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June Lee serves as the Executive Director of the Korean Community Center of the East Bay, where she works to reify the organization’s key tenets of community service, research, and engagement.

Pat Lee, whose Korean name is Lee Kyung Hee, was born in 1951 in Seoul, Korea, the fifth daughter in a family of seven children. She admits that in her youth she was often impulsive, a characteristic which gave her a taste for life and would drive her to immigrate to the United States with her husband in 1971.

Kevin Yoo, whose Korean name is Yoo Kun-bae, was born in a small rural village in South Chungcheong Province, Korea, in 1949. Growing up poor, he tells us that his dream was to escape poverty and live a simple life; in the first grade, he moved from the countryside to Daejeon to begin his primary schooling.

Alex Hahn was born in February 1941 in Seongbuk-dong, Seoul, the fourth of eight children. From his childhood, he remembers that his parents were businesspeople, selling rice and other grains—an entrepreneurial spirit which he inherited.

Yonsuk Dallas was born in Tokyo, Japan, in May of 1940. She and her family resided in Japan until she was six years old; during World War II, she recalls hiding inside the closet of her kindergarten class as air sirens warned of planes flying overhead. In 1946, her family moved to Seoul, which she considered her second hometown.

Yonsuk Dallas was born in Tokyo, Japan, in May of 1940. She and her family resided in Japan until she was six years old; during World War II, she recalls hiding inside the closet of her kindergarten class as air sirens warned of planes flying overhead. In 1946, her family moved to Seoul, which she considered her second hometown.