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
- B.A. Comparative Literature, UCLA
- Heritage Korean speaker (spoken native, written acquired)
- Essayist on Korean-American identity
Languages
Speaks
- English (native)
- Korean (heritage / native spoken)
Currently learning
- Korean (literary register)