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Korean American Studies Center to Open at UC Riverside

Submitted by Harry Mok on April 15, 2010 - 3:31pm

Great news for all you Asian American studies scholars out there. The University of California, Riverside, is launching a Korean American studies center with the help of a $2.7 million endowment from the Overseas Koreans Foundation.

It looks like the center is the one of first of its kind at a major research university. That's no knock on California State University, Los Angeles, which has the long-established Center for Korean American and Korean Studies.

The UC Riverside center is being named for Young-Oak Kim, an Army vet who served in World War II and Korea. I'd not heard about him but he did a lot in the Korean American and Japanese American communities after retiring from the Army as a colonel. What a great way to honor him.

(Full disclosure: I work in the communications department for the systemwide headquarters of the University of California, and I'm not promoting UC here, just an interesting news item.)


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Jocy wrote 3 years 9 weeks ago

Sounds like progress to

Sounds like progress to me. Wonderful news.

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Editor in Chief Harry Mok wrote about growing up on a Chinese vegetable farm for the second issue of Hyphen and has been a volunteer editor since 2004. As a board member of the San Francisco and New York chapters of the Asian American Journalists Association, Harry has recruited and organized events for student members. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also a graduate student instructor in the Asian American Studies Department.

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