Finding Your Path: Perspectives on Korean American Giving

Finding Your Path is an in-person Midtown panel on Korean American philanthropy, purpose-driven leadership, and giving back: Thursday, August 27, 2026, 6:30 PM EDT at The Korea Society, 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor. The Korea Society co-hosts with the Korean American Community Foundation Associate Board. Speakers listed on the host page are Christine Kang, Program Management Director at Blue Meridian Partners, and Mickey Yoon-Jung Hyun, Associate Manager for Friends of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Angela Bonato, Program Officer at Maverick Capital Foundation and a KACF Associate Board member, moderates. Do not invent a door price or an end hour; screenshot koreasociety.org/corporate/2189-finding-path for live RSVP or ticket notes before you commute.

The Korea Society is the durable U.S.-Korea policy, culture, and corporate host in New York; KACF funds community nonprofits working on economic security for low-income Korean and Asian American households in the metro. The Associate Board is the young-professional ambassador track. That pairing is why this night still clears the Circuit bar when NAAAP NY’s public calendar is empty and Korea Society’s August language workshops are Zoom-only. Audience is people testing or deepening Korean American giving, nonprofit, and foundation work, not a general K-pop mixer. Bring a concise role introduction that matches philanthropy, CSR, or community-fund altitude.

Madison / 42nd Street geography is Grand Central and 6 train territory, a 24th-floor office tower rather than a K-town restaurant. Building security will want ID matching your RSVP name. The Korea Society’s 2026 Annual Gala at Cipriani South Street is September 28, outside this window; this Associate Board panel is the in-window Midtown touch. Language-and-culture Zoom workshops on August 11, 18, and 25 are not Circuit rooms.

Confirm live RSVP on the Korea Society page. Leave buffer for Madison Avenue evening elevators. If the page still lacks a public price, email or membership notes on that URL are the path; do not assume walk-up at a 24th-floor host.

This night is right if you work Korean American philanthropy, nonprofit, foundation, or CSR in the tri-state and want a named Korea Society plus KACF Associate Board room. ACG’s Summer Bash was two days earlier if deal flow was your week. Leave a fundraising cold-call script at home; the panel is giving and leadership, not a pitch slam.