Opinion

Concerns Grow Over a ‘Surveillance Society’

Last year, the U.S. Embassy in Seoul announced that all Koreans applying for U.S. visas must disclose their social media (SNS) accounts. According to...

Is the ‘American Dream’ Still Alive?

The expression “American Dream” is widely believed to have been first used in 1931 by historian James Truslow Adams. In his book The Epic...

Time for WORLDCUP!! It’s Coming and this time Bigger!

Remember? That crazy “Dae~~~~han Min-guk!” shouting? Better get ready because it will set to echo across LA again! It’s official — and it’s going to be...

More Painful Than Deportation: A Life Ignored

Korean deportees' lives often carry a stigma that reshapes the trajectory of their existence. For many who are deported to South Korea after growing...

Korean dance holding up mirrors and light

Choreographed dance is a profound expression of human experience. Explorations of birth, death, metamorphosis, morality, conflict and more are performed in a marriage of...

Sometimes Sports Mean More Than Sports

Son Heung-min waits for the national anthem alongside Senoch Oh during the LAFC–Inter Miami match on February 21. Denis Bouanga (back row, far left)...

Jane Kim is Back For A State Office

J“Welcome back, Jane. Ready to fight?” That was the immediate reaction when news broke that Jane Kim — the former San Francisco supervisor and longtime...

Andy Said What We Ever Wanted To, So Thank you.

Maria Salinas, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, speaks about the family of newly inaugurated Chair Andy Park during...

It’s a matter of fairness and money. No way!

Tax Fairness and the SBA: When Paying Into the System No Longer Counts Tax fairness in the United States has long been understood as a simple...

When the Right Can’t Govern: The Hardline Base Dilemma

What is shaking conservative parties today is not ideology itself. It is the style of governance. As far-right impulses become more visible, something more basic...