By Here is a good man to name a school after, Young-oak Kim:
A middle school named for a Korean-American war hero will be set up in California this year. The Los Angeles Unified School District announced on Tuesday that Young Oak Kim Academy will open in the Koreatown area of the city in September. The late Colonel Kim Young-oak was a highly decorated member of the U.S. Army’s 100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team who served in World War II and the Korean War.
Born in Los Angeles, Colonel Kim was a second-generation Korean-American widely remembered for his wartime heroics. He was awarded medals from France, Italy, Korea and the U.S. for courageous and exemplary achievements. Following his discharge from the Army, Kim devoted the rest of his life to charity work, helping war orphans and young people. Dying at the age of 86 in 2006, he is one of the most admired figures in the history of Korean immigration to the U.S.
Young Oak Kim Academy is L.A.’s first middle school and third school overall named for a Korean, after Charles H. Kim Elementary and Mariposa-Nabi Primary Center. Its establishment is due in great part to the efforts of the Friends of Colonel Young Oak Kim, an organization founded in 2006 by a group seeking to commemorate the colonel’s exemplary spirit. After organizing campaigns and sending numerous petitions to the local community and politicians, the organization’s efforts have finally borne fruit. [Chosun Ilbo via reader tip]
If you haven’t heard of Young-oak Kim before then I highly recommend you read my prior positng: Heroes of the Korean War: Colonel Young-oak Kim.
Young-oak Kim awarded Silver Star by General Mark Clark
9:31 am on July 22nd, 2009 1
GI,
Thanks for posting this.
9:36 am on September 5th, 2009 2
6:33 pm on September 10th, 2009 3
You got to admint, many Koreans would kill for the chance to order Japanese to their deaths. Only in America.
The "hush hush" word is that his "blue on blue" wounds may have been a case of attempted fratricide. In the Korean and Vietnam wars, the "grunts" had a way of dealing with "ineffective" leadership.
I can't confirm this, but my gut feeling is that its true.
10:03 am on December 10th, 2009 4
this school is cool
10:05 am on December 10th, 2009 5
this school is cool and i like it
3:32 pm on March 8th, 2010 6
the school is awsome
9:06 am on March 9th, 2010 7
this school is so great its the best middle school i have been to
4:21 am on April 19th, 2010 8
this skool is alright part i like it and part i dont because they dont let girls where skiny jeans
1:08 pm on May 4th, 2010 9
this school is cool because there aare some cute guys.it is kind of wack because we are separated from boys.
10:37 am on May 25th, 2010 10
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10:49 am on June 2nd, 2010 12
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10:50 am on June 2nd, 2010 13
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3:29 pm on September 10th, 2010 14
who r u
4:00 pm on September 10th, 2010 15
This man is a brave American hero, if there is anyone who deserves a school to be named after him it is Colonel Young-oak Kim. It is sad that he is not alive to see this honor.
9:35 am on September 14th, 2010 16
I study at that school… He devoted his life for charity work, help orphans and more to help this world… Go Young Oak School Academy
9:47 am on September 14th, 2010 17
#3
" In the Korean and Vietnam wars, the “grunts” had a way of dealing with “ineffective” leadership."
Are you somehow implying Col Kim was an ineffective leader?
12:31 pm on September 14th, 2010 18
More than half of this thread stinks of juvenile retardation.
I'd hate to be enrolled in that school.
11:44 pm on December 3rd, 2011 19
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12:46 am on December 4th, 2011 20
They say an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters can reproduce the works of Shakespear.
Presumably, they could also accurately describe their school life.
11:35 am on December 4th, 2011 21
I remember this post, but I never saw comment #3 until just now. What an offensive bunch of crap.
The writer in #3 is just engaging in some form of Korea bashing, but in the process he is disparaging a Korean-American hero and the Japanese-American heroes of the 100th. I know a few of them and have talked a little about the war they fought so heroically in, and they don’t deserve that kind of innuendo.