Best Catherine Hong Podcasts (2024)

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The Finale | K-Pod | Ep. 35 35:15

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Say it isn’t so! After five seasons, we are wrapping up our podcast about Korean Americans in arts and culture. For the final episode of K-Pod, co-hosts Catherine Hong and Juliana Sohn look back on the series and recall some favorite moments, from creative director Ji Lee on the value of pursuing personal projects to interior designer Young Huh’s c…

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Rituals and Traditions | K-Pod | Ep. 34 1:07:47

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Continuing their special series on cultural topics, Catherine and Juliana discuss the ways Korean Americans are observing age-old traditions like Paebek (wedding tea ceremony), Dol (first birthday) and Jesa (ancestor veneration). Their first guest is event planner Christine Chang of Live Love Create in Los Angeles, who explains how her wedding and …

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The Korean Medicine Episode | K-Pod | Ep. 33 1:08:30

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While Korean immigrants are notorious for pushing their kids to become doctors, it’s worth remembering that Koreans have cultivated their own age-old approach to wellness for over 5,000 years. Hanbang – aka traditional Korean medicine – encompasses acupuncture, herbs and cupping and has lately attracted a surge of interest among both Korean America…

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The Language Episode | K-Pod | Ep. 32 1:09:58

1y ago1:09:58

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Whether you’re a fluent Korean speaker or barely capable of uttering 안녕하세요, this episode is for you! Kicking off our new series on cultural topics, K-Pod pays a visit to Young-mee Yu Cho, Rutgers University Professor of Korean Language and Culture. As co-author of the widely-used textbook series Integrated Korean, Cho has shaped how Korean language…

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Catherine Hong & Juliana Sohn | K-Pod | Ep. 31 46:20

1+ y ago46:20

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K-Pod is back! To kick off Season 5, co-hosts Catherine Hong and Juliana Sohn present a special two-parter. First, they preview the upcoming season, which, as they explain, will look a bit different this time around. Instead of focusing on the lives of individual artists and creatives, they’ll be chatting with experts on a range of Korean American …

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Daniel K. Isaac | K-Pod | Ep. 30 53:14

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Daniel K. Isaac is best known for his ensemble role on the Showtime series Billions where he plays portfolio manager Ben Kim. But 2022 was a pivotal year for the actor and playwright, whose passion is the stage. He starred in The Chinese Lady at the Public Theater; he made his playwriting debut with Once Upon a (korean) Time for the Ma-Yi Theater C…

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Episode 14: Conversation with Fiona Greenland on Fingerprint Men, Pixel Politics and Art Police 1:06:23

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Joining me today is Fiona Greenland, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, to discuss some of her recent work on fingerprinting and the origins of surveillance culture in the United States and on pixel politics and satellite interpretation in the Syrian war. Fiona Greenland is the author of Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb…

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Episode 13: Conversation with Hager Ben Jaffel and Sebastian Larsson on Problematising Intelligence Studies 46:45

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Joining me today are Hager Ben Jaffel, Research Associate at the National Center for Scientific Research in France and Sebastian Larsson, Associate Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Swedish Defence University, to discuss their latest edited volume titled Problematising Intelligence Studies: Towards a New Research Agenda, published in 2022 with …

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Marie Myung-Ok Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 29 50:14

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Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of the acclaimed novel The Evening Hero, a darkly comic story about a Korean American doctor in rural Minnesota facing retirement and the resurgence of long-buried secrets from his past. A professor of creative writing at Columbia, Marie grew up in the rural town of Hibbing, MN, in a community very much like the one…

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Episode 12: Conversation with Mareile Kaufmann on Surveillance, Hackers, Secrecy and Predictive Policing 1:26:50

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Joining me today is Mareile Kaufmann, Professor at the Department of Criminology and Sociology, at the University of Oslo, to discuss her work over the past few years on surveillance, predictive policing, hackers and secrecy, among others. Texts discussed in this podcast episode: Kaufmann, M. 2020. Hacking Surveillance. First Monday 25(5): https://…

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Episode 11: Conversation with Emily West on Amazon 1:17:55

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Joining me today is Emily West, an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, to discuss her book Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly published in 2022 with The MIT Press. © Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2022 Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project…

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Kathleen Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 28 43:38

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Kathleen Kim is the talented puppeteer behind Ji-Young, the electric guitar-playing, ddukbokki-eating seven-year-old Muppet character who made her debut on Sesame Street last fall. Kathy was born in Flushing, Queens to parents who immigrated to the States in the 1970s. Puppeteering was just a hobby until 2014, when Kathy — who had been working as a…

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Episode 10: Conversation with Sarah Esther Lageson on Digital Punishment 1:02:34

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© Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2022 Joining me today is Sarah Esther Lageson, Associate Professor at School of Criminal Justice at the Rutgers University, to discuss her book Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice published in 2020 with Oxford University Press. Produced with the financial support of The Research…

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John Cho | K-Pod | Ep. 27 47:23

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In recent years we’ve seen a boom of Asian American actors in film and TV. But for decades, John Cho was practically the only one. He first came to fame in 2004 playing Harold in the Harold and Kumar films, a role that challenged many people’s ideas about what a leading man could look like. He’s built his career thoughtfully ever since, taking role…

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Episode 9: Conversation with Albert Fox Cahn on the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) 59:04

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Joining me today is Albert Fox Cahn, the founder and executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) to discuss the work of this non-profit advocacy organization and legal service provider based in New York. © Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2022 Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under projec…

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Eric Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 26 44:49

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Eric Kim is a writer for the New York Times and author of the cookbook Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home. Over the past couple of years, Eric has become something of a darling in the New York food world not only for his innovative and idiosyncratic creations (think: sheet-pan bibimbap, gochugaru salmon, Stouffer’s style mac & cheese) but …

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Peter Sohn | K-Pod | Ep. 25 48:38

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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, Ratatouille, WALL.E, and 2015’s The Good Dinosaur, which he directed and co-wrote. Another fun fact: Peter served as the physical model for Russell, th…

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Episode 8: Conversation with Sarah Brayne on Predictive Policing and Surveillance 1:06:01

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Joining me today is Sarah Brayne, Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, to discuss her book Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing published in 2020 with Oxford University Press. © Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2021 Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of N…

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Episode 7: Conversation with Kate Kenny on Whistleblowing in Global Finance 1:05:15

3y ago1:05:15

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Joining me today is Kate Kenny, Professor of Business and Society at NUI Galway School of Business and Economics, to discuss her book Whistleblowing: Toward a New Theory published in 2019 with Harvard University Press. © Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2021 Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project no. 313004 – Luxur…

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Episode 6: Conversation with Sun-Ha Hong on Technologies of Speculation 1:16:01

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Joining me today is Sun-ha Hong, Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, to discuss his latest book Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society published in 2020 with New York University Press. © Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2021 Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norwa…

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Jason Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 24 1:06:12

3y ago1:06:12

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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 entertainment world. He has written for Girls and Love and is a producer on HBO’s Barry. He also wrote the book for KPOP, an off-Broadway show that won …

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Episode 5: Conversation with Catherine Besteman on Militarized Global Apartheid 45:34

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Joining me today is Catherine L. Besteman, Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College, to discuss her latest book Militarized Global Apartheid published in 2020 with Duke University Press. © Tereza Østbø Kuldova, 2021 Produced with the financial support of The Research Council of Norway under project no. 313…

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Episode 4: Conversation with Ursula Rao on Digital Identities, Biometric Technology and Bodies as Evidence 1:00:03

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Joining me today is Ursula Rao, Director of the Department of ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, to discuss digital identities, biometric technology, e-governance, new security regimes and bodies as evidence. Rao, U. 2018. Biometric Bodies, Or How to Make Electronic Fingerprinting…

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Episode 3: Conversation with Dean Wilson on Pre-Crime, Predictive Policing, and Surveillance 1:23:30

3+ y ago1:23:30

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Joining me today is Dean Wilson, Professor of Criminology in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex to discuss pre-crime and pre-emptive imaginaries, predictive policing, and surveillance. We discuss the book Pre-Crime: Pre-emption, Precaution and the Future, co-authored with Jude McCulloch, and published by Routledge…

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Michelle Zauner | K-Pod | Ep. 23 42:01

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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 Crying in H Mart, is being published by Knopf today! In it, she recounts her experiences growing up half-Korean in her mostly white town of Eugene, OR, her …

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Episode 2: Conversation with Simon Egbert and Matthias Leese on Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work 1:24:16

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Joining me today are Simon Egbert, Postdoctoral Fellow at Bielefeld University, on an ERC research project on The Future of Prediction, and Matthias Leese, Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) in Zürich, to discuss their recent book Criminal Futures: Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work, published in 2021 with Routledg…

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Episode 1: Conversation with Ignas Kalpokas on Algorithmic Governance and the Futures of Politics and Law in the Post-Human Era 1:03:09

3+ y ago1:03:09

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Joining me today is Ignas Kalpokas, Associate Professor at the Department of Public Communication at the Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania, to discuss his recent book Algorithmic Governance: Politics and Law in the Post-Human Era, published in 2019 with Palgrave Macmillan. Algorithms govern our everyday lives in a myriad of ways. From determi…

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Edward Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 22 40:12

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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 using ingredients such as gochujang and soy sauce aged in whiskey barrels. He won a James Beard award for his 2018 book Buttermilk Graffiti and he was nomin…

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Chang-rae Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 21 52:15

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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 dazzling tale about an American college student whose life is upended when he travels to Asia under the wing of a mysterious Chinese American entrepreneur.…

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Jim Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 20 41:17

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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 when he was nearly five. From Superman to Batman to Iron Man to Wonder Woman, Jim has drawn just about every superhero you can think of and holds the record…

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Carol Lim | K-Pod | Ep. 19 40:01

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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 to design their own acclaimed fashion collection, also called Opening Ceremony, and to become co-creative directors of Kenzo, a position they held for e…

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Margaret Cho | K-Pod | Ep.18 36:56

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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 Francisco). After the show was cancelled, she returned to standup, where she built a reputation for her confessional, bawdy and subversive material, which t…

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Ben Baller & Jeanne Yang | K-Pod | Ep. 17 51:44

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Los Angeles-based siblings Jeanne Yang and Ben Yang have both made their mark on the fashion world, but in very different ways. Jeanne Yang is a highly sought-after stylist known for her work with Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr. and Christian Bale. Previously, she designed the fashion line Holmes & Yang with actress Katie Holmes. Ben Yang (aka Ben …

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Diana Son | K-Pod | Ep. 16 34:41

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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 showrunner. She first came to fame as a young playwright in 1998 with the acclaimed play Stop Kiss, which premiered at the Public Theatre and starred an unk…

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David Yoon | K-Pod | Ep. 15 33:38

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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. In a Zoom interview, Juliana and Catherine talk to David about his path to becoming a writer, the “surreal” experience of seeing his first novel take off…

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Ashley Park | K-Pod | Ep. 14 26:42

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Ashley Park is a Tony, Grammy, and Emmy-nominated musical theater actress who has dazzled Broadway audiences with her performances in Mamma Mia, Sunday in the Park With George, The King and I and Mean Girls. She has also appeared in Netflix’s Tales of the City and off-Broadway in KPOP and Grand Horizons. But Park didn’t waltz her way into stardom w…

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KangHee Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 13 23:01

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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 portals into dreamlike worlds. On a visit to KangHee’s home and studio in Queens, Catherine and Juliana learn that the artist’s very distinctive work is direc…

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Eunjo Park | K-Pod | Ep. 12 34:35

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Eunjo “Jo” Park is the executive chef at Kāwi, 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 chefs putting modern Korean food on the map. After culinary school at CIA she climbed the ranks in some of the best kitchens in the country, including Danie…

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Juliana & Catherine | K-Pod | Ep. 11 25:30

4+ y ago25:30

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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 founder of KoreanAmericanStory.org, HJ Lee, about their first meeting (at summer school in the 1980s!), their work for magazines, and what’s most surprised th…

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Young Huh | K-Pod | Ep. 10 43:42

5y ago43:42

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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, luxurious materials and an understanding for how people live. By all measures, 2019 was a banner year for Young: her room at the Kips Bay Decorator Show…

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Jenny Kwak | K-Pod | Ep. 9 28:34

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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, where Quentin Tarantino was famously an investor. Catherine and Juliana catch up with the pioneering chef-restaurateur at her new Brooklyn restaurant, Haenye…

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Byron Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 8 33:52

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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 minimalist paintings sit at the threshold between abstraction and representation, conceptualism and pure painting. Catherine and Juliana learn about Byr…

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Soyoung Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 7 33:50

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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 Mountains: Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art." Last year, after 15 years at the Met, she was appointed Chief Curator of the Harvard Art Museums. She talks …

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Romon K. Yang aka Rostarr | K-Pod | Ep. 6 59:29

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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 abstract paintings that recall both calligraphy and street art. In 2016, he collaborated with Nike on a much-coveted collection of sneakers and apparel; …

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#17 Actress and Audiobook Narrator Emma Wilder on THE ROMANCE SHOW with Vanessa Fewings 32:22

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Episode # 17Actress and audiobook narrator Emma Wilder visits Vanessa on the Romance Show Podcast. Emma shares her experience and many of her secrets of working as one of the most popular and sought after narrators. She also shares how she got her start in the industry, and delves deeper into what it's really like to perform for some of the romance…

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Karen Chee | K-Pod | Ep. 5 39:08

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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, quirky humor that’s unafraid to take on issues of gender, race and politics. Thanks to the recurring segment “What Does Karen Know?” she’s also known for her…

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Peter Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 4 40:42

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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 solid stage, film and television career. This past fall, he astonished audiences with a funny and heartbreaking performance in the play Wild Goose Dreams…

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#16 Author Tif Marcelo on THE ROMANCE SHOW with Vanessa Fewings 34:13

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Episode # 16Romance Author Tif Marcelo shares with Vanessa Fewings what it was like serving in the American Army as a nurse, bonding with other Army wives, and her love of travel. They talk about her new novel from Gallery Books THE KEY TO HAPPILY EVER AFTER, and what inspired her to write it. Listen to the lively conversation where Vanessa and Tif…

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Oejong Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 3 28:57

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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 Loopy Mango, which has become a creative force in the knitting world. Loopy Mango’s signature product is Big Loop, a luxuriously thick, chunky merino wool…

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Ji Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 2 53:30

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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 Google Creative Lab, Droga 5 and Saatchi & Saatchi. But it’s his wide range of witty and subversive personal projects — like the Bubble Project and the I…

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