KCED Foundation
Bergen & Hudson Counties, New Jersey

Independent, public-interest media — twenty-six years in the making, now entrusted to the community that made it.

You can hold a story alone. You can only carry it far together. A studio built over twenty-six years and 320+ productions, now becoming public-interest media North Jersey owns and holds in trust.

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Roundtable discussion in the KCED studio

A movement and arts session in the studio

On the record

English & Korean

Officials answer to residents here, on the record.

A governor, a U.S. senator, mayors and council members have taken questions in this room — in the languages the people asking actually speak at home.

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Latest from the studio

Chuseok K-Fest returns to Jersey City Hall

October 17 · Free & open to the public

After 48 Hours — a new series on the first days of parenthood

Launching September 1 · Bilingual

The KORISE | Mom&I, Issue 302

Quarterly in print · Read the digital edition

Twenty-six years of this record now belong to the public

501(c)(3) recognition granted July 2026

By the numbers

This isn't a plan. It's a record already made.

years in community media

Continuously published since January 2000, without a year off.

320+

video productions

Interviews, documentaries, press conferences, and civic programming.

1,400+

interviews

Residents, founders, educators, officials — recorded and kept.

302+

magazine issues

Bound and archived. The community’s own record of itself.

A Governor, a U.S. Senator, and the officials who run this region have all been on the record here — alongside community press conferences, official meetings, and original news. We don't have to prove we can do this. We already have.

This record exists because people paid for it to exist. Now it belongs to everyone.

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From the founder

It began as one magazine. It becomes everyone's.

The most consequential media is rarely the loudest. It is the record that stays — the camera still running after the crowd leaves, the neighbor finally heard, the story someone thought to keep.

I founded KORISE | Mom&I, a magazine this community still remembers by name. It was never loud. It simply endured.

Over twenty-six years that publication became a studio, and deliberate work made it a professional production house — 320+ productions, press conferences, public officials answering to residents on the record. A small room that came to hold a community's memory.

I am giving it away.

Not in spite of its value, but because of it. Authorship is temporary; a record is only worth keeping if it belongs to everyone inside it. So the studio, the archive, and the stage pass to the community — as public-interest media held in trust, governed independently, and built to outlast any single name.

The reason is simple. You can hold a story alone; you can only carry it far together — to reach more people, and travel farther than any one person could.

KORISE | Mom&I 300th Legacy Edition cover — KORISE | Mom&I · 300th Issue · Legacy Edition

For twenty-six years, this community’s living story grew here — its voices, its milestones, its quiet, everyday courage. Never mine to own; only mine to tend, until it could belong to everyone it is made of.

So it grows on — not as mine, but as ours.

Sylvia Kim · Founder

Not equipment. A working newsroom.

Now it becomes a platform to build on — together with the partners and institutions across the region who will grow alongside this community.

This isn't a room full of gear. It's a fully operating media institution — a broadcast studio, a control room, a podcast suite, and a video and photo archive — that has already produced press conferences, leader interviews, official meetings, and original news. It's handed to the community on day one, running.

With federal 501(c)(3) recognition now granted, the Founder is executing a formal Deed of Gift transferring the studio equipment, video and photo archives, KORISE | Mom&I content and intellectual property, YouTube and digital channels, and brand rights to KCED Foundation.

What the community receives

A full professional broadcast studio and control room
A dedicated podcast and interview suite
An archive of the community's life across 320+ productions
The relationships and standing that make leaders show up

Sylvia Kim interviewing New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill in the KCED studio in Fort Lee — Interview with Governor Mikie Sherrill · Fort Lee Studio

A full production underway in the studio

The studio, the cameras, the control room — handed over, running

Sylvia Kim

Founder · President & Executive Director

26 years in New Jersey media · earlier career at News Corp / Fox

Publisher, community advocate, and connector — Sylvia has spent 26 years using content and storytelling to connect people and industries: Korea and the US, the community and its government, one generation and the next. This studio is where that work comes home.

"For 26 years I recorded my neighbors' voices. I built this studio to hold them. Now I'm giving it away — because a story is only worth keeping if it belongs to everyone. This is no longer mine. It's ours."

Our leadership

An independent board holds this in trust.

An independent board governs this work — not to own it, but to guard it. The Board of Trustees holds fiduciary responsibility for the Foundation and protects its editorial independence. The Advisory Board lends counsel and reach, and does not vote.

Board of Trustees

Voting · fiduciary

Namhee LeeSecretary General

Kim EunheeTreasurer & Secretary

Sukri Lee-ChoTrustee

Emory EdwardsTrustee

Keith JensenTrustee

Miryong Sylvia KimPresident & Executive Director

Advisory Board

Non-voting · counsel

Sue AltmanAdvisor

Vicky BanAdvisor

Yosef Lee, Esq.Advisor

Jusun Yook, Esq.Advisor

EilChul KimAdvisor

Only the Board of Trustees governs KCED Foundation. Advisory Board members hold no vote and no fiduciary authority. The Foundation is nonpartisan and does not endorse candidates; it declines contributions from political parties, candidates, and campaigns.

The Studio

A working studio, and it stays open.

A full broadcast studio, control room, and podcast suite in Fort Lee. It produces reporting and interviews in English and Korean, convenes press conferences, broadcasts live Q&A where residents ask and officials answer, and trains residents to use the tools themselves — including a summer youth broadcasting program. 320+ productions, and a channel that never went dark.

Interviews

Leaders on the record

Officials, founders, artists, and educators — from neighbors to the Governor and a U.S. Senator.

Documentary

Stories of the community

Long-form storytelling that keeps the life of the neighborhood on the record.

Education & culture

Knowledge people can use

Educational series and cultural programming for a diverse community.

Watch on YouTube → M Creative Studio · 320+ productions

Convening power · the community gathered in the studio

Launching September 1

After 48 Hours.

A new public-interest series on the first days of parenthood — honest, multilingual conversations for new mothers and families, produced in the community studio. The newest proof of what a hyperlocal media studio can make.

Bilingual by default

Every episode is produced in English and Korean, so a mother can hear it in the language she thinks in.

The first forty-eight hours

What no one explains before you go home — feeding, recovery, sleep, and the questions people are afraid to ask out loud.

Clinicians and mothers together

Obstetricians, doulas, lactation consultants, and postpartum specialists, alongside the women who lived it.

Free, and it stays free

Published openly on the Foundation’s channels. No paywall, no subscription, no cost to the families who need it.

What the studio makes

Some of it only works from this room. The rest we produce with the organizations who already carry the mission — they bring the people, we bring the studio, the crew, and the channel.

Reporting

The Community Newsroom

Public-interest reporting and interviews in the languages neighbors speak — 320+ productions and counting.

Read at korise.co →

Press & standing

Community Press Conferences

When a matter is big enough, we convene the press — bringing local and national newsrooms to the community's own stage.

Town hall

Live Q&A with Officials

Broadcasts where the community asks and public officials answer — accountability, in the open, on camera.

Training

Storyteller Training

Free training that puts the tools of media directly in residents' hands — so the community can tell its own stories.

Youth · annual

Youth Broadcasting Camp

Every summer, young people train on real broadcast equipment — camera, editing, and audio. Graduates form a volunteer student crew that helps produce the newsroom year-round.

Elders & memory

Senior Living Archive

Recording the life stories of community elders on camera, so a generation's history is kept.

With senior organizations

Youth & voice

Youth & Media Literacy

Young people learn to tell their own stories — becoming the next generation of trusted local voices.

With youth & family organizations

Women's wellness

Women's Wellness Media

Multilingual conversations and resources on women's health and the new-parent journey — including our new series, After 48 Hours.

With women's organizations & clinicians

Panels & seminars

Expert Sessions & Panel Talks

Licensed professionals across fields — health, benefits, immigration, law — in seminars and cross-profession panels, pointed to real services.

With licensed professionals

Studio access

Produce with us

Community organizations, schools, and licensed professionals bring the mission and the people; the Foundation provides the studio, the crew, and the channel, with co-credit. There is no charge for mission-aligned partners.

Studio rental

Book the room

The broadcast studio, control room, and podcast suite are available to book. Rental supports the newsroom directly, and priority goes to nonprofit, civic, educational, and community use.

KCED Foundation provides media, education, and connection — inviting licensed professionals and directing people to established services. It does not provide clinical counseling, and never puts vulnerable individuals on air.

Publications, films & reports

The KORISE | Mom&I · UnderwritingProgram support KORISE | Mom&I · 300th IssueDecember 2025 Chuseok K-Festival 2025Highlight film Chuseok 2025Event report Studio Reel IIAdditional reference

A public official interviewed on camera in the studio

On the record · leaders and neighbors, recorded in the Fort Lee studio

Our publications

Four titles, one record.

Print is where this began, and it is still where the record is kept — twenty-six years and 302 published issues, alongside the reporting the Foundation publishes for the communities and institutions of Bergen and Hudson.

The KORISE | Mom&I

The newsroom · Quarterly in print · English & Korean · Est. 2000

The Foundation’s newsroom and flagship publication. Mom&I began in 2000 as a magazine for immigrant mothers and grew into a family and community chronicle across 302 issues. The KORISE | Mom&I is where the reporting runs now — community news, interviews, and the civic information families actually need, published continuously at korise.co.

Visit korise.co

Korea Intelligence Brief

KIB · Semiannual · English & Korean

Field intelligence on the Korea–U.S. life-science corridor — capital flows, clinical strategy, pricing policy, and the institutions that decide where innovation lands. Reported from the deal room, written for the investors, institutions, and companies who need to be in the same room.

Jersey City Official · The 2nd Annual

Chuseok K-Fest 2026

Saturday, October 17 · 11 AM – 4 PM · Jersey City Hall Plaza and Council Chambers · Free and open to the public

Co-hosted with the Jersey City Office of Cultural Affairs and the Hudson County Chamber of Commerce – Korean Chapter.

Last year, October 19, 2025

The Mayor issued a proclamation. Two children sang both national anthems in the Council Chambers. Then the room filled with gayageum, taekwondo, and a ten-year-old K-pop team.

Civic recognition

A mayoral proclamation naming Korean heritage part of Jersey City’s civic life. Assemblywoman Ellen J. Park opened the program.

The whole city came

Families from every part of Hudson County ate, played yut nori, and learned to write their names in Hangul.

Young people led it

Youth volunteers and artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities ran the games, the food, and the art table.

Chuseok K-Fest 2026 →

Economic Development

Two tracks, one desk.

KCED Foundation helps immigrant and multilingual entrepreneurs build businesses that strengthen New Jersey’s neighborhoods — with free, multilingual guidance that points people to services that already exist. We do not replace any city review.

Two tracksOne for the businesses already here, one for the businesses arriving

Track one · Businesses already here

Korea Desk

A single, reliable point of contact for immigrant and multilingual small businesses in Jersey City. Multilingual intake and step-by-step navigation through city processes, free workshops on doing business here, and Live Market Test — real customer-facing trials at Chuseok K-Fest and community events, so an owner can test a product with real buyers before committing capital.

Track two · Businesses arriving

Gateway

An entry point for Korean companies coming into New Jersey — orientation on the market, and connection to the City, JCEDC, Choose New Jersey, NJEDA, and the professionals who help them land. Public, multilingual information; the community benefit is the jobs and the storefronts that stay.

KCED Foundation provides free, multilingual, public-interest guidance — the same rigor, less delay, at no cost to the city. We point people to services that already exist; we do not replace any city review.

Independent, public-interest media — twenty-six years in the making, now entrusted to the community that made it.

Officials answer to residents here, on the record.

Chuseok K-Fest returns to Jersey City Hall