By Jon Oaks
March brings Women’s History Month – and Korean adoptee women have played important roles in shaping conversations around identity, belonging, and advocacy, while also building many of the spaces where adoptees gather, connect, and share their stories.

By Sharon Stern
There is a little bit of everything going on in dramaland this month.  We have silly, we have rom-com, we have revenge and thriller and legal with psychological twists.  It’s a good month to try out a number of different styles, a number of different streaming sources and see whose storytelling is the most captivating.

By Sharon Stern
Please join us March 29^th at 2:00 PM when we will discuss Han Kang’s book, We Do Not Part, which deals with the Jeju 4.3 massacre.

By Eun Byoul Oh
March 8th is International Women’s Day and this month we will celebrate Korea’s female deity Mago. Mago, known as Mago the grandmother (마고 할머니), is a female deity celebrated in Korea as a goddess of creation.

By Eun Byoul Oh
Lunar New Year is only a couple of weeks away, and Koreans always take their last chances to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I always thought that it is a great thing that we get to say happy new year to everyone for a little longer. 

By KCCNYC Monthly Team
We have a lot of events coming up in our KCCNYC 방과후 Series! NY Yankees Korean Heritage Day, Art talk with Siobhan McBride, and Jesa by Ma-yi Theatre Company. Sign up here to join us!

By Sharon Stern
For January, the Dosan Hakang Book Club read the book Blood of the Old Kings by Sung-il Kim, translated by Anton Hur.

By Sharon Stern
This month we look back at the Daegu Subway Fire which happened February 18, 2003.

By Jon Oaks
For many Korean-American adoptees, 설날 (Seollal) is a holiday we encounter later in life, often while already in the middle of reclaiming or reexamining Korean identity.

By Josh Kim
The stories that became ghosts became ghost stories!

By Sharon Stern
Some romance and lots of revenge, thriller and crime going on in dramaland this month.

By Eun Byoul Oh

I sincerely hope that 2026 will bring the world tranquility and peace. I personally need a really good Korean drama, and I am crossing fingers for my students for their idol comebacks and tours! We have prepared our January edition to be a celebration of Korean-American history and culture 🇰🇷🇺🇸

By Jean Vavra
I am a first-generation Korean American, raised between two worlds that didn’t always know how to speak to each other—but somehow taught me how to listen.

By Jon Oaks
Korean-American Day, observed each year on January 13, is often framed as a celebration of arrival and contribution. In 2026, it also feels like something else: a moment to claim space. Not quietly. Not defensively. But deliberately.

By Sharon Stern

Dosan Hakang Book Club gathered in December to discuss the novel The Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin.