In the Dong-A Ilbo, Kim Dong-suk of the New York-New Jersey Korean-American Voters Council New York correspondent Gong Jong-sik writes how “the Jews control the United States” (to quote the headline), even making Washington act contrary to US national interests. Nice image, too. Maybe Kong is just upset about the Wall of Jews ™? (HT [...]
Meanwhile, in the United States, an Indiana woman has been arrested for killing her 13-month-old adopted Korean daughter. Terrible. BTW, just in case you didn’t know the woman was white, Newsis helps with its headline, “White Adopted Mother Arrested on Murder Charges in Death of Adopted Korean Child.”
Yonhap reports that there has been a flood of people from Korea, the United States and Thailand, applying to adopt the 7-year-old Korean girl abandoned by her adoptive parents — Dutch diplomats — in Hong Kong. Hong Kong social services is also talking with Korean couples in Hong Kong, who have apparently been granted priority. [...]
Concerning this outrage, GOAL — the Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link — is questioning the legality of the adoption and demanding accountability from the Korean and Dutch governments.
A Korean (or Korean-American — the story doesn’t make it clear) senior at Virginia Tech was found shot dead in his car on Dec 9, a relative said Wednesday.
The circumstances of his death have yet to be released, but police told relatives they believe the death to be a suicide, pointing to the fact that [...]
The Fairfax Times looks at how the Korean-American vote help Democrat Chap Petersen win state senatorial elections in Virginia. Petersen has close ties to the Korean community through his wife, a Korean-American. Obviously something I need to remember should I ever run for public office in Arlington, Virginia (where — sit down for this — [...]
Ye Olde Chosun reports that Korean-Americans are getting into the Korean presidential election spirit.
Granted, I’m not an associate professor at the University of Maryland, but I must say, these attempts to link the Virginia Tech shooting to problems within the Korean-American community make me quite uncomfortable.
The Ceeb takes a look at the angry Asian man, an “emerging cultural figure in North America.”
“All Asian guys are angry,” says Shigematsu, a stand-up comic and former CBC radio host who made Yellow Fellas over seven years, with only $5,000. “It’s just a question of whether they’re in touch with it or not.”
The image [...]
The Kim Kyung-jun case is not really well chronicled here. I have only half paid attention to it since it suspiciously looks like a smear campaign, and because, let’s face it, “corruption” stories in Korean newspapers might as well be weather reports (morning light extortion and influence peddling, leading to bribes and price fixing in [...]
It’s official — Roy Pearson, the jackass administrative law judge that tried to sue a family of Korean immigrants for $67 million over a lost pair of pants, has lost his job.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving asshole.
On a positive note for Pearson, though, Korea is always looking for more English teachers.
(HT to hoju_saram)
Jason Lim discusses singer Steve Yoo, uh, Yoo Seung-joon and the complexities of being a Korean-American. As he concludes, “Korean Americans are only wholly empowered when they are allowed to be both Korean and American. In short, Korean American should not be forced to become an oxymoron.” A controversial subject to be sure, and one [...]
Or so lectures “gyopohood” ideologue Alex Lee. Because he likes to lecture. Everyone.
With debate intensifying over Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s partial retreat from his plan to offer NY state driver’s licenses to “undocumented Americans,” I couldn’t help but notice who’s involved in some of the protests (see image). For quotes (although not necessarily from the group in the photo), see here. Obviously, my sympathy is somewhat dulled by [...]
It’s even worse when overseas Koreans start bad-mouthing you, too:
After her husband was killed [in the 2002 West Coast naval skirmish between North and South Korea], Kim organized a memorial society for the servicemen who died in the battle. But she was frustrated by the South Korean government’s downplaying and minimizing of the battle in [...]
In an exclusive report, the Seoul Shinmun (Korean) reports that “radical Korean Christian groups” have secretly restarted missionary work in Afghanistan.
The paper, following a tip from some Christian official, talked with Afghan officials, Christian missionary groups and the Foreign Ministry. It learned that despite a travel ban put on Afghanistan in August, some missionary [...]
A couple of days ago, the WaPo took a look at improving workplace relations between Koreans and Hispanics in the Washington DC area. Give it a read — here’s just the intro:
At Korean-owned Super H Mart in Fairfax, where Hispanic workers bag groceries and Korean employees run the tills, a window into the increasingly diverse [...]
It seems some folk are unhappy with Flushing. In the Daily News, Lion Calandra writes:
After dinner, a friend and I strolled up 37th Ave. As we peeked into store windows, I realized that I couldn’t identify any of the businesses. Travel agent? Real estate? Dentist? Card store? One shop seemed to sell housewares, but every [...]
A murder-suicide involving a Korean-Canadian family has stunned an upscale British Columbia neighborhood. Absolutely terrible. [Globe and Mail, HT to reader]
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