With the school year coming to an end, and summer starting, it can be a time of happiness and excitement for the upcoming summer break. However, for most middle school, high school, and college students, it is a time of stress and the last weeks of school are ridden with an abundant amount…
Is 13 Reasons Why Controversial?
13 Reasons Why is a Netflix series that was released in March 2017 based on the same name of the 2007 book by Jay Asher. This highly popular show is about a teenage girl named Hannah Baker who commits suicide and leaves behind thirteen tapes for the thirteen reasons that led her to her death….
[ Editor’s Column] Relay for Life
Back in May, Relay for Life – a community event fundraising for cancer research ran by the American Cancer Society – was held in Central Park, Santa Clarita. Besides Santa Clarita Valley, it is a nationwide gather where people of all ages come together to support cancer survivors and its research. The Relay…
Little Forest
Little Forest, directed by Soonrye Yim, is a Korean film that expresses the nostalgia of hometown and the warmth of food that is made with motherly love and care. The main character, Haewon, is played by Taeri Kim, who rose to fame with the two works: The Handmaiden (2016) and 1987: When…
Racism in Art
From the moment that African slaves were first introduced to the American colonies to assist in the production of profitable cash crops and work new machinery essential for the economy’s well-being, racial discrimination has continued to plague the Americans, albeit in subtler ways today. Despite efforts throughout the 1900s to rid of racial oppression…
The Reason Behind Longer Lives
Looking back over the past century, our quality of life has dramatically changed; the majority of the population can be expected to reach old age in industrialized countries. We are currently living in the golden era of innovation and technology, where what we have thought of as impossible a decade ago are in…
A Proposed Homeless Shelter, Herb Wesson, and the Fight for the Korean-American Community
When Los Angeles residents rallied again on Sunday, June 10 to protest the proposed construction of a homeless shelter in the heart of Koreatown, it was only another step in an ongoing bitter battle between the Korean-American community and Los Angeles Council President Herb Wesson. This battle stems from a controversial decision made by…
UC Schools Are Harder to Get in Than Ever
For many students in California, going to a UC school is a great opportunity to get a great education without the private school cost. These schools are considered the best in the country, and almost every senior in California dreams to attend. But this year proved that getting accepted is only getting more difficult and…
[Editor’s Column] The Complicated North Korea-U.S. Summit
When the United States announced that it would meet with North Korea for the North Korea-U.S. summit in Singapore on June 12th, the world was closely watching with excitement as the announcement marked a historic first: the meeting would be the first time that leaders of both countries would meet face-to-face. Such a meeting…
The War that Many Thought Would Start Finally Ends?
April 27, 2018 a day that will always be remembered in Korean history. The two leaders of both North and South Korea have made history by meeting at the border of the two Koreas and for the first time. The North Korean leader decided to come to South Korea for a day long summit…