This past March, SCKCSA held its annual Sports Tournament at John Burroughs Middle School in commemoration of Sam-il Undong, the March First movement that took place under Japanese rule in Korea in 1919. Teams from CSU Long Beach, Pomona, UCR, UCI, UCLA and UCSD competed in basketball and volleyball games and vied for awards in the spirit and, the crowd favorite, chicken fight divisions.

The games were played in brackets, where the winner of one bracket faced a team in another bracket. Each half was 20 minutes long, with at least two referees per game. All of the games were played intensely and the competitive nature of sports was clearly visible on and off the court. However, close friendships came first and playing these games brought about a tighter sense of Korean community within the college campuses.

SCKCSA has taken a huge step in reforming itself, and events such as the Sports Tournament help bring together students from all over to create greater Korean American networks. With many issues facing the Korean American community still, we hope that through this student organization, different schools can come together to tackle them.

Sam-il Undong was an example of passive resistance to a foreign power. SCKCSA tries to enhance the sociopolitical lives of Korean American students in a world where we play the role of a small, yet powerful minority. SCKCSA, centralized in Los Angeles, has the blessing of being at the center of the biggest Korean diaspora to date, and it is our duty to strive forward in educating Korean students of where they come from, what they are doing, and where they should be going.