Korean Community: ROYALS SAYS, 'SERVING THE COMMUNITY IS GOD'S WORK'
Ferguson Avenue-area resident Kim Royals is the "godmother of the Savannah Korean community."That's what a Korean-language newspaper in Atlanta wrote recently about Royals, who owns and operates the Sonshine Coiffures hair-styling salon in Sandfly on the outskirts of Isle of Hope and is in her fourth year as president of the Korean Association of Savannah. The newspaper's characterization of Kim accompanied a story about the Korean...
Korean Community: In any language, discord drives apart Koreans and Palisades Park locals
For the Korean community in Palisades Park and its neighboring towns, the karaoke clubs and Korean restaurants that stay open until the early hours of the morning are the perfect place to cap off a celebratory evening. For many non-Asian residents of Palisades Park, the establishments are civic disturbances that flout the law and do little to improve the quality of life in the small Bergen County community. The issue is just one of many that have divided Palisades...
Korean Community: MIDLANDS PROFILE: ETHNIC SPORTS -- GAMES UNIFY KOREANS
The true function of sports in society is not merely determining a winner and a loser. Sports at its best acts as a communal thread, one that reinforces cultural values and helps build a sense of community.Perhaps nowhere is this function of sports more profound and evident than among cultures that find themselves squarely in the minority. Columbia's Korean community is no exception. At the Korean Community Church on Richland Street's Fall Festival, a version of a...
Dora Kim -- activist for S.F. Korean community
Dora Yum Kim, a Korean American pioneer, community activist and co-founder of the Korean Community Service Center in San Francisco, died Friday in a Vallejo nursing home. She was 84 and had suffered from kidney failure. Born in 1921 in Manteca (San Joaquin County), she moved with her parents to San Francisco the same year. Her family lived in Chinatown, where her father, Man Suk Yum, a Korean immigrant, prospered and over time owned a restaurant, hotel, cigar shop, and apartment...
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...
