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Celebrating Freedom, Fashion, and Social Responsibility at Gallant Suits Launch

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."...

Heejun Han makes it to ‘American Idol’ Top 10!

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 ...

Kyung-sook Shin is the first Korean to win the Man Asian Literary Prize

Posted on 15 March 2012 by Korean Beacon

Kyung-sook Shin 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 ...

North Korean American wins Humanitarian of the Year award

Posted on 01 March 2012 by Andy Jung

Sam Han 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 ...

Ben Henderson is the new UFC Lightweight Champion

Posted on 27 February 2012 by Andy Jung

UFC Lightweight Champion Ben Henderson 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 ...

Increased Number of Korean Churches in the U.S.

Posted on 17 February 2012 by Melissah Yang

Young Nak Presbyterian Church 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 ...

Korean American teenager starts nonprofit startup, Benelab.org

Posted on 15 February 2012 by Andy Jung

Benelab Jack Kim 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 ...

David Choe to become one of the richest street artists in the world

Posted on 06 February 2012 by Eunice Roh

David Choe 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 ...

Girls’ Generation debuts on ‘Letterman’ and ‘Live! With Kelly’

Posted on 01 February 2012 by Andy Jung

Girls' Generation on Letterman and Kelly 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 ...

Ex-North Korean Propagandist Song Byeok’s New Art Direction Against NK Regime

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 ...
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