Why do I call myself the Melanin Ajumma?
Recently I had a friend ask me about the name of this blog, The Melanin Ajumma, and why I had chosen such a name. Being Black American, she understood the melanin part of the name, but not being familiar with Korean Culture, she had no idea the reasoning behind Ajumma. It then hit me, that […]
Do I have the right to feel Korean Pride as a non-Korean
The Korean film Parasite by famed director Bong Joon Ho has gained enormous media attention since it won the Palm d’ore at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It has set records and broken barriers since it’s debut. So far it is the highest grossing foreign film, the first Korean film to when the Cannes grand […]