2025-2026 NYC PROJECT BRIDGE YOUTH AMBASSADORS Nadia Allahmorad Junior at Francis Lewis High School. I was born and raised in Queens and am passionate about learning. At school, I serve as the vice president of the Accounting, Commerce, and Economics club, participate in various other clubs, and tutor my peers. Outside of academics, […]
2025-2026 New York City Youth Ambassadors at The Korea Society Posing with the Society’s Exhibition Dyadic | Annette Hur & Hayoon Jay Lee The Project Bridge Youth Ambassador Program is the longest running program offered by The Korea Society’s Education Department. It was started in 1993 as a response to the 1992 Los Angeles uprising […]
Join us for the Korea–America Student Conference (KASC) Final Forum which is being co-hosted by The Korea Society and the International Student Conferences (ISC). ISC facilitates three academic and cultural exchange programs per year which are organized by university students in the U.S., Japan, Korea and China. For KASC, now in its 18th year, an […]
2024-2025 NYC PROJECT BRIDGE YOUTH AMBASSADORS Nathaly Collahuazo Senior at MESA Charter High School Born and raised in Brooklyn, I come from an immigrant Ecuadorian household and was taught the values of hard work, dedication, and most of all, grit from a very young age. Growing up as a first generation Latina, I […]
Join us for this thought-provoking exploration of how both global and local emerging issues can be deconstructed, explored, challenged, and recontextualized through the distinct lenses of architecture and design. Drawing from their recent publications the architects and educators Dongsei Kim, Drawing Hwa-Chaeng: Mapping Contested Territories, and Dongwoo Yim, Accessories, examine the contemporary practice of architecture […]
Join us and explore with Prof. Mark Peterson the ideas advanced in his most recent book, Views of Korean History by a Frog Outside the Well. Written in a conversational style for the general public, in this book Dr. Peterson offers a unique take on Korean history that differs from the standard history taught […]
Come join us to celebrate the longest running education Program offered at the Society, the Project Bridge Youth Ambassador Project Program. The Program began in 1993 as a response to Sa-I-Gu—when growing unrest between the African American and Korean American communities triggered widespread destruction in LA’s Koreatown in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King […]
2022-2023 NYC PROJECT BRIDGE YOUTH AMBASSADORS Bianna Chen Millennium High School I grew up in Manhattan and Brooklyn for most of my life and am now a junior at Millennium High School. Also, I have drawn for most of my life which led me to join certain art programs and my school’s AP […]
Join us as Lucy Park, Sejong Cultural Society Executive Director, and Elizabeth Jorgensen, writer and educator at Arrowhead High School in Wisconsin, share their insights into and passion for the ancient Korean poetry form, Sijo. Part of the Society’s Spotlight on Korean Studies in K-12 Schooling series, this talk will inspire individuals of all ages […]
Join us as Dr. Todd A. Henry, Associate Professor in the Department of History and affiliate faculty member of Critical Gender Studies, Science Studies, and Film Studies at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), launches the Society’s new Current Directions in Korea Studies Series. Dr. Henry, a specialist of modern Korea, a social and […]
