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Joseph Cho Papers 3323 http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8vq38qc No online items Finding aid for Joseph Cho Papers 3323 Jiin Park USC Libraries East Asian Library 2020 February Doheny Memorial Library 3550 Trousdale Parkway Los Angeles, California 90089-1825 URL: http://libraries.usc.edu/locations/east-asian-library Finding aid for Joseph Cho Papers 3323 3323 1 Contributing Institution: USC Libraries East Asian Library Title: Joseph Cho papers Creator: Cho, Joseph Identifier/Call Number: 3323 Physical Description: 10.46 Linear Feet9 boxes Date (bulk): 1982-2015 Abstract: Joseph Cho (1943 - ) is a Korean American journalist, entrepreneur, and politician. He served as a councilmember and mayor of the City of Cerritos. The collection contains 8 boxes of mixed materials including photos, VHS videotapes, cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, scrapbooks, correspondence and other documents mostly dating from the 1980s to the 2000s. The items are on the topics of the City of Cerritos, council meetings, election campaigns, Korean American history, events in Southern California, a unification of North and South Korea, and other aspects of Joseph Cho's life. Language of Material: Korean , English . Biographical note on Joseph Cho Joseph Cho (1943 - ) is a Korean American journalist, entrepreneur, and a public servant. Born in Kyushu, Japan, he grew up in South Korea, and received a bachelor's degree from Seoul National University in 1966. Prior to immigrating to America in 1974, he worked as a high school teacher, and served as an Air Force Officer during his compulsory military service. He started his life in America working as a janitor and a gas station attendant. By 1975 he found a job as a computer programmer at the Los Angeles County Data Processing Department, where he was promoted to Assistant Manager within three years, a record career progression at the time. He founded his first business in 1978, a real estate company which was highly successful. After the South Korean Military massacred up to 2000 civilians (exact numbers not known) during the May 1980 Kwangju Uprising in South Korea, he began in 1981 to publish a new magazine called The Korean Street Journal . The weekly publication, based in Los Angeles, served as a leading voice for the Korean Democracy Movement for ten years, all the while struggling to withstand the immense political repression that the Korean military regime employed against Cho and his publication. The publication's goal came to fruition with the Korean Civil Revolution of 1987, which ushered a new era of democracy in South Korea. For his next venture, he founded a printing business, which was also very successful. Selling the business allowed him to comfortably retire in 2002, before reaching the age of 60. Retirement allowed him to pursue his lifelong dream of going back to school to earn a Ph.D. degree. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Yanbian University in China in 2006. His dissertation is titled 朝鮮半島核問題硏究 [The Nuclear Problem on the Korean Peninsula]. After completing his Ph.D. degree, he and his wife, Lucy, founded the Lucy and Joseph Cho Foundation to give scholarships to promising young students in the Cerritos area. Joseph Cho then began a career in public service by running for the City Council in his hometown of Cerritos, CA. After two unsuccessful attempts, he won an election in March 2007 for the Cerritos City Council Member. In 2009, his council colleagues voted to appoint him as Mayor Pro Tem, and in 2010 they voted to appoint him Mayor of Cerritos. In 2017, after his retirement from the Cerritos city council, Joseph Cho founded the nonprofit organization KUSPI (Korea-US Peace Institute). The organization's mission is to educate the American and Korean public about the root cause of the conflict on the Korean Penin¬sula and offer solution to resolve the nuclear crisis and bring peace to the Korean peninsula. Joseph Cho is the author of numerous books on the crisis in the Korean Peninsula: 북한은 변하고 있는가 [Has North Korea been changing?] (삼민사, 1990); 한반도 핵문제와 통일 [The Nuclear issue and reunification in the Korean Peninsula] (삼민사, 1994); 통일로 가는 길이 달라진다 [Reunification in the Korean Peninsula] (오름, 1998); 북핵 위기와 한반도 평화의 길 [Nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula: A study of nuclear proliferation in North Korea and a road map for peace] (한울아카데미, 2006); and 평화가 먼저다 [Peace first] (한울아카데미, 2013). In 2010 he published his autobiography소명 [My Calling], a condensed version of which appeared as a chapter in a 2013 book containing biographies of several prominent Korean Americans that was published by Queens College in New York. He and his wife have two sons and one daughter and three grandchildren. Arrangement The collection is arranged in five series: 1 Photos, photo albums, and postcards 2 Multimedia materials 3 Scrapbooks 4 Printed materials 5 Manuscripts Scope and Contents The Joseph Cho Papers contains 8 boxes of mixed materials mostly dating from the 1980s through the 2010s, including 1 box of photos and photo albums, 3 boxes of multimedia materials (VHS videotapes, cassettes tapes, CDs, and DVDs), 3 boxes of scrapbooks, and 1 box of printed materials (pamphlets, brochures, and magazines) and manuscripts. Topics include the City of Cerritos, City Council meetings, Council members, election campaigns, political events, Korean American society and history, Finding aid for Joseph Cho Papers 3323 3323 2 Korean shops, Korean church events, Joseph Cho's book release events, interviews, events on unification of North and South Koreas, and other topics. One box contains manuscripts of materials collected from the Northeast China (given to him while he was studying at the Yanbian University): Korean folksongs (570 pages), independence fight songs (1018 pages), and two biographies of Korean independence activists in Manchuria (218 pages). Processing Information This collection was processed by Jiin Park in February 2020. Processing included arrangement, physical re-housing of materials, and the creation of this finding aid. Conditions Governing Access To view materials contact the East Asian Library. Kenneth Klein, Head of the East Asian Library: [email protected] or Joy Kim, Curator of the Korean Heritage Library: [email protected] Preferred Citation [Box/folder# or Item name], Joseph Cho Papers, Collection no. 3323, Korean Heritage Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California. Conditions Governing Use All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of the Korean Heritage Library. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Korean Heritage Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Subjects and Indexing Terms California -- Photographs City council members -- California -- Los Angeles Elections -- California -- Archival resources Korean American men -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources Korean Americans Politicians -- United States -- California Brochures Clippings CD-ROMs Manuscripts Scrapbooks Videotapes Cho, Joseph -- Archives Photos, photo albums, and postcards 1984-2015 Scope and Contents The series contains 6 small boxes of photos (total 4,383 photos), 1 oversized photo, 6 photo albums, and 37 postcards. Photos 1984-2015 Scope and Contents The sub-series contains photos collected by Joseph Cho dating from 1984 to 2015. It contains 7 items (4383 photos) including 6 small boxes of photos and 1 oversized photo. Photos include his election campaigns, the Korean Reunification Forum, visiting North Korea, Koreatown, portraits of Korean Americans, and events of the City of Cerritos. Box 1, Item 1 Small box 1 1994-1995 Scope and Contents The item contains 636 photos arranged by topics: the Korea Reunification Forum (통일마당)(264 photos) covering from 1994 to 1995; Korean Americans (232 photos), mostly undated. Finding aid for Joseph Cho Papers 3323 3323 3 Photos, photo albums, and postcards 1984-2015 Photos 1984-2015 Box 1, Item 2 Small box 2 1984-2003 Scope and Contents The item contains 673 photos arranged by topics, including:Yanbian and Mountain Paektu 연변 & 백두산(39 photos), 인민대위원 선거취재 (184 photos), 범민족대회 (238 photos), Mount Kumgang 금강산 (17 photos), visitors to North Korea 북한방문단 (23 photos), Yanji and Seoul 연길 & 서울 (36 photos), and Vietnam and Cambodia (136 photos). Box 1, Item 3 Small box 3 undated Scope and Contents The item contains 746 photos arranged by topic, and most of the photos are undated. It includes identification photos, landscape photos, portraits, and photos from diverse events. Box 1, Item 4 Small box 4 1992-2010 Scope and Contents The item contains 983 election campaign photos of Joeseph Cho dating from 1992 to 2010. Box 1, Item 5 Small box 5 1989-2014 Scope and Contents The item includes 578 photos dating from 1989 to 2014, depicting mostly political and social events and rallies for democratization of Korea. Box 1, Item 6 Small box 6 2007-2015 Scope and Contents The item contains 766 photos dating from 2007 to 2015, reflecting mostly Joseph Cho's political activities. Some photos have captions on the back. Box 1, Item 7 Photo at Yanbian University 2006 Scope and Contents The item is a group of Ph.D. students' photo taken on July 1st, 2006 at Yanbian University. Joseph Cho is the second from the left. It contains Chinese on the photo "延边大学2006届全体博士生毕业合影留念"(Yanbian da xue 2006 jie quan ti bo shi sheng bi ye he ying liu nian)(연변대학2006계전체박사생필업할영유념), which means "A group photo of all 2006 Ph.D. students from Yanbian University." Photo albums 1995 Scope and Contents The sub-series includes 6 photo albums classified by events including North Korea Mass Games, Reunification of Korea, and Future of the Korean American Community. Box 1, Item 8 North Korea mass games 1995 Scope and Contents The album contains 12 photos taken from North Korea mass games on April 29, 1995.
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