priyanka Chopra announced Tuesday on NBC’s “Today Show” that she will co-host this year’s Global Citizen Festival. Global Citizen, an organization that brings awareness to issues around […]
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Asian American International Film Festival kicks off July 21
The Asian American International Film Festival, which began as the first event of its kind in 1978 and which remains the longest-running, will highlight the best from the APIA […]
Jeremy Lin’s hoping for a long-term home in the Nets
As he returns to New York in a Brooklyn Nets jersey, Jeremy Lin is hoping he’s found the long-term home he’s been searching for. In his first public comments Saturday following […]
Jeremy Lin signs 3-year, $36 million contract with Nets
New York, welcome back Linsanity. Jeremy Lin, who became a free agent after playing for the Charlotte Hornets last season, has signed with the Brooklyn Nets for a reported […]
The Ultimate Travel Guide to New York’s Meatpacking District
Story by Kanara Ty. Before I went to New York City this past summer, I asked a colleague for some tips on her favorite spots in Manhattan – best […]
Hats Off to Eugenia Kim, Milliner to the Stars
Nearly two decades after making the serendipitous switch from pre-med to fashion, the milliner and shoe designer turns her inventive creations into an established brand. by SARAH MIN Eleven years […]
Machete-Wielding Man Slashes Korean Woman in Bryant Park
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com A machete-wielding man slashed a South Korean woman in the arm in an unprovoked attack in Bryant Park on Tuesday, according to media […]
Patricia Park’s Korean American Retelling of ‘Jane Eyre’
Pictured above is Korean American author Patricia Park with the cover of her debut novel, Re Jane. (Headshot by Allana Taranto) by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com When Korean […]
Fitbit Goes Public, Co-Founder Confident in Further Growth
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com Fitbit on Thursday became the first startup in the wearable fitness tracker industry to go public, and needless to say, it got off […]
Lotte Group Buys New York Palace Hotel for $805 Million
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com South Korea’s Lotte Group announced on Sunday that it had inked a deal to acquire the swanky New York Palace Hotel for $805 million […]
Friends, Family of Murdered South Korean Woman Seek Justice
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com Friends and colleagues of Sunny Kim, a 26-year-old South Korean woman who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend, have launched a GoFundMe campaign to […]
Meet the Team Behind EXP: “I’m Making a Boy Band”
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com Columbia University student Bora Kim riled up the K-pop world about a month ago when word of her MFA thesis project–a non-Korean […]
New York’s Russian-Language Math Test Includes Korean Questions Due to Glitch
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com About 200 eighth-grade students in New York might have to retake their state’s standardized math exam after a glitch mistakenly printed some of […]
Korean Restaurant in NYC Ordered to Pay $2.7 Million in Back Wages
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo reeraboo@charactermedia.com A judge has ordered Kum Gang San, a 24-hour Korean restaurant with branches in Flushing and Manhattan, to pay $2.7 million in damages […]
Link Attack: Yeon-mi Park, Racist Frat Email, Tokyo Students Say “We’re Friends” with Koreans
The Woman Who Faces the Wrath of North Korea Yeon-mi Park is a 21-year-old North Korean defector who has devoted herself to revealing the brutal truth about the country, […]
