Happy Korean American Day! 🇰🇷🇺🇸 Today, we celebrate the 123rd anniversary of the arrival of the first Korean immigrants to the United States, and honor a community whose history is deeply woven into the American story. I’m proud to represent LA’s Koreatown and to introduce the Korean American Day resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives each year since I was elected to office. Korean Americans make Los Angeles and our country stronger every day, and this resolution helps ensure their

Doug Kim, our 3rd place winner, performs his piece "A Disturbing Truth" at our 2022 ROAR Story Slam in Chicago. DOUG KIM was born in 1956 in Minnesota to Korean parents who came to the U.S. as college students in 1949. He spent his adult life trying to understand his identity as a Korean American. Along the way, he has worked for the Smithsonian Institution twice based on his knowledge of Korean culture and martial arts, taught Korean American studies at San Francisco State University, and is Di