Korean Community: PRINTING ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS - IN KOREAN
A newspaper battle is brewing in the Korean community between two publishers who are trying to grab the attention of a growing segment of Boston's population.Myong Sool Chang recently left the paper he edited for six years, the New England Korean News, and last month began publishing The Boston Korean, a 20-page weekly newspaper. Some of his former paper's advertisers now advertise in both papers. The 32-page New England Korean News plans next month to go from...
Korean Community to Float Messages
Giant Korean fan dancers will roll down the route of the 99th Tournament of Roses Parade on New Year's Day, waving their mechanical arms and heralding the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.But the Korean-American community's first-ever entry in the Pasadena rite will carry another message as well--that the Korean community is a flowering, integral part of American society."The Korean community locally is getting stronger and in the United States as a...
Korean Community: Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows . . .
Korean, and the drinks are served straight up
There's a hip new nightclub in Norcross where a night on the town means sipping O.B. beer, grazing on dried squid and dancing to popular rocker Ok Hee. And all the party people in the house speak Korean. Metro Atlanta's fast-growing Korean population went uptown last month with the opening of the Buford Korea Night Club. Atlanta has several small bar-restaurants that cater to Koreans, but Buford Korea is Atlanta's first Korean night club. The need for such...
Korean Community: Gloria K. Lee, pioneer among Seattle Koreans,
Obituary
When Gloria K. Lee arrived in Seattle in 1948, a local Korean community did not exist. So she went about helping to build one, first by looking after new arrivals from Korea and later by co-founding important local-service institutions for Koreans. "She was a teacher and a social activist," said Jay Sho, a senior pastor at the Korean Presbyterian Church of Seattle, which Mrs. Lee helped to found in 1974 and where she served as a deacon. "She was very...
Korean Community: The Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri:
Floating between cultures
With globalization lessening the importance of nationalities and national boundaries, the Korean community in Japan has produced a new crop of talented writers, artists and academics who venture beyond their ethnicity to seek more universal values and perspectives.The diverse Korean community includes Japan's largest single group of foreigners: the "old-comers" who comprise those brought to Japan before and during World War II and their descendants. But...