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Sori Kim

Bicultural Essayist

Third-culture lens on Korean concepts.

About

Sori is a Korean-American writer based in Los Angeles. Born to Korean immigrant parents, she was raised bilingual but never formally studied written Korean until college. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and writes essays on bicultural identity for online publications. Her Korean is strongest in the registers she heard at home and in church; her literary Korean caught up later. Sori contributes to koko ai when a Korean cultural concept needs a third-culture lens — words like 정 (jeong), 한 (han), or 눈치 (nunchi) that don't translate cleanly because the social context they live in doesn't translate cleanly either.

Credentials

Languages

Speaks

  • English (native)
  • Korean (heritage / native spoken)

Currently learning

  • Korean (literary register)

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