June 19, 2013



Hyeonseo Lee: My Escape from North Korea (via TED)






Please watch this video of Hyeonseo Lee, a North Korean escapee who explains her journey of escaping the only land that she knew and her attempt to rescue her family.

Slowly but surely, more and more North Korean escapees are coming out to share their story of the realities of life in North Korea. This video from the well known TED Conference is compelling and revealing.  

South Korean Pastor Creates “Drop Box” for Unwanted Babies





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This is an incredible story worth reading – the inspirational story about a South Korean pastor who opened an orphanage. In an attempt to save unwanted Korean babies, he even created something called aDrop Boxoutside the orphanage for those who want to anonymously give away their child to the pastor.

Asians Too Smart for Their Own Good? Interesting Article in the New York Times.

Smart Asians Colleges and Universities College Entrance New York Times

For all the smart Asians out there – take a look at this interesting article. Going to a top notch school may actually be much harder than you would think – if you’re an Asian.

In a 2009 study of more than 9,000 students who applied to selective universities, the sociologists Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford found that white students were three times more likely to be admitted than Asians with the same academic record.

Sound familiar? In the 1920s, as high-achieving Jews began to compete with WASP prep schoolers, Ivy League schools started asking about family background and sought vague qualities like “character,” “vigor,” “manliness” and “leadership” to cap Jewish enrollment. These unofficial Jewish quotas weren’t lifted until the early 1960s, as the sociologist Jerome Karabel found in his 2005 history of admissions practices at Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

In the 1920s, people asked: will Harvard still be Harvard with so many Jews? Today we ask: will Harvard still be Harvard with so many Asians? Yale’s student population is 58 percent white and 18 percent Asian. Would it be such a calamity if those numbers were reversed? Source: New York Times