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The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

The Accolade
The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

The Accolade
Esther Oh

Esther Oh, Staff Reporter

After a year of being on The Accolade staff, senior Esther Oh returns as a staff reporter. She is excited to write stories and finally work on printed issues instead of just online stories and PDF issues. Oh is excited to see what the new school year back on campus will look like for The Accolade.

She is also an active student athlete at school and a musician outside of school. During her free time, she enjoys listening to music and hanging out with her friends.

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Actor Ji-soo Kim from the K-pop all-girls band, Blackpink (left), glances at Jung Hae-in, who plays the character of a North Korean spy named Lim Su-ho in Disney+'s "Snowdrop." The episodic series was DIsney+'s first Korean drama to be released on its streaming platform earlier this year and exemplifies the South Korean approach to addressing relationships known as mildang.

It’s called mildang, and that’s what keeps me hooked on K-dramas

Esther Oh, Staff Reporter • May 18, 2022

Though I grew up in a fairly traditional Korean household, I didn’t join my culture’s TV/movie drama fan base until my friends persuaded me to watch one in the seventh grade.  My first K-drama...

Ag teacher feature

New agriculture teacher aims to continue with traditional events like ‘Kiss the Cow’ while helping students grow as leaders

Esther Oh, Staff Reporter • January 19, 2022

Shannon Deskin grew up in South Orange County with parents who owned such pets as cats, dogs, horses, snakes, lizards and geckos. “We always had animals,” Deskin said of her childhood Mission Viejo...

Seniors Esther Oh (left) and Tara Kim (right) attended the first night of the BTS Permission to Dance On Stage show at the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. For the first time since October 2019, BTS held concerts for fans, performing songs like “Life Goes On,” “Black Swan” and “Dis-ease.”

I finally got to see my favorite band perform after almost three years

Esther Oh, Staff Reporter • December 14, 2021

I felt beyond devastated when I saw that the BTS Map of the Soul tour was officially canceled.  I would get a refund for my hard-earned tickets, which I had been desperately holding onto since February...

Utility player sophomore Dylan Loh (right) looks to pass the ball to a teammate while fighting off a Garden Grove High School defender during a Tuesday, Sept. 14, home game.

Boys water polo trounces Garden Grove 18-5

Esther Oh, Staff Reporter • September 16, 2021

The Lancers broke their preseason four-game losing streak Tuesday, Sept. 14, after defeating Garden Grove 18-5 in a home water polo game. “We had a tough weekend. ... so I think we were a very hungry...

Junior Carson Kim keeps track of his shot during the 2020 Junior Players Championships in Florida.

‘Tee-riffic’ junior top golfer set to join the Trojans after verbal commitment

Esther Oh, Staff Reporter • September 8, 2021

When junior Carson Kim started playing golf at the age of 7, he didn’t expect to be recognized as one of the greatest players in Sunny Hills history, and he certainly didn’t expect to be...

Sophomore Reena Jung makes a call to voters on Sept. 30 and gives reasons why they should vote for Young Kim, who was declared the winner of the 39th Congressional District seat in the House of Representatives.

Sunny Hills students take initiative in political fields

Esther Oh, Staff Reporter • November 20, 2020

As the first summer under quarantine from coronavirus began, some students took the chance to relax at home. Others rushed to fulfill internships, academic opportunities or other extracurricular activities. The...

An artist’s rendering of what the Korean War Memorial would look like once enough funds have been raised to have it built at Hillcrest Park next to the duck pond in Fullerton, near Fullerton Union High School.

Group seeks $130,000 more to get Korean War Memorial erected in Fullerton’s Hillcrest Park

Esther Oh, Staff Reporter • October 5, 2020

A committee working to build a Korean War Memorial in a Fullerton park has created a GoFundme page to raise the remaining $130,000 of $720,000 needed to begin construction of the monument to honor the...

An artist’s re-creation of a scene from the YouTube released music video of BTS’ latest single, “Dynamite.”

BTS comes back with a boom in K-pop band’s latest all-English single/music video, ‘Dynamite’

Esther Oh, Staff Reporter • September 12, 2020

Three years ago, BTS entered the U.S. mainstream, attending the Billboard Music Awards and performing its “DNA” song at the American Music Awards later that November. Then last year, the K-pop band...

Kaya Hart (center) prepares to take a shot during a 16-5 victory over Fullerton at the Troy High School pool on Jan. 22. 

Water polo standout to leave Sunny Hills with a multitude of awards as she pursues a Division 1 career at Iona College

Esther Oh, Staff Reporter • May 20, 2020

When senior Kaya Hart first started swimming at the age of 12, she didn't expect to be recruited to a Division 1 program, and she certainly didn’t expect to be recognized as one of the more prominent...

Sophomore Esther Oh (top row, left) and her Sunny Hills BTS ARMY friends get together in front of a banner of the band before the start of the May 2019 Love Yourself: Speak Yourself concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

May 3: Pop! There goes my chance to watch my K-pop boys at the Rose Bowl

Esther Oh, Staff Reporter • May 17, 2020

LIVING UNDER THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS This is part of a series of columns about students’ various experiences during the school closure because of the coronavirus pandemic. If you would like to submit...

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