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K-Town Up Close

  • Members/Conference Attendees $10 | Non-Members $20 | Young Professionals' Network and Explore Korea members, and above attend this program for FREE with registration
  • 2013-04-17 18:30:00
  • K-Town Up Close
  • About the Speakers
  • 2013 04 17  K-town up close  Louie-ElaineElaine Louie is a staff member of the New York Times who writes for the Dining, Home and Styles sections of the paper.  She won the 1995 James Beard Journalism Award for a series of stories on ethnic foods, including Korean, in New York City, that was published in the Times.   She is the author or co-author of fifteen books on food, entertaining and design.  She is the author of The Occasional Vegetarian (Hyperion, 2011), and Savoir Fare: Stylish Dining for Under $25 (The Little Bookroom, 2008), and is the co-author of The Shun Lee Cookbook (Harper Collins, 2007)

  • About the Moderator

K-town up close  What makes K-Town one of the most vibrant cultural neighborhoods in New York City?

Mother and daughter Hae Wha Pak and Christina Jang, owners of the popular K-Town restaurants Kunjip and New Wonjo, respectively, share the history, successes, and challenges that have transformed 32nd Street from a one restaurant neighborhood in 1979 to the densest restaurant block in NYC today (with thirty-three restaurants!). These two generations of K-Town restaurateurs provide an up-close and personal look at K-Town. They will be joined by Dr. Jinbae Park, designer and business consultant to numerous restaurants and the Korean Cuisine Globalization Committee, who first visited K-Town in 1990 while a student at Pratt.

Elaine Louie, a writer for the New York Times’ Dining, Home and Styles sections and a past James Beard Journalism Awardee for a series of stories on ethnic foods, will be guiding our conversation on Korea Town.

 

A sampling of some of the street’s specialties concludes the evening!

The ticket price includes the new Korean Restaurant Guide New York.

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Presented in collaboration with The New School's Center for Public Scholarship and the Food Studies Program's 29th Social Research conference titled
Food and Immigrant Life.