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Jae Woo was born in South Korea and raised in New Zealand, where his career took off instantly when he played the leading role in national tour of The Bone Feeder by Renee Liang, and performed in Fitz Bunny; the Musical with New Zealand s most prestigious theater company, ATC (Auckland Theatre Company).
Widely acclaimed in New Zealand, Jae Woo became an international actor when he started performing in the USA, making a positive impact on a new generation, by bringing a sense of confidence to those that have been marginalized. I believe awareness is the seed of all changes; and I believe my voice and involvement in the arts here in the US can help bring about necessary changes. he says.
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An NCEA history exam this year included a poem by Lionel Terry, a white supremacist and cold-blooded murderer. Chris Tse, who wrote a book inspired by Terry’s victim, explains why the exam question has caused such hurt within the Chinese New Zealand community.
I have a complicated history with Lionel Terry, and it pains me to be writing about him again. If you’re unfamiliar with him, these are the facts: Terry was an Englishman who arrived in Aotearoa at the turn of the 20th century. He was an anti-Semitic racist who wrote turgid poems and letters espousing his views, that he then published and distributed as pamphlets. When his lobbying to get parliament to ban Chinese and East Asian immigration failed, he shot and killed Joe Kum Yung in Wellington’s Haining Street to bring his views about race “under the public notice”. In other words, he’s one of the biggest dickheads to tarnish the history books of Aotearoa.