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...
PUBLICITY ON SPAS ANGERS KOREAN COMMUNITY LEADERS DENOUCE PARLORS, HELP 'VICTIMS'
Leaders of the Detroit area's Korean-American community are denouncing Oriental massage parlors for giving Koreans a bad name and are trying to help Korean women who have been arrested on charges of working as prostitutes in them.Dr. Hyun Chan Shin, a Korean-American psychiatrist who lives in Farmington Hills, said Korean community leaders met recently with operators of three Oriental health spas and tried unsuccessfully to persuade them to close down."They...
Forum aims to win trust of Korean community,
Law enforcement, Asians to discuss justice system
As an assistant state's attorney in Baltimore, John Park likes helping his fellow Korean-Americans when they are crime victims.But that's often hard to do, he said, because many in the Korean community don't trust the government. Factors ranging from language barriers to fear of retaliation result in cases falling apart, or never being pursued at all. The Baltimore state's attorney's office and Police Department and the...
Dora Kim -- activist for S.F. Korean community
Dora Yum Kim, a Korean American pioneer, community activist and co-founder of the Korean Community Service Center in San Francisco, died Friday in a Vallejo nursing home. She was 84 and had suffered from kidney failure. Born in 1921 in Manteca (San Joaquin County), she moved with her parents to San Francisco the same year. Her family lived in Chinatown, where her father, Man Suk Yum, a Korean immigrant, prospered and over time owned a restaurant, hotel, cigar shop, and apartment...