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List Of Korean Americans
The following is a list of notable Korean Americans, including original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Korean American or must have references showing they are Korean American and are notable. Art and design * Dana Tai Soon Burgess, choreographer, cultural figure * Richard Chai, fashion designer * Frank Cho, comic book artist (''Spider-Man'', ''The New Avengers''), writer, and creator (''Liberty Meadows'') * David Choe, abstract artist * Michael Choi, comic book artist (''Witchblade'', ''X-23'' and ''X-Force'') * Doo-Ri Chung, fashion designer * Peter Chung, animator, creator of cult animated TV series ''Æon Flux'' * CYJO (Cindy Hwang), photographer, "KYOPO project" * Dennis Hwang, artist, Google doodler, game designer and artist of Pokémon Go * Derek Kirk Kim, cartoonist and author of critically acclaimed graphic novel ''Same Difference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Original Research
No (and variant writings) may refer to one of these articles: English language * Yes and no, ''Yes'' and ''no'' (responses) * A English determiners, determiner in noun phrases Alphanumeric symbols * No (kana), a letter/syllable in Japanese script * No symbol, displayed 🚫 * Numero sign, a typographic symbol for the word 'number', also represented as "No." or similar variants Geography * Norway (ISO 3166-1 country code NO) ** Norwegian language (ISO 639-1 code "no"), a North Germanic language that is also the official language of Norway ** .no, the internet ccTLD for Norway * Lake No, in South Sudan * No, Denmark, village in Denmark * Nō, Niigata, a former town in Japan * No Creek (other) * Acronym for the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana or its professional sports teams ** New Orleans Saints of the National Football League ** New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association Arts and entertainment Film and television * Dr. No (film), ''Dr. No'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cult Television
A cult following refers to a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium. The lattermost is often called a cult classic. A film, book, musical artist, television series, or video game, among other things, is said to have a cult following when it has a small but very passionate fanbase. A common component of cult followings is the emotional attachment the fans have to the object of the cult following, often identifying themselves and other fans as members of a community. Cult followings are also commonly associated with niche markets. Cult media are often associated with underground culture, and are considered too eccentric or anti-establishment to be appreciated by the general public or to be widely commercially successful. Many cult fans express their devotion with a level of irony when describing entertainment that falls under this realm, in that something ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Lee
Il Lee (Korean: ) is a Korean-born American contemporary artist. He was born in South Korea and has been living in America since the mid-1970s. Il Lee is best known for his ballpoint pen artwork; large-scale abstract imagery on paper and canvas. He also creates artwork in a similar vein utilizing acrylic and oil paint on canvas. Exhibitions of Il Lee's artwork have been held in Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, New Delhi, Mexico City, and numerous cities across the United States. The ''New York Times'' has described Lee's ballpoint artwork as "deceptively casual; sweeping, rhythmical abstractions in blue." Early life Il Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1952. His family originates from the mountains of North Korea, who made their way to South Korea in the years prior to the Korean war. His father studied architecture and engineering, but was unable to pursue it due to the outbreak of war. Lee has five siblings, and describes his family as "big" for his generation. Lee rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University Graduate School Of Design
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, real estate, design engineering, and design studies. The GSD has over 13,000 alumni and has graduated many famous architects, urban planners, and landscape architects. The school is considered a global academic leader in the design fields. The GSD has the world's oldest landscape architecture program (founded in 1893) and North America's oldest urban planning program (founded in 1900). Architecture was first taught at Harvard University in 1874. The Graduate School of Design was officially established in 1936, combining the three fields of architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture under one graduate school. History Architecture Charles Eliot Norton brought the first architecture classes to Harva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace La
Grace La (United States, 1970; Korean: 나은영; Korean pronunciation: Na Eun Young) is a first generation, Korean-American designer, Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), and Principal of LA DALLMAN. Co-founded with James Dallman, LA DALLMAN is a design firm recognized for the multidisciplinary integration of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape, with offices in Boston, MA and Milwaukee, WI. La is the Chair of the Harvard GSD's Practice Platform and served as GSD's Director of the Master of Architecture Programs (2014–17). Early life and education La was raised in the New England area and studied at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. As a boarding student, she studied visual arts in the Andover curriculum pioneered by Gordon "Diz" Bensley and was awarded the ''Pamela Wiedenman Memorial Prize in Art''. At Andover, she also participated in the ''Dakar Project'' involving the renovation of an elementary school on Goree I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yu Yeon Kim (curator)
Yu Yeon Kim (born 1956, South Korea) is an independent curator based in New York City, United States and Seoul, South Korea. Kim has curated and been a commissioner of many distinguished international exhibitions of contemporary art. Works In 2008, Kim curated "Corporeal/Technoreal", a Media Art project for the Poland . In the same year she curated the first exhibition of Korean contemporary art in Cuba. The project(The Points of the Compass) was exhibited at thFundacion Ludwig de Cubaand other satellite sites in Havana. The exhibition was also hosted by the , Mexico City. In 2007, she curated "Counterpoint", an international exhibition of art that is part of a series exploring cultural, political and territorial divisions – using the schism of Korea as a relative point. The exhibition was held aBund 18in Shanghai, and thin Seoul as well as venues in Poznan, Poland. This subject was also manifested in other exhibitions of international artists Kim has curated, includin"Pyon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Kim
Scott Kim is an American puzzle and video game designer, artist, and author of Korean descent. He started writing an occasional "Boggler" column for ''Discover'' magazine in 1990, and became an exclusive columnist in 1999, and created hundreds of other puzzles for magazines such as ''Scientific American'' and ''Games'', as well as thousands of puzzles for computer games. He was the holder of the Harold Keables chair at Iolani School in 2008. Kim was born in 1955 in Washington D.C. and grew up in Rolling Hills Estates, California. He had an early interest in mathematics, education, and art, and attended Stanford University, receiving a BA in music, and a PhD in Computers and Graphic Design under Donald Knuth. In 1981, he created a book called ''Inversions'', words that can be read in more than one way. His first puzzles appeared in ''Scientific American'' in Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column and he said that the column inspired his own career as a puzzle designer. Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gallery Row
Gallery Row is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles designated by the City Council in 2003 to promote the concentration of art galleries along Main Street and Spring Street. Geography Gallery Row spans north–south along Main and Spring Streets from 2nd Street in the north to 9th Street in the south. Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board, 2012 History Gallery Row was started based on a proposal by artists Nic Cha Kim and Kjell Hagen as members of the Arts, Aesthetics, and Culture (ACC) Committee of the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council (DLANC). At that time, there were only three galleries in the area: Inshallah Gallery on Main Street near 3rd, bank (Lorraine Molina) on Main Street near 4th, 727 Gallery on Spring Street near 7th (Adrian Rivas, James Rojas). The borders of the propo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nic Cha Kim
Nic Cha Kim (born September 19, 1974) is a Korean-American television reporter, documentary filmmaker, playwright, and cultural activist, also known as the Founder of Gallery Row in Downtown Los Angeles. Kim is a reporter for the weekly news series SoCal Connected, a weekly news series on KCET. In 2017, Nic won two Los Angeles Emmys for Information Segment and Informational Series (More Than 50% Remote). Early life Kim was born in Lakewood, California but was raised in Arcadia, California. After graduating from Arcadia High School in 1992, Kim studied English at University of California, Berkeley but dropped out in 1998 and moved to Los Angeles. Career Gallery Row In 2003, Nic Cha Kim presented a proposal with friend Kjell Hagen to create an arts and culture district called Gallery Row through parts of Civic Center, Historic Core, and Fashion District in Downtown Los Angeles. Co-sponsored by Jan Perry and Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Kirk Kim
Derek Kirk Kim is a Korean-American writer, director, and artist. He is the recipient of the Eisner (2004), the Harvey (2004), and the Ignatz Award (2003) for his debut graphic novel ''Same Difference and Other Stories.'' (The contents of which were originally serialized on his website, formerly known as ''Lowbright'', and ''Small Stories''). This collection of short stories was first published with the help of a 2002 Xeric Award. In television, he is best known for his work as a director on the Disney animated television series ''Amphibia''. He was also the lead character designer of ''Adventure Time'' (Cartoon Network) and a story artist for ''Green Eggs and Ham'' (Netflix). He is also the writer of ''TUNE'' and the writer and director of the spin-off webseries, ''Mythomania''. Kim has also worked on numerous animated shorts, including "Sympathy for Slenderman," a Webby Award nominee in 2014. Early life Kim was born in Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea. He came to the Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pokémon Go
''Pokémon Go'' (stylized as ''Pokémon GO'') is a 2016 augmented reality (AR) mobile game, part of the ''Pokémon'' franchise, developed and published by Niantic in collaboration with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for iOS and Android devices. It uses mobile devices with GPS to locate, capture, train, and battle virtual creatures, called Pokémon, which appear as if they are in the player's real-world location. The game is free-to-play; it uses a freemium business model combined with local advertising and supports in-app purchases for additional in-game items. The game launched with around 150 species of Pokémon, which had increased to around 700 by 2021. ''Pokémon Go'' was released to mixed reviews; critics praised the concept but criticized technical problems. It was one of the most used and profitable mobile apps in 2016, having been downloaded more than 500 million times worldwide by the end of the year. It is credited with popularizing location-based and AR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Logo
The Google logo appears in numerous settings to identify the search engine company. Google has used several logo, logos over History of Google, its history, with the first logo created by Sergey Brin using GIMP. A revised logo debuted on September 1, 2015. The previous logo, with slight modifications between 1999 and 2013, was designed by Ruth Kedar, with a wordmark based on the Catull font, an old style serif typeface designed by Gustav Jaeger for the Berthold Type Foundry in 1982. The company also includes various modifications or humorous features, such as modifications of their logo for use on holidays, birthdays of famous people, and major events, such as the Olympics. These special logos, some designed by Dennis Hwang, have become known as Google Doodle, Google Doodles. History In 1998, Larry Page created a computerized version of the Google letters using the free software, free graphics program GIMP. The typeface was changed and an exclamation mark was added mimicking t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
