I AM KOREAN AMERICAN

Own Words

That goofy looking on the left, that’s me.

You can say that I’m a pretty ordinary guy. I work 9-5ish & late nights at a laidback office job to support my quasi naive ambitions of being an actor. I write poetry on a daily basis (and perform them on a blue moon basis) because I feel waaaay too much. I also write for 8Asians to keep my APA activist side well fed. 

It was only recently that I felt pride in being Korean American. For the longest though, I completely hated myself and hated being Korean. But through several key events that played out in my life, I became a changed man in terms of how I saw myself and my Korean identity. I wrote a poem about my tumultuous experience which coincidentally shares the same name as the website that I am being featured on. Or waaaaas it a coincidence? 

I keep in touch with my parents once every few months. Prone to immature fits and emo pouts, I rely on Cinnabons to keep me happy. I am greedy about my friends and can be overly possessive at times. I might still have some letting go issues? 

But ultimately, I am defined by my overly developed passion to make a change in this world through the performing arts and activism. It is this drive that defines my ongoing life and it is the struggle against all things unjust that gives me this passion to be one heck of a talkative, unpredictable, stubborn man.