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Korean rappers build a bridge with blacks, define own experience
2007-04-28 17:53:00 LOS ANGELES- Crammed into a room on the third floor of a church, rapper DumbFounDead spits freestyle rhymes with six other emcees while about a dozen 20-somethings bob their heads to the music. It's not just the music that makes the scene notable; it's the rappers. DumbFounDead, whose real name is Jonathan Park, is Korean -American. The others include three blacks, two Hispanics and another Korean-American. Park is part of a thriving Korean rap scene in the city's vast Koreatown, where concerts and impromptu rap battle sessions occur in churches and cafes, and aspiring lyricists swap songs... More About: Experience , Ridge , Blacks , Build
Most influential to Most Beautiful, Rain is shattering cultural barriers
2007-04-28 17:28:00 Rain, who is currently on a world tour, was selected by People magazine for its annual roundup of the world's 100 most beautiful people.According to Rain's management company JYP Entertainment, Rain is one of just seven non-Americans on this years list. The company said that Rain spoke with People Magazine on the phone last month for a half-page article about him to accompany the list. I am very honoured. This will be a great boom to my efforts to raise public awareness of me in the United States,... More About: Rain , Beautiful , Ring , Most , Barr
Most influential to Most Beautiful, Rain is shattering cultural barriers
2007-04-28 17:28:00 Rain, who is currently on a world tour, was selected by People magazine for its annual roundup of the world's 100 most beautiful people.According to Rain's management company JYP Entertainment, Rain is one of just seven non-Americans on this years list. The company said that Rain spoke with People Magazine on the phone last month for a half-page article about him to accompany the list. I am very honoured. This will be a great boom to my efforts to raise public awareness of me in the United States,... More About: Rain , Beautiful , Barr , Arri , Beau
Most influential to Most Beautiful, Rain is shattering cultural barriers
2007-04-28 17:28:00 Rain, who is currently on a world tour, was selected by People magazine for its annual roundup of the world's 100 most beautiful people.According to Rain's management company JYP Entertainment, Rain is one of just seven non-Americans on this years list. The company said that Rain spoke with People Magazine on the phone last month for a half-page article about him to accompany the list. I am very honoured. This will be a great boom to my efforts to raise public awareness of me in the United States,... More About: Rain , Beautiful , Barr , Arri , Beau
Kim Ha-nuel in Sexy InStyle Magazine
2007-04-28 17:13:00 Kim Ha-neul takes this opportunity with InStyle Magazin e to show off her Sexy side. The photo shoot was taken in various exotic locations in Vietnam. An InStyle Magazine spokesman was quotes as saying of Kim Ha-neul, she has femme fatale look, she is also very stylish in a sensuous way . Kim Ha-neul is one of Korea's beiggest drama Actress, and it seems she wants to branch out with her talents. She also seems very proud of the hardwork in the gym getting her body in tip...
Koreans, Korean Americans cry for 33
2007-04-28 16:35:00 Like everyone else -- here (Seattle), there (Virginia), West (United States), East (Kore a) and everywhere (the larger world), I have been shocked and horrified over the Virginia Tech shooting. I have been trying to make sense of something that is senseless. Personally, the emotions have been even more convoluted because of my bicultural identity. I was born in Korea, immigrated to the United States at the age of 6 and thus am Korean American. I am also a U.S. citizen; I am a Korean American male immigrant and even share the same surname as the... More About: Americans , Koreans
Miss Korea Hopes to rebuild Korea's Tarnished image
2007-04-24 21:51:00 Lee Honey, the winner of the 50th Miss Korea beauty pageant, left Korea on Wednesday to take part in the 2007 Miss Universe contest. Lee and her family are headed for Mexico City where the international event will take place on May 28. I hope to have an opportunity to rebuild Korea's image which was tarnished by the tragic deaths at Virginia Tech, Lee said in an interview with the Korea Times, which hosts the Miss Korea pageant. I will do my best while aiming for first place. Lee will spend three... More About: Hopes , Hope , Image
James Kyson Lee on NBC Heros
2007-04-24 20:20:00 James Kyson Lee may not be a household name yet, but as Ando in NBC's hit TV show Hero es, he has instantly gained a huge fan following alongside everyone's favorite time traveler, Hiro Nakamura. But before Heroes exploded on to television screens everywhere, he was finishing up an independent short film called Akira's HipHopShop. It's a romantic comedy about a young Japanese guy who owns a record store, Lee told CBR News. He gets into a relationship with an African American girl. It's a coming from two different cultures kind of... More About: Heros , Eros , James , Ames
Steve Byrne- The Wedding Crasher
2007-04-24 17:40:00 Steve Byrne is one of the hardest working comedians out there today. Born in Freehold NJ to a Korean mother and Irish father has provided him with a wealth of material. Steve has appeared on The Late, Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Last Call with Carson Daly, The Howard Stern Show, MTV's True Life, BET's Comic View, Comedy Central's Premium Blend, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Chappelle's Show and his own 1/2 hour Comedy... More About: Steve , Wedding , Crash
Korean B-Boys Takes on the World
2007-04-24 16:37:00 Break dancing, the athletic high-energy street dance, is a uniquely U.S. phenomenon and the best break dancers or B-boys and B-girls are American, right? Wrong. Young South Kore an s have taken to break dancing with the same sort of passion that their parents devoted to building Asia's third largest economy and now regularly win B-boy dance competitions, beating U.S. and European rivals at their own game. Break dancing sprang from the streets of urban America in the late 1970s building over the years into an international youth movement with a number of strands including dance, rapping, graffiti... More About: World , The World , Boys
Why Is Cho's Foreign Status An Issue?
2007-04-22 18:17:00 'The assumption is made that somehow Cho's place of birth ... has something to do with the massacre,' Pak says about VT gunman. As we all begin to reflect on the week that has passed, I think I can safely say I'm done with the 24-hour coverage, I'm done with the pulling-apart of every one of the killer's last words. I'm done with psychiatrists, criminologists, landlords and experts. Seung-Hui Cho was a mentally unstable student who committed the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. We will never know the... More About: Tatu , Foreign , Status , Stat , Fore
Bobby Lee is Kickin' It Old Skool
2007-04-20 05:12:00 Bobby Lee the hilarious Korean American comedian is Kick in’ It Old Skool. His new film with Jamie Kennedy will premier April 27th and audiences around the globe will get a taste of his crazy antics. Synopsis He may have worn hi-tops and parachute pants instead of a top hat and tails, but 12-year old Justin Rocket Shoe Schumaker and his killer moves could dance his way into just about any girl's heart. That was in 1985, when Justin and his break dance posse -- the Funky Fresh Boyz... More About: Bobby , Kool
Pianist striking inspirational chords with just four fingers
2007-04-20 04:42:00 A Korean pianist brought tears to the eyes of some people attending her concert in China this month, but it was more than the beauty of her music that moved the audience. It was the story behind how Lee Hee-a, 21, came to be playing at a sold-out concert in Beijing. Learning to play the piano at the age of six is no easy feat for any child, but Lee was born with only four fingers with which to work. Classified as disabled at birth, Lee Hee-a doesn't even have legs below her knees. But after putting in... More About: Inspirational , Chords , King , Four , Rational
American family's love of Korea recalled decades later
2007-04-20 04:39:00 For 88-year-old Bruce Taylor, Korea is not just another Asian country, but the country of my father, one his American family started shaping deep-rooted ties with a century ago when his grandfather came here to work in the gold mining industry. Bruce's late father, Albert Taylor, is buried in a small foreigners' cemetery in a quiet corner of the bustling South Korean capital, Seoul, alongside his father, George Taylor who died in 1908. Of the 413 foreigners buried there, the Taylors are among the lesser known ones. My father considered it his home... More About: Love , Ades , Call
VTech Student Gov't thanks Korea for condolences
2007-04-20 04:24:00 The Virginia Tech Student Government Association has expressed gratitude to Korea n President Roh Moo-hyun and the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the U.S. for sending deepest condolences to families of Virginia shooting victims. Elizabeth Hart, public relations director of Virginia Tech Student Government Association, sent a letter to the Embassy of the Republic of Korea on April 18. Here is the full text of the letter: April 18, 2007 To the Embassy of the Republic of Korea Dear Minister Yoon, With much sadness, but with appreciation, the students of Virginia Tech greet you. It is no small task to... More About: Ondo , Vtech , Thanks
Virginia Shooter's Sister Did Everything Right
2007-04-20 04:13:00 The older sister of Virgin ia Tech shooter Cho Seung-hui works for McNeil Technologies, a contractor for the State Department in a reconstruction project in Iraq. Three years her brother’s senior, Cho Sun-kyung graduated from Centerville High School and went to Princeton University in 2000. After completing the undergraduate course with a major in economics in 2004, she returned home to work in Virginia and lives with her parents. Headquartered in Springfield, Virginia, McNeil Technologies provides information management and analysis, language services and program assistance to customers, mainly U.S. government agencies like the departments of defense and energy.... More About: Everything , Ever , Right
Korean community in L.A. reacts to Va. Tech shooting
2007-04-18 00:58:00 The disclosure today that the gunman suspected of carrying out the Virginia Tech massacre was a South Korean national made the killings all the more shocking and painful for Los Angeles' huge Korean American community. My heart sank when I heard the news, the Rev. John J. Park, president of the Council of Korean Churches in Southern California, said at a hurriedly called meeting of community leaders in Koreatown. Park was joined by about a dozen community leaders this morning to express their condolences to families of the victims and to discuss what the Korean... More About: Community , Shooting , Unity
President Roh sends condolences to families of Virginia shooting victims
2007-04-18 00:50:00 President Roh Moo-hyun on Tuesday (April 17) delivered his condolences to the families of more than 30 victims of a shooting spree at Virgin ia Tech, Roh's spokesman said. Roh was quoted as saying that an unbelievable incident took place. The chief executive also expressed his hope for the speedy recovery of those wounded in the tragic incident at the U.S. school, according to Yoon Seung-yong, a spokesman for the presidential office. Cho Seung-hei, an English literature major at the university, allegedly shot 32 people to death and wounding more than 20 early Monday, local time. He... More About: President , Condo , Ondo
Korean American Community in Shock
2007-04-18 00:35:00 Korean communities in the U.S. were horrified when it emerged that the gunman who killed 33 others at Virginia Tech was Korean student Cho Seung-hui. Recalling the nightmare of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Koreans in the U.S. worried about retaliation from other ethnic groups. Some are considering leaving the U.S. There were also fears that the incident could negatively affect U.S. deliberations on including Korea in its visa waiver program. “I was horrified to hear that the shooter was a Korean man,” a Korean sophomore at Virginia Tech said. “Until yesterday, they said it was an... More About: Community , Shock , American , Korean , Unity
Wanted: Overseas Korean Filmmakers
2007-04-16 16:54:00 KOFIC(Korean Film Council) continues 2nd Filmmakers Development Lab in Association With the Academy for Creative Media at the University of Hawaii. In a major initiative to nurture and encourage emerging Over seas Korean filmmakers to bring their stories to the screen, the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) announced today KOFIC Filmmakers Development Lab 2007. After the sensational success of the first Filmmakers Development Lab in 2006, the KOFIC Filmmakers Development Lab will this year broaden its reach to include not only North American but to all international Korean filmmakers around the world. The Lab will be... More About: Maker , Make , Makers
The Preta-Porte Busan 2007 Fall/Winter Collection
2007-04-16 05:25:00 The Preta-Port e Busan 2007 Fall /Winter Coll ection opened April 12 in the city of Busan for a three-day run. Designers who are showcasing their works at the event this time include Lie Sang-bong, Choi Beom-seok, Chang kwang-hyo, Lee Young-hee, Seo Su-nam, Lee Hee-soon, as well as Chung Heok-seo and Bae Seung-yeon, who currently design in London. Foreign participants include designers from France, Japan and China. Choi Beom-seok, whose collection will be presented in the finale of the event on April 14, debuted as a designer in 2003 and last year opened his section at a famous department...
Historic trade deal reached between the US and S.Korea
2007-04-02 02:06:00 Korea and the United States took a historic step on Monday (April 2) in their half-century of economic relations by announcing a last-minute free trade agreement (FTA), but the deal's economic... iChoson Networks2.0 More About: Korea , Trade , Between , Historic , Deal
Historic trade deal reached between the US and S.Korea
2007-04-02 02:06:00 Korea and the United States took a historic step on Monday (April 2) in their half-century of economic relations by announcing a last-minute free trade agreement (FTA), but the deal's economic... iChoson Networks2.0 More About: Korea , Trade , Between , Historic , Deal
More Advanced and Simpler then Second Life
2007-04-01 15:40:00 A major U.S. business magazine said a Korean online game is creating a new trend in the industry with “simpler navigation and customization.” BusinessWeek, in its March 27 article... iChoson Networks2.0 More About: Life , Second Life , Simp , Second , Simple
MapleStory-More Advanced and Simpler. A Second Life Killer?
2007-04-01 15:40:00 A major U.S. business magazine said a Korean online game is creating a new trend in the industry with “simpler navigation and customization.” BusinessWeek, in its March 27 article... iChoson Networks2.0 More About: Life , Story , Second Life , Simp , Killer
Can you handle the Skywalk?
2007-03-31 15:17:00 HUALAPAI INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. -- Few tourist attractions at the Grand Canyon have generated as much hype as the Skywalk, the mammoth glass-bottomed deck that extends 70 feet past the rim of... iChoson Networks2.0 More About: Hand , Walk , Handle
Can you handle the Skywalk?
2007-03-31 15:17:00 HUALAPAI INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. -- Few tourist attractions at the Grand Canyon have generated as much hype as the Skywalk, the mammoth glass-bottomed deck that extends 70 feet past the rim of... iChoson Networks2.0 More About: Hand , Walk , Handle
From "Lost" to World Class Beauty
2007-03-30 15:30:00 The Korean American actress Kim Yun-jin has been selected as one of MSN’s “World Class Beau ties.” She joins a stunning list of starlets including Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba,... iChoson Networks2.0 More About: Lost , Beauty
From "Lost" to World Class Beauty
2007-03-30 15:30:00 The Korean American actress Kim Yun-jin has been selected as one of MSN’s “World Class Beau ties.” She joins a stunning list of starlets including Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba,... iChoson Networks2.0 More About: Lost , Beauty
Oh Sandra - Marie Claire Covergirl
More articles from this author:2007-03-28 19:59:00 They may have wanted their daughter to aspire to be a doctor or lawyer when she was growing up, but now Sand ra Oh's parents are thrilled she's playing a doc on TV. They didn't see that there was... iChoson Networks2.0 More About: Girl , Marie , Marie Claire 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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