Myong Hwa Jeong California Institute of the Arts Born in Seoul, Korea, Myong Hwa Jeong has also lived in Japan and Egypt.   She received her BA in English Literature from Yonsei University in Korea.   She came to the United States to study photography in 1994. Her major documentary project, titled The Republic of Apartment, examines the apartment culture in Korea which has emerged in the process of rapid industrialization and Westernization in the 70’s.   She is currently working on a project on Koreatown in Los Angeles, a complex multi-ethnic community, which has been under/misrepresented through mass media.   Her works, consisting of images and text, explore social and economic questions within a specific urban space, bringing light to hidden class relations and making visible the everyday life of people.