What is han? Denoting a sense of deep sorrow, frustration, resentment, and anger that comes from suffering and trauma, han 한 恨 is often presented as a quintessentially Korean feeling. Some insist that only Koreans can truly comprehend and experience it. While the cultural significance of han has declined significantly in South Korea since the late…
“Squid Game” made history yet again at the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards by winning outstanding performance by male and female actor in a drama series. Lee Jung-Jae and Ho-Yeon Jung were big winners at the award ceremony this Sunday. It is the very first time a non-English-language TV series has won any acting prizes, let…
Memorial funds and events organized for two Korean American women killed in NYC in 2022. In the early hours of Sunday, February 13, a 911 call was made from the residents in the Chinatown building about a woman screaming for help. The police arrived within minutes and heard the screaming stop abruptly. Christina Yuna Lee…
Standard General’s Soo Kim triumphed in his third attempt at acquiring Tegna (NYSE: TGNA), the media giant that owns 64 TV stations across 51 US markets. The $5.4 billion deal is a huge win for Korean American Soo Kim, who was already Tegna’s largest shareholder. Last year Kim called on the company to open its…
Submit your original work to win a poetry prize of $1,000. “Poetry inspires me and my fellow Korean poets in America because it is beautiful and more glorious than the prose world I know.” The winning poem will embody the spirit of Dr. Yearn Hong Choi, a professor and poet who composed cross-cultural works depicting…
In January 2022, Rose Lee was elected by Honeywell International to be the newest member of their board of directors, becoming the first Korean American woman to sit on the board of a Fortune 100 company. This news came on the heels of an even more impressive achievement when, in September 2021, Rose Lee became…
Time Predicted It and Chloe Kim Delivered: KA Snowboarder Wins Gold Medal #2 in Beijing When Chloe Kim appeared on the cover of Time magazine on January 31, 2022, she had a tremendous amount of pressure on her going into the Beijing Olympics as the defending champion of the Snowboard Halfpipe competition. But she prevailed…
It is not a surprise that Squid Game is one of the most talked-about contenders for the 2022 awards season. Since its debut on September 17, 2021, Squid Game became the #1 show in 94 countries on Netflix including the US. It became the most-watched Netflix show of all time by October 2021, and it…
Single’s Inferno became the first Korean reality show to make it onto the Netflix Top 10 TV Shows. According to streaming analytics company FlixPatrol, Single’s Inferno ranked number 10 most watched TV show globally on Netflix last week. Following the stunning popularity of Squid Game (2021), Single’s Inferno features twelve contestants competing against each other,…
Squid Game’s Hoyeon Jung will make her American Vogue cover debut in February 2022. The South Korean fashion model turned actress has been rising in the star ranks ever since her appearance in Squid Game, the all time #1 most watched show on Netflix. Vogue is a 129 year old international fashion magazine with editions…