Dora Yum Kim, a Korean American pioneer, community activist and co-founder of the Korean Community Service Center in San Francisco, died Friday in a Vallejo nursing home. She was 84 and had suffered from kidney failure. Born in 1921 in Manteca (San Joaquin County), she moved with her parents to San Francisco the same year. Her family lived in Chinatown, where her father, Man Suk Yum, a Korean immigrant, prospered and over time owned a restaurant, hotel, cigar shop, and apartment...
A husband and wife shooting each other dead in a house with $1.5 million in cash stashed away would spark anyone's curiosity.In Philadelphia's Korean community, however, it is causing shock and worry. Korean immigrants Janet and John Ko shot each other last Friday in their locked bedroom. The Kos lived in a $400,000 house on Tower Road in the Cedar Brook Farms section of Marple Township, Delaware County.Police searching the home found $1,571,600 in cash in...
It didn't matter that Korean-born lawyer Joshua Chung lost the 2003 race for Montgomery County district attorney: The region's Korean-Americans had produced an election they couldn't lose.Korean community leaders had already formed an unprecedented partnership with Bruce Castor, the Republican incumbent, giving him their endorsement and financial support. And Chung's candidacy could be considered a victory in itself. By funneling its money...