By Kangho Lee (Rupert)

Have you ever heard about there is extension campus of the University of Utah in Korea? There is a brand new extension campus of the U in Korea, which is the University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC). The UAC is located in Incheon, South Korea which was opened in fall semester of 2014. Generally, when the University opens a new campus in another region, the site is considered as a satellite campus which is operated by its own independent headquarter office. But unlike most of other universities’ satellite campuses, the UAC has a different system that is fully operated by its main campus in Salt Lake City, Utah, even though it is located in overseas. Since the UAC is fully operated by its main campus in Utah, the UAC is considered as an extension campus of the University of Utah’s central campus in Salt Lake City.

This means that students in Salt Lake City can move to the UAC in Korea to take classes and spend their academic years whenever they want to. Vice versa, students in UAC can move to the main campus in Salt Lake City after they fulfilled at least 75 credits.

UAC is located at Incheon Global Campus (IGC), which is much closer to the gate way of South Korea, Incheon International Airport compared to other Korean universities. On this IGC, there are three more international universities beside the University of Utah; Ghent University, George Mason University, State University of New York (SUNY). Despite, there are four total international universities on the Incheon Global Campus, the UAC is the most highlighted university of the four institutions. According to a former professor of the University of Utah Asia Campus, Joel Mullen. “One of the reasons why the UAC is the most highlighted university in Korea out of these four is because UAC always tries to provide same academic curriculum with its main campus. I’ve heard that from other people on Incheon Global Campus, other three institutions are already considered as Korean institution because they hired instructors and professors in Korea. Also all classes of these institutions are taught in Korean even though their name is foreign institution since these they hired people from Korea.”

UAC continues to provide full American education by bringing professors and instructors from its main campus. Other universities on IGC such as Ghent, George Mason, and SUNY offer their classes in Korean. This academic curriculum lets students experience more American attracting many students in Korea who wanted to get accepted to American universities. The population of students in UAC continues to expand while on contrary the other universities are experiencing a lack of students.

For offering more Americanized education to the UAC, main campus just fired a Korean UAC President Insuk Han at the beginning of 2015 fall semester and replaced him with professor Stephen L. Walston and Kari Ellingson as a Chief Administrative Officer of the UAC. The reason was the University of Utah main campus wanted to make people aware of the UAC as an extension campus of its main campus, not as another branch of university (Last 2016 spring semester, Chief Administrative Officer of the UAC was replaced by Chris M. Ireland.)
According to Mullen, who came back from the UAC in fall 2015, “There were many conflicts between main campus administrative office and former Korean UAC President Insuk Han since main campus in Salt Lake City tried to remove UAC President Position and replace it by Chief Administrative Officer. The main campus wanted to make the UAC as an extension campus (UAC), but Insuk Han didn’t want it. He just wanted to make the UAC as another campus of the University of Utah. However, main campus’s choice was right, because it helped the UAC expand more than before. Former UAC President Insuk Han asked me to be on his side, but I just refused it. I didn’t want to get in trouble with them and I didn’t think he was right.” After this effort the UAC grew about 30 times bigger than when it first opened. When the UAC barely opened in 2014 fall semester, there were only 14 students. Now, it has over 350 students on the UAC. Also, it opened a brand new academic building last semester, and the UAC is becoming better and expanding the campus for the increase in student attendance.

Former Chief Administrative Officers of the University of Utah Asia Campus, Kari Ellingson, returned to main campus at the beginning of 2016 fall semester. Today, she works as an Associate Vice President at the student development department. She mentioned the UAC and her experience in Korea the Chief Administrative Officer, “The University of Utah Asia Campus is the most successful foreign institution in Korea since we provide same curriculum with its main campus. People on Asia Campus are able to get a same bachelor’s degree as its main campus’s even though the campus is in Korea since it is an extension campus of the main campus.” Mostly, when people graduated from off the main campus university, there’s usually another campus name will be printed on its college degree to provide differentiated degree, but the UAC does not. It is a great benefit which attracts enough people to come to the UAC.

Also Kari Ellingson mentioned that “I highly recommend students on main campus in Salt Lake City to attend the University of Utah Asia Campus in Korea at least for a year, if they are interested in learning and experiencing another culture themselves. I think the UAC is the best opportunity to students on main campus learning another culture easily because a life on UAC is always based on American culture and people are speaking in English on campus. Besides the UAC, people can enlarge their experience by experiencing Korea’s amazing night life and busy life in the enormously huge, most populated metropolitan city, Seoul.” Kari Ellingson spoke truth and proved that the UAC will offer many benefits to students on main campus. In addition to those benefits, dorm room on Asia Campus is cheaper than Utah’s even though it has a brand new system and buildings. If you are freshmen or sophomore and interested in learning another culture based on American culture, the University of Utah Asia Campus will help you to enlarge your experiences with a fabulous experiences in the one of the few one race nation, South Korea. If you want more information about the University of Utah Asia Campus, you better visit the UAC website or visit the study abroad office at the University Union.

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“We hope not only improves a patient’s emotional health, but many medical practitioners believe it improves the physical health of the wish recipient,” says Daniel Dudley from Make-A-Wish, Utah.

There are many wonderful charities nationwide that donate to children with life threating diseases. Some mainly strive to bring hope and happiness to the children instead of donating to hospital funding. One large organization doing this is the Make-A-Wish foundation; aiming to make dreams a reality. Another charity that has strived to make wishes come true is Give Kids the World Village (GKTW), which was created 30 years ago by Henri Landwirth.

Like the Make-A-Wish foundation, Give Kids the World Village aims to bring happiness to children with life threating diseases and their families. The village is a 79-acre nonprofit resort in central Florida; sending children and their families here for a cost-free week vacation.

There are fun activities available for children with all disabilities. Give Kids the World Village provides transportation, meals, daily entertainment and tickets to theme parks. Within the village they rely entirely on volunteers to deliver food, pick up families at the airport and operate village activities.

In 2012 a pharmaceutical company known as Astella’s took a day off their busy workday and sent 1,300 employees to Give Kids The World Village to volunteer. Employees did yard work, wrapped gifts, painted, and rebuilt fences to help prepare for the GKTW weekly ‘Winter Wonderland Parade.’ Astella’s pharmaceutical company was the largest group of volunteers the organization had ever seen at one time.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation

“Over 225 volunteers who live across the state, meet with and guide families through the wish process… They are the lifeblood of the organization and vital to providing an incredible experience for each family we serve.” –Daniel Dudley

The Make-A-Wish foundation has many similar volunteer opportunities to GKTW and numerous helpful community donors. Daniel Dudley is the corporate and community manager at Make-A-Wish Utah. When asking why he chose to work for Make-A-Wish he claims, “I admire that Make-A-Wish Utah has a global brand and local touch. Its mission is implemented by local volunteers, donors and staff on behalf of local children and families in need; its impact is world-reaching. I’ve always been passionate about organizations that serve local causes.”

Dudley says there are many helpful community donors to Make-A-Wish Utah including various K-12 schools, corporations, foundations and individual community members. Also included in this list is the life-long partnership with the sorority Chi Omega.

Chi Omega Sorority

Chi Omega sorority established a national philanthropy in 2002 with the Make-A-Wish foundation. The sorority provides service for this organization by volunteering and fundraising for them. The Make-A-Wish foundation strives to give hope to children when they are diagnosed with life threatening medical conditions. Members of Chi Omega are helping to raise money for these children nationwide.

The University of Utah Chi Omega sorority is working hard to grant one special wish this year. Six-year-old Arysta was diagnosed with Leukemia at age 4 and wishes to go to Disney world to meet Princess Ariel.

“A wish to go to Florida Theme Parks is the most popular wish we receive. However, we find that there is a very personal reason behind every Florida Theme Park request. For Arysta, she wants to meet all of the Disney princesses, especially Ariel,” says Dudley.

Annie Daniels, philanthropy chair for Chi Omega Utah, has planned several events to help make Arysta’s wish come true. Some of the events include a movie night at the university union, dessert night at the Chi Omega sorority house and several fundraisers at local retail stores.

“I knew that if we were given a specific wish kid our chapter would be more motivated to raise money… the girls get to witness first hand how much we can impact a family by granting their wish.” Daniels explained.

The movie night was open to the public at a cost of $5 to attend. Dessert night was also open to the public, costing $5 at the door to have all the desserts you can eat. Stores such as Gypsy Soul Gallery and Madewell dedicated a night to Make-A-Wish. With the help of Chi Omega, for a limited time, a percentage of every purchase was donated to Arysta’s wish.

The final event that will be hosted is the Chi Omega charity ball held at the Red Lion hotel on December 10^th. The ball will be open to the public and costs $20 a person. All proceeds will go to help grant Arysta’s wish. Daniels says that working with Make-A-Wish this year has made her sorority experience so much more rewarding.

All of the money raised during these events will go directly to Arysta’s wish fund. If more money than needed is raised it will then go towards fulfilling another Utah wish kid. “Make-A-Wish Utah, as a local chapter, plans on working with Chi Omega U of U every year, which builds a solid relationship between the two organizations” exclaims Dudley.

“I wanted to be philanthropy chair not only because I love the Make-A-Wish Foundation, but also because I know that with the right push Chi Omega could do so much more.” –Annie Daniels, Philanthropy Chair of Chi Omega

In America, the Make-A-Wish foundation grants a wish every 35 minutes, changing many lives for the better. In 2015 alone, Make-A-Wish granted 14,800 wishes. “We raise money to provide an emotional and psychological boost to a child-patient when it’s needed most. The most powerful aspect of a wish is the hope, strength and joy it provides,” Dudley explains passionately.

Over the course of fourteen years of working together with Make-A-Wish, Chi Omega has raised over 17 million dollars. Chi Omega Utah has raised slightly under 5 thousand dollars in the past month for Arysta’s wish alone.

This alliance is only growing stronger, donating nearly 1 million volunteer hours since 2002.Chi Omega at Utah Make-A-Wish with wish kid Arysta

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By: Jacqueline Vargas

 Background on Sexual Assault

 According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center:

• 1 out of 5 Women and 1 out of 16 men while in college are sexually assaulted
• 90% or more victims on campus do not report the assault
• Sexual assault statistics on campuses continue to rise

Students going off to college and being away from parents for the first time is possibly the most exciting time in your life. Four years to gain knowledge, meet new people and prepare yourself for the real world. Unfortunately, that is not the case for everyone. Sexual assault has become a problem throughout many colleges in the United States. Most victims are women and many do not report the incident because they may get blamed for it.This should not be part of anyone’s four-year experience in college. If students are made aware of the issue and stand up against it the chances of it happening could be lower.

On September 12, 2014, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden launched the campaign “It’s On Us” to put an end to sexual assault.

How will “It’s on Us” end sexual assault?

This campaign is to educate students about what consent is and encourages victims of sexual assault to seek help. President Obama helps schools by offering more enforcement, guidance and informing administrators at schools of the problem that is not acceptable. However, this can only do so much. He wants everyone to step up, this is where students become a big help and need to be involved. When students take the pledge they are not going to be bystanders and will intervene if they see some type of sexual assault occur.

It first starts with parents. Obama says, “It’s not just on the parents of young women to caution them. It is on the parents of young men to teach them respect for women.” If parents start early and teach their children morals, they are less likely to disrespect a woman. He focuses more on women being assaulted and how women should have the same rights but women should also stand up when a man is in the same position. Just because a woman is dressed a certain way or is intoxicated it is not her fault for anything that is without consent. He concludes his speech “Commit to being part of the solution.  Help make sure our schools are safe havens where everybody, men, and women, can pursue their dreams and fulfill their potential.”

 What is the University of Utah doing to solve this issue?

On October 31, 2016, an incident occurred on campus it was a wake-up call for everyone that goes to the U. Therefore, administrators decided to have some information sessions for students to know where they can go if anything were to happen to them throughout their time at the university. Lieutenant Rick Mclenon is part of the police department for campus and is in charge of the investigation unit. They are available to students 24 hours a day and there are 38 police officers and 70 security officers working for the department. He says that more escorts have been hired ever since the incident. Now the wait time is less to have an escort take you to your car. Students should also know “If you want to go to the downtown area depending on the reasoning and where you want to go we escort you there, but it’s supposed to be just campus but we do extend in certain circumstance,” says Mclenon.

He also created a program for women called the RAD program, which is a rape defense program that is offered 3 times year and only accepts 15 students per class. Right now, they are working on it and getting more instructors certified to teach the classes. When it comes to investigations he says they follow the campaign “Star I Believe”. This says whenever a victim comes in you believe the person and do not question them. He says “Evidence will lead us in the end to basically what had occurred during the incident, we also give victims time because when going through something like that our memory recalls things differently.”

What resources are there for victims?

Only 10% of victims report sexual assault it is shocking to see how low the percentage is. Victims should know there is help out there. Universities that are federally funded are mandated to take action and help victims get the help they need. The reason many do not report sexual assault is because victims think they will be blamed either because of their gender or race but Title IX protects these students.

Our campus has amazing resources and people that are here to help any student and give them the best advice to help them achieve success here. Laura Whitesman is part of the counsel center and she wants students that have gone through this know that the reaction is normal but with help you heal over time. “The first thing is to come in for a counseling session and the first one is free after that you pay $12 and you have 12 sessions throughout the year. We have group counseling’s as well and these can help because you are with other people and you know that other people are going through the same thing” She says.

Dara Jones is a confidential counselor that helps students go through the process they decide and help them with resources and will be there through the whole thing. Her office works with the Dean of students, so if any student has academic problems like having to change classes, withdrawing from a class or an entire semester, or extending deadlines she is the person to go to. This is all confidential and a student can petition for tuition reimbursement. They will be the best help for anyone scared to report alone. She says, “We have a pretty effective system set up to make sure that students feel safe coming to the University. Our mission is to ensure that our students are feeling safe and empowered to come and stay at the university and continue to succeed with their education.”

 University Resources

 Campus police:

   1735 East South Campus Drive

801-585-COPS

For more information or to speak to someone confidently contact:

   Dara Jones & Jodi Petersen: 801-581-777

Student Services Building, Room 330

201 South 1460 East, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112

Office of Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action:

135 Park Building

801-581-8365

To report an incident contact:

  Dean of Students: 801-581-7066

Union Building Room 270

For By-Stander training check the website for upcoming classes:

http://asuu.utah.edu/itsonus

 It’s On Us Campaign

 To take the pledge against sexual assault visit:

http://itsonus.org/#pledge_open

Story by Julianne Morris

When you think about the decision to shop locally, do environmental sustainability, lower taxes, creating job opportunities or giving back to the community ever factor into your decision? Perhaps they should.

The recent election and the general interest in shopping at local businesses in the past couple of years make the issues of local businesses and self-employed people relevant. Shopping locally is environmentally friendly. When the recession hit, people started shopping local because it didn’t use as many resources to ship everything from China and it created less pollution.  According to careerbuilder.com, “The U.S. has an estimated 10 million self-employed jobs. That’s 6.6 percent of all reported jobs, but down from a high of 7.2 percent in 2006.”

For self-employed people or people working for small businesses, benefits are not easy to come by. Most states do not require businesses that have fewer than 50 employees to offer healthcare. Tammy Bleck from Huffingtonpost.com states, “These jobs don’t come with a cushion of a 401(k), paid vacation, sick days and a boss to take the fall if we don’t do it right.” Self-employed people have to pay their own expenses. Some of them are health insurance, retirement savings, licenses, taxes, organization fees, advertising, website maintenance, computers and office equipment, travel expenses, vehicle maintenance, and they don’t get to have sick days.

Health Insurance

The struggle for self-employed people and small businesses mainly come down to insurance. Hali Araneo, the manager of the downtown Salt Lake City cookie business Ruby Snap, pushed hard to get insurance benefits for all of their employees An insurance agent was hired to discuss insurance for Ruby Snap. Araneo says, “The cost was so high, that it would’ve bankrupt Ruby Snap within a year. After Obama care was enacted, we were even more hesitant to get healthcare for employees because there were not a lot of incentives for the company to offer health care.”  This leaves employees of small businesses or self-employed people to take the cost of Obama care on themselves; which isn’t cheap either.

Baker has not tried to get insurance for his business yet because, in reality, every month is a struggle to make payroll for them. How could they cover the cost for another $3,000 in healthcare? For them, it just isn’t a reasonable option at this point in their business. Baker pays $900 a month for Obama Care. That is a big expense for him when there is no flow or continuity in his business.

Retirement

Then, we have to think about a 401k. At any corporate business, an employee used to be guaranteed health insurance and a retirement plan. Now in many cases, employer contributions to these are getting smaller or disappearing. For most business owners, they go into it thinking they don’t have a 401k right now but they think their business will be successful and that they will make up for it later. However, a lot of times they never really make it and they end up with no retirement savings. According to forbes.com, “businesses with less than 50 employees shows that only about 24 percent offer a 401(k) plan.”

Taxes

Self-employers also have the issues with tax. Their taxes are twice as much as what employees pay for their Social Security and Medicare taxes. Nancy Humphreys from Huffington Post says, “SE tax is similar to the part of payroll tax called FICA, but employees pay only half for their Social Security and Medicare taxes. Their employer pays the other half. Make no mistake – SE and FICA taxes are taxes on workers’ income.”

People who earn more than $110,000 a year don’t have to pay social security taxes. They only pay 2.9% for Medicare. According to huffingtonpost.com, it is not true that 98% of Americans are getting tax breaks. For workers that make less than $110,000 a year, they get the highest tax rate, which falls on the self-employed.

There are also some situations where a lot of local businesses will hire many employees that are all in the family. Then their business starts to lose money but they won’t let any of their family go. The whole business ends up failing and everyone loses their jobs. But at what point do you decide you can’t do everything on your own anymore and hire an employee?

If you are used to shopping online at big corporations, think about these factors when thinking about the decision to shop local.

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Lumberjack Tracks is a music recording and mastering studio in Salt Lake City, Utah that was started in June 2016 by John Hancock. Their studio is expanding as they grow.

Lumberjack Tracks studio tracks, mixes and masters all genres of music. Hancock said, “Our community can help support our local music scene by networking with us. By tuning in every Saturday to catch the action on YouTube and our Facebook page.” They also have a radio station. They go live on Facebook every weekends, while they interview and record music of local artists.

The CEO of Lumberjack Tracks Hancock got into music when he was 12 years old. He found a box of albums out behind a dumpster. “Someone’s mom must have gotten mad at them and tossed them. It was a goldmine,” he said. “I had Run DMC, Beastie Boys. The collection was ruthless at the time. That’s when I became a fan, by growing up on this stuff.” Hancock also says hip hop raised him.

Lumberjack Tracks studio was founded by Hancock on June 1, 2016. That’s when Lumberjack Tracks was licensed. “My business is almost five months old I have a business plan and I have been meeting the plan,” he said, adding that his business is growing and he hopes to bring on several more clients soon. “In our five months open we have worked with over 100 individual clients, which is a decent number when you consider our hourly rate.” They have more than doubled the square footage since the day they opened. Recently, they added an additional recording booth. Hancock has hired an intern as a personal assistant as well as one to train as an audio engineer.

Lumberjack Tracks operates seven days a week: Monday through Friday 9am-9pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 6pm-9pm but soon to be 9-9 even on weekends. “We interview all kinds of artists, or small business,” he said. “The point is to represent our local people. But part of getting views is bringing in bigger names which is something we have just started to do.” Lumberjack Tracks recently interviewed Cryptic Wisdom who has millions of views on YouTube. That’s one of the biggest views they have had so far.

Lumberjack Tracks has nearly 70 people in their street team, everything from doctors to attorneys to thugs, he said. But everyone has one motive in mind and that is our positive movement. “This is all about supporting our community and making good things happen.” They have roughly 10 members who meet each week and discus about what they should be focused on, they also brainstorm new ideas. He said “This meeting is then recorded and the points are forwarded to a private page where the entire team has access to our agenda.” Many people simply share posts of Lumberjack Tracks or help sell gears through social media and others are more involved by passing the name lumberjack tracks around.

Lumberjack Tracks has donated funds to the Haven and to young people in recovery. These funds come from their merchandise like hats, sweaters, bracelets and t-shirts. They help people with addiction recovery because Hancock had a rough life growing up as kid. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to a middle-class family. Hancock didn’t live in the nicest neighborhood but he said “my mom kept our home spotless.” he said My parents fought a lot and by the time I was 9 years old my parents divorced. “I lived with my mom and rarely saw my father for 20 years after the divorce.” John lost his mom when he was 15 years old. “I was bounced around to different foster homes and proctor homes. I ran away from the state and I was homeless for like two years.”

Hancock lived under a bridge until he was able to land a job and soon rented his first house at the age of 17. “I began to sell drugs to get by, I didn’t think at the time I had many better options to support myself.” he got into trouble with that and got into drinking heavily. About four years ago John got sober. Since then John have almost completed his bachelor degree, Hancock bought and paid off his car, “I bought a home and built a company from the ground up.”

The biggest challenge Hancock faces as the owner of Lumberjack Tracks is making sure that everything goes as planned with his company. “We are growing so fast that I need to be careful about the choices I make and in which areas to develop for growth.” This is a new company so everything is new to me.” He said, “Some investments are losses I simply try and keep them to a minimum at the same time risk is involved and some risky investments have been the biggest pay offs.”

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“My friends and I like to do things differently,” said Drake Cutter of Keene, NH, when explaining his creative process. Drake is a highly creative individual who is very talented in graphic design, animation, drawing, painting and much more. He has produced work for multiple local companies in the New England region. Some of the work includes a website for Keene Kids Housing Collaborative, poster ads for Carroll House Gallery, and more.

Every artist has his or her own style of art. Color and composition can be criticized but style cannot. Style is an individual’s personal preference in how they like to express themselves. Some artists have multiple styles they use depending on the piece. Drake is of these artists with multiple styles, unique from any other artist. In this interview we find out why Drake’s style stands out from other artists, by finding out his creative process, influences, and how these influences affect his work.

I watched as Drake intently carved into linoleum blocks for printmaking, while quietly listening to music. He prefers being alone and in is own headspace, so that he can have his own creative inspiration and style. “A lot of people will tailor their designs to be similar to someone else’s work,” said Drake. “You can tell who sat next to each other when the finished designs are released in class.” Drake on the other hand, likes to observe other peoples work first, that way he knows what has already been done and how he can come up with something completely different. By doing this he is able to differentiate himself from others with every design.

Drake’s creative process changes depending on the type of work he is doing. When working with graphic design he begins with a process called mind mapping. This is a brainstorming process that allows you to put thoughts into visual form. The mind map is a diagram that connects information around a central topic. The branches that stem from the central topic are subtopics or related ideas. “Some of the best advice I have received is, design smart… don’t add something to design, unless it has intention to it.” The mind mapping process produces creative thought and allows the artist to make connections between different topics.

Painting and drawing on the other hand have a completely different process. “I don’t really ever have a finished product, and if I do, it’s from weeks of doodling,” said Drake “I just go.” With this type of work he is usually coming up with concepts on the go or “free styling”. With free hand drawing, the artist is brainstorming by putting down ideas that come to mind. When I asked how he does this, Drake said, “I try not to think too much… I put down whatever is in my head”. By doing this he avoids disrupting his creative thought. Often times the artist wont have a finished product until they have drawn the same ideas over and over again. Each time they are coming up with new ideas to improve the piece.

Each artist has his or her own influences that affect their work in one-way or another. “Instagram is inspiration for design to me.” The massive amount of content that is put on Instagram every day is enough to influence Drake. He follows an account named @designtip. This account puts up multiple styles of work from artists all over the world. One artist that he is specifically interested with at the moment is @burnttoastcreative. This artist creates flat illustration, recently a popular style of design. Instagram has become a platform for artists worldwide. This app allows artists to promote and sell their work, the way a gallery would. “By looking at the different designs every day, it doesn’t make me narrow down to one style.” Instagram varies from other social media accounts because of its simplicity, directness, and how visual it is.

Drake is like every other artist. He strives to become better and better while promoting his work to the world. It is not easy to be recognized because of the vast amount of competition in the art world, but with social media sites like Instagram the process has become much easier. Much like Drake, there are many artists with a unique creative process that influences their work. No process is better than the other, it is simply preference. You can find Drakes work on Vimeo, Instagram (@cakeddrake), or flickr. Currently Drake is going to school, majoring in graphic design. He plans to work more in commercial design and animation in the future.

I’m Kangho R. Lee, Journalism student, an aspiring PR pro, a communication major at the University of Utah, a writer and graphic designer.

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