Kpop Bookshelf

Oct 30 2024 41 ep. 36 mins 10

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Exploring Korean Pop Culture Through Books! This podcast will discuss books written about Korean society or set in Korea to help give a better understanding when consuming KPop culture such as KPop music and K Dramas! Each episode will be about a different book.

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DesTINY in the Desert - Our Trip to CHELLATEEZ! (Bonus Episode)

Oct 30 2024 135 mins

Bonus Episode! My ATINY friend, Ru, and I reminisce about our trip to Coachella to see the first kpop boy group to play there, ATEEZ! We discuss our planning, our adventures in surviving people who don't know how to mosh, ATEEZ's career and their set on Weekend 1. We then go off on a tangent about ATEEZ's Towards the Light: Will to Power tour stop in NYC at Citi Field and our thou

Truth and Reconciliation - The Investigation Into Adoptee's Human Rights in South Korea

Oct 01 2024 28 mins

Season 6 Episode 6 We look at the latest news surrounding Korean inter-country adoption, including the preliminary findings from Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The commission is investigating whether certain Korean inter-country adoptions were handled appropriately in response to questions filed by Korean adoptees. LINKS: South Korea's Adoption Reckoning (full docum

"Somehow I will find a way to help you" - Many Lives Intertwined by Hyun Sook Han

May 14 2024 28 mins

Season 6 Episode 5 We cover the book Many Lives Intertwined by Hyun Sook Han Mrs. Han was a strong-willed, very honest social worker in both Korea and the United States as well as an adoptive mother. We will learn more about the Korean adoption process in the 1950s-1960s, including the adoption of mixed race Korean children, from the social worker perspective. LINKS Hyun Sook H

Shedding Light on the Stateless - Adoption of Korean Black Childern In The 1950s and 60s - A War Born Family By Kori Graves

Feb 20 2024 22 mins

Season 6 Episode 4 We cover the book A WAR BORN FAMILY: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War by Kori A. Graves Dr. Graves explores the unique issues surrounding the adoption of Korean Black mixed race children during 1950s-60s from Korea to African American adoptive parents in pre-Civil Rights Era United States. We also take a brief look at the story of Milton

More Questions Than Answers - The Truth of Intercountry Korean Adoptions - Palimpsest by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom

Dec 05 2023 36 mins

Season 6 Episode 3 In this episode, we discuss the book Palimpsest: Documents From a Korean Adoption by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom. Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom is a Korean-Swedish adoptee who discovers some shocking truths about the circumstances surrounding her adoption. We explore some of the secrets of the Korean intercountry adoption and learn about why some adoptees and adoptee advoca

Planes Full of Babies - The Rise of Inter-country Adoption in Korea - From Orphan to Adoptee by SooJin Pate

Nov 14 2023 27 mins

Season 6 Episode 2 We discuss the book From Orphan to Adoptee: US Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption by SooJin Pate This book gives some background on how Korea came to be one of the countries to adopted out the most children to other countries. Learn about how the US government and Americans played a big part in this practice, which continues to this day. There is so much

To Ask Would Be To Know The Answer - All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

Sep 21 2023 84 mins

Season 6 Episode 1 This season will be about Adoption from Korea. In this first episode, we discuss the book ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW: A MEMOIR by Nicole Chung. We are joined by special guest and Korean American adoptee, Kim! LINKS: Kim’s Instagram Adapted Podcast

Let's KCON? Black Oceans, Hurricanes, and Hi Waves [Bonus Episode]

Aug 27 2023 25 mins

Bonus Episode with Teeny and JoJo where we talk about our experience at KCON LA 2023! Find out what ticketing was like, what interacting with artists was like, whether anyone actually experienced a black ocean, and how we dealt with natural disasters during a major Kpop convention!

A Little Bit Biased: TFW You Love Your Oshi - Idol Burning by Rin Usami

Aug 15 2023 97 mins

Presenting Idol Book Club: A Little Bit Biased - a spinoff of our Idol Book Club series! This time, instead of focusing on books read by kpop idols, my friend, Ash, and I explore the act of being a fan through reading a Japanese book about a Jpop fan, IDOL, BURNING by Rin Usami. LINKS: Dictionary . com definition of Parasocial Relationship In Defense of Parasocial Relationsh

Pied Piper: My Reaction to Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS by BTS

Jul 15 2023 23 mins

For this bonus episode, I give you my initial impressions and first reaction to the book Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS by BTS and Myeongseok Kang. I have some thoughts about the structure of the book, a few random bones to pick with some of the topics, some newer things I learned, and what I see as parallels between The Beatles and BTS!