Korean Community: Metro Koreans give fruit, cash to food bank
Metro's Korean community made a gesture of "thanks to Canada" by donating 15 tonnes of food to the Share Thanksgiving fall food drive yesterday, much of it prime fresh fruit and vegetables. At a Korean- and English-language ceremony at the Daily Bread Food Bank warehouse on Lake Shore Blvd. W. in Toronto, 14 Korean community leaders presented food and $4,500 cash to executive director Gerard Kennedy.It's the first time an entire ethnic...
Korean Community: Right at the center of things
Serious business: Immigrants trying to survive here often turn to community groups that provide a lifeline to strangers in a strange land. By Hollis R. Towns STAFF WRITER So Ye Kim and her husband and son sat in a small room at the Korean Community Service Center, poring over papers written in a language they could not read. The woman who runs the center, Chiawon Kim, patiently explained that the federal government had denied Mrs. Kim Social Security benefits. If a second application is...
Korean Community: JAIL FOR CIVIC LEADER WHO ILLEGALLY GOT LOANS DANIEL W. CHUNG, A LAWYER AND ACCOUNTANT, VASTLY OVERSTATED HIS CLIENTS' INCOME.
In the Philadelphia area's Korean community, few have commanded as much respect as Daniel W. Chung.He was a civic leader with a collection of plaques to prove it and a high- profile member of his Korean Presbyterian congregation. But most important for a community whose businesses tend to be small and cash-oriented, Chung was that most useful of combinations: a lawyer and an accountant, someone who could chart a path through the foreign and intimidating world of bankers and the...
Korean Community: Tokyo suit seeks site of Korean school
A nondescript appendage of central Tokyo would seem an unlikely place for a showdown, but for the Korean community shunted off during the war to the man-made island in Koto Ward, the canal surrounding their enclave is like a moat for a castle under siege. The invader is the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which wants to seize the Edagawa district land where the elementary school the Koreans founded in 1946 sits, and sell it off. The area, with easy access to central Tokyo, has seen a surge in...
Korean Community: FRIENDS OF KOREA EASES TRANSITION TO U.S. LIFE
In an effort to build a bridge between mainstream America and the Sacramento Korean community, Friends of Korea was formed by Korean-Americans and families with adopted Korean children. Founding member Chris Winston said she wanted to know more about Korean culture because she has two children, David, 10, and Diana, 7, who were born in Korea. When David joined the Winston family about five years ago, he didn't speak a word of English."That was probably the impetus...