A K-Pop homage this episode is indeed!  It was a lot of fun speaking with Haley Yang, K-Culture reporter for media outlet, Korea Joongang Daily. We reflect on the history of K-Pop around the world and how K-Culture is making its mark! 

Join us as we take a trip down K-Pop memory lane from its start and origins to Psy's Gangnam Style to Exo and BTS, and where we are now.  Of course we also talk K-Dramas!

You can watch this podcast on the Noona's Noonchi YouTube channel. 

There's really no need to justify how K-Dramas can benefit our lives!  TikTok content creator Jane Park says K-Dramas like Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) helped improve communication with her husband. Jane is a popular TikToker, well known for documenting her life as a Korean American mother of two.  She did a TikTok last year talking about racism with her kids which went viral and that's how we got to know each other.  

We both spoke about anti-Asian racism on an on-air news segment nearly a year ago. I've been a huge fan of hers since!  Join us for this fun chat between two Korean American mothers bonding over K-Dramas and K-Culture. 

You can also watch this episode on the Noona's Noonchi YouTube Channel. 

Some soulful sharing from Samuel Hyun kicks off Season 2!  Sam Hyun is a speaker, advocate and currently the political director of Sonia Chang-Diaz's gubernatorial campaign in Massachusetts. He's also quite the content creator, especially on TikTok. 

Sam's shares vulnerably about how K-Dramas remind him of his  upbringing, especially the difficult time his father left the family when he was young. Join us for this touching conversation on how K-Dramas have been part of his life since childhood. It was such a pleasure hosting Sam who I first met through our work with the Council of Korean Americans empowering young Korean American leaders! 

You can also watch the podcast on the Noona's Noonchi YouTube channel. 

Welcome to my last episode of Noona's Noonchi's podcast season 1! Can't think of a better way to end by getting unplugged with Beauty Unplugged's Sophia - @beauty_unplugged. Join us for a beauty of a conversation on forgiveness and K-Dramas like Something in the Rain and Hometown Cha Cha Cha.

Plus, I finally found someone around my age who loves the 1992 K-Drama "Jealousy" with the cute actress Choi Jin-sil who I adored. Sadly, she died by suicide in 2008 so her K-Dramas are even more special to me. Try to watch her K-Dramas if you can. They are classic!

You can also listen to the episode on Noona's Noonchi's YouTube. 

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The sexy K-Drama actors are called heartthrobs for a reason! it's because they make our hearts flutter when we watch them in love scenes or better yet, seeing the long-awaited kiss with their love! Ever feel tingly all over when you see your fav K-Drama star on-screen being oh so romantic?

Hear from my next podcast guest, serial entrepreneur and start-up CEO Susan Kim who shares she gets hand tingles when watching K-Drama love scenes! Her hands just happen to be where she feels those lovey dovey emotions. Join us for an enlightening conversation on how K-Dramas got her through an emotionally and physically challenging tine.

You can also watch the podcast on our YouTube Channel. 

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If you've watched Hometown Cha Cha Cha and Squid Game, you're an INSSA in Korea. Haven't watched those K-Dramas? Then you're considered an ASSA. What do they mean? Tune into my latest podcast episode to find out!

I did some jammin' with Jae-young Jen Park, a content producer for YouTube in Korea. She gave an inside look into current Korean pop culture, mental health stigma in Korea, and also shared her fav K-Dramas like IOTNBO. And YES. We talked about Kim Seon Ho and her point of view on cancel culture in Korea.

You can also watch the podcast on my YouTube Channel. 

#hometownchachacha #kimseonho #squidgame #leejungjae #junghoyeon #gongyoo #kimsoohyun #parkhaesoo #itsokaytonotbeokay #seoyeaji #seonhokim #cancelcancelculture #cancelculture #kdramalover #kdramas #kdrama

There's no doubt our K-Dramas can be so healing. In the case of Cdramamama, true to her IG handle, C-Dramas got her through her cancer treatment the last year. That therapeutic experience led her down the path to K-Dramas. And the rest is history! Hear her touching story and how she was able to fight through stage 4 cancer in the latest podcast episode. You can also watch the podcast on my YouTube channel.

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Imagine bonding with someone over a K-Drama you love and you become like BFFs, right? That's exactly what I mean when I talk about having a sense of belonging in our K-Drama world! I 'met' my next podcast guest, Katherine Bourne Taylor on IG via a K-Drama chat group. We totally bonded over Hometown Cha Cha Cha and started our own thread just to talk about it while it was airing.

It was super cool to hear her angle as an actor, director, producer on K-Dramas like Goblin, Hometown Cha Cha Cha, and more! Join us for a fun conversation on my latest podcast episode: "K-Drama Kit and Caboodle with Katherine Bourne Taylor."

You can also watch the podcast episode on the Noona's Noonchi YouTube channel! 

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What's more fun than a Noona's Noonchi deep dive? A Noona's Noonchi podcast deep dive with one of the original Asian American podcasters! Ken Fong, host of "Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast'" joins us for this next podcast episode!

Squid Game Sensations. Join us as we talk pathology, capitalism, and of course how 'disturbing' this #1 Netflix show is. Yes, it's the most talked about K-Drama ever, but still gotta admit Squid Game wasn't easy to digest.

You can also watch the podcast on our YouTube channel.  So, how 'disturbing' was Squid Game for you?

Podcast Guest: Ken is widely recognized as one of the original Asian American podcasters. His “Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast” has garnered a national and global audience since 2015, and he has interviewed well over 300 Asian American culture-makers and -shapers. Before retiring in 2017, he helped pastor a very impactful English-speaking pan-Asian American church in the LA area.

#kdramas #squidgame #leejungjae #junghoyeon #parkhaesoo #netflix #netflixkr #subscribe #youtube #koreandrama #kdrama #leebyunghun #gongyoo #capitalism #pathology