The Legacy Project
2026 - 2028
This two-year project aims to identify and foster a group of intergenerational leaders, young and old, male and female, with family members who are able and aspire to learn, teach, and serve the future generation to bridge the cultural understanding between the East and West. To acquaint oneself with and utilize rich, unique cultural information, as well as research findings, theory, methods, and strategies for change. This is to continue the work of bridging cultural understanding between Korea and Asian Americans in America and beyond. It is hoped that our internship and conferences can facilitate participants’ life planning and help transmit our cultural legacy to future generations in a creative way.
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ERI organized our international Cross-Cultural Aging Conferences seeking to improve cultural competency and best practices among healthcare professionals, policymakers, and advocates in the U.S. and Korea. 1st International meeting held in 2011 at the Whitney Center in the U.S.
These programs were cooperated with Whitney Center, Yale School of Nursing, Yale School of Public Health, faculty members of Yale School of Medicine, Bioethics and Psychology as well as the National and International leaders on Aging at the LeadingAge, leaders of International Association for Home and Service for Aging and Seoul National University, one of the vice chair of the International Gerontology and Geriatrics Association meeting held in Seoul in 2013.
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CultureWear, a term and program created by Hesung Chun Koh, for children in diverse communities to express and feel with their clothes, “I’m different, and I am worthy” through design and colors representing their ethnic culture.
The purpose is to educate and inspire not only children, but also communities world-wide through fashion-forward cultural exchange. It is also an international movement focused on increasing cultural competency. When gently used clothes are utilized to refashion children’s clothes, it also serves as a green movement.
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The Translation Project was undertaken by late Dr. Kwang Lim Koh with the strong desire to make East Asian Law accessible to English language scholars and policy makers. He felt that current international law is largely Western law and it is less than international. In this rapidly globalizing world, East Asian legal traditions which go back to the seventh century have been the law of a significant portion of the world population. Moreover, East Asian laws are based on a quite different worldview and social structure. Therefore, smooth functioning of transnational legal practice including a growing number of Asian countries will require improved knowledge of East Asian laws.
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ERI has organised many Intergenerational Leadership Forums for Korean-American professionals as well as Korean high school and college students since 2007.
The purpose of these forums is to improve and continue the cultural competency and to initiate an intergenerational dialogue related to identity, purpose in life and information.