Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highest objective was to foster a sense of community amongst the Korean students at Harvard. I had hoped that most Korean students could participate in KSA activities, share the Korean culture, and together get involved in any capacity on issues that affect Koreans politically," Choi says. "Some people use the term KSA to refer to a social clique, a Korean drinking group; it was never meant for that purpose," he says...
...There had been a feeling among Korean organizations on campus for quite a while that there were too many separate Korean groups and that having so many organizations was detrimental to the Korean community at Harvard," says Juliette L. Lee '98, a founding member of KA and a former co-director of KACC. "We felt that it would be much more beneficial to the community if we could merge and therefore pool our resources," Lee says...
...active board members met in weekly meetings throughout the fall to discuss, design and vote on every aspect of the new organization." Park says. "Everyone involved in the process had different visions of the role of Korean organizations at Harvard and the reasons for the merger," Park said...
While the current Korean student body seems to be reacting positively to the merger, Ryou says some of the leaders of KACC and KSA--who have graduated--were against the change. "The people who were involved in KSA and KACC were really committed to their respective groups; some devoted their whole college careers to their respective organization," Ryou says...
Since the Cultural Show, KA has hosted several other events--most notably a discussion on the experiences of Koreans and Korean-Americans at Harvard--which have all had record turnouts. "Things have been working out better than we had thought," says Jason A. Hwang '00. "We're having more people involved...