CUNY Newswire

March 1, 2010 | Queens College

– The Only Academic Center of Its Kind in America; Directed by Distinguished QC Professor
Pyong Gap Min, Leading Authority on Korean Americans and Asian Americans –

WHAT:          
Grand opening of the new Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College. There are an estimated 120,000 Korean Americans in New York City, a quarter of whom—about 30,000—live in Flushing, Queens, where the college is located.

WHERE:       
Q-side Lounge, Main Dining Hall, designated DH on the campus map  at: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/welcome/directions/3d/Documents/qc_campus_map3d.pdf
Enter the main dining hall at the entrance located under “DH” on the map and continue straight through the double doors to the Q-side Lounge.
Queens College, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing
For directions, go to http://www.qc.cuny.edu/welcome/directions/Pages/default.aspx

SPEAKERS: 
Professor Pyong Gap Min
QC President James Muyskens
New York City Comptroller John Liu
New York City Councilwoman Grace Meng
President, Korean-American Association of Greater New York Yong Hwa Ha
Korean Consul General in New York Kyung Keun Kim
and representatives from other leading Korean American community organizations

BACKGROUND: The only academic center of its kind in America, the new Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College has been established to promote research on Korean Americans and disseminate data and information within QC as well as to the Korean community and Korean government. Among the center’s plans are the publication of research reports and working papers at regular intervals; quarterly lectures; an annual conference at the college on Korean Americans and overseas Koreans; doctoral research fellowship awards, and the opening of a research library. Founding director Pyong Gap Min, a distinguished QC Sociology professor who is one of the nation’s leading authorities on immigration and Korean Americans, Asian Americans, and immigration, administers the new center. He is the author of Caught in the Middle: Korean Communities in New York and Los Angeles (1996), a study of Korean merchants’ business-related intergroup conflicts and their use of ethnic collective action in the form of boycotts, demonstrations and group purchases.   

For more about Queens College visit http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Pages/default.aspx

Contact: Phyllis Cohen Stevens
Deputy Director of News Services
718-997-5597
Phyllis.cohen-stevens@qc.cuny.edu

Maria Matteo
Assistant Director of News Services
718-997-5593
Maria.matteo@qc.cuny.edu