Podcasts by K-Pod
K-Pod, a production of KoreanAmericanStory.org, is a series dedicated to the stories of Korean Americans in arts and culture. Hosts Catherine Hong and Juliana Sohn talk to artists, writers, designers, directors, musicians, chefs and other creatives about their work, their lives, and how they came to forge their careers.
Further podcasts by Juliana Sohn, KoreanAmericanStory.org, Catherine Hong
Podcast on the topic Bildende Kunst
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Jin Soon Choi | K-Pod | Ep. 1 from 2023-12-14T12:09:36.654032
Celebrity manicurist Jin Soon Choi has been a force in the beauty world for the last two decades. Her pioneering work has been featured on countless magazine covers and has made her a backstage ...
ListenJin Soon Choi | K-Pod | Ep. 1 from 2022-03-07T11:02:52.716772
Celebrity manicurist Jin Soon Choi has been a force in the beauty world for the last two decades. Her pioneering work has been featured on countless magazine covers and has made her a backstage ...
ListenJin Soon Choi | K-Pod | Ep. 1 from 2022-02-22T03:09:41.147378
Celebrity manicurist Jin Soon Choi has been a force in the beauty world for the last two decades. Her pioneering work has been featured on countless magazine covers and has made her a backstage fix...
ListenRomon K. Yang aka Rostarr | K-Pod | Ep. 6 from 2022-02-22T03:09:41.001267
Romon K. Yang — aka Rostarr — is a Brooklyn-based artist, currently living in Bali, who works in painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and film. His signature works are large-scale black-and-white ...
ListenByron Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 8 from 2022-02-22T03:09:40.999689
Byron Kim is a Brooklyn-based artist who works in an area known as the abstract sublime. Part of the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, his...
ListenYoung Huh | K-Pod | Ep. 10 from 2022-02-22T03:09:40.988030
For our season finale of K-Pod, we interviewed Young Huh, one of the most sought-after interior designers in the country. Young is known for creating stylish interiors based on classic proportions,...
ListenDiana Son | K-Pod | Ep. 16 from 2022-02-22T03:09:40.982822
Diana Son is a television writer and producer whose credits include The West Wing, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Southland, Dirty John, Blue Bloods and Thirteen Reasons Why, where she served as sho...
ListenCarol Lim | K-Pod | Ep. 19 from 2022-02-22T03:09:40.980382
Designer Carol Lim has been at the leading edge of American fashion since 2002, when she and Humberto Leon co-founded the retail shop Opening Ceremony in downtown New York. She and Humberto went on...
ListenChang-rae Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 21 from 2022-02-22T03:09:40.978332
Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker, On Such a Full Sea, A Gesture Life, Aloft, and The Surrendered, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest novel, My Year Abroad, is a da...
ListenPeter Sohn | K-Pod | Ep. 25 from 2022-01-18T19:00
If you’ve seen a Pixar movie in the last 20 years, you’ve almost certainly enjoyed the work of Peter Sohn. A director, animator and voice actor, Sohn’s credits include Finding Nemo, The Incredibles...
ListenJason Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 24 from 2021-07-20T10:00
With his lacerating wit, pop culture savvy and equal fluency with humor and pathos, the Emmy-nominated screenwriter, playwright and producer Jason Kim is one of the most dynamic young voices in the...
ListenMichelle Zauner | K-Pod | Ep. 23 from 2021-04-20T18:30
Michelle Zauner is a singer, songwriter and guitarist who records dreamy, melancholic indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She’s also a talented writer whose debut book, a memoir titled Cry...
ListenEdward Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 22 from 2021-03-23T13:00
Edward Lee is the acclaimed chef of several restaurants in Kentucky and the DC area, most notably Louisville’s 610 Magnolia, where he first made his mark on Southern cuisine almost 20 years ago usi...
ListenJim Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 20 from 2020-11-10T14:00
Jim Lee is one of the most influential and revered figures in the world of comic books. The chief creative officer and publisher of DC Comics, Jim was born in Korea and immigrated to the States whe...
ListenMargaret Cho | K-Pod | Ep.18 from 2020-09-22T13:00:01
Margaret Cho needs no introduction. In 1994, the comedian was the first Asian American to have her own sitcom (All-American Girl, loosely based on her experience as a teenager growing up in San Fra...
ListenDavid Yoon | K-Pod | Ep. 15 from 2020-06-24T02:59:40
Author David Yoon became a breakout star in 2019 with his critically acclaimed YA debut novel, Frankly in Love, which hit the New York Times bestseller list and has also been optioned for a movie. ...
ListenKangHee Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 13 from 2020-05-12T12:00:09
Visual artist KangHee Kim, best known as @tinycactus on Instagram, uses Photoshop to transform images of everyday street scenes and apartment interiors into surreal dreamscapes, all featuring porta...
ListenEunjo Park | K-Pod | Ep. 12 from 2020-04-28T12:00:03
Eunjo “Jo” Park is the executive chef at K?wi, the fine-dining Korean restaurant opened by David Chang’s Momofuku restaurant group in New York City. Jo is at the forefront of a growing group of che...
ListenJuliana & Catherine | K-Pod | Ep. 11 from 2020-04-14T12:00:16
Welcome to Season 2 of K-Pod! For our opening episode, we’re turning the tables on the show’s co-hosts, writer Catherine Hong and photographer Juliana Sohn. The longtime friends chat with the found...
ListenJenny Kwak | K-Pod | Ep. 9 from 2019-09-19T11:00
Jenny Kwak put Korean food on the map when she opened the restaurant Dok Suni in New York's East Village in 1992 when she was just 19. Later, she opened a second successful restaurant, Do Hwa, whe...
ListenSoyoung Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 7 from 2019-08-22T11:00
Soyoung Lee built her career at Metropolitan Museum of Art where she was the museum’s first curator of Korean art, organizing such landmark shows as “Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom” and “Diamond Mo...
ListenKaren Chee | K-Pod | Ep. 5 from 2019-07-25T11:00
Writer-performer Karen Chee is a rising star in the comedy world and the youngest member of the writing staff of Late Night with Seth Meyers. A 2017 graduate of Harvard, she’s known for smart, quir...
ListenPeter Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 4 from 2019-07-11T11:00
Peter Kim grew up in New Jersey knowing he wanted to do one thing in life: act. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, he made his Broadway debut in Thoroughly Modern Millie and has since built a ...
ListenOejong Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 3 from 2019-06-27T11:00
Oejong Kim worked as a translator, chef and corporate housing specialist in Tokyo and New York before discovering her true passion: knitting. In 2004, Kim co-founded the yarn and knitwear company L...
ListenJi Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 2 from 2019-06-13T11:00
Facebook creative director Ji Lee is one of the most influential graphic designers working in the country today. Born in Korea and raised in Brazil, he built his career in advertising, working for ...
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