Welcome to the nonpropfit Young Oak Kim Center for Korean American Studies at the University of California Riverside.
Colonel Young Oak Kim was a highly decorated U.S. Army veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He was the only Korean American officer in a mostly Japanese American unit in the Army at the time of World War II. The Center is named after the late Col. Young Oak Kim and was founded in June 2010.
NEWS FLASH!
The YOK Center and a Consortium of Schools and Organizations Successfully Hosted:
Hope Out of Crisis: Lessons from Sa-I-Gu on April 28, 2012!
About 200 people attended, participated and volunteered for the event which was held at the Garden Suite Hotel in Koreatown, Los Angeles.
Speakers included Angela Oh, Emile Mack, Rev. Eric P. Lee, Connie Kang, Do Kim, Martha Arevalo, Victor Viesca and so many more!
The second panel during the Hope Out of Crisis: Lessons From Sa-I-Gu event on April 28, 2012.
The panelists talked about the changes in LA today and its future in terms of ethnic relations.