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Navigating Korean Americanness: A Father & Daughter Get Honest 교포 가족의 코리언 어메리칸의 의미 아빠와 딸의 너무나 다른 경험 · Take1.5 Podcast: Stories from the Messy In-between

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  Father and daughter duo, how special is that?
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  Do you ever feel like, Oh my gosh, he's so Korean?
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  So Korean. What do they call?
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  It. That's an unusual.
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  Name. Happens to.
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  How special? College High.
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  School. Korean.
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  They know. Take it.
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  Like Italian clothes? Balance.
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  Cultural identity. Like I can be myself and be
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  crazy. Around.
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  Them so. I.
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  Yourself. I.
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  I. Like stereotypical, like whether
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  it be like school stuff growing on my friends.
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  Stereotypical Korean parents. Your mom doesn't care about
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  that. Yeah.
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  Terrible. Emotionally.
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  City. Where until like I have a valid
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  explanation of why. Yeah, wow.
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  Very, very introspective, stereotypical Korean father.
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  Do you ever feel like, Oh my gosh, he's so Korean?
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  So Korean. What do, what do they call it?
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  I could I just shoot, you know? OK.
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  I. Also.
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  Like I feel like I'm falling behind, so it makes me feel a
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  little anxious. There's a two time to them send
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  a kid probably then during the day I didn't wouldn't meet that
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  right. So if I think major like
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  something that kind of automatically link it to like
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  job or career theory to think about like what I want to do
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  with the rest of my life. When I'm still 15 I'm going
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  outside to play with my friends, like volleyball and stuff.
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  Yeah. I mean, even if you major in
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  something, it doesn't mean you're very into it for your
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  life. But what interests you like what
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  kind of stuff are interesting for you?
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  It's like a passion I discovered recently, but Korean American
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  teenager, I think that's one of my passions now.
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  Nice. Yeah, I could totally see you
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  doing something similar, but I just had to go creative,
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  hungover, introspective. Yeah, you got all the
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  components, but who knows, right?
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  So vast. There are so many things out
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  there that we don't even know about South.
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  Interesting. I can tell.
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  I'm. Like
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  two voices. When I think of my emotions and
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  feelings, it's like kind of like a Korean voice in my head.
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  Really. That's really interesting.
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  So when you're feeling happy or sad or confused, you think of
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  like. So because connection.
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  And like being Korean is something very.
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  Important. Talk about what you said makes
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  sense whenever they go. Imagine a language development
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  psychologist to interview recording.
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  So she's in Germany right? And her children speak 4
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  languages, Yongo, Tokyo, Korean and Vietnamese?
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  Because I put up Vietnamese emotional attachment first to
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  the language. I don't know if you've seen this
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  with your friends. You know, we send our kids to
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  Korean school and first emotional attachment to harmony
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  about my experience. So exactly what you're talking
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  about. Siri, do you dream in Korean?
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  Both. Both.
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  Yeah, me too. Hachita Bunika, She's gonna
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  point that Bunika. I feel like I'm growing more
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  attached to them, even though I like, it's like this weird in
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  between feeling. Yeah, I can't really.
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  It is. It is.
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  Yeah. In between is right.
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  Well, how do you identify yourself?
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  Like in terms. Of like ethnically.
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  I say Korean American. Well, looking at like the
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  questions that you provided, we're kind of talking about
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  this, but. I'm just, I could be like just
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  Korean, take it twice in a day. I don't think there's anything
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  that can change the fact that I'm American.
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  Like, I can change my American passport into a Korean one, but
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  I don't think that'll change the amount of experiences I've had
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  as a Korean American and, like, tell there's nothing that can
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  undo that. So yeah, I can't discard the
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  fact that I'm American. So I identify myself as a Korean
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  American. So you have embraced that part
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  too, of yourself, the American part, Undergrad Huggle couldn't
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  tell. Tell when I come in there,
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  she's, you know what the word she used, she felt betrayed.
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  Betrayed because she. Yeah, betrayed because she
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  thought that she's totally Korean, like you.
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  They would, you know, treat you like a foreigner outsider.
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  What do you think? I think that's like the exact
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  word that I was thinking about, like.
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  Guys, guys, come here. We're going to ask these.
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  Get. There.
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  What do you think is your superpower as a Korean American?
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  My superpower. Like meeting a crowd, like
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  whether it be like a Korean crowd, American crowd, Korean
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  American crowd, like I think I have like a talent and like
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  using my energy to like lead a group of people.
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  So I think can also be used in that sense.
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  So you're more flexible. And module.
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  I. Taekwondo Hey.
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  Your kids still use the word for no.
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  I've never heard. Of.
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  That I. Was.
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  Like dumb as in like. Oh, that's interesting.
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  I guess I don't know any like Young.
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  Teenagers. Like racism, like I think I
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  really faced that in my school. Really.
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  You have never experienced racism.
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  Like not really like especially in my school, I think it's
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  really like an open environment and everybody's different.
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  It's really, it's a really diverse school.
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  We have so many like different cultural clubs that we have the
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  Asian club, we have the Korean club, the African American club,
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  we have so many. So I think we're all open to
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  like that kind of like diversity in terms of culture and
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  ethnicities, so. Really good thing is because
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  you're in your city. Yeah.
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  Like strict parents and that kind of stuff.
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  Like parents like hoarding napkins at McDonald's and things
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  like that. Plastic.
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  Bags the bonding around. Well, I know you're only 15,
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  don't worry, I'm not talking about your job So.
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  But what kind of women do you want to become?
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  I. Feel like when the Korean adults
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  talk to me, they always go don't call me boy expecting like a
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  dream job or whatever. And I really right because I
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  don't think my life has to be centered around my career.
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  I have different parts of my life where I think is like more
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  important than just my career and stuff.
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  So I don't really like that mentality.
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  Oh. Well.
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  I you get. Kind of reminded.
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  Me. I was having like a mini midlife
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  crisis in between when you were asking about, oh, what are you
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  like building in life or what are your passions, things like
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  that.