Chun-Hee Kim, Full Interview
Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Chun-hee Kim
Date: Time Period: 1980 - 2010; 2016-10-28; Interview recorded: October 28 2016; November 9 2016
Material: Digital audio recording made using ZOOM H2 digital recorder. Dimension:
Total running time: 1:12:02/0:32:04
Creator: Chun-hee Kim interviewed by Richard Lee
Identifier: aql:22125 kim-chun-hee-full
Description: Chun-Hee Kim is the youngest child born from a family of nine based in Daegu, South Korea. She has worked with in various positions at the Queens Library which she joined in 1987. She immigrated to Queens from South Korea with her husband and two daughters during the early 1980's. In this interview Chun-Hee crafts a personal definition of what it means to live as immigrant with anecdotes about work, everyday life, and sorrow which take place throughout New York. Chun-Hee later discusses the differences in American and traditional Korea culture and how she has seen the library grow as a hub for recent Korean arrivals to New York City and other New York based immigrant populations.
Creator :
Chun-hee Kim interviewed by Richard Lee
Date :
Time Period: 1980 - 2010; 2016-10-28; Interview recorded: October 28 2016; November 9 2016
Summary/Description :
Chun-Hee Kim is the youngest child born from a family of nine based in Daegu, South Korea. She has worked with in various positions at the Queens Library which she joined in 1987. She immigrated to Queens from South Korea with her husband and two daughters during the early 1980's. In this interview Chun-Hee crafts a personal definition of what it means to live as immigrant with anecdotes about work, everyday life, and sorrow which take place throughout New York. Chun-Hee later discusses the differences in American and traditional Korea culture and how she has seen the library grow as a hub for recent Korean arrivals to New York City and other New York based immigrant populations.
Subject :
Emigration and immigration
Rights :
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Coverage :
Locations discussed: Jackson Heights, Queens, NY Jackson Heights (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Oral history
Format :
Digital audio recording made using ZOOM H2 digital recorder.; Total running time: 1:12:02/0:32:04
Identifier :
aql:22125 kim-chun-hee-full
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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