By Eun Byoul Oh
I have a firm belief that learning a language grows compassion for people. In order to really understand how people in other cultures think and process language, we all have to put ourselves in others’ shoes—what we call 역지사지 (易地思之) in Korean. As I look back on 10 years at KCCNYC, I realize just how much I’ve learned from our students and community members.

By Casey Eckersley
For our August meeting, the Dosan Hakdang book club discussed a collection of resistance poetry, translated by our very own Eun Byoul Oh.

By Hyun Lee
This month, KCCNYC is featuring its community member, Artists Hyun Lee, and her artworks. Hyun Lee is a media artist from Seoul who resides in Chicago. She holds a BA from Ewha Womans University where she majored in art and art history with a thesis on the Children's Education Museum at Yonsei University.

By Jon Oaks
Korean music has always been about more than just melody. It carries rebellion, joy, and reflection across generations. This playlist brings together the voices that defined the early days of Korean rock with the bold experimentation of today’s indie and pop artists.

By Jon Oaks
September holds a special place in Korea’s history. It is a month when traditions are honored, milestones are remembered, and pivotal events have shaped the nation’s identity + a look at upcoming events in the Adoptee Community nationwide.

By Sharon Stern and Eun Byoul Oh
On September 20, the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Korean Martyrs. This month we take a look at the sad series of events that shaped this history and its position in Korean history.

By Sharon Stern
There is a really wide array of dramas coming out in September and a couple that found a U.S. streaming home late in August.  Several different versions of thriller are coming our way, all with very different stories and some strong directing/writing teams.

By KCCNYC Monthly Team
Join us on Saturday, October 4, 2025 from 11:00am to 6:00pm for the Korean Street Food Festival and parade on 32nd Street in Koreatown, Manhattan, where KCCNYC will have a booth.

By Josh Kim
I call this myth “The Girl and the Toad,” and it’s much different than the traditional “Princess and Frog” western myth.

By Eun Byoul Oh
The thundering roars of Koreans are particularly loud in August as KCCNYC celebrates Korea’s independence and liberation by remembering the victims of 40 years of Japanese colonialism. . KCCNYC has centered its mission around memorializing the sufferings of Koreans and all the victims who were impacted by the atrocities of the war.

By Sharon Stern
Last year we started a list of K-Dramas and K-Movies that cover the Japanese occupation and liberation – this year we’re updating the list to include the latest streaming information and new movies and dramas that have become available.

By Justine Velasquez
“I realize now that there was something quite out of the ordinary during my childhood in the Philippines in a very specific way: we always had a big jar of homemade kimchi in our fridge. I never thought much of it before. That jar was just always there, mysterious in its origins. Though I was blissfully unaware of it at the time, my grandmother would have made that kimchi from scratch, in the way that my great-grandfather had shown and taught her…”

By Sergey Tsay
“It took me some time to decide on the format of this article. Should it be a summary of personal memories, a retelling of conversations with my paternal grandparents and my dad, or a brief history of the 100,000+ Koreans forcibly deported to Kazakhstan in 1937 from the Russian Far East… also referred to as Kore Saram…”

By Sharon Stern and Eun Byoul Oh

August always causes us to reflect on Korean independence at the end of WWII and this year we are focusing on the history of the Korean diaspora, particularly as a result of the Japanese occupation from 1910-1945.

By Sharon Stern
On July 20^th, 2025, the Dosan Hakdang book club met to talk about the novel Yeonnam-Dong’s Smiley Laundromat by Kim Jiyun. The book tells the story of multiple people in the Yeonnam neighborhood of Seoul who connect through a diary on a table in a laundromat and then, eventually, in person.