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6 unusual facts about Korean American


Cool Calm Pete

Cool Calm Pete is a Korean American rapper and producer with a sometimes hypnotically slow, lazy-sounding rapping style.

KDEY-FM

Soon after it aired a block programming primarily purchased by Korean broadcasters.

Nic Cha Kim

Nic Cha Kim is a Korean American playwright, art curator, and the Founder of Gallery Row in Downtown Los Angeles.

Paul Tanaka

On March 7, 1988, Tanaka was involved in a controversial killing of an unarmed Korean American in Long Beach, sparking outrage among Korean American community leaders.

Paull Shin

Paull Shin (Shin Hobom, Korean: 신호범; born September 27, 1935) is a member of the Washington State Senate, the first Korean American ever elected to the Washington State Legislature.

Thingumajig Theatre

Founded in 2005 by Korean American puppeteer Andrew Kim and British actor/musician Kathy Kim, Thingumajig Theatre is based in Hebden Bridge and Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England.


Korean diaspora

However, an increasing number of aspiring Korean American singers and actors, finding their career progress in Hollywood blocked, choose to go to South Korea through talent and modelling agencies; prominent examples include singer Brian Joo (of R&B duo Fly to the Sky) and actor Daniel Henney (who initially spoke no Korean).

Rebekah Kim

Rebekah Kim (born August 11, 1989, Honolulu), better known by her stage name Bekah, is a Korean American born and raised in Hawaii and former member of South Korean girl group After School.


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Benson Lee

In 1998, his first feature film Miss Monday, Lee became the first Korean-American filmmaker to be accepted to the Dramatic Competition of the Sundance Film Festival where his film was awarded a Special Grand Jury Prize for Best Actor.

Bobby Jack Brand

Bobby Jack Brand is a brand of clothing created by Han Lim Lee, a Korean American Illustrator and sold in the United States since 2002; the brand is headquartered in Bell, California.

Doosan Bears

Korean-American Pittsburgh Steeler Hines Ward threw out the first pitch at a Doosan Bears game on a visit to Korea in 2006.

Elaine Kim

Elaine H. Kim, Korean-American writer and professor of Asian American Studies

Eric Kim

Eric B. Kim, Korean-American businessman in the technology field

History of the Korean Americans in Los Angeles

It, along with Greater New York City, is one of the two principal areas of Korean settlement, and the number of ethnic Koreans in Greater Los Angeles is 15% of the United States's Korean American population.

Hye-kyung

Shelly Hye-Kyung Hwang, Korean American businesswoman, co-founder of frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry

Ji-tae

Justin Chon (born 1981), Korean American actor whose middle name is Jitae

KBFD-DT

Although the station airs various programs from many Asian countries, most of the programs seen on KBFD are geared to a Korean audience since most of its lineup features programs acquired from the Korean Broadcasting System, the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation and SBS.

Kim Lee

Lee Ann Kim, Korean American anchor for the San Diego, California, ABC television affiliate; activist for the Asian American community

Korean ethnic nationalism

In 2006, American football player Hines Ward, who was born in Seoul to a South Korean mother and an African American father became the first Korean American to win the Super Bowl MVP award.

Kyu-Won

Kyu Won Han, Korean-American baritone with an active international opera career

Leonard Chang

Chang's experiments in crime fiction is related to this shift, since the stories revolve around solving a mystery or crime, and despite the fact that the protagonist is Korean American, the debt here is more to crime and noir writers like Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Ross Macdonald.

Lucy H. Koh

She is the first Asian American United States District Court Judge in the Northern District of California, the first District Court Judge of Korean descent in the United States, the first female Korean American Article III judge, and the second Korean American federal judge, after Herbert Choy of the Ninth Circuit.

Min-kyu

Brian Min-Kyu Joo (born 1981), Korean American R&B singer, member of Fly to the Sky

Morcheeba

On this album, the Godfrey brothers emphasised their role as producers creating a set of instrumental tracks entirely sung by a roster of guest performers—cult folk-rock singer Judie Tzuke, Norwegian singer-songwriter and former Jaga Jazzist collaborator Thomas Dybdahl, blues singer/guitarist Bradley Burgess, Korean-American rapper Cool Calm Pete, and French singer Manda (Amanda Zamolo).

Richard Kim

Richard E. Kim (born 1932), Korean-American writer and professor of literature

Sea of Japan naming dispute

In the United States state of Virginia, state lawmaker David W. Marsden, acting on behalf of Korean-American voters, introduced a bill to the education panel of the Senate of Virginia that would have required public school textbooks to include both Sea of Japan and East Sea as names.

Superstar K2

This program began on July 23, 2010 and ended October 22, 2010 with the announcement of Huh Gak (허각) as the winner and Korean-American John Park as the runner-up.

The New Press

The New Press publishes about 50 titles each year, ranging from national bestsellers such as Studs Terkel's Race, Peter Irons's May It Please the Court, and James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me to smaller but significant titles such as East to America: Korean American Life Stories and Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education.

Yang Yun

James Yun (born 1981), Korean American professional wrestler who used the ringname Yun Yang in World Championship Wrestling

Young-joo

Sarah Chang, birth name Young-Joo Chang (born 1980), Korean American female violinist

Younghill Kang

Martyrdom in Korean American Literature: Resistance and Paradox in East Goes West, Quiet Odyssey, Comfort Woman and Dictee.