Forming New Habits
Habits are hard to break, but they can be changed. There are cultural factors in play that make it much more difficult when there is an overarching so...
K-Town Rumble
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Janet and Brian come at you with a no holds barred look into culture, relationships, and other various topics from the South Korean immigrant and American point of view. Perspectives may vary. You have been warned.
Conversation with Hangukhapa
The wonderful @hangukhapa is our guest in this episode! She shares her background and inspiration on Korean cuisine on her social media and YouTube ch...
Dealing With Social Pressures
We experience so many people telling us how to look, what success is, what to know, etc. Janet and Brian have a conversation about what they think som...
How Cultural Expectations Made it Really Hard For Us to Talk About Our Purpose
If you are part of the millennial generation you have probably heard, “you need to know your purpose,” or some variation of that statement at some poi...
Shame Is Different With Asians and How We Deal With It
Shame is something we hear about frequently, and often smiling through our pain, in the AAPI community. Shame is much more intense when related to Eas...
Korean Social Hierarchies
Eastern Asians that follow more traditional Confucianist values already know that the Hierarchy between age, rank, class, and even gender is a long-he...
Juggling Multiple Cultural Values
There’s always a right and a wrong way to go about doing things, isn’t there? Well, depending on which culture is dominant in your multicultural life,...
What Nunchi Looks Like in Real Life
Welcome back in the new year! Ok, it’s started. There’s now a book talking about how “nunchi” (aka “noonchi”) which is often conflated or overgenerali...
vs Anxiety
Hearing the word “anxiety” is something way too familiar for 2020, but it was a problem even before the pandemic hit. It’s been an epidemic brought on...
vs Bullying
Nike Japan recently released an advertisement depicting a couple of kids being bullied at school. It was met with backlash by pointing out a very real...