Minnesota Veteran News

STILL PRESENT PASTS embodies life stories from the Korean American Memories of the Korean War Oral History Project, directed by Ramsay Liem, professor of psychology at Boston College. Motivated by the personal quest of several younger Korean Americans to acquire a deeper understanding of their families’ experiences during the Korean war, the project currently has three dozen oral histories form three generations of Korean Americans living in the greater Boston and San Francisco Bay areas. These remembrances are among the first public remembrances by Korean Americans of the devastation of this horrific civil and international conflict. They also reveal multiple legacies of the war that influence individual, family, and community life, to this day. These oral histories provide a counter point to the invisibility of the Korean War in public consciousness and the U.S. historical record.

The exhibit is the result of two years of collaboration among artists Yul-san Liem, Injoo Whang, and Ji-Young Yoo, documentary filmmaker Deann Borshay, historian Ji-Yeon Yuh and project director Ramsay Liem.

The exhibit will run from April 14 to June 2, 2007 at: