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Korean American Community History
Do you know that Towson University has a long history with Greater Baltimore’s Korean community? View the timeline of Baltimore Koreatown – Towson University Historic Milestones 1965 – 2018.
Timeline (PDF)
Baltimore's First Koreatown
Baltimore’s Charles North neighborhood, home to AA&CC's annual Asia North Exhibition and Festival, is the site of Baltimore’s first unofficial Koreatown, which began to form in the 1960s and was at its height in the 1990s.
Baltimore's First Koreatown
Soon He So: Continuing the Tradition
Local musician Dami Soh Schlobohm remembers her mentor, Soon He So, who formed the Asian American Arts Academy in 1985, providing classes in various Korean-American churches throughout Maryland and Northern Virginia and giving students an opportunity to reconnect with their Korean heritage.
Soon He So
Sookkyung Park: "Sookkyung’s Art"
Through her artwork, Sookkyung Park (TU MFA ‘23) shares her story as an immigrant and an artist, from establishing an arts and crafts studio in South Korea, to her exploration of different media to express the challenges and changes her family experienced when they immigrated to the US
Watch the Video on YouTube
Behind the plexiglass: A corner store witnesses generations of love and loss in West Baltimore
While many other Korean American merchants have retired and sold their businesses, the Lees never left, working more than eight hours a day, seven days a week with few exceptions
Read the article from December 2022, courtesy of The Baltimore Banner