Several Korean senior citizens living in the Bronx find comfort in an exclusive network to preserve their cultural roots
Author: Jihye Lee
Jihye Lee reports for The Ink from Fordham, Bronx. She recently freelanced for BuzzFeed News, after leaving her full-time job as a reporter for South Korea's English Daily, The Korea Times, and TBS eFM, Seoul's English radio station. Jihye interned as the video news stringer producer at the Associated Press’s bureau in Seoul while pursuing a degree in international relations at Hanyang University. She speaks Korean and English, and hopes to report about the affairs of South and North Korea as an international correspondent one day.
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