From LAist Studios, Okay-Pop Dreaming is a brand new podcast concerning the rise and historical past of Okay-pop in the USA, as advised from the point-of-view of the Korean diaspora in Los Angeles.
Host Vivian Yoon takes listeners on a journey from Okay-pop’s origins in Korean trot music and American presence in post-war South Korea to the 1992 LA Rebellion and the booming international recognition of Okay-pop within the current day, all juxtaposed towards Yoon’s personal coming of age as a second era immigrant in Los Angeles, struggling to slot in and are available to phrases along with her personal id.
Okay-Pop Dreaming is the second season of the collection California Love with new episodes being present in that feed. The primary season was a coming-of-age story in Compton that wove collectively memoir, popular culture, and oral historical past. This new season continues in the identical intimate tone, however this time, we’re centered in Los Angeles’s Koreatown.