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Korean-American Chronicles - As Recounted by Korean High School Leaders (Paperback, New)
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Korean-American Chronicles - As Recounted by Korean High School Leaders (Paperback, New)
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This book, edited by April Myung of Bergen County Academies in New
Jersey, contains autobiographies of ten Korean teenagers, currently
studying in American high schools. This historically significant
volume contains writings by break-dancing Julius Im, who
understands his Korean-American identity through this medium of
African-American dance, to Rei Fujino Park of Flushing, New York,
who explores her own dual identiy with a Korean father (who served
in the elite Korean military special forces) and a Japanese mother.
Rei Fujino describes her parents' marriage as a loving union of
"enemies" given the history of Japanese colonization of Korea
(1910-1945). Julie Oh describes the difficult situation of the
children of Korean company workers for Samsung, LG, SK, Woori Bank,
and other Korean companies, who come with a short-term working visa
to the United States. The children of these "Joo-Jae-Won" have to
go to Saturday school (in her case, "Woori School") in order to
maintain the skill level of Korean high schools, in the case that
their parents get recalled to South Korea - their children would
have to apply for Korean universities and meet the requirements of
Korean university entrance tests, which are vastly different from
America's SAT, ACT, and AP tests. Andrew Hyeon shars his experience
as a Korean Catholic, attending Hopkins School, an elite private
school in Connecticut, where former Yale Law School Dean Harold
Koh, a famous Korean, attended. Ruby Hong's autobiography is
written as a fairytale account of her own life. The autobiographies
in this book are not only creatively written as to capture the
readers' interest, but they also provide valuable resources for
Korean American Studies. (This book is the second in the Hermit
Kingdom Sources in Korean-American Studies, whose series editor is
Dr. Onyoo Elizabeth Kim, Esq.)
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