HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP
The foundation awarded scholarships to 5 students with the total amount of $5000.00 in the first year of 1988. Since then the scholarship has been growing consistantly year over year. The total recipients by year 2016 are 2,600 students, and the total amount contributed to the scholarship is $3,977,500.00. The foundation provided scholarships to students in South Korea during the financial crises. The foundaton also funded 10 Korean-Chinese students each year in China during 2001-2008. The foundation started to give scholarship to black and hispanic students to improve racial harmony since 2013. The foundation has been one of the largest and oldest scholarship foundations in the United States for the Korean community.
The Korea Daily in San Francisco hosted all of the scholarship events until 1998. From year 1999 The Korea Daily in LA also hosted scholarship events for Southern California students along with The Korea Daily in SF. Reputable judges were selected from the Korean community. From the year 2008 Kimbo Scholorship offers nationwide coverage through The Korea Daily's 6 branches including LA, SF, NY, Chicago, Atlanta and Washington D.C.. This extended coverage intends to find students nationwide who show outstanding academic achievements and who are in financial need.
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2019/32nd Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2020/33rd Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2019/32nd Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2018/31st Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2017/30th Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2016/29th Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2015/28th Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2014/27th Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2013/26th Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2012/25th Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2011/24th Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2010/23rd Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2009/22nd Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2008/21st Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2007/20th Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2006/19th Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2005/18th Year
- Selected Recipients for the Year 2004/17th Year
Selected Recipients for the Year 2015/ 28th Year
Los Angeles Region
Jae-Eun Lim
Ju-Eun Lim
Sangjin Joung
Yoo-min Yoon
Yeonseo Nam
Suzie Hwang
Brandon Kim
Youngseok Lee
Gayeoun Kim
Joseph Kim
Gyu Hyung Choi
Ji-Hyun Kim
Jane Kim
Pooreum Seo
JungYeon Kim
Edward Na
Jung Min Kim
Daroo Lee
James Choi
Yongsuk Lee
Hyeongil Lee
Sarah Choi
David Park
Kathleen Kim
Julie Lim
JooHyun Michelle Park
Juna Yi
Yunjae Cho
Pearl (Daeun) Kim
Doyeon Kim
Alex Kim
Sung Joon Hong
Soojin Park
Chung An Seo
Hyung Joo Kim
Isaac Huh
Angela Kim
Peter Cho
Jaehoon Yoon
Donggyu Lee
Daniel Kim
Andrey Yun
Ji Eun Kim
Jean Rim
Jinnie Kim
Jessica Chung
Eui Kyung Rhee
Hey Jin Kim
Seong Yeop Lee
Shanelle Smart
HaeLynn Gim
Euihyeon Song
Esther Choe
Andrew Namgoong
Samuel Shin
Jae Ho Lee
Hana park
Sarah Ahn
Joyce Chang
Somang (Sunshine) Cho
Joon Seo Cho
Jessica Pak
Seiwon Lim
Alexander Keyes
Albert Na
Hyeyeon Hwang
David Park
Deborah Kim
Sol Ah Lee
Myung Sun (Jenny) Kim
Jennifer Lee
Christina Shin
DoHyun Kim
Seok Hee Jang
Catherine Ha
Jiseon Lee
Jung A. Choi
Mendoza Kathya Beatriz
Tapia Maria Guadalope
Palacios Loyda Eunice
Lopez Eufemia Jennifer
Imani McMillan
Ordonez Ana Margoth
Negash Even Tedros
Dorant Chemil Lache
Smith Kai Filip
Jailinne Ramos
Carnegie Mellon University
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UC Irvine
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Elcamino College
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UC Berkeley
Pasadena City College
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UC Berkeley
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UC Berkeley
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UC Berkeley
UCSD
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Pasadena City College / UCLA
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UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCLA
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Rhode Island School of Design
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UCRD
Andrews University, academy of couture art
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UCLA
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Harvard College
UCLA
UC Irvine
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Northeastern Illinois University Chicago
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USC
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UCSD
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UCLA
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Otis College of Art and Design
USC
UCSD
UCSD
University of Pennsylvania
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University of Notre Dame
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cypress college
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Mervyn M. Dymally High School
CSUN
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UCLA
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UCLA
Morehouse college Atlanta Georgia
Mervyn M. Dymally High School
San Fransisco Region
CLAIRE BANG
CHARYUNG SONG
ISABELLE SHIN
INSU JUNG
YONG-CHAN SHIN
ARIEL PARK
CAROLINE LEE
GRACE KANG
SEOKJOON HYUN
HA EUN KIM
MATTHEW KO
JOOYOUNG CHUNG
EUN SANG PARK
YE JUN HAHN
CAROLINE LEE
JOHN DONG
HAESOUL YANG
HYO SUNG BAE
JOOWON LEE
PAUL KIM
HYUNJUN HONG
PAUL KIM
UC BERKELEY
UC LA
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
DE ANZA COLLEGE, UC BERKELEY
PACIFIC UNION COLLEGE
UC DAVIS
UC IRVINE
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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
UC DAVIS
UC BERKELEY
UC LA
UC BERKELEY
UC BERKELEY
DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE
UC BERKELEY
UC SANTA CRUZ
UC LA
UC BERKELEY
ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
NeW York Region
Angela Y. Kim
Charles Oh
Chris Ro
Christie Inae Lee
Christin Y. Park
Gina Chun
Hannah Hyeyoung Lee
Hyeajin Kim
Hyungju Ham
Ilyoung Jung
Jean Jeon
Jinho Park
Juliet Kim
Jung Ah Hwang
Kaylee Jinyoung Kim
Olivia Yu
Rebecca Kyungwon Kim
Rebekah Sun Lee
Samuel Jaejin Oh
Samuel Lee
Sara Suh
Serim An
Soo Jin Koo
Soyoung Jung
Sungbin Ahn
Ye One Chung
Yebin Kwon
Princeton University
Fordham University
St. John's University
St. John's University
Princeton University
New York University
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Cooper Union
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New York University
New York University
Stony Brook University
Harvard University
Parsons the School of Design
Boston University
Pennsylvania State College
Rutgers University
Penn State University
Harvard College
Boston University
Hunter College
Cornell University
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Rutgers university
Rutguers University
Boston College
New York University
Chicago Region
KATHLEEN AERI PARK
RENEE SAE RIN JHU
JUN HYEONG PARK
JUSTIN HYUNWOO YIM
DANIEL MOON
AMANDA JEAN PHIL
MARIE YOO
SUBIN HWANG
CHRISTOPHER JUNSIK SHIN
UNA KOH
JACKIE H JEON
TAEJUN OK
DANIEL KANG
JOSHUA S YOO
JOOHYE KWAK
MICHELLE YUN
YEONGJU HEO
HYEYOUNG OH
DAYOUNG CHOI
BRANDON LEE
SARA SIN
DAVID KWON
Wheaton College-Wheaton
University of Southern Califonia
University of Illinois at Urbana Champain
Princeton University-Princeton
Indiana University Purdue University
Carnegie Mellon University-Pittsburgh
Fashoin Institute of Technology
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University of Illinois at Urbana Champain
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Illinois of Chicago
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Northwestern University-Evanston
Illinois Wesleyan University- Bloomington
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Northwestern University -Evanston
University of Missouri, Kansas city
Boston College-Chestnut Hill
University of Illinois at Urbana Champain
Dartmouth College-Hanover
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Illinois of Chicago
Washington DC Region
Ki Wan Kim
Hye Won Jung
Sung Ryun Cho
Hyo Jung Kim
Jonathan Daesung Kim
Leon Michael Kim
Ji Yong Kim
Alexander Hyunchae Paik
Inyoung Park
Yi Yeon Seo
Jung Huh
Kyungmin Park
Ha Young Kim
Hong Ju Kim
Hedy Lee
Do Hee Lee
Steven Chang Kim
Gawon Lee
Alice Lee
Stacy Jung
Monica Ahyoung Sohn
Arianna Lee Schickel
Harvard University
Cornell University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Williams College
Davidson College
Columbia University
Johns Hopkins University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Virginia Commonwealth University
University of Maryland, College Park
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute
The College of William and Mary
University of Maryland, College Park
Brown University
Maryland Institute College of Art
University of Pittsburgh
Georgia Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
atlanta Region
Christine Jiwon Kil
Dae Gun Chung Kim
Dain Song
Daniel Hosung Lee
Eugie Euginie Song
Ga Yeon (Clara) Moon
Grace Koh
Hea Rim Yoon
Heeseung Choi
Hyeon Noh
Hyungyu Lee
Jae Hwi Shim
Jane Jung-Ah Yang
Patrick Dongjun Shin
Pyung On Choi
Rachael Yeajin Han
Shawn Chong
Song Ha (Sarah) Lee
Won Ju Yoo
Yedarm Kim
Yongmin Kim
Young Cheol Huh
University of Georgia
Cornell University
Yale University
Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech
Mercer University
Princeton University
Amherst College
Vanderbilt University
Rhode Island School of Design
Bowdoin College
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University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
US Naval Academy
Vanderbilt University
University of North Georgia
Princeton University
Georgia Tech
Emory University
Georgia Tech
University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign