Category: Society, Politics, Lifestyle, and Culture

    As students slowly switch gears from vacation to classroom mode, the heat has been increasing without change throughout America as well as South Korea.   “A typical Fullerton summer temperature usually maxes out at around the low 100s,” said Fullerton resident Noah Somphone. “I heard that while I was in Evanston for camp,…

    In the contemporary society where social media and online influencers dominate the digital world, it is almost impossible not to hear about rising online entrepreneurs. Earlier this year, controversy surrounded the rising youtubers Jake Paul and Logan Paul both with followers numbering over the fifteen million, mostly consisting of children of the age…

      In 2008, Reuters reported on Congo’s war-driven crisis: “War, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said.  The International Rescue Committee (IRC), which carried out the study with Australia’s Burnet…

    Koreatown. It is a town in Los Angeles where many Koreans began immigrating to in the 1960s. Many have immigrated to find a new job and have a fresh start. These past decades, many Koreans have brought their culture and traditions to America which ultimately formed Koreatown. This town would not exist today…

    There is no denial. Recently, there has been a rise in numbers of children being prescribed with antidepressants. According to the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, there are a total of 7,213,599 children ranging from the range of 0 to 17 years old.   And to many, this is considered a medical milestone….

      It’s summertime, meaning students have been looking forward to hanging out with friends and being free from homework assignments, tests, and projects. Students have been anticipating the last day of school, on the last minute of the last hour, so that they can sleep in without any alarms waking them. But for…

  The smell of red pepper paste and anchovies enticed me, a Korean-Californian resident, to order Koco Table’s kimchi fried rice. The white rice turned red by gochujang mixed with kimchi offered me the savoriness I missed. The Northwestern-Medill Journalism program was not my first summer camp so being away from home was normal; but…

    You may have been told that ballet helps so much with balance, flexibility, toned muscles, and more. Well all of that is true and I can tell you that from my personal experience. Ballet is not exactly like a sport, except it’s harder than a sport because it requires a ton of concentration…

    In the last few months, the Korean community has expressed outrage at the idea of a homeless shelter in the middle of Koreatown without any consent. However, even with the obvious disagreement, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti has pushed forward with his plan to help the homeless by placing a homeless shelter at…

      In April, hundreds of Irvine residents publicly protested a plan to place emergency homeless shelters in Irvine.   According to the OC Register, Orange County supervisors had voted in March in favor of spending $70.5 million on permanent housing for the homeless and on temporary homeless camps in Irvine, Huntington Beach, and…