Korean Cultural Experience at the Cary Memorial Library: “Timeless Korean Specialities”

On the evening of May 5th, KOLex partnered with the Cary Memorial Library to host the “Timeless Korean Specialities: Red Ginseng & the Aesthetics of Bojagi Wrapping.” It was a truly meaningful time as we introduced Koreaโ€™s precious traditions to our local neighbors.

The event consisted of two main parts. First, we had a session for participants to learn about Korean Ginseng and Red Ginseng. The participants learned how Red Ginseng is made and why it has been so widely loved in Korea for many years. Participants watched a demonstration of slicing Red Ginseng roots and enjoyed warm Red Ginseng tea together.

Next, there was a hands-on workshop for Bojagi, the traditional Korean art of wrapping. Participants learned how to tie various beautiful knots using Bojagi fabric. It was wonderful to see the attendees enthusiastically following along and tying the knots themselves. Everyone was fascinated by how a plain piece of cloth could transform into beautiful packaging.

It was great to see so many people from our community show such an interest in Korean culture. ย Thank you to Ms Boeun Kim for the great lesson, and to our KOLex members for participating.

์ง€๋‚œ 5์›” 5์ผ ์ €๋…, KOLex๋Š” Cary Memorial Library์™€ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜๋Š” “Timeless Korean Specialties: Red Ginseng & the Aesthetics of Bojagi Wrapping.” ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ ์ด์›ƒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ์ „ํ†ต์„ ์ง์ ‘ ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์ •๋ง ๋œป๊นŠ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋Š” ํฌ๊ฒŒ ๋‘ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์กŒ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋จผ์ € ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ธ์‚ผ๊ณผ ํ™์‚ผ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ™์‚ผ์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์˜ค๋žœ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๋ฐ›์•„ ์˜จ ์ด์œ ๋ฅผ ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.  ์ง์ ‘ ํ™์‚ผ ๋ฟŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ž๋ฅด๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ, ๋‹ค ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ํ™์‚ผ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์…” ๋ณด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์–ด ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต ํฌ์žฅ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์ธ ๋ณด์ž๊ธฐ ์ฒดํ—˜์ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ณด์ž๊ธฐ ์ฒœ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์˜๊ฒŒ ๋งค๋“ญ์„ ์ง“๋Š” ๋ฒ•์„ ๋ฐฐ์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜์‹  ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ์ง์ ‘ ์†์œผ๋กœ ๋งค๋“ญ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์ด ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ์ฒœ์ด ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ํฌ์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต์— ๋‹ค๋“ค ํฐ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋ณด์ด์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๋งŽ์€ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ™”์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ์ตํ•œ ๊ฐ•์˜๋ฅผ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ๊น€๋ณด์€ ๋‹˜๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  KOLex  ํšŒ์›๋ถ„๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Patriotsโ€™ Day 2026 Afternoon Parade – KOLex Joins the March

In observance of Patriots’ Day, KOLex once again joined Lexingtonโ€™s historic parade. Patriots’ Day is the townโ€™s most significant celebration, commemorating the American Revolutionary War and honoring those who were and are in civic duty along with the values of liberty and courage.

Alongside various bands, civic groups, and cultural organizations, KOLex members and student participants marched to energetic K-pop music, bringing a lively spirit to the spectators. The presence of participants dressed in elegant Hanbok added a beautiful touch of Korean tradition to the procession, drawing warm applause from the crowds lining the streets.

This event was a meaningful opportunity to bridge Lexingtonโ€™s deep history with the modern vibrancy of Korean culture while strengthening our bond with the local community.

์˜ฌํ•ด์—๋„ ํŒจํŠธ๋ฆฌ์–ดํŠธ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฅผ ๋งž์•„ KOLex๋Š” ๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ํ–‰์ง„์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ฐธ์—ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŒจํŠธ๋ฆฌ์–ดํŠธ ๋ฐ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋…๋ฆฝ ์ „์Ÿ์„ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž์œ  ๋ฐ ์šฉ๊ธฐ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋˜์ƒˆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ถ•์ œ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐด๋“œ, ์‹œ๋ฏผ ๋‹จ์ฒด, ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™” ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ,์ด๋ฒˆ ํผ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ์—์„œ KOLex ํšŒ์›๋“ค์€ ํ•™์ƒ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ K-POP ์Œ์•…์— ๋งž์ถ”์–ด ํ–‰์ง„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ด€์ค‘๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋ฅผ ์„ ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋‹จ์•„ํ•œ ํ•œ๋ณต์„ ์ž…์€ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€์ž๋“ค์ด ํ–‰๋ ฌ์— ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋”ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ชจ์ธ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์€ ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜๋กœ ํ™”๋‹ตํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๊ฒจ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋Š” ๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด์˜ ๊นŠ์€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ ์†์— ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ํ˜„๋Œ€์ ์ธ ํ™œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์™€ ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ€๊น๊ฒŒ ์†Œํ†ตํ•˜๋Š” ๋œป ๊นŠ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2026 KOLex Spring Annual Meeting

The 2026 KOLex Spring Annual Meeting was held on March 13th at 10:00 A.M. at the Lexington Community Center. Thanks to all the members who joined us despite their busy schedules, it was a truly meaningful time to establish our plans for the upcoming year.

The meeting began with a report on our 2025 finances, followed by a discussion on our upcoming plans for 2026 including, participating in the Patriots’ Day Parade, collaborating with the Cary Library for an event, and preparing for the K-Festival scheduled for this fall.

We sincerely thank all the members who shared their valuable opinion for the growth of KOLex. Your continued engagement strengthens the Korean community in Lexington. We look forward to seeing everyone at our future events!

3์›” 13์ผ ์˜ค์ „ 10์‹œ, ๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ(Lexington Community Center)์—์„œ 2026๋…„ KOLex ๋ด„ ์ •๊ธฐ ๋ชจ์ž„์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”์˜์‹  ์ผ์ • ์ค‘์—๋„ ๊ท€ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋‚ด์–ด ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹  ํšŒ์›๋ถ„๋“ค ๋•๋ถ„์— ์˜ฌ ํ•œ ํ•ด์˜ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์„ธ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ๋œป ๊นŠ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ชจ์ž„์—์„œ๋Š” 2025๋…„ ์žฌ์ • ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ, ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” Patriots’ Day Parade ์ฐธ์—ฌ, Cary Library์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋Š” ํ–‰์‚ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ฌ ๊ฐ€์„ ๊ฐœ์ตœ ์˜ˆ์ •์ธ K-Festival ์ค€๋น„ ๋“ฑ ์ฃผ์š” ํ™œ๋™์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KOLex์˜ ๋ฐœ์ „์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์•„๋‚Œ์—†๋Š” ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด ์ฃผ์‹  ๋ชจ๋“  ํšŒ์›๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์—ด์ •๊ณผ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด ํ•œ์ธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ๋”์šฑ ๋น›๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ •๋œ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋“ค์—์„œ๋„ ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๋ชจ์Šต์œผ๋กœ ๋ต™๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

KOLex Honors Korean War Veterans Through Ceremony and Community Service

On Saturday, May 17, the town of Lexington paid tribute to Korean War veterans through a medal ceremony and a community breakfast. Held at 177 Bedford Street, the events reflected gratitude from the South Korean Government and heartfelt appreciation from Lexington Residents, especially from KOLex.

Honoring the Forgotten Heroes
In collaboration with the South Korean Government, a formal medal ceremony was held to recognize the bravery and sacrifice of Korean War veterans. A total of 13 veterans and their families were honored. The Republic of Korea awarded six medals and a Korean Culinary set to living veterans, four to widows, and three to family members, offering rare recognition for a war often called โ€œforgotten.โ€

Despite health challenges that prevented some veterans from attending, the ceremony was filled with emotion and remembrance. In preparation, volunteers from KOLex gathered on Friday, May 16, to make handwritten Korean thank-you cards and prepare flower bouquets, which were gifted to each veteran and family member by student KOLex volunteers.

On the day of the ceremony, students dressed respectfully and presented their gifts in person. Many took time to personally thank the veterans, engaging in conversation and expressing appreciation for their services. Their presence brought a meaningful, intergenerational connection to the ceremony.

Community Breakfast with a Purpose
Before the ceremony, the Knights of Columbus, Lexington and Middlesex County Deputy Sheriff’s Association hosted an Armed Forces Breakfast from 9 AM to 11 AM. Many attended the breakfast and shared stories. The event also featured a moving moment when the Korean Consulate in Boston presented the Presidential Citation, symbolizing continued diplomatic respect and remembrance.

A lasting message

The lasting impact of this day will endure. Students, civic leaders, and veterans came together in a rare moment of unityโ€”the cries, smiles, and kind gestures showed that gratitude transcends generations. Through words, small acts of service, cries, and smiles, Lexington showed a meaningful connection and proved that honoring the past is a responsibility carried forward by the present.

5์›” 17์ผ ํ† ์š”์ผ, ๋งค์‚ฌ์ถ”์„ธ์ธ  ๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด (Lexington)์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ›ˆ์žฅ ์ˆ˜์—ฌ์‹๊ณผ ์ง€์—ญ ์•„์นจ ์‹์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์—ด๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 177 Bedford Street์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰๋œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ KOLex๋ฅผ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด ์ง€์—ญ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์กด๊ฒฝ์„ ๋‹ด์•„ ๋งˆ๋ จ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€˜์žŠํžŒ ์ „์Ÿโ€™์˜ ์˜์›…๋“ค์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ
๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€์™€ ํ˜‘๋ ฅํ•˜์—ฌ ์ง„ํ–‰๋œ ๊ณต์‹ ํ›ˆ์žฅ ์ˆ˜์—ฌ์‹์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ์šฉ๊ธฐ์™€ ํฌ์ƒ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ด 13๋ถ„์˜ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์™€ ์กด๊ฒฝ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์ƒ์กดํ•ด ๊ณ„์‹  ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ 6๋ถ„๊ป˜ ํ›ˆ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ „ํ†ต ์‹๊ธฐ ์„ธํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์—ฌํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฏธ๋ง์ธ 4๋ถ„๊ณผ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ 3๋ถ„๊ป˜๋„ ํ›ˆ์žฅ์„ ์ „๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ข…์ข… โ€˜์žŠํžŒ ์ „์Ÿ (Forgotten War)โ€™ ์ด๋ผ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ํฌ์ƒ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ฑด๊ฐ•์ƒ์˜ ์ด์œ ๋กœ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ์ง์ ‘ ์ฐธ์„ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ–‰์‚ฌ์žฅ์€ ๊นŠ์€ ๊ฐ๋™๊ณผ ์ถ”๋ชจ์˜ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ ์†์—์„œ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ค€๋น„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด KOLex ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž๋ถ„๋“ค์€ 5์›” 16์ผ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ์— ๋ชจ์—ฌ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์ง์ ‘ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๊ฐ์‚ฌ ์นด๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ฝƒ๋‹ค๋ฐœ๋„ ์ค€๋น„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ๊ฝƒ๊ณผ ์นด๋“œ๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์ง์ง‘ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•ด ๋“œ๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์€ ๋‹จ์ •ํ•œ ๋ณต์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ์ •์ค‘ํžˆ ์ „๋‹ฌํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋งŽ์€ ํ•™์ƒ์ด ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์ „ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋Š” ์„ธ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด ๊ธฐ์–ต๊ณผ ์กด๊ฒฝ์„ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋œป๊นŠ์€ ์žฅ๋ฉด์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•œ ์•„์นจ ์‹์‚ฌ
ํ›ˆ์žฅ ์ˆ˜์—ฌ์‹์— ์•ž์„œ ์˜ค์ „ 9์‹œ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ 11์‹œ๊นŒ์ง€ Knights of Columbus Lexington๊ณผ Middlesex County Deputy Sheriff’s Association์ด ์ฃผ์ตœํ•œ Armed Forces Breakfast๊ฐ€ ์—ด๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ์ง€์—ญ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ชจ์—ฌ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋ฉฐ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ–‰์‚ฌ ์ค‘์—๋Š” ๋ณด์Šคํ„ด ์ฃผ์žฌ ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์ด์˜์‚ฌ๊ด€์ด ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ํ‘œ์ฐฝ (Presidential Citation)์„ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋œป๊นŠ์€ ์ˆ˜๋‚œ๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฏธ ์–‘๊ตญ์˜ ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์กด์ค‘๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์–ต์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์˜ค๋ž˜ ๋‚จ์„ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€

์ด๋ฒˆ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค, ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค, ์ง€์—ญ ์ง€๋„์ž๋“ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ํ•œ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ๋ชจ์—ฌ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ํฌ์ƒ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž๋ฆฌ์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด์€ ์ด๋‚ ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฐธ์ „์šฉ์‚ฌ๋“ค์˜ ํ—Œ์‹ ์„ ๊ธฐ์–ตํ•˜๊ณ , ๊ทธ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์Œ ์„ธ๋Œ€์—๊ฒŒ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ค‘์š”์„ฑ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋˜์ƒˆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Lexington Celebrates 250th Anniversary with Grand Parade โ€” KOLex Volunteers Join the March

Lexington, MA โ€”ย On a warm, bright spring day, Lexington celebrated itsย 250th anniversaryย with a historic parade that brought the community together in festive spirit.ย KOLex,ย also one of the participants- proudly represented by a group of dedicated volunteers- waved as they marched through the townโ€™s historic streets.

The parade, which took place on April 19, celebrated Lexingtonโ€™s historic contributions, honoring its legacy with several bands, civic groups, and cultural organizations. This year, the event drew a huge crowd, reflecting the townโ€™s rich history and diverse, modern-day community.

KOLexโ€™s participation especially showed the growing presence and cultural contributions of theย Korean-American communityย in Lexington. Dressed in traditional outfits such as Hanbok and holding a banner, the volunteers received warm applause from spectators lining Massachusetts Avenue.

For KOLex and its volunteers, the parade was more than a marchโ€”it was a moment to honor the town they now call home.

๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด, ๋งค์‚ฌ์ถ”์„ธ์ธ  โ€”ย ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋ด„๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ๋ถ€๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋…๋ฆฝ์ „์Ÿ์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ž˜ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด์€ 250์ฃผ๋…„์„ ๋งž์•„ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ํผ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ฝ”๋ ‰์Šค (KOLex) ์—ญ์‹œ ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ ๋‹จ์ฒด ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ, ์—ด์ •์ ์ธ ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์‹œ๋‚ด์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ–‰์ง„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ™œ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย 

4์›” 19์ผ์— ์—ด๋ฆฐ ์ด ํผ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ๋Š” ๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ๊ณตํ—Œ์„ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฐด๋“œ, ์‹œ๋ฏผ ๋‹จ์ฒด, ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™” ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์ด ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•œ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, KOLex๋Š” ์žฅ๊ตฌ, ํ•œ๋ณต ๋“ฑ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ ์ธ ์š”์†Œ์™€ ๋ฐฐ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์•ž์„ธ์šฐ๋ฉฐ ํ–‰์ง„ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ฌํ•ด ํผ๋ ˆ์ด๋“œ๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์ธํŒŒ๊ฐ€ ๋ชฐ๋ ค๋“ค์–ด, ์ด ๋„์‹œ์˜ ๊นŠ์€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์™€ ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘์„ฑ์„ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย 

ํŠนํžˆ, ๊ด€์ค‘๋“ค์˜ ๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด ํ™˜ํ˜ธ์™€ ๋ฐ•์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์€ KOLex ์ž์›๋ด‰์‚ฌ์ž๋“ค์€, ๋ ‰์‹ฑํ„ด ์ง€์—ญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ์ ์  ์กด์žฌ๊ฐ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ํ•œ์ธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ํ™œ์•ฝ์„ ์ƒ์ง•์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.