Hana gets a taste of her own medicine answering the TCK Questionnaire, a list of questions she developed for her guests on Project Between. 

Hana's sister Harin joins the show from Toronto as the guest host in this episode. 

Ajit Pillai, a research engineer and a lecturer at the University of Exeter in the U.K., is a third-culture kid who has stronger ties to Sweden than any other country associated with his childhood. 

Ajit was born in Sweden to Indian parents, then lived in Japan between the ages of 7-10 in the late 90s during the height of Pokemon. He spent his teenage years attending an international school in New Delhi, India before moving to the U.S. to attend university. 

He speaks English and Swedish but swears exclusively in Swedish, though his dream language depends on what he's been speaking during the day. 

Two TCK Korean women, Jaey and Hana, talk about the places that shaped their views on gender norms, relationships and gender roles. 

Jaey Kang was born in Busan, S. Korea but moved to California when she was 10, and “lived in a different place every single year for the next 15 years.” After graduating from university in the U.S. she moved to Sweden for grad school. She currently works in marketing and is based in Seoul.

TCK women who grew up in countries with more liberal attitudes toward gender roles but now live in a more conservative society can probably relate to the points made in this episode.

Danbi Lee is a new mom currently based in Germany, and a third-culture kid (TCK) who grew up in Turkey, Korea, and South Africa, attending college in the U.S.

In this episode, the guest and host (two old pals) talk about growing up in South Africa as Korean kids in the late 90s and early 00s. Their memories include attending Hangeul Hakkyo on Saturday mornings, racism in the classroom, and struggling to fit in among their peers.

If you're someone who lived abroad, whether as a TCK or as part of the immigrant narrative, you may have had similar experiences growing up! Especially if your family is Korean. 

Eunice Kim (a.k.a. Mothfly) is a media artist and music producer who divides her time between Korea, Japan and the U.S.

She was born in Tokyo and spent most of her childhood in Japan, but says she “doesn’t have an especially strong sense of cultural identity” and “wouldn’t call herself Japanese even though she speaks that language more.” 

She speaks mostly Japanese at home with her parents, but it’s not their native language. Her dad, a third-culture kid who grew up in Brazil since age 12, moved to Japan in his early 20s in search of opportunity. Her mom went to Japan for work, and that’s where the couple met.

Listen to Mothfly's latest track "Pure" at the following link: https://mothfly.lnk.to/pure

#TCK #thirdculturekids #Japan #Korea #Brazil #mothfly

Writer and translator Anton Hur was born in Sweden, and spent his childhood between Korea, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, the U.S. and Thailand. 

Anton identifies as 100% Korean, but his favorite city is Bangkok. His comfort food is Ethiopia's staple flatbread injera. He says attending numerous international schools gave him hope for humanity.

Anton's translation of Bora Chung's "Cursed Bunny" was included on the 2022 International Booker Prize shortlist. He also had the distinction of having two of his translations longlisted for the Booker, the other one being Sang Young Park’s "Love in the Big City."

"When I read a book, I want to be surprised by it. I want a book that is so beyond my imagination, that it blows my mind."

Hi I’m Hana and you’re listening to Project Between, a podcast about third culture kids and their experiences growing up between many cultures.

I’m an in-betweener, and through this podcast I hope to meet with many others like me, people whose roots don’t grow too deep, who wish they had global passports, who wish all their close friends could live in the same city for once.

I look forward to reconnecting with old friends, and meeting many news ones along the way.

In this episode of Project Between, two sisters who spent their childhood and young adult years in Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Seoul, New York, Montreal and Toronto compare notes on what they remember about specific events from the last two decades. 

Obama winning the election, your first cellphone, the rise of Gangnam Style to the early days of COVID-19 -- where were you when it all went down?