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What Andy Kim’s Senate Victory Means to a Hub of Korean American Life
nytimes.com
“Speaking up or speaking out wasn’t really viewed favorably,” said Ms. Choi, 40, who spent her early years in Highland Park, N.J., but lived in Korea as a young adult. “What was actually valued was doing the work.”
Few images better embody that sense of unheralded service than a photo of Mr. Kim on his knees picking up trash in the Capitol hours after rioters had rampaged through its halls on Jan. 6.
The photo became so iconic that the Smithsonian National Museum of American History asked Mr. Kim to donate the suit he was wearing that day to its collection.