Teen Wolf Actress Arden Cho Addresses Racism in Video

posted by Olivia Wolf

 
Teen Wolf actress Arden Cho addressed her irritation over constantly being asked “what she is” in a new YouTube video, reports Teen Vogue.
 
In the video, titled “What Am I?” Cho shared a recent experience with an Uber driver who told her that she was “definitely not Korean,” after only … Read more

Blog: What the Departure of Daniel Dae Kim & Grace Park from Hawaii Five-O Really Mean.

posted by Olivia Wolf

By Olivia Wolf
AsAmNews Intern

 

As we previously reported on our Facebook page, Two Korean American actors, Grace Park and Daniel Dae Kim, left the CBS crime series Hawaii Five-O after being denied pay equal to White co-stars Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan.
 
The final amount offered to Park and Kim was still … Read more

Chicago Tribune: Korean American Professor Sues for Alleged Discrimination

posted by Brittney Le

Seung-Whan Choi, an internal relations professor and U.S. citizen born in Korea, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the University of Illinois at Chicago for alleged race discrimination, reports the Chicago Tribune. The lawsuit states that Choi had filed a complaint in October to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and had received … Read more

Irvine City Council Results Fail to Reflect Growing Asian Population

posted by Cathy Sun

Irvine Mayor Donald Wagner

Congratulations to Mayor Donald P. Wagner and Councilmembers Christina L. Shea & Melissa Fox; all were sworn into office this evening. pic.twitter.com/7gL97pkBXS

— City of Irvine (@City_of_Irvine) December 14, 2016

While Irvine became the largest city in the United States with more Asian than White residents, it also elected an all-White … Read more

Lee Ann Kim Steps Down as Head of Pacific Arts Movement

posted by Mandy Day

By Mandy Day

San Diego’s Pacific Arts Movement (Pac Arts), the organization behind the West Coast’s largest Asian Film Festival, will have a new Executive Director in 2016. Founder and Executive Director Lee Ann Kim announced to members, friends, and supporters of the organization that she will be transitioning out of the … Read more

Entertainment Tonight: Captain Sulu Revealed to Have a Daughter in Star Trek Beyond

posted by Susan Chang

Korean American actor John Cho, who portrays character Hikaru Sulu in the rebooted Star Trek series, has revealed in a video exclusive with Entertainment Tonight that Sulu has a daughter in the upcoming film Star Trek Beyond, the third … Read more

Korean American Day to be Celebrated from Coast to Coast

posted by Susan Chang

Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland issued a statewide proclamation Monday to recognize tomorrow as Korean-American Day, according to Afro.

Governor Hogan and First Lady Yumi Hogan hosted a reception at the State House in Annapolis … Read more

NBC News: A-Town Boyz, a Documentary on Asian American Gangsters in Atlanta

posted by ShirleyNLew

A-Town Boyz is a documentary that will blow the Asian model minority myth to smithereens, according to NBC News.

It follows the lives of Asian American gang members in Atlanta, GA and their struggle to assimilate. It’s “a story of the American dream derailed,” as described on the film’s website.

In her interview with … Read more

Korean American Snowboarder Becomes Youngest Gold Medalist at Winter X Games

posted by Mandy Day

Fourteen-year-old Chloe Kim of La Palma, California became the youngest competitor to win X Games gold on Saturday when she dominated the Women’s SuperPipe in Aspen, Colorado, reports US Snowboarding.com. The Orange County teenager, who trains at Mammoth Mountain, beat snowboarding legends Kelly Clark of Vermont and Australia’s Torah Bright.

Visibly banged up from … Read more

Daily News: Kor Am Man works to help out New York’s neediest in Queens

posted by Ariel Neidermeier

Jin Kim is determined to snip away at poverty, one Korean soup bowl at a time (Photo by Squirrel83).

The 38-year-old Korean American man from Flushing, N.Y. has started a charity with his wife that focuses on helping out impoverished individuals in Flushing, which is a neighborhood of the New York City borough of … Read more