A group of Korean-American housewives have released a statement opposing the full opening of the Korean market to US beef, reports the Kyunghyang Shinmun.
The group, called in Korean the “Korean-American Housewives Group Demanding Renegotiation of Beef Imports,” refuted point-by-point a May 7 statement by another Korean-American group supporting US beef. The group said it felt [...]
Okay, here’s a little break from bird flu and beef. No NSFW pics, but we’ll have to make due with a more heart warming story for the time being.
According to a local Daytona Beach, FL paper, a Korean American immigrant tracked down a veteran of the 24th Infantry Division who had took him under his [...]
My latest KT piece is on the candidacy of a Korea-American for Congress. The unusual part is that he is running in North Carolina, a state that generally sees ‘ethnic politics’ in black and white terms.
There is a Korean connection, besides his immigrant status:
His journey into politics began in 2002, when he returned to Korea [...]
Shockingly, Korean-Americans do not appear to be flocking to underpaid English-teaching positions in the Korean countryside. The problem? Well, you guys just don’t feel Korean enough:
Many ethnic Koreans in the United States reacted negatively to the Lee Myung-bak government’s plan to use a pool of young Korean Americans for the promotion of English education at [...]
April 22, 2008 – 10:35 am
When Virginia Tech needed someone to help Korean students deal with the mass shootings last April, they contacted Harvard education lecturer Josephine Kim, who spent two weeks with the students in Falling Waters, West Virginia. After this experience, she realized the need to reach out to young Korean-Americans coping with high expectations, communication barriers, [...]
April 21, 2008 – 12:09 am
There is an interesting interview with Global Voices contributor, Kim Hye-Jin, a Korean contributor to Global Voices, who has written a novel called Jia — A Novel of North Korea. The interview is here.
Kim Hye-Jin also “works as a development adviser for the Singapore Korean School and as a technical interpreter facilitating [...]
April 11, 2008 – 11:56 am
I know what you’re thinking. “Oh no, not another gyopo bitching about hagwon hiring only white folk.”
Fear not, however. This time, we have gyopo bitching about discrimination that favors Korean citizens over them.
The Busan Ilbo tells the sad tale of young Mr. Yang, a 25-year-old Korean-American who hasn’t quite finished his four-year degree from UCLA. [...]
Ethnic Koreans in Central Asia are reportedly inspired by Korea’s first astronaut, Yi So-yeon:
If Yi So-Yeon represents everything that is youthful and optimistic about her homeland, the ethnic Koreans resident around Baikonur cosmodrome are testimony to a painful period of uprooting and hardship under the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
“My soul is rejoicing! It’s even better [...]
The Education Ministry is pushing a plan to use overseas Korean students and “foreign” students in Korea-related majors as after-school English teachers in rural areas.
The ministry plans to implement the program, designed to help alleviate the shortage of foreign English teachers in rural areas, beginning this summer vacation.
The ministry noted, however, that it would be [...]
(This is a little old, but I didn’t find it in the Hole. If this has been posted here before, will our Dear Leader please delete it.)
This story from The Japan Times starts out innocently enough:
Yoon, a feisty 32-year-old Korean woman with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, is happy to be living and working in her newly adopted [...]
Over at Boing Boing, there’s a short documentary on the wackiness and intrigue that is Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
(HT to reader)
March 26, 2008 – 12:42 pm
This is beyond words — beating your family to death with a fucking baseball bat before offing yourself:
A former bank executive facing trial for embezzlement beat to death his wife and the couple’s four adopted children before killing himself by ramming his car into a highway sign post, police said on Tuesday.
Investigators in Iowa City [...]
March 19, 2008 – 12:56 pm
Police in Gyeonggi-do announced Wednesday that they have arrested a 31-year-old English teacher who was wanted by the American FBI for a 1996 home home invasion in Pennsylvania. The home’s occupant, a former police officer, was shot dead during the crime.
The teacher, identified as Mr. Nam, posted a US$1 million bail and fled to Korea [...]
Some 28,000 Koreans are on “working holiday” in Australia, making them the second largest holders of working holiday visas in Australia after the British.
Unsuk Chin, a successful Korean composer, from Seoul National University who later studied with Gyorgy Ligeti, will be coming to Seoul next month for a video presentation of her opera, Alice in Wonderland at Kumho Art Hall. Chin’s latest orchestra piece, Rocana, just received its New York premiere, with Kent Nagano conducting. Below [...]
Amazingly, this managed to fly under the radar here, but last month, a Korean-American artist was gunned down by police in Orange County, California. From the LA Times:
On New Year’s Eve, La Habra police shot and killed Michael Cho in a strip mall parking lot when he allegedly threatened officers with a tire iron.
The killing [...]
A Maryland lawmaker “wants her recourse” against (mostly Korean) dry cleaners who damage clothing:
A D.C. judge’s $54 million lawsuit against his neighborhood dry cleaners over a lost pair of gray trousers prompted worldwide ridicule but is now being taken seriously in the Maryland legislature.
If a delegate has her way, dry cleaners in Maryland would be [...]
When a reader emails “You must post this,” I’ve got to post it.
So without further ado…
First we had “Stuff White People Like.” Now we have “Stuff Asian People Like.”
Sphere: Related Content
Say you are a hard-working immigrant from Korea in the D.C. suburbs of northern Viginia and you feel like relaxing with a bit of the old country. What can you do?
Don’t worry. Adam Smith’s invisible hand is here to help you get that old-school jimjilbang experience (Washington Post):
Behind the modest facade of a 1980s-era Fairfax County strip [...]
February 29, 2008 – 10:59 am
If you want to read zainichi judo star and K-1 fighter Yoshihiro Akiyama (Chu Seong-hun) bitch about being discriminated against in both Japan AND Korea, read on.
Frankly, there’s only so sorry I can feel for a guy with such great hair and girlfriend who looks like this (although I’ve always been partial to her friend [...]
