Director's note: Welcome to the KASEO Website!

This website is designed to give prospective members a better idea on our group's cause and objectives, as well as letting you know how we differ from the many other tutoring groups on campus. Please feel free to browse our website and if you like what you see, contact us for information on how to join!

KASEO has recently changed its name from meaning "Korean-American Student Educational Outreach" to meaning "Koreatown Awareness Student Educational Outreach." The reason for this was to remove any assumption that our group is exclusively for Korean-American members; in fact, we are always excited to accept diverse members into our group, especially because 90% of the students we work with are of Latino backgrounds. We mainly work with students who are struggling in math and hope that with our help and guidance, we will see these eighth graders graduate and move onto high school at the end of the year.

Furthermore, KASEO is the only on-campus organization that targets spreading awareness for the Korea-town area. We find that a generalization made about Koreatown is that by its name, it is filled with Korean-Americans. However, this is not the case. Korea-town is located in the mid-Wilshire area, about 3 miles west of Downtown Los Angeles. What many people don't realize is that more than three-quarters of the population of Koreatown are Latino-Americans, while Asian-Americans make up less than one-fifth of the population. These are some of the very basic truths we would like to spread about the Koreatown area through our group.

Joining our group means:

- Committing to making a difference!
- Dedicating 4-6 Saturday mornings every quarter. (You commit at the start of each quarter)
- Getting to know your tutee: You work with the same student throughout thequarter in order to enhanvce every opportunity to not only be a tutor to the kid, but a mentor and friend they can learn to rely on and trust as well.
- Fun, Friends, Food! When we're not with our tutees, we make time for our tutors! We hold optional socials for us, the big kids, to get to know each other as friends. This usually happens around some type of food, sometimes in the Koreatown area, so if nothing else, let the idea of delicious Korean BBQ be an incentive!

KASEO invites members who are willing to give up those desired Saturday mornings to instead be surrounded by other people reaching to make a difference through middle school students who are eager for real-life mentors. And don't let the fact that you have no tutoring experience hold you back; a willingness to mentor and befriend inner-city youth outrules any other criteria!

The links at the top of this website will better serve as testimonies to what I've just told you.

Love for the cause,

Hera Yoon
Director