Project Type: Magazine
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Q&A With Rhea Suh, Asst Secretary of the US Dept of the Interior
To Protect and Serve Rhea Suh, assistant secretary in the Department of the Interior, has dedicated her life’s work to safeguarding this country’s natural resources. by CHELSEA HAWKINSThis story originally published in KoreAm Journal March 2013. When Rhea Suh walks into the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle, she is alone—there is no posse, no flocking press…
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Chuck Kim Helps Youth Nurture a Passion for Music
At A Place Called Home in South L.A., Charles “Chuck” Kim is helping underserved youth retune their lives through music education. story by CHELSEA HAWKINSphoto by MARK EDWARD HARRISThis story originally published in KoreAm Journal August 2013. During a jam session in the middle of June, about 10 people are crammed into a small recording…
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Theater Casting Controversy Highlights Inequality on Stage
Not Good Enough to Play Ourselves? A casting controversy at the prestigious La Jolla Playhouse reignites the debate on fair representation on stage. story by Chelsea Hawkinsillustration by Inki ChoThis story originally published in KoreAm Journal September 2012. While we’ve seen an increase in Asian Americans in television and films — John Cho, Lucy Liu and…
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Keeping the Hanbok Tradition Alive
Something Old, Something New An event at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles showcases famed South Korean designer Hyun-Sook Lee’s hanboks, in traditional and modern forms. story by CHELSEA HAWKINSThis story was originally published in KoreAm Journal in April 2013. Men and women slowly floated onto the stage, dressed head to toe in bright, silky…
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Yebin Mok Returns to the Ice After Struggling with Eating Disorder
The Performer Yebin Mok competed alongside such famous figure skaters as Michelle Kwan and Sarah Hughes, striving for medals and that big Olympic dream. But that striving soon turned into an obsession with perfection that sent the young skater on a path toward self-destruction. It would take leaving the sport—which literally was her life—for her…
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Stuntman Ilram Choi Doubles for Spider-Man
All the Right Moves Hollywood stuntman Ilram Choi likes to defy the laws of physics. In his latest project, he gets to do just that while donning the Spider-Man outfit. story by CHELSEA HAWKINSphotographs by YANN BEANThis story originally published in KoreAm Journal August 2012. When asked what superhero he’d most like to be, stuntman Ilram Choi answers: Superman. “Why not? Why…
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The Amazing Underwater Photography of Kevin Lee
A Whole New World Underwater photographer Kevin Lee’s “hobby” has taken him to all seven continents, as he plunges the ocean depths to capture images of awe-inspiring sea life. By CHELSEA HAWKINSThis story originally published in KoreAm Journal June 2013. When I meet Kevin Lee at his office in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., he is limping…
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Wrestling with Weight
The muffled sounds of the mid-morning shuffle play out behind Erin Flannery, a third-year history major, as she sits cross-legged on a pillowed bench outside a campus cafe. She passes her drink between her hands, occasionally balancing it upon her knee. Flannery said that her sister, who struggled with anorexia nervosa, would go periods of…
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Crossing the Divide, One Dish at a Time
By CHELSEA HAWKINSThis story originally ran in City on the Hill Press in May 2011. For me, home smells like garlic, sesame oil and briny vegetables — soups bubbling over stove-top flames and chive cakes crackling in frying pans. The early morning chill rolling in through cracked windows as life starts yawning and rumbling through…
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Kalliope Lee’s ‘Sunday Girl’ Novel Summons Spirit of Comfort Women
Kalliope Lee’s debut novel, Sunday Girl, channels the souls and unresolved wounds of the Korean “comfort women.”
Chelsea Hawkins 