KIMCHI SLAP!

A discussion on the state of Korean Womxnhood featuring Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Soyi Kim, and Kim Cooper. Moderated by Naomi Ko.

17 June 2021

6:30-7:30 PM CT / 7:30-8:30 PM EST / 4:30-5:30 PM PST

and 8:30-9:30 am Korea Standard Time on 18 June 2021

 
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Kim Cooper is an actor, writer, improviser and Korean Adoptee. She can be seen on Black Monday and Adam Ruins Everything and improvises with Voltron at Asian AF and her all Asian American, all female team, Number One Son. She also made a mini-webseries called Kim Is Just Disappointed, where she lectures other adults on their violations of the Rules of Public Etiquette.

Soyi Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in the Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society program at the University of Minnesota. Before coming to the U.S., she worked as a docent coordinator at National Museum of Korea, and a volunteer worker and a satirical cartoonist for a civil organization, Cultural Action, located in Seoul. Her research interests lie in Korean feminism, contemporary art, and neocolonial pathological discourse.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee's novel, The Evening Hero, is forthcoming with Simon & Schuster in 2022. Her young adult novel, Finding My Voice, has just been re-released by Soho Press, and her forthcoming YA, Hurt You, a contemporary retelling of Of Mice and Men, will be published in 2023. Her stories and essays have been published in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, Salon, Guernica, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Nation, and the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and forthcoming in Smithsonian Magazine and The Yale Review. Lee is a cofounder and former board president of the Asian American Writers' Workshop and teaches fiction at Columbia where she is Writer in Residence. She was born and raised in Bob Dylan’s hometown of Hibbing. She is also one of the few journalists who has been granted a visa to visit North Korea, which she did in 2004. It is the setting for The Evening Hero. 

 

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.