Event showcases Korean
culture with food, drums
The event in the EMU
Ballroom was attended by
hundreds of UO students
BY JARED PABEN
NEWS EDITOR
Mia Kang, owner of Hana’s
Restaurant, has cooked for the Kore
an Student Association’s annual Ko
rea Night for four years. She helps
prepare the recipes, gather the ingre
dients, cook the food and serve it,
and each year she swears it’s her
last.
But each year she comes back to
serve the hundreds of University
students and community members
who show up for dinner before en
tertainment because she believes
that “all those kids are my kids.” Be
sides, she believes she’s been
blessed by God and should give to
others, she said.
“My heart tells me that I should
help them,” Kang said. “My body is
tired. In two days I couldn’t do any
thing with my family, but it’s worth
it.”
Sunday night, Kang and volun
teers with the KSA served 450 meals
for the approximately 350 people
who attended the annual celebra
tion in the EMU Ballroom.
Before a show that included mu
sic and performances mixing mod
ern and traditional culture, students
and community members ate Kore
an seaweed salad with a sesame
and garlic sauce, lettuce-wrapped
rice with Korean beef, Kim Chi,
bean sprout salad and a tea made of
roasted barley and corn. All of it was
made from scratch, Kang said. This
year, extra time and expense were
taken to package the foods separate
Zani: Ritt | Photographer
Members of the Yoga Gallery perform at the annual Korea Night hosted by the Korean
Student Association. Along with yoga, other presentations included Tae Kwon Do, Fan
Dancing and musical performances of Korean harp, bamboo flute, and Samul Nori,
traditional Korean drumming.
ly so diners could taste the flavor of
each individual dish, Kang said.
The entertainment segment of the
evening included Korean harp,
yoga, short bamboo flute, skits and
tae kwon do performances, among
others. The theme of this year’s Ko
rea Night was “Master Ahn’s Birth
day Party.” The skits were about
Master Ahn, the richest
person in a small city called Ulsan
during the 17th-century
Chosun era.
Between 30 and 40 volunteers
showed up to help out at the event,
which KSA members had been plan
ning since the fall, KSA Co-Director
Yoo Suk Doh said.
“This is our biggest event,” he
said. “So we’ve been working on
this all year, and we have about 15
members working on it.”
Doh said members were
concerned before the event that peo
ple weren’t going to show up for the
event, but they were relieved when
people started lining up in the EMU.
“I didn’t expect this many peo
ple,” he said as people left the din
ing room and worked their way up
the hall to the EMU Ballroom for the
show. “Our main purpose is to
spread Korean culture, and if a lot of
people don’t come here, there’s less
chance of showing our culture. So
we were stressed, seriously.”
University freshman Sungmin
Cho — who is studying business
and Japanese and played the part
of Dol-Sae, a servant, in the play
segment of the show — said he
was thankful that so many people
showed up, despite the bad
weather.
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ASUO Executive President Elect Adam Walsh talks to ASUO senator Nick Hudson right af
ter the election results were released outside of the ASUO student government office Friday
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only about 9.9 percent of students cast
ballots in the general election.
After learning he won, Walsh imme
diately called Coy, who did not answer
her cell phone.
“Kyla, it’s Adam,” he said in a voice
mail message for Coy. “I just wanted to
know how it feels to be the vice presi
dent of the Associated Students of the
University of Oregon.”
ASUO Student Senator Nick Hud
son, who began supporting Walsh af
ter losing in the primary, said student
government will be “ 100 percent bet
ter than it was this year. ”
“My reaction was that I had won be
cause I have really put a lot of my sup
port, as well as (former candidate Ja
cob Daniels) had, into bringing down
the status quo of the ASUO and in a
sense formulating an organization to
help Adam and Kyla,” he said.
Other races tight
Other races in the election were
closely contested. Senate Seat 11 can
didate Tyrel Love won with 78 votes
compared to Justin Wheeler’s 60
votes.
Associated Students Presidential Ad
visory Council candidate Tyler Bush
nell won with 625 votes, passing Jon
tae Grace by just 2 votes.
Student Recreation and Fitness Ad
visory Board candidates Kelly Dono
van, Yumi Nada and Richard Pryor re
ceived the most votes for that position.
Senate Seat 17 candidate Rob Craig,
who ran unopposed in the election, re
ceived 171 votes.
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