Korean American Bar Association of Georgia - Kabaga

09/15/2025

09/03/2025

Join KABA-GA on Saturday, September 13th as we celebrate KABA-GA's 13th anniversary for an afternoon of fun, food, and community! This event is open to all and we invite you to bring your friends and family.

The Anniversary Celebration will be held at KABA-GA Board Member Sara Hamilton's house near The Battery at 285/75 (address provided upon registration).

$10 Members | $20 Non-Members

https://kabaga.org/event-6319152

08/20/2025

KABA-GA Board Meeting, celebrating past events and planning some cool ones for this fall. Stay tuned here or at kabaga.org

05/26/2025

Today, Army Cpl. Luther H. Story of Americus, GA will be laid to rest in Andersonville, GA over 70 years after giving his life in the Korean War. Story was a member of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was reported killed in action Sept. 1, 1950, at age 19 when he displayed conspicuous bravery during intense combat against North Korean forces.

Last year, Georgia was able to lay to rest Dewey Edwards Rewis Jr., James Wilkinson, Luther Story, and Roy Barrow.

72 years after the end of conflict, a handful of soldiers are identified each year. Still, over 7,500 remain unaccounted for.

Happy Memorial Day.

https://www.army.mil/article/266973/remains_of_korean_war_soldier_medal_of_honor_recipient_to_be_buried_in_georgia

04/06/2025

KABA-GA hosted successful IAKL MLS 4/3/25-4/5/25. Thank you Nelson Mullins, King & Spalding for sponsoring!! We had IAKL Korea, IAKL Foundation and IAKL Regional Governors from LA, DC, Denver, New York, Atl, Canada attend! It was a wknd full of discussions and networking. Look forward to seeing everyone at the IAKL conference in Korea Sept 25-28, 2025.

12/17/2024

members Jongwon Lee and Sean Park quoted in the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution news:

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment after his short-lived martial law decree is being met with celebration among many in metro Atlanta’s Korean community.

Dozens of Korean community members gathered Saturday afternoon at Shorty Howell Park in Duluth to celebrate the National Assembly’s vote to impeach Yoon, carrying posters that read in Korean, “We condemn the illegal martial law,” “Impeach Yoon Suk Yeol” and “Immediate arrest of the insurrection leader.” Others who spoke to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called Yoon’s martial law decree shameful but the resilience of the Korean people a triumph.
.. “I was shocked at the time of the martial law, but now we are celebrating that the National Assembly made the right decision, and we are expecting the Constitutional Court to do the same. But we will have to wait and see,” said attorney Jongwon Lee, who attended Saturday’s gathering in Duluth’s Koreatown in support of the impeachment.
.. Military dictatorships and political violence still live in the recent memory of many older Koreans who witnessed the nation’s struggle to democratize in the 1980s, including Seam Park’s parents, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1988.

“That experience (of political violence) drove a lot of immigrants like my parents to the U.S.,” Seam Park, 45, said. “They didn’t want me and my brother to be subject to that.”

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment after his short-lived martial law decree is being met with celebration among many in metro Atlanta’s Korean community.

11/23/2024

Businesswoman and philanthropist Michele Kang, owner of the professional soccer team Washington Spirit, has pledged $30 million to the girls and women’s programs of U.S. Soccer, the organization announced.

It’s the largest donation ever made to the soccer body by a woman, as well as to girls and women’s soccer.

Kang’s donation will help the organization double the number of camps it currently runs to six per age group, specifically funding those for women and girls, according to the press release.

Read more: nbcnews.app.link/PtWXCEQAGOb

09/12/2024

South Korea has found new evidence that mothers were forced to give up their children for adoption in countries including Australia, Denmark and the United States.

At least 200,000 South Korean children had been adopted abroad since the 1950s, but allegations have emerged that hospitals, maternity wards and adoption agencies systematically colluded to force parents – primarily single mothers – to give up their children.

Adoption workers in some cases insisted that adoptees were abandoned children and blamed the biological parents for not looking for them.

But a report from a government Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up to investigate the claims has detailed some of the coercive methods used to force mothers living in welfare shelters to give up their sometimes day-old children.

In one case, a mother unwilling to be separated from her child was recorded as being “a problem” and “mentally ill”. The record was later updated to explain that the parental rights’ waiver had been secured and the baby transferred to an adoption agency.

International adoption was not well understood at the time, according to researchers who spoke to the Guardian last year, with parents told that it was like sending your child to study abroad and that they would come back.

Adoptees said they had grown up being told they were better off as an adoptee in Denmark than living as an impoverished South Korean child.

Mothers in welfare shelters were forced to give up sometimes day-old children, commission finds

08/29/2024

And that’s a wrap!! The 12th KABA-GA anniversary was a huge success. Thank you to the board, student volunteers, and attendees!

08/28/2024

The wait is over!!! KABA-GA Gala dinner is finally here. We are sold out! We want to thank our generous sponsors.
Let’s celebrate KABA’s 12 Anniversary!!