The Finale | K-Pod | Ep. 35

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-hos...

Rituals and Traditions | K-Pod | Ep. 34

Continuing their special series on cultural topics, Catherine and Juliana discuss the ways Korean Americans are observing age-old traditions like Paeb...

The Korean Medicine Episode | K-Pod | Ep. 33

While Korean immigrants are notorious for pushing their kids to become doctors, it’s worth remembering that Koreans have cultivated their own age-old...

The Language Episode | K-Pod | Ep. 32

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 topic...

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

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, w...

Daniel K. Isaac | K-Pod | Ep. 30

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 y...

Marie Myung-Ok Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 29

Kathleen Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 28

Kathleen Kim is the talented puppeteer behind Ji-Young, the electric guitar-playing, ddukbokki-eating seven-year-old Muppet character who made her deb...

John Cho | K-Pod | Ep. 27

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 fa...

Eric Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 26

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, Eri...

Peter Sohn | K-Pod | Ep. 25

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’...

Jason Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 24

With his lacerating wit, pop culture savvy and equal fluency with humor and pathos, the Emmy-nominated screenwriter, playwright and producer Jason Kim...

Michelle Zauner | K-Pod | Ep. 23

Michelle Zauner is a singer, songwriter and guitarist who records dreamy, melancholic indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. She’s also a talent...

Edward Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 22

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 m...

Chang-rae Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 21

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 P...

Jim Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 20

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...

Carol Lim | K-Pod | Ep. 19

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...

Margaret Cho | K-Pod | Ep.18

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...

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

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 highl...

Diana Son | K-Pod | Ep. 16

Diana Son is a television writer and producer whose credits include The West Wing, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Southland, Dirty John, Blue Bloods an...

David Yoon | K-Pod | Ep. 15

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 bestselle...

Ashley Park | K-Pod | Ep. 14

Ashley Park is a Tony, Grammy, and Emmy-nominated musical theater actress who has dazzled Broadway audiences with her performances in Mamma Mia, Sunda...

KangHee Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 13

Visual artist KangHee Kim, best known as @tinycactus on Instagram, uses Photoshop to transform images of everyday street scenes and apartment interior...

Eunjo Park | K-Pod | Ep. 12

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. J...

Juliana & Catherine | K-Pod | Ep. 11

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...

Young Huh | K-Pod | Ep. 10

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...

Jenny Kwak | K-Pod | Ep. 9

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 ope...

Byron Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 8

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...

Soyoung Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 7

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  ...

Romon K. Yang aka Rostarr | K-Pod | Ep. 6

Romon K. Yang — aka Rostarr — is a Brooklyn-based artist, currently living in Bali, who works in painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and film. His s...

Karen Chee | K-Pod | Ep. 5

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 g...

Peter Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 4

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...

Oejong Kim | K-Pod | Ep. 3

Oejong Kim worked as a translator, chef and corporate housing specialist in Tokyo and New York before discovering her true passion: knitting. In 2004,...

Ji Lee | K-Pod | Ep. 2

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, h...

Jin Soon Choi | K-Pod | Ep. 1

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 m...