This story is part of Image’s November Kinship issue, celebrating L.A.’s generous spirit and the artistic collaborations that happen among family and friends. The Korean diaspora has a complex relationship with the word “gyopo.” In the most literal sense, it refers to Koreans living in another country as immigrants. David Kang, former USC Korean studies director, once told The Times that the word carries this ancestral view of “Koreans as our blood overseas, almost.” In a cultural sense, gyopo is an insult. Think of it as the Korean “no sabo”: a derogatory term for a person living outside of the motherland and thus disconnected from their culture. Despite and because of these definitions, in 2017, a group of L.A. Koreans lovingly named their new organization Gyopo. “We started Gyopo because we all knew that this way of convening was missing from our lives,” says co-founding member Yoon Ju Ellie Lee. At its heart, Gyopo is exactly that — a convening. It’s getting together to talk about historic Korean protest movements, the cultural significance of the …