If you’re up on your trendy food get ups, you know that Korean fried chicken was the darling of the food media about a year back, thanks in no small part to writeups like this Feb. 2007 New York Times piece that employed words like “apotheosis” to describe the disparity between the Seoul food specialty and its greasier, craggier American counterpart.

The mesmerizing delicacy is available up in the North Philly corridor that people to refer to as “Little Korea” or “Koreatown,” most notably at Café Soho (468 W. Cheltenham Ave., 215-224-6800), a popular spot that Elisa Ludwig dubbed the “Korean version of the Peach Pit” thanks to its “brightly colored lights, young wait staff and crowds of teenagers with asymmetrical haircuts drinking milk shakes.” It has not, however, been easy to come by in the greater Center City vicinity.

That is, until Steve Cho, chef/owner of Meju in Old City, decided to start slanging the stuff.  Read>

Kimberly Ann Gittings is half Korean; the daughter of Kim Yeong-shin.  She was crowned Miss Georgia USA in 2008.  She’s not only a southern belle, but a Southern Korean belle.  Good luck to Miss Gittings of becoming Miss USA! See the Korean interview below.

Grace Kim is the first Korean playmate to grace the cover of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine as Miss November.  Maybe she’s a rebel because she’s a good ol’ California girl raised in a very religious home.  Interestingly she graduated from UCLA with an english degree.  She’s into video games, snowboarding and likes to play a little guitar hero.