Can’t believe it is already November! Now that the Holiday season is nearing, you know it is time to plan the shopping/gift lists. To make your gifts extra special this year, we have these fabulous Korean Bojagi and Norigae recommendations for you. Bojagi is the Korean traditional cloth that is used for covering, wrapping, and…
I’ve had dry skin for as long as I can remember. Even back in my youthful college days, I always went back to my mom’s old fashioned Korean moisturizer for dry skin to survive the New England winters. I didn’t love the look or smell of the cream but using anything else would make me…
HoYeon Jung is the striking 27-year-old Korean model and actress whose popularity exploded with her role as Kang Sae-Byeok, player No. 067, in the megasmash hit Squid Game, Netflix’s number one most popular title of all time. There are so many reasons we (along with the rest of the world) have come to love HoYeon.…
With the global phenomenon of K-pop, K-beauty, and K-dramas, Netflix announced at the beginning of this year that they would invest $700 million on Korean dramas and other Korean entertainment content. With the huge worldwide success of Squid Game, we can see how extraordinary Korean dramas can be with a vast investment from Netflix. Director…
Home to more than 25 million people, Seoul is unlike any other city in the world. With nearly half of the Korean population living in the Seoul metropolitan area, it is no surprise that some of the best Korean restaurants in the world will be in Seoul. As many Koreans know, food is one of…
A Review of English/Korean Bi-Lingual Picture Books My parents learned English from Koreans who in turn learned it from Koreans who had never met or even talked to an English-speaking person. Not surprisingly, these successive Korean teachers imparted misplaced accents and Konglish galore to their pupils. When my parents arrived in the U.S., no one…
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021 awards were announced earlier this month with two Korean owned restaurants included on the list: San Francisco’s Benu and Manhattan’s Atomix. This is the second time Benu has been named to the list and the first time for Atomix. They are the only two Korean owned restaurants to ever…
If anyone is a cross-cultural bridge builder, it’s Eric Nam. Since his debut in 2013, the multifaceted singer, songwriter and TV host has been engaging all of us around the world! It’s not only through the talent of his music and gift of conversation that he’s put Korean Americans in the forefront. Eric Nam has…
Joseph Bae, a Korean American and co-president of KKR & Co., was named co-chief executive officer earlier this week at the world’s No. 3 private equity firm. Bae is the second Korean American CEO to lead a global private equity giant after Kewsong Lee became the sole CEO of the Carlyle Group last year. According…
In the vanguard of female leaders in finance, Suzanne Yoon stands apart. Women represent seven percent* of private equity founders but Yoon is the only Korean American in that trailblazing group. Yoon founded Kinzie Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm, in 2017 and currently has about $150 million AUM (assets under management). Named by…