Soi Park

Soi Park ( 한국어: 박소영 born 1977 ) is a South Korean artist working with large-format photography.

Education

Park earned her B.A majored in Visual Communication Design from Ewha Womans University. After several years of working as a junior art director at advertising agency in Seoul, Park moved to the U.S studied photography at State University of New York at Purchase. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art in 2011.

Career

Park's work has appeared in The New Yorker, was included in the 2011 Art Chicago NEXT- New Insight is curated by Susanne Ghez, director of the Renaissance Society. Her preference to photograph in human migration began while she was still at Yale, when she placed street advertisements phrase,“Buscar Trabajo".This work culminated in the monograph “Dear Home” which was exhibited at the CUE Art Foundation. For her recent series, she explores her surroundings in Korea Town. Park would photograph Korean communities in Los Angeles and New York City which named after the towns in South Korea, then revisited original site.

SOI

SOI may refer to:

Park (Wolverhampton ward)

Park ward is a ward of Wolverhampton City Council, West Midlands. It is located to the west of the city centre, and covers parts of the suburbs Bradmore, Compton, Finchfield, Merridale, Newbridge and Whitmore Reans. It borders the St Peter's, Graiseley, Merry Hill, Tettenhall Wightwick and Tettenhall Regis wards. It forms part of the Wolverhampton South West constituency.

Its name comes from the fact that two of the city's main parks, West Park and Bantock Park, lie within its boundaries. The ward also contains the Chapel Ash conservation area and also the Parkdale conservation area. Some other interesting architecture can be seen within the ward, particularly on the Tettenhall Road, such as first Mayor of Wolverhampton, George Thorneycroft's House. Two of the city's main thoroughfares are contained largely within the ward, namely the A41 Tettenhall Road and the Compton Road (A454. The Halfway House on Tettenhall Road was formerly a coaching house on the London to Holyhead route and as the name suggests, was the half way point. It was a pub for many years but is currently (2009) closed and for sale.

Park (film)

Park is the name of an independent comedy-drama film released in 2007. It was produced by Dana Jackson and directed by Kurt Voelker.

The story revolves around a Los Angeles park, where ten colorful characters encounter love - and loss - in the course of one day.

It received the Audience Award at the 8th Annual CineVegas Festival where it was premiered in June 2006. After a limited theatrical run in 2007, it was released on DVD on May 20, 2008.

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Park (Reading ward)

Park is an electoral ward of the Borough of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. It is the far eastern ward and is bordered to its west by Abbey and Redlands wards. On the north, east and south it is bordered by the civil parish of Earley in the Borough of Wokingham.

As with all wards, apart from smaller Mapledurham, it elects three councillors to Reading Borough Council. Elections since 2004 are held by thirds, with elections in three years out of four.

In the 2011, 2012 and 2014 a Green Party candidate won each election.

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