Kai Ma Essay: A Farewell to KoreAm Journal - NBC News

MUST READ. Beautifully written as always, by Kai Ma

I also want to tell you about the fun we had, the gift of working with your friends, even though you couldn't always pay them: photo shoots in the garage, the parties sponsored by Korean alcohol (read: ballrooms of serious Asian glow, and also how working at this magazine quickly became, for me, a reel tape of a motley crew of covers — a sequence of social justice issues married with K-pop stars (who, by the way, really are as shiny and tan as you imagine them to be) and what each of those issues said about Korean America becoming what it has become.

Essay: A Farewell to KoreAm Journal - NBC News