Yangsook Choi

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What can we learn from Yangsook Choi?

After taking a look into Yangsook's like we can obtain knowledge of how to be a better person to those around us who we are unfamiliar with. Yangsook finds passion in indulging into young reader's minds by writing and illustrating her books, she is known to put her own experiences of her peers into her work and build off of those experiences in good ways to help the reader understand. By doing this, she is instilling options on how to go about different situations one also may find themselves experiencing in life. By writing in this way Yangsook's readers can learn to globalize in healthy ways and also learn to unite cultures in friendly environments.

What did you learn from Yangsook Choi?

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✨✨Yangsook Choi, Today!✨✨

As for today, Yangsook is still writing books and post frequently on Twitter to her adoring fans. She keeps up with releasing books for young readers and continues to support every reader who comes to her for advice. She’s also active on Youtube where she frequently gives drawing lessons to her younger audience, she teaches to draw everything from faces to animals!

Today Yangsook Choi also resides in New York, it’s somewhere she said she’s always wanted to live and where her writing can prosper.

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Another book written by Yangsook Choi that I believe brings to light migration and adaptation is, "Behind the Mask". This book is about a Korean boy about to be celebrating Halloween, the boy decides to dress as a his grandfather who has passed. His friends make fun of him but the boy stays calm because he knows who his grandfather really was, he wore a mask. This mask is actually a traditional Korean mask used for ceremonial dances and spiritual gatherings in Korea. He had brought this mask to America with them when migrating. When they finally go out to trick or treat the boy dances the same dances his grandfather did back in Korea, the other boys were questionable at first but at last all the boys were dancing traditional Korean dances under the Halloween stars.

This book brings to light globalization and the conjoining of cultures. When migrating to America you have to adapt, but you can ALWAYS keep your culture.

Personally, one of my favorite book and illustrations done by Yangsook Choi is a book called, “Good-Bye, 382 Shin Dang Dong”. It’s about a young girl named Jangmi who is moving from her hometown in Korea to America. Jangmi must say goodbye to everything familiar to her all the way from her bedroom, to her best friend Kisuni. This story shows the hardships of leaving the only place you know to migrate to another place.

All the stories are a part of what Yangsook Choi had to endure when migrating to America, all the stories are fiction but they all have pieces of truth from her own personal life story.

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Yangsook's Life

Yangsook Choi is from Korea and is known for her amazing intercultural short stories and illustrations. She's always had a love for writing and drawing but started off waiting on tables at a Korean BBQ joint, she also was a flight attendant and at ne point was an artist that drew specifically finger tips and only finger tips. As an activist in equal rights, Yangsook also shared her privilege's of traveling and success with those who don't have the resources like the many children of the Himalayan mountains, Bedouin children in the Arabian desert, orphans who were caught in Cambodia's flood, and the North Korean defector children, along with many more. Yangsook Choi takes her success and shares it with he people around her so that everyone has a fighting chance in this world.

Yangsook Choi has a traditional Korean name that her father gave her “Yang” is the first one-character family named, and it is then followed by “Sook” which makes it a two-character name. The Korean language is an evolved Chinese language and each of these syllables have meaning. “Yang” means good, “Sook” means pure, and “Choi” means high, like a mountain.

In Yangsook’s book, "The Name Jar", Unhei is a young Korean girl in a school that is strongly Caucasian. Many of the young students don’t know how to pronounce Unhei’s name and this discourages her because she can’t understand why. In the end the class comes up with The Name Jar, a jar where everyone can put their names in to be shared with the class correctly on how to use the proper pronunciation. Instead of keeping a simpler nickname and changing for others, others learned about Unhei, and her culture, and how to pronounce her name correctly; Along with other children in the class.

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