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In this month’s KoreanAmericanStory on KRB 87.7 FM, Angie Kim, Community Organizing Fellow at Minkwon Center for Community Action, talks about her experience as a DACA Dreamer and her involvement in advocacy for young immigrants.

In this month’s KoreanAmericanStory on KRB 87.7 FM, Executive Director of Restore NYC, Jimmy Lee, talks about his personal journey of passion, faith and social change, starting from working on Wall Street, discovering a need to help women with AIDS in Africa, and coming back to the U.S. to start an NGO that brings shelter and aid to sex-trafficking victims in New York.

In this month’s KoreanAmericanStory on 87.7 FM, Doogaji creators Charles and Victoria Thompson talk about the importance of bicultural identity, and how their books are meant to instill this value in Korean American children.

In this month’s KoreanAmericanStory with KRB 87.7 FM, Jeannie Park, founding president of AAJA-NY and a former executive editor of People Magazine, shares about her childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, and how she broke into an exciting career in journalism.

In this month’s KoreanAmericanStory, partnered with KRB 87.7 FM, Pauline Park, a New York City-based LGBT and transgender rights activist, shares how she overcame multiple identity complexes through different stages of life as a transgender Korean American adoptee, and talks about the work she currently does with Queens Pride House and New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy.

In this week’s episode of KoreanAmericanStory with KRB 87.7. FM, retired OB-GYN Dr. Agnes Ahn talks about her mission: to teach accurate Korean history to K-12 teachers in Massachusetts. Through “Korea Studies” workshops, she has reached over 1500 students who have now learned the true history of Korea.

In this week’s episode of KoreanAmericanStory with KRB 87.7. FM, Karen Lee, reporter at News 12 New Jersey, talks about her journey to become the reporter she is today. She also highlights the power of media to raise awareness about issues and to mobilize people to provide solutions.

In this week’s KoreanAmericanStory with KRB 87.7 FM, Kyung B. Yoon, Executive Director and co-founder of KACF, talks about how to advance as a Korean American community by a new definition of success.

In this week’s episode of KoreanAmericanStory with KRB 87.7. FM, Matthew Oh, founder of FOREFRONT, talks about how he started the organization to develop sustainable communities in India with his background in water engineering and passion to help people.

Joon Chung, comedian, filmmaker and editor from Staten Island shares his experience with KoreanAmericanStory, KRB 87.7 FM.

In this week’s KoreanAmericanStory with KRB 87.7.FM, Linda Lee, Executive Director at Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York (KCSNY), talks about the services provided by the organization, her own Korean American experience and how to bridge the gap between 1^st and 2^nd generation Korean American leaders.

In this week’s KoreanAmericanStory with KRB 87.7FM, Julie Young, former litigation attorney and writer for KoreanAmericanStory.org, talks about her life journey as an adoptee.

Joseph Kim, former TED speaker and author of Under the Same Sky, talks about his time in China and how he came to U.S. in this week’s KoreanAmericanStory, KRB 87.7FM.

Joseph Kim, former TED speaker and author of Under the Same Sky, talks about his life journey from North Korea to the U.S. with the hosts of KRB 87.7.FM in this week’s KoreanAmericanStory.

In this week’s KoreanAmericanStory with KRB 87.7 FM, Diana Yu, Staten Island native, talks about the concept of virtual law, and the importance of wills for the Korean American community.

In this week’s KoreanAmericanStory with KRB 87.7 FM, Julie Kim, Community Organizer at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, talks about the various programs and free services available for the community, including IDNYC.

In this week’s KoreanAmericanStory with KRB 87.7 FM, Haewon Latorre talks about her experience as a Korean Latin-American individual, and describes the complexities of an intertwined identity.

In this week’s KoreanAmericanStory with KRB 87.7 FM, Ester Fang talks about her experience growing up as a hapa in Korea.

In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, documentary filmmaker Pearl Park talks about mental illness, and shares about her recent work Can, which features a Vietnamese-American man and his battle with bipolar disorder.

In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, David You talks about his journey as a young Asian American musician and wows listeners with his original music.

In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, Jacob Ham, a psychotherapist at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, talks about trauma related to Korean heritage, as well as the different stages of psychological development that children go through into adulthood.

In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, Jacob Ham, a psychotherapist at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, talks about trauma related to Korean heritage, as well as the different stages of psychological development that children go through into adulthood.

In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, Jacob Ham, a psychotherapist at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, talks about trauma related to Korean heritage, as well as the different stages of psychological development that children go through into adulthood.

In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, Clara Yoon talks about her experience as a mother of a transgender son, and the support that’s available at PFLAG for LGBTQ individuals, their families, and friends.

In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, professional photographer Juliana Sohn talks about her recent project that involves taking funerary photos for Korean elders in the community, and interviewing these individuals about how they would like to be remembered.

In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, Joy Lieberthal Rho, adoptee, mother, and social worker, talks about discovering her multi-faceted identity, and how she was able to reunite with her birth mother along the way. Learn about her work with Camp Sejong, an organization where Korean American adoptee and American-born Korean youth learn about Korean culture and identity, as well as the mentoring program she’s involved in with Also-Known-As.

Korean American Story, in partnership with KRB 87.7 FM, invites Katherine Kim Bradke to talk about 325kamra.org, an organization dedicated to reuniting lost families through DNA. Born in Korea in 1957 and adopted to the U.S. at 3 years-old, Katherine talks about her experience growing up and discovering her unique identity as a Korean-American adoptee.

In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, Milton Washington talks about the tumultuous years of his life after his adoption to America, and how he came to resolve the inner conflicts regarding his identity.

In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, Milton Washington talks about his childhood in Korea as a half-Korean and half-African American boy. With pride, he shares about his prostitute mother – the essence of love and security up until his adoption to America at 8 years old, and the reason why he was able to endure the unfriendliness of a world that gave him birth.

Kathleen Carney Sacco works for the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs. Her work involves inter-country adoption and international child abduction. In her Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, she talks about coming to the U.S. at the age of 5 as a Korean adoptee and rediscovering her birth family as an adult.

In this week’s special episode of Korean American Story with 87.7 FM KRB, Queens residents Myung Hee Chun and Jin Hee Choi talk about their family’s rich tale of resilience during the Korean independence movement. Through their eyes, learn what it was like to be born and raised in Manchuria during the Japanese occupation, and live through the liberation period and Korean War.

For this week’s Korean American Story, Jaeki Cho, co-producer of the hip-hop documentary Bad Rap, talks to hosts and audience of KRB (87.7 FM) about what life was like growing up in Queens, NY, his own experience working in a creative field, and the challenges Asian Americans face in the music industry.

In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB 87.7 FM, actress and musician Diana Oh talks about the creative profession, her My Lingerie Play, and what it means to be a queer individual.

What does it feel like to discover that your parent has Alzheimer’s – and that it’s too late to make up for lost time? In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB (87.7 FM), Lili Kim shares about how she struggled with those questions as she saw her own mother succumb to the effects of the disease, and how she was able to overcome the sense of shame and guilt that she felt as a daughter.

In this week’s Korean American Story with KRB (87.7 FM), Jannie Chung, Councilwoman of Closter, NJ, shares about her brother’s tumultuous adolescence, and the turning point that made him into a monk. Don’t be surprised to find yourself laughing and crying at the same time!

In this week’s installment of Korean American Story on KRB (87.7 FM), Councilwoman of Closter, NJ Jannie Chung took the audience on an emotional storytelling journey about an event that drastically changed her family. If you missed the show on air, here is the podcast version on our website.

In the newly launched radio series Korean American Story, HJ Lee, president and founder of KoreanAmericanStory.org, talks about the journey of his non-profit, and the mission of our organization with the hosts and audience of Korean Radio Broadcasting (KRB). Tune into 87.7 FM to hear guests share about their personal experiences every Thursday evening at 8:15pm. Podcasts of each recording will be available on our website as well.