On Saturday, June 1, KSP Program Director Katherine Kim co-led a Koreatown tour for the 2024 California Preservation Foundation in Los Angeles. To celebrate AANHPI Heritage Month, the tour, which was hosted by the Asian & Pacific islanders in Historic Preservation, explored Los Angeles’s five Asian American historic neighborhoods.

The California Preservation Foundation Conference, held from May 29 to June 1, 2024, featured a critical session titled "Histories Revealed: Recognizing Culturally Significant Sites in Los Angeles." This session, part of the Engagement, Interpretation…

On Saturday, June 1st, the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) hosted the AAPI Joy Festival, a vibrant celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. The event, organized in collaboration with the Koreatown Youth and Community Center (KYCC) and the Korean Senior & Youth Center (KSP), highlighted the rich cultural diversity of the AAPI community in Los Angeles.

Koreatown Organizing to Reduce Youth Opioid Use (KORYO) recently celebrated the culmination of an amazing year. In 2023, KSP partnered with KYCC’s Prevention Education unit to create KORYO, a youth advisory council focused on increasing and expanding KYCC’s capacity to provide youth with services for opioid use disorder and stimulant use disorder (SUD) in the Koreatown community, and reducing the stigma that presents a barrier to access for those affected.

Our last day highlighting Global Intergenerational Week celebrates intergenerational workplaces. KSP’s new office on Wilton has been the workplace of our staff as well as the gathering place for our community members, elders, and youth. Here are some of the ways in which our workplace has been made more vibrant and dynamic thanks to our intergenerational collabs! 

Our sixth day of celebrating Global Intergenerational Week is focused on solidarity between generations. KSP co-presented a screening of “Coming To You,” a documentary by director @gyuri_byun about two South Korean mothers redefining their relationship with their gay and transgender kids. The screening and discussion brought together parents, children, and community members and showcased the importance of intergenerational solidarity in tackling the challenges the LGBTQIA+ community faces. 

Today’s Global Intergenerational Week #GIW24 theme is focused on combatting loneliness and social isolation through intergenerational connections! In honor of today’s theme, KSP wants to highlight KSP elder participant Ms. Cathy!

It’s Day Two of Global Intergenerational Week! Today’s theme is the importance of building effective intergenerational partnerships. One of KSP’s partnerships this year was with artist and muralist @DaveYoungKim and the amazing Korean Resource Center (@krclaorg), a nonprofit community organization empowering low-income immigrants, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and people of color communities in Southern California.

It’s Global Intergenerational Week! This week we’re joining organizations across the world in celebrating the power of connecting younger and older people. At the Koreatown Storytelling Program, we know that it has never been more important to combat loneliness and isolation.

Throughout the past month, KSP has been partnering with Sequoyah High School’s Gryphon Ensemble to fundraise through a Quilt Auction! Freshman Isha Agrawal, who organized the project, also hosted three sewing workshops at the KSP treehouse to teach participants and community members how to craft tote bags, drawstring bags, and other fun items!

On April 19, KORYO (Koreatown Organizing to Reduce Youth Opioid Use) joined fellow KYCC youth leadership groups and youth from the community at Unwind Your Mind Koreatown Youth Summit, an event for high school students to build community and focus on their mental health through art, workshops, and connection. It was a treat to hear actor Ki Hong Lee and Councilwoman Heather Hutt speak about how they unwind and care for themselves! 

In April, KSP traveled just a few blocks to the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) where we joined their Youth Advisory Council to lead two workshops on oral history ethics, how to conduct oral history interviews, and the oral history editing process. Our partnership aims to preserve and document the narratives and voices of Central American immigrants and their family’s experiences in their country of origin and transition to the U.S.

On Fri., March 15, KSP wrapped up our 2023-24 Cohort on the LGBTQIA+ community in Koreatown with a big celebration. Our students, narrators, and community members came together for tacos, tanghulu, and stories!

On Tues, Feb. 27, KSP had a food-making workshop with the lovely Ms. Cathy! She taught us how to make miyeok-guk (미역국) or seaweed soup, a traditional Korean postpartum dish.

On Tues, Jan. 30, our friends at Las Fotos Project led a Photography 101 workshop for KSP students and community members. Since 2010, Las Fotos Project has been mentoring teenage girls and gender-expansive youth from communities of color in photography and self-expression.

On Saturday Jan. 20, KSP was joined by participants, friends, and community members for a screening of the film Coming to You. Directed by Gyuri Byun, the 2021 documentary follows the story of two working class Korean mothers, whose respective children come out to them as gay and transgender.

KSP had our annual holiday party on Dec. 15, celebrating with a Mandu (or Korean dumpling)-making party! The lovely Ms. Yoon, KYCC Senior Accountant and friend of KSP, taught us how to make our own mandu from start to finish.

We’re so excited to announce that the Koreatown Storytelling Program podcast is now available for listening! On our podcast, we will be sharing stories, histories, interviews, and discussions in the different languages that make our city.