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 […]
Tag: queens
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 […]
NYC Designates Jan. 13 as Korean American Day
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com The New York City Council voted on Wednesday and approved to declare Jan. 13 as Korean American Day in the city, reports the […]
Justin Chon Rules The Streets in ‘Revenge of the Green Dragons’
Sonny looked around the poolroom at the Green Dragons and sized them up: they had fancy clothes, and money, and beepers, and did not go to school. They had […]
Family Found Dead in Queens Apartment Fire, Murder-Suicide Suspected
by REERA YOO A Queens man stabbed his wife and teen son to death before setting their apartment ablaze and slashing his own throat in a grisly murder-suicide, said […]
Queens Public School Accused of Segregating Asian Kindergarteners
by REERA YOO The parents of school children at a Queens, N.Y., public school with a racially diverse makeup are up in arms, demanding to know why one kindergarten […]
NYC Tutoring Center Catering to Korean Students Charged With Abuse
Police arrested two women in the Little Neck neighborhood of Queens, New York, last Wednesday after they were accused of beating four children at a tutoring center targeting young Korean students, […]
Korean Senior Alleging Race-based Attack Files Lawsuit Against McDonald’s
This file photo from the New York Daily News, taken in January 2014, shows Korean American seniors involved in an earlier dispute with a Queens McDonald’s. A Korean American senior citizen in […]
Korean American Woman Jumps To Death In Manhattan
A 29-year-old woman died Wednesday after jumping from the 18th floor of a luxury condo in New York City’s upper East Side, according to the New York Daily News. […]