A school shooting in Oakland—and the suspect, a Korean immigrant—leads to questions within the Korean-American community:
“’I know this shooting had something to do with han, with hwabyung,’ Chung went on. ‘I feel almost guilty saying that, knowing how hurtful those words might be to other members of the Korean community. But all my training, everything I’ve seen, everything I’ve read and my own personal experiences all point to that. This guy was suffering from something that was very Korean.’”
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