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		<title>The Jane Park Files</title>
		<link>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/08/29/jane-park-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all started with a film.  And a Facebook search.  The quest to find the people who share my name.
In 2005, I screened The Grace Lee Project at the Los Angeles Korean International Film Festival.  It’s a quirky documentary through which the filmmaker – her name is Grace Lee – enters the [...]


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		<title>The next generation: Sibling dynamics branch out from Korean roots</title>
		<link>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/08/26/the-next-generation-sibling-dynamics-branch-out-from-korean-roots/</link>
		<comments>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/08/26/the-next-generation-sibling-dynamics-branch-out-from-korean-roots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michele Choe is the youngest of six children in her family.  The 34-year-old Chicago-based attorney is baby to her Korean father, Caucasian mother and older siblings Margaret, Laura, Jennifer, Stephen and David.  
A mere eight-and-a-half years separate the six, and their closeness is evident in the tender way Choe described each: Margaret as [...]


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		<title>Moving to the motherland: Finding work and community in Korea</title>
		<link>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/08/25/moving-to-the-motherland-finding-work-and-community-in-korea/</link>
		<comments>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/08/25/moving-to-the-motherland-finding-work-and-community-in-korea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end of August marks a special anniversary for 25-year-old Linda Kye.  She will have lived and worked in Korea for one year.  It will most likely be the beginning of a few more years of her sojourn in the motherland.  
Kye moved to Seoul from her hometown Vienna, Va., after graduating [...]


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		<title>Generations and cultures gather around Korean dramas</title>
		<link>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/08/19/generations-and-cultures-gather-around-korean-dramas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When most kids watched Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs after school, I watched telenovelas in Spanish with my nanny. 
Though I couldn’t speak Spanish and Betty spoke little English, we made do with short phrases: Ella es mala, ella es buena.  I learned to identify the villains and protagonists and the gist of various [...]


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		<title>Q&amp;A with a Korean drama aficionado</title>
		<link>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/08/19/qa-with-a-korean-drama-aficionado/</link>
		<comments>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/08/19/qa-with-a-korean-drama-aficionado/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yoonmi Kim is a 28-year-old college student from Los Angeles who is an avid fan of Korean dramas.  Adopted at the age of five, Kim says these dramas were a window to her cultural roots.  She writes reviews for budding fans here.
I had a brief Q&#038;A with Kim about the trends and themes [...]


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		<title>Q&amp;A on Korean dramas with president of YA Entertainment</title>
		<link>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/08/19/qa-on-korean-dramas-with-president-of-ya-entertainment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Larsen is a 35-year-old entrepreneur who knows an opportunity when he sees one.  After living in Korea for a few years and taking Korean language courses in college, Larsen decided that he wanted to make Korean dramas readily available for Americans.  
He is the founder and president of YA Entertainment, a company [...]


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		<title>Seoul attempts to &#8216;heel&#8217; gender woes</title>
		<link>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/08/07/seoul-attempts-to-heel-gender-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josannah Birman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sewer grates.  Cobblestone streets.  Ice slicks. Traversing these urban hazards in a pair of heels isn’t easy. Just the other day, I was walking from the train station to the office along with a steady stream of laptop-carrying workers.  I was just minding my own business in a pair of low heels when, wham! My [...]


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		<title>Behind the name: second-generation Americans embrace their cultural identity</title>
		<link>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/08/03/behind-the-name-second-generation-americans-embrace-their-cultural-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been offended by someone’s mispronunciation of your name?  A misspelling? Why did the well-loved storybook character Anne Shirley feel she had to introduce herself as Anne with an “e” to everyone she met?
Perhaps because we intuitively associate our name with our identity – and any distortion of our name distorts our [...]


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		<title>Does a diverse nation need a diverse media?</title>
		<link>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/07/31/does-a-diverse-nation-need-a-diverse-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hamsa Ramesha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all heard the doom facing mainstream media: the downfall of print, the flawed money-making model of online, and the get-it-free attitude debate over the future of print and the Web. Still, even with today’s financial woes, one part of the journalism business is poised to thrive – ethnic media.


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		<title>Am I a Twinkie or a banana?  ‘Cause I’m not Fresh off the Boat</title>
		<link>http://herald.medill.northwestern.edu/2009/07/30/am-i-a-twinkie-or-a-banana-%e2%80%98cause-i%e2%80%99m-not-fresh-off-the-boat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do a Twinkie and a banana have in common?  OK, there is the fact that the delectable cake originally boasted a banana-crème filling and both are yellow on the outside and white on the inside.
Like an Asian-American!
Well, some – mostly the ones who are more Westernized in culture, speech and dress, not those [...]


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