- Collection:
- Social Change Collection
- Title:
- Seungmin Lee oral history interview, 2018-09-12
- Creator:
- Lee, Seungmin
- Contributor to Resource:
- Liou, Marian
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2018-09-12
- Subject:
- RESTAURANTS
Restaurants--Employees
Restaurants--Equipment and supplies
Restaurateurs
Food
Food industry and trade
Food service
Education
Korean Americans
Asian Americans
Atlanta (Ga.) - Location:
- Korea, Seoul, 37.56498255, 126.939210803584
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, Duluth, 34.00288, -84.14464 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
digital audio formats - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- video/mpeg
- Description:
- Seungmin Lee is a restaurateur in Atlanta, Georgia. She and her family moved to Atlanta in 1991 from Seoul, Korea. They started a series of successful Korean and Mexican restaurants on Buford Highway and watched the growth of the Korean-Vietnamese community in Atlanta. Today, Lee owns her own restaurant on Buford Highway.
In this interview, Seungmin Lee describes her transition from Seoul, Korea to the United States, her early life in Atlanta, and the contrast between the two cities. She talks about her education, her work in her parents' restaurant, and the difficulties of the business. She describes the impact of Buford Highway on her life and the development of her career. She talks about running her own business, her successes, and her memories of the Korean and Vietnamese communities on Buford Highway. Finally she discusses her brief career as a Korean pop star. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/schange/id/846
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/schange:846/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Lee, Seungmin interviewed by Marian Liou, September 19, 2018, In Whose Hearts is a Highway Oral History Project, Social Change Collections, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 01:00:27
- Original Collection:
- In Whose Hearts is a Highway: The Buford Highway Oral History Project
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
