Jim Lommasson

Baby Formula, Seoul, South Korea

Coming to America as an orphan, I didn’t carry anything. Someone carried me. I arrived in the United States at JFK airport on September 30, 1976,

Jim Lommasson

Baby Pajamas, Seoul, South Korea

Liani Reeves:  Coming to America as an orphan, I didn’t carry anything. Someone carried me. My foster mom dressed me in these little pink pajamas and sent me  

An Orphan’s Long Journey Home

Liani Reeves arrived in the US when she was only a few months old. With no way to trace her ties to her birth family in Korea, she grew up […]

Kim Oanh Nguyen

I Never Thought That Could Be Me

Joe Kye fell in love with music in elementary school. But becoming a career musician was never on the table. After arriving in the U.S.

Kim Oanh Nguyen

Performing with a Purpose

Within a matter of months, Joe Kye had gone from teaching English in a high school classroom to playing his music at open mics in local dive bars.

Sankar Raman

An All-American Korean Gives Back

Lori Stegmann thinks her birthday is on January 24, but she will never be sure if that’s true. Her story begins in 1960 at City Hall in Seoul, South Korea, […]