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patchy
Joined: 26 Apr 2005
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 Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:48 am Post subject: Famous Half-Koreans |
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Kostya Tszyu. I didn't know this until now, but this guy is half-Korean ethnically. His father is ethnically Korean. I've been living in Australia all this time and knew who he was and didn't have a clue. He's an Australian after having immigrated from Russia in the early 1990s and has been famous in Australia since then. He won all three-belt boxing titles, a feat rarely accomplished.
Here are several links about him:
http://www.answers.com/topic/kostya-tszyu
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Konstantin "Kostya" Tszyu (Russian: ����߬��Ѭ߬�ڬ� (�������) ���٬�) (born September 19, 1969) is a Russian born boxer with Korean origine who is an Australian citizen and two time world junior welterweight champion.
The son of a fitter in a metal factory and a nurse, Tszyu was born in a town named Serov, near the Ural Mountains.
Tszyu and his family, including sister Olga, used to share an apartment with another family, and Tszyu used to sleep on the floor. Tszyu was hyperactive as a child, and his father decided to take him to a boxing gym, where he would channel that energy by fighting older boys. Soon, Tszyu impressed Russia's amateur team coaches and he was sent to the Soviet Union's amateur boxing travelling training camps, where he got to visit more than 30 countries while training and fighting in tournaments. He trained with that group 250 days a year, and won various tournaments, such as amateur boxing's world championships. He also participated in the Olympic Games. At the Cuban world championship tournament in 1987, he came in second place, and at the Seoul Olympic games, he lost in the third round.
Kostya was a member of the Soviet military too, but since he was selected as an elite athlete, he did not have to participate in any wars.
He fought at the world championships once again, in Moscow in 1989, where he came in third place.
In 1991, he went again to the amateur world championships, this time held in Sydney. This was a trip that would change his life forever. Not only was the third time his charm, but he felt enchanted with the sights of Sydney and its people, and decided he wanted to live in Australia. ........... |
http://www.russianlife.net/article.cfm?Number=1173
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Winner Take All
Russian Boxing Champion Kostya Tszyu is one of the best there ever was. But he insists he wasn't born that way.
By Matt Lee
Asked to describe himself as a boy, when he first began boxing, undisputed super-lightweight champion Kostya Tszyu breathes one word: "Average." So--given his lofty ambitions in the sport--he had to get to work.
"When I start to get more serious about [boxing]," he said, "my day starts at five-thirty. Get up in the morning, train, then go to school. Finish school around two o'clock, training at four-thirty. Come home around six-thirty or seven o'clock, have a little dinner, a little homework, and go to bed. It's a very simple life in some respects. But very big sacrifice for the things I want to achieve."
Kostya Tszyu's story is one of discipline and decency. It is also a story of dreams realized: If he had not kept topping himself, and was not still boxing, one might say that his career has had a beautiful arch to it.
There are many who would dispute Tszyu's characterization of his raw boxing talent as "average." One such person is a former Soviet coach, who once called Tszyu's natural style, "A gift from God." How does an "average kid," after all, compile an amateur boxing record of 259-11, and, as a professional, win four world titles, going nearly undefeated in 31 fights?
Tszyu, however, holds firm, insisting that his success has been the result of discipline, not divinity. "It was something I trained to do," he said. "Lots of exercise, lots of preparation made it happen. You can't be successful without hard work. I can't believe in the 'gift' of things. If you're lazy, if you're not doing enough exercise, any 'gift from God' will spoil."
Like many boxers, Tszyu came from humble beginnings: Born in the industrial town ......... |
http://www.boxnews.com.ua/foto.php?gid=29&lng=en
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patchy
Joined: 26 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 8:18 am Post subject: |
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Kimora Lee Simmons.
Of babyphat fame: a hip-hop clothing line , married to Russell Simmons, hip-hop mogul (though amicably separated now and in the process of divorce), has written a book called "Fabulosity". Her mother is Korean-Japanese.
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Business/story?id=1362780
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Dec. 2, 2005 — Kimora Lee Simmons is livin' large. Big homes. Big cars. Big bling. There are people who say Simmons is over the top. To them, Simmons says proudly, "I am."
Simmons' Baby Phat fashion line has exploded ever since she took the reins from her husband, Russell Simmons, who turned hip-hop into a household name and made a fortune doing it.
She's a very flashy mogul — whose first tip for having it all is to think big, really big. She's got an inventory of designer shoes that would make Imelda Marcos jealous. And Simmons is happy to celebrate her success with excess. "Is it too much hair? Is it too much lip gloss? Is it too much diamonds? It can never be too much," she said.
But behind the rich-girl trappings is a shrewd businesswoman who uses her over-the-top life to promote her Baby Phat brand. And its impact on hip-hop culture has been huge.
Mimi Valdes, editor of Vibe magazine, which covers the urban music scene, said of Baby Phat, "Hip-hop [has a] sort of over-the-top obsession with bling and money and all those sorts of things. She is one of the few females who are really, really living the ultimate hip-hop lifestyle."
But Simmons comes from humble beginnings in the Midwest. Her father is African-American and her mother Japanese.
"I was raised by my mother, a working mother, in St. Louis. And at the time there weren't a lot of people that really looked like me, in terms of being interracial, biracial, mixed, ......... |
http://www.babyphat.com/aboutus.php?dept=aboutus
http://www.airmassive.com/wasabi/archives/000598.html
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In our ongoing series of posts devoted to monitoring news on Kimora Lee Simmons, we came across this recent ABC News item about Kimora in which she boldly agrees with accusations that she's "over the top" in her eye-blinding, blinged-out fabulosity. As the slim, tall force behind the Baby Phat brand, the half-Korean, half-black Kimora Lee is a person of fascination and inspiration for many young women. She is a former model and the wife of hip-hop mogul Russel Simmons, AND she is a mother of two children and a successful business person. Kimora Lee has a singular style that's a mix of aspirational glamour and hip-hop-flavored feminity. "Over the top"? Sure, if she says so, but we don't agree. Fabulous? Definitely.
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:01 am Post subject: |
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JZer
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Location: South Korea
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| Heines Ward, American football player. Just like patchy, I did not know that he was Korean-American until recently. He even plays for my favorite team but who in American gives a f### about Korean Americans. Only since I have been in Korea have I learned that he is half Korean. He is the son of a Korean and a African-American military officer. |
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peony
Joined: 30 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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Hines Ward
Redman is also part Korean i've heard (could be an urban legend as he had korean lyrics in his song)
Liz Cho
Brooke Lee |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Li'l Kim. Not really, but the name sounds like it. Her boobs certainly aren't though!! |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Did anyone see the interviews with Hines Ward's mom? She basically shared with them her surprise that they all worship her son now, because for his entire life they've been treated like crap by Koreans both here and in the US. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah, i read that interview, or one like it. She said she fell asleep during the superbowl. haha. There were some pictures of her and her then husband from back in the day. She was real pretty. Kind of had a Korean Diana Ross thing going on. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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| that they all worship her son now |
Just tell her to cash in while she can, because he'll be forgotten two weeks after his visit here. ����ȭ at its finest. |
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winnie
Joined: 08 May 2005
Location: the forest
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Kimora Lee is half Japanese...not Korean |
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jurassic5
Joined: 02 Apr 2003
Location: PA
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Funny thing about Hines Ward's mom....she was married to a US GI at a time when it was frowned upon (that is, going by the age of Hines; about 30 years ago). She left the country with her hubby who promptly ditched out when they hit the US.
In her day, she was probably treated poorly...or would have been by Koreans. Probably seen as a traitor of some kind. Now that her son is a hero of sorts, she is being revered as a saint for raising such a boy on her own.
From here
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200602/200602080017.html
The reporter speaks with Hines mom...
"What does Hines think about the Korean blood that runs though his veins?
"Since he was young, he always got along well with the other Korean and Vietnamese kids. It seems like he does have some pride in his Korean blood. But we've also been hurt as Koreans. When Hines was in high school, there was an inter-school friendship match for the Korean students. Since he was good at baseball, a school invited him to play. But after the game, when the kids went out to eat, the person who put together the event only took the Korean kids, leaving Hines behind (Ward is of mixed parentage, his father an African-American). After that I told Hines to never hang out with Korean kids. Yet when we went to Korea in '98, even Korean people who looked educated spat when we walked by. Koreans judge others based on their appearance and their age. Those kinds of Koreans think that they are so special��"
Fickle bunch....
Sheila Hudson is 1/2 Korean. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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Porter_Goss
Joined: 26 Mar 2006
Location: The Wrong Side of Right
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| Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 7:32 am Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
ah, that's the beauty of making up all the stories in your newspaper. nobody can ever scoop you. because only me and the CIA tracking satellites know what's going on in my mind. |
We don't always know what's going on with you, a lot of it is just educated guessing. How's your mom? |
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