Posted on 25 October 2012 by Eunice Roh
This past Sunday evening, three organizations, Freedom and Fashion, Gallant Suits, and Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST), came together for Gallants Suits’ Launch Party to discuss the fight to end sex trafficking and why people need to "wear our values."...
Posted on 16 March 2012 by Eunice Roh
Last night, with his performance of "Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx, Heejun Han passed the elimination round to be one of the ten contestants to participate in American Idol's 2012 Summer Tour. Han is also the first Korean American to make it to the Top 10 in ...
Posted on 15 March 2012 by Korean Beacon
After being longlisted for the award last November, Kyung-sook Shin became the first Korean and first woman to win the Man Asian Literary Prize, an annual literary award given to the best novel by an Asian writer.
Shin won the prestigious award for her ...
Posted on 01 March 2012 by Andy Jung
At age 16, Sang Man (Sam) Han was adopted by an American WWII veteran named Arthur E. Schneider. This was after the Korean War so Schneider was given special permission to bring Han to the U.S. as his adopted son. Han then went on to study ...
Posted on 27 February 2012 by Andy Jung
On February 26, Ben Henderson, the half Korean and half black mixed martial artist, fought a close and grueling 25-minute championship fight against former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar (who had not lost a single fight ...
Posted on 17 February 2012 by Melissah Yang
Young Nak Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles, the largest Korean American megachurch
Christian Today has reported that, as of December 2011, the number of Korean churches in the U.S. is a staggering 4,096. As a result, the ratio of ...
Posted on 15 February 2012 by Andy Jung
At the young age of 16, Jack Kim started Benelab.org, a "nonprofit web start-up" that performs almost the same web searching functions as Google and shares the social consciousness of GoodSearch–a search engine that donates 50% of its advertising revenue to the charity ...
Posted on 06 February 2012 by Eunice Roh
From the streets to new riches, literally.
Choe's “dirty style” artwork has a large following, and luckily, among his biggest fans is Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, who became a patron of his work and was paid in Facebook stocks when Choe was asked to ...
Posted on 01 February 2012 by Andy Jung
Nine-member K-pop group, Girls' Generation made their U.S network TV debut by performing their hot single, "The Boys," on The Late Show with David Letterman last night (Jan. 31).
One of the most watched late-night shows, The Late ...
Posted on 27 January 2012 by Eunice Roh
They say that one tiny pebble can start a ripple effect that can reach towards the farthest ends of the waters. Then that one tiny pebble can be reincarnated as artist and satirist Song Byeok who, with his message-loaded agit-pop art, is spreading awareness of ...
