Unforgotten Song

Musician gamin has created “Unforgotten Song,” a music and multi-media work, to commemorate the anguish of Comfort Women, enslaved local women throughout Japanese-occupied East Asia, from 1932 to 1945.

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The War Still Within: Poems of the Korean Diaspora

Part historical imagining of Japan’s so-called “comfort women” during World War II, part personal claiming of her own experiences with immigration and motherhood, and part exploration of identity across two languages, The War Still Within weaves together two cultures and gives voice to generations of Korean and Korean-American women.

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1.5 Generation Working-Class Korean American Community College Students and the Fragile Sense of Social Belonging

This study by Dr. Sujung Kim interrogates working-class Korean immigrant students’ sense of social belonging and their strategies to advocate their social membership, focusing on working-class 1.5 generation Korean American students at Station Community College (SCC), a public community college in Chicago. This study proposes that these working-class Korean immigrant community college students’ navigation of their belonging is shaped by the dialectical mechanisms between various macro- and micro-level of political-economic, social, cultural and educational components.

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2012 Sunset Cinema Series – The Chaser (South Korea)

The Chaser (South Korea, 2008) Running Time: 125 Minutes When his escorts start disappearing without settling their debts, cash-strapped pimp — and former police detective — Joong-ho (Yun-seok Kim) draws upon the skills of his old job to track down the recently missing Mi-Jin (Yeong-hie Seo). Cynical Joong-ho assumes a rival pimp has been siphoning … Read more

2008 Sunset Cinema Series – My Sassy Girl (South Korea)

My Sassy Girl (South Korea, 2001) Running Time: 123 Minutes One night, Kyun-woo meets a terribly drunken girl. He is ashamed to help her, but once he does, a deep sense of responsibility has been developed within him; he decides to heal her pain. Even though she slaps him, pushes him into the pool, forces … Read more