Resources and programs for learning 한국어
Talk to Me in Korean (free online or downloadable content)
Coursera (free without cert)
https://www.coursera.org/learn/learn-speak-korean1
Korean Class 101 (free trial only, unclear what the ongoing cost is)
http://www.koreanclass101.com/
Seems like there are a lot of famous KAD chefs! Theories?
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/21/462150071/the-audacious-korean-american-chef-who-mastered-mission-chinese-food
Jenna Ushkowitz is the co-founder of Kindred: The Foundation for Adoption. She is also an accomplished Broadway actress whose career is still growing. Her podcast involves many Hollywood and inspirational people. Her podcast should perhaps be called Infinite Energies! Try to keep up!
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/jenna-ushkowitz-glee-fame-join-waitress-broadway-report-n612741
Infinite Positivities Podcast
http://bit.ly/infinitepositivities
August 23 – Nov 27 in Inchon. Only info is in facebook.
And here is the official webpage of the museum, also only in facebook:
Very inexpensive 10-day tours
Tour for adult adoptees
http://www.meandkorea.org/adult-tour1.html
Tour for mixed-race Koreans
http://www.meandkorea.org/hapa-tour.html
With mostly korean adoptee-related content or hosted by a korean adoptee.
Adapted: Korean-American Adoptees Living in Korea
http://adapted.libsyn.com/rss
The Rambler
(all the same episodes, putting all in case of link breakages / different phones)
http://therambleradhd.podbean.com/
https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ifrzrfn3tybmxongaj6bypbv3xm
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rambler/id1073467214?mt=2
Infinite Positivities Podcast
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/infinite-positivities-jenna/id1076441563
Before orphanages became marketing tools for tourist dollars and collecting stations for shipping kids overseas (i.e., a long, long time ago), a group of students at Central Michigan University adopted an orphanage. They sent money to them over several years to provide clothing, food, and other necessities like an ox and pigs.
The orphans, now grown up, still remember those students.
“I’ll tell you what I like to think to myself,” Kirwan muses. “When I die and I get to the golden gates and they won’t open, I’m gonna yell, ‘Are there any Korean orphans here?’ They’ll open them for me.”
https://www.cmich.edu/news/article/Pages/Centralschosenchildren.aspx
amazing speech. interesting details:
* approx 80% of children in orphanages are not orphans
* children raised in orphanages are 500x more likely to commit suicide, and 40x more likely to have a criminal record.
* even assuming the very best orphanage, these children re-experience the cycle of abandonment every 8 hours when workers go off-shift
With a happy ending involving family-based care.
Cambodia won’t be faced with the false dilemma of leaving kids in orphanages vs shipping them out to other countries. Do watch the whole thing.
