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Almost Korean Podcast

Almost Korean Podcast is hosted by two Korean American men in their early 40s living in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, near a U.S. Army base. We talk about life in Korea as Korean Americansโ€”where culture, identity, and expectations donโ€™t always line up. From living near a U.S. military base to raising a family in Korea, appearing on Korean TV, creating content, and navigating marriage, fatherhood, social issues, and Korean pop culture, we share honest conversations from the in-between. Real talk. Lived experience. Almost Korean.

25 - Growing Up Korean American: High School, Dating & Feeling Like an Outsider | Ep. 24 (Part 2)
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  • 25 - Growing Up Korean American: High School, Dating & Feeling Like an Outsider | Ep. 24 (Part 2)

    What was it really like growing up Korean American after moving from Korea to the United States?

    In Almost Korean Ep. 24, Tae and Gibson continue their conversation about being 1.5-generation Korean Americans. They share personal stories about adjusting to American high school, preparing for the SATs, feeling like outsiders, making friends, navigating dating, and discovering American culture.From the pressure to get into college to childhood food memories and the early days of MySpace and Asian Avenue, this episode explores the challenges, funny moments, and unique experiences that shaped their Korean American identities.


    ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท In This Episode

    - The Korean American 1.5-generation experience

    - Moving to America and adjusting to high school

    - SATs, college admissions & academic pressure

    - Learning English and navigating school

    - Feeling like an outsider and dealing with loneliness

    - Making friends and finding community

    - Growing up without a strong Asian American social circle

    - Dating and confidence as a Korean American

    - MySpace, Asian Avenue & early online communities

    - Korean vs. American food experiences

    - Childhood food memories and discovering American food

    - Growing up between two cultures


    โฑ๏ธ Chapters


    00:00 Welcome Back: The 1.5 Generation Experience

    01:18 Growing Up Korean American in the U.S.

    01:50 Starting High School in America

    02:31 SATs, College & Academic Pressure

    03:34 Feeling Like an Outsider

    03:49 StarCraft, Diablo & Teenage Life

    04:22 Learning English & Preparing for the SATs

    06:02 Making Friends in American School

    06:52 Growing Up in a Predominantly Polish Community

    08:58 Adjusting to Life in America09:47 Siblings & Different Experiences

    11:58 Comparing Our Experiences Growing Up

    13:41 Childhood Friends & Staying Connected

    14:12 MySpace & Online Communities

    15:00 Looking Back on Korean Childhood Friends

    16:01 Family, Grandparents & Growing Up in America

    17:06 Loneliness & Missing a Big Korean Family

    19:01 Food, Family & Finding Comfort

    19:59 The Loneliness of Growing Up Between Cultures

    20:59 Family Sacrifices & Growing Up

    22:01 Relationships & Cultural Differences

    22:58 Dating as a Korean American

    24:01 Culture Shock & American Social Life

    25:59 Dating, Confidence & Growing Up

    27:00 Connecting With Other Asian Americans

    27:59 Finding Your Place in School

    28:59 Online Chat Rooms & Meeting People

    30:00 Discovering American Food

    31:10 McDonald's, Pizza & American Childhood Memories

    32:00 Getting Used to American Food

    33:02 Discovering Pizza & Food in Korea

    34:00 Korean Food & Cultural Identity

    35:00 Food, Language & Living Between Cultures

    36:01 Speaking Korean at Home, English Outside

    37:00 Navigating Two Cultures

    38:00 More Stories to Share

    39:01 Wrap-Up


    ์ด๋ฒˆ Almost Korean Podcast Ep. 24์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์ฃผํ•ด ์„ฑ์žฅํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ 1.5์„ธ๋Œ€์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ด์–ด์„œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต ์ƒํ™œ, SAT์™€ ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์ž…์‹œ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค, ์˜์–ด์™€ ํ•™๊ต์ƒํ™œ ์ ์‘, ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๊ท€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •, ์™ธ๋กœ์›€๊ณผ ์†Œ์†๊ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์—ฐ์• ์™€ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ๊นŒ์ง€ ์†”์งํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ•๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋˜ํ•œ MySpace์™€ Asian Avenue ๊ฐ™์€ ์ดˆ๊ธฐ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ, ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์Œ์‹ ๋ฌธํ™” ์ฐจ์ด, ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ์˜ ์ถ”์–ต์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‘ ๋ฌธํ™” ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์–ด๋–ค ์˜๋ฏธ์ธ์ง€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


    - ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ํ”ผ์†Œ๋“œ์˜ ์ฃผ์š” ๋‚ด์šฉ- ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ 1.5์„ธ๋Œ€์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜

    - ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต์™€ ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์ž…์‹œ

    - SAT ์‹œํ—˜๊ณผ ํ•™์—… ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค

    - ์˜์–ด์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•™๊ต์ƒํ™œ ์ ์‘

    - ์ด๋ฐฉ์ธ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์กŒ๋˜ ์ˆœ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์™ธ๋กœ์›€

    - ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ๊ท€๊ณ  ์†Œ์†๊ฐ์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •

    - ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์˜ ์—ฐ์• ์™€ ์ž์‹ ๊ฐ

    - MySpace์™€ Asian Avenue

    - ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์Œ์‹ ๋ฌธํ™” ์ฐจ์ด

    - ๋‘ ๋ฌธํ™” ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ํ˜•์„ฑ๋œ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ


    Almost Korean Podcast is hosted by Tae and Gibson, two Korean American guys living in Korea and talking about Korean culture, American culture, food, family, identity, relationships, entertainment, and what it's like living between two worlds.

    Subscribe to Almost Korean for more conversations about Korean American life, Korea, culture, identity, food, family, and everything in between.


    ๐ŸŒ Follow Us

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/almostkoreanpodcast

    Tae's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/appasdiary

    Gibson's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barbellandprotein


    #AlmostKoreanPodcast #KoreanAmerican #1.5Generation #KoreanAmericanIdentity #ImmigrantStories #ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ #1.5์„ธ๋Œ€ #ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋ฌธํ™”

    Thu, 22 Oct 2026 - 39min
  • 23 - What It's Really Like Growing Up Korean American: 1.5 Generation Stories | Almost Korean Ep. 23

    What does it mean to be a 1.5 generation Korean American?

    In Almost Korean Podcast Ep. 23, Tae and Gibson talk about growing up between Korea and America, moving countries as children, learning English, culture shock, fitting in, school experiences, immigrant parents, and how those experiences shaped who they are today.

    They share personal stories about leaving Korea, adjusting to American schools, ESL, being one of the few Asian kids in school, Korean American identity, and the sacrifices their first-generation parents made to build a better life.

    ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท In This Episode

    - What โ€œ1.5 generationโ€ really means

    - Growing up between Korea and America

    - Moving to Korea and back to the U.S. as kids

    - Korean childhood memories & leaving Korea

    - Culture shock and learning English

    - Adjusting to American schools

    - ESL, language barriers & feeling isolated

    - Trying to fit in as a Korean American kid

    - Korean vs. American school culture

    - Immigrant parents & their sacrifices

    - Growing up quickly and becoming independent

    - 1.5 generation identity and perspective

    - Raising our own kids between two cultures


    โฑ๏ธ Chapters


    00:00 What Does โ€œ1.5 Generationโ€ Mean?

    01:43 The Unique Experience of 1.5 Generation Immigrants

    04:23 Taeโ€™s Childhood in Korea

    05:44 Moving Back to America at 15

    08:15 Saying Goodbye to Korea

    09:09 Adjusting to American School

    10:26 The Pressure to Learn English

    11:08 Taeโ€™s Last Day in Korea

    12:36 Arriving in America

    14:10 Korean Immigrant Businesses & Family Life

    16:26 Culture Shock: Korea vs. America

    17:47 Wanting to Fit In18:00 Embracing Our Korean Childhood

    19:34 American TV & Learning English

    20:32 Growing Up as One of Few Korean Kids

    21:56 Korean vs. American School Systems

    22:59 ESL & Feeling Isolated

    24:00 Learning English & Finally Fitting In

    25:00 Being Called a โ€œFOBโ€

    25:32 Immigrant Parents & Growing Up Fast

    27:22 1.5 Gen Kids vs. First Gen Parents

    28:10 First Day of American High School

    28:23 Racism & Being Asian in America

    29:51 Korean vs. American High School

    31:24 Cliques, ESL & Finding Your People

    32:20 Does Growing Up in Korea Help?

    33:13 Language, Accents & Coming Back to Korea

    34:18 Learning English as an Immigrant

    35:36 Looking at Our Kids Differently

    36:05 Raising Kids Between Two Cultures

    37:25 A Message to Other 1.5 Generation Immigrants


    ์ด๋ฒˆ Almost Korean Podcast Ep. 23์—์„œ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•œ 1.5์„ธ๋Œ€ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์„ ์˜ค๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ๊ฒช์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ฌธํ™” ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ, ์˜์–ด์™€ ์–ธ์–ด์˜ ์žฅ๋ฒฝ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•™๊ต์ƒํ™œ, ESL, ์นœ๊ตฌ ๊ด€๊ณ„, ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋ฏผ 1์„ธ๋Œ€ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜๋“ค์˜ ํฌ์ƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์†”์งํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    - ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ํ”ผ์†Œ๋“œ์—์„œ๋Š”

    - 1.5์„ธ๋Œ€๋ž€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ๊ฐ€?

    - ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์ž๋ž€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜

    - ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต

    - ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฏผํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฒช์€ ๋ฌธํ™” ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ

    - ์˜์–ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๋ฉฐ ๊ฒช์€ ์–ด๋ ค์›€- ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•™๊ต์™€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ํ•™๊ต์˜ ์ฐจ์ด

    - ESL๊ณผ ์–ธ์–ด ์žฅ๋ฒฝ

    - ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์†Œ์†๊ฐ์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •

    - ์ด๋ฏผ 1์„ธ๋Œ€ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์˜ ํฌ์ƒ

    - 1.5์„ธ๋Œ€๋งŒ์ด ๊ฐ€์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ๊ด€์ 

    - ๋‘ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์•„์ด๋“ค์„ ํ‚ค์šฐ๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ


    Almost Korean Podcast is hosted by Tae and Gibson, two Korean American guys living in Korea and talking about Korean culture, American culture, food, family, identity, relationships, entertainment, and what it's like living between two worlds.

    Subscribe to Almost Korean for more conversations about Korean American life, Korea, culture, identity, food, family, and everything in between.

    ๐ŸŒ Follow Us

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/almostkoreanpodcast

    Tae's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/appasdiary

    Gibson's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barbellandprotein


    #AlmostKoreanPodcast #KoreanAmerican #1.5Generation #KoreanAmericanIdentity #ImmigrantStories #ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ #1.5์„ธ๋Œ€ #ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋ฌธํ™” #KoreanAmerican #growingup #KoreanAmericanstories

    Thu, 08 Oct 2026 - 38min
  • 22 - Korean Food Culture: Things Americans Don't Understand | Korean Restaurants, Delivery & More | Ep 22

    What are the little things about Korean food and restaurant culture that Americans might not understand?

    In Almost Korean Ep. 22, Tae and Gibson continue their food conversation and dive into the everyday details of eating in Koreaโ€”from childhood Korean foods and picky kids to restaurant etiquette, self-service side dishes, robot servers, Korean food delivery, and the things that make eating in Korea different from America.

    They talk about raising kids with Korean food, the evolution of Korean food in American culture, fusion dishes, Korean fried chicken, Korean-Chinese food, delivery traditions, and even why Korean restaurants have such tiny cups and napkins. ๐Ÿ˜‚

    ๐Ÿœ In This Episode

    ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ‘งโ€๐Ÿ‘ฆ Korean foods we want our kids to eat

    ๐Ÿ™ Kimbap, seaweed & childhood food

    ๐ŸŒฟ Korean kids and traditional foods

    ๐Ÿ Korean fusion food & adapting cuisines

    ๐Ÿซ Korean food in American schools

    ๐ŸŒถ๏ธ Kimchi & how foreigners experience Korean food

    ๐Ÿ… Why do Korean restaurants give you so little ketchup?

    ๐Ÿฅข Self-service side dishes & utensil drawers

    ๐Ÿ”” Restaurant call buttons & table tablets

    ๐Ÿค– Korean robot servers

    ๐Ÿ˜… Korean eating sounds, slurping & table manners

    ๐Ÿฆท Toothpicks and Korean restaurant etiquette

    โ˜• Free Korean restaurant coffee

    ๐Ÿฅค Tiny Korean cups & tiny napkins

    ๐Ÿ“ฑ Korean food delivery culture

    ๐ŸฅŸ Free food, dumplings & drinks with delivery

    ๐Ÿ‘ถ Koreans interacting with kids at restaurants

    ๐Ÿ— Korean fried chicken & chicken chains

    ๐Ÿฅฉ Korean food vs. international food near U.S. bases

    ๐Ÿœ Korean-Chinese food & jajangmyeon

    ๐Ÿ›ต Old-school Korean food delivery

    โ™ป๏ธ Korean restaurants, Costco & cleaning up after yourself


    ์ด๋ฒˆ Almost Korean Podcast Ep. 22์—์„œ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ ์—ํ”ผ์†Œ๋“œ์— ์ด์–ด ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์‹๋‹น ๋ฌธํ™”์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ๋จน์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐฅ๊ณผ ๊น€, ์•„์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์„ ๋จน์ด๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹๋‹น์˜ ์…€ํ”„์„œ๋น„์Šค, ๋ฐ˜์ฐฌ, ์ˆ˜์ €ํ†ต, ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ” ํ˜ธ์ถœ ๋ฒ„ํŠผ, ํƒœ๋ธ”๋ฆฟ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ, ๋กœ๋ด‡ ์„œ๋น™๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์‹๋‹น ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์‚ดํŽด๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋˜ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ ๋ฌธํ™”, ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ ์Œ์‹์— ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์˜ค๋Š” ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์Œ์‹, ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹ ์น˜ํ‚จ, ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์Œ์‹, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹๋‹น์—์„œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌธํ™” ์ฐจ์ด๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ํ”ผ์†Œ๋“œ์—์„œ๋Š”

    ์•„์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ๋ ค์ฃผ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹

    ๊น€๋ฐฅ, ๊น€๊ณผ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์‹œ์ ˆ ์Œ์‹์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์•„์ด๋“ค์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹์„ ๋จน๋Š” ๋ชจ์Šต

    ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹๊ณผ ํ“จ์ „ ์Œ์‹

    ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํ•™๊ต์—์„œ ๋จน๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์Œ์‹

    ์™ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•˜๋Š” ๊น€์น˜

    ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹๋‹น์˜ ์…€ํ”„์„œ๋น„์Šค ๋ฌธํ™”

    ๋ฐ˜์ฐฌ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์ €ํ†ต

    ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ” ํ˜ธ์ถœ ๋ฒ„ํŠผ๊ณผ ํƒœ๋ธ”๋ฆฟ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ

    ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹๋‹น์˜ ๋กœ๋ด‡ ์„œ๋น™

    ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์‹์‚ฌ ์˜ˆ์ ˆ๊ณผ ์Œ์‹ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ

    ์‹๋‹น์—์„œ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์‘ค์‹œ๊ฐœ์™€ ์น˜์‹ค

    ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹๋‹น์˜ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ ์ปคํ”ผ

    ์ž‘์€ ๋ฌผ์ปต๊ณผ ์ž‘์€ ๋ƒ…ํ‚จ

    ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ํŽธ๋ฆฌํ•œ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ ๋ฌธํ™”

    ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ ์Œ์‹๊ณผ ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์Œ์‹

    ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹ ์น˜ํ‚จ๊ณผ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์น˜ํ‚จ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ

    ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ตญ์ œ ์Œ์‹

    ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์Œ์‹๊ณผ ์งœ์žฅ๋ฉด

    ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ฐฐ๋‹ฌ ๋ฌธํ™”

    ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹๋‹น๊ณผ Costco์˜ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ์ˆ˜๊ฑฐ ๋ฌธํ™”


    Almost Korean Podcast๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ Tae์™€ Gibson์ด ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ƒํ™œ, ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ™”, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ™”, ์Œ์‹, ๊ฐ€์กฑ, ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ, ์ธ๊ฐ„๊ด€๊ณ„, ์—”ํ„ฐํ…Œ์ธ๋จผํŠธ ๋“ฑ ๋‘ ๋ฌธํ™” ์‚ฌ์ด์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๋Š” ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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    #AlmostKoreanPodcast #KoreanFood #KoreanFoodCulture #KoreanAmerican #KoreanChicken #KoreanCulture #ํ•œ๊ตญ์Œ์‹ #ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ™”

    Thu, 24 Sep 2026 - 33min
  • 21 - Chipotle in Korea?! Korean Americans Talk Food, Childhood & Growing Up Between Two Culture | Almost Korean Ep. 21

    ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Chipotle in Korea?! Korean Americans Talk Food, Childhood & Growing Up Between Two Cultures | Almost Korean Podcast - Episode 21 (Part 1)

    In this episode of Almost Korean Podcast, Tae and Gibson talk about their love of food, the arrival of Chipotle in Korea, and the childhood foods and memories that shaped them as Korean Americans.

    From discovering Chipotle in America to wondering how Koreans will react to building their own burrito bowls, the conversation eventually turns into a trip down memory laneโ€”growing up eating Korean street food, tteokbokki, gimbap, bungeoppang, fish cakes, ppeongtwigi and other childhood favorites.

    They also compare food culture in Korea and America, including why Korean street food was such a big part of their childhood, what it was like coming back to the U.S., American fast food, childhood comfort foods, Korean side dishes, and the foods they loved (and hated) growing up.

    If you grew up Korean Americanโ€”or grew up between Korean and American cultureโ€”this episode might bring back some familiar food memories.

    In this episode:
    ๐ŸŒฏ Chipotle's arrival in Korea
    ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Growing up Korean and Korean American
    ๐Ÿข Korean street food memories
    ๐Ÿ™ Tteokbokki, gimbap & bungeoppang
    ๐Ÿฅ˜ Korean home cooking and banchan
    ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Growing up with American food
    ๐Ÿ” Burger King and childhood fast food memories
    ๐Ÿœ Ramen and childhood cooking disasters
    ๐Ÿฅฉ Korean comfort foods and birthday meals
    ๐Ÿš Why rice will always be the #1 carb
    ๐Ÿ˜‚ Foods we loved, hated and eventually learned to appreciate

    00:00 Welcome to Almost Korean
    00:30 Chipotle Opens in Korea
    02:06 Our First Experiences With Chipotle
    03:20 Why We Love Chipotle
    04:14 What Is Chipotle Like for Koreans?
    05:10 Growing Up Korean American: Our First Food Memories
    07:02 Korean Street Food & Childhood Favorites
    09:39 Korean Street Food vs. American Food
    10:49 Korean Comfort Food & Home Cooking
    12:01 Korean Banchan & Childhood Meals
    13:02 Old-School Korean Instant Food & Snacks
    15:23 Rice, Bread & Noodles
    16:05 Eggs, Fish & Korean Birthday Food
    17:22 Discovering Food in America
    18:27 Chinese Buffets, Fast Food & Sushi
    19:52 Discovering Pho
    22:38 How Our Tastes Changed as We Got Older
    23:40 Our Favorite Korean Comfort Foods
    25:21 Our Top Favorite Foods
    26:01 Naengmyeon & Korean Cold Noodles
    27:21 Buffalo Wings, Steak & Korean BBQ
    30:31 Mexican Food & Authentic Tacos
    31:00 The American Sandwiches We Miss in Korea
    32:06 Burgers: In-N-Out, Whataburger & More
    33:21 Sushi & Japanese Food
    34:47 Korean vs. American Exposure to International Food
    36:31 Why Food Memories Matter
    36:52 Part 2 Coming Soon
    37:04 Thanks for Watching

    Almost Korean Podcast is hosted by Tae and Gibson, two Korean American guys living in Korea and talking about Korean culture, American culture, food, family, identity, relationships, and what it's like living between two worlds.

    ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Subscribe for more episodes of Almost Korean Podcast.

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    #AlmostKoreanPodcast #KoreanAmerican #ChipotleKorea #KoreanFood #LivingInKorea #๊ฑฐ์˜ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ #ํŒŸ์บ์ŠคํŠธ

    Thu, 10 Sep 2026 - 37min
  • 20 - Love After Divorce Season 4: Jimi Oh Reveals What Really Happened Behind the Scenes | Almost Korean Episode 20

    ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Love After Divorce Season 4: Jimi Oh Reveals What Really Happened Behind the Scenes | Almost Korean Episode 20

    What was it REALLY like being on Love After Divorce Season 4?

    ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ทโค๏ธIn this episode of Almost Korean Podcast, Tae and Gibson sit down with Jimi Oh, a cast member from Love After Divorce Season 4 (๋Œ์‹ฑ๊ธ€์ฆˆ4), to talk about his journey from growing up in Korea to moving to the United Statesโ€”and what really happened behind the scenes of the popular Korean dating show.

    Jimi shares what it was like moving to America at 16, adjusting to American culture, being Korean American, his baseball career, and eventually finding himself on Love After Divorce.

    Jimi also reveals details about the casting process, filming in Cancun, living with the other contestants, what viewers didn't see, how producers created the show's storylines, and what happened after filming.

    And yesโ€”he talks about finding love on the show, his relationship with Hee-jin, getting married, long-distance relationships, and life after Love After Divorce.

    โค๏ธ In This Episode

    ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Growing up in Korea & moving to America at 16

    ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Adjusting to American culture

    ๐Ÿค” Korean American identity

    โšพ Baseball & professional sports and Jimi's admiration for Park Chan Ho

    ๐Ÿ’ผ Career, finance & following your passion

    ๐Ÿ“บ Love After Divorce Season 4 / ๋Œ์‹ฑ๊ธ€์ฆˆ4

    ๐ŸŽฌ Casting & audition process๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ Filming in Cancun

    ๐ŸŽฅ Behind-the-scenes stories

    โค๏ธ Jimi & Hee-jin's relationship

    ๐Ÿ’ Finding love and getting married

    โœˆ๏ธ Long-distance relationships

    ๐Ÿ“ฑ Life after reality TV๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Jimi's life in Korea today


    โฑ๏ธ Chapters

    00:00 Meet Jimi Oh

    05:00 Growing Up in Korea & Moving to America

    07:00 Why Jimi Moved to the U.S.

    11:32 Adjusting to American Culture

    16:02 Being Korean American

    20:06 Family & Fatherhood

    23:01 Jimi's Baseball Journey

    26:30 Working in Professional Baseball

    28:02 Career, Finance & Following Your Passion

    36:48 Love After Divorce Season 4 / ๋Œ์‹ฑ๊ธ€์ฆˆ4

    40:00 Divorce, Family & Finding Love

    43:28 The Love After Divorce Casting Process

    46:03 Keeping Contestants' Identities Secret

    47:20 Filming in Cancun

    49:04 What Happens Behind the Cameras

    51:27 Jimi & Hee-jin: Finding Love

    53:00 Does Reality TV Love Really Work?

    55:49 Getting Married After the Show

    58:31 Long-Distance Relationships

    01:00:39 Life After Filming

    01:02:31 What the Show Doesn't Show

    01:03:54 How Producers Create the Story

    01:05:18 Jimi's Life in Korea Today

    01:08:00 Final Thoughts


    ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ์„ค๋ช…๋„ทํ”Œ๋ฆญ์Šค '๋Œ์‹ฑ๊ธ€์ฆˆ4'์—์„œ๋Š” ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์—†์—ˆ๋˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด๋ณด์„ธ์š”! ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ทโค๏ธ

    ์ด๋ฒˆ Almost Korean Podcast์—์„œ๋Š” **'๋Œ์‹ฑ๊ธ€์ฆˆ4' ์ถœ์—ฐ์ž ์ง€๋ฏธ(Jimi Oh)**์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ฐฉ์†ก์—์„œ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋˜ ๋น„ํ•˜์ธ๋“œ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ž๋ผ 16์‚ด์— ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฏผ์„ ๊ฐ„ ์ง€๋ฏธ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ™” ์ ์‘, ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์œผ๋กœ์„œ์˜ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ, ์•ผ๊ตฌ์™€ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋“ค์–ด๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๋˜ํ•œ ์ง€๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋Œ์‹ฑ๊ธ€์ฆˆ4์— ์ถœ์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”์ง€, ์บ์ŠคํŒ…๊ณผ ์˜ค๋””์…˜ ๊ณผ์ •, ๋ฉ•์‹œ์ฝ” ์นธ์ฟค ์ดฌ์˜, ์ถœ์—ฐ์ž๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์ƒํ™œ, ๋ฐฉ์†ก์—์„œ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์™€ ์ œ์ž‘์ง„์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์†ก ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด์„œ๋„ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ!

    โšพ ์•ผ๊ตฌ, ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ฐ•์ฐฌํ˜ธ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ

    โค๏ธ ์ง€๋ฏธ์™€ ํฌ์ง„์˜ ์—ฐ์• ์™€ ๊ฒฐํ˜ผ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ

    โœˆ๏ธ ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์—ฐ์• ๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•

    ๐Ÿ“ฑ ๋ฐฉ์†ก ์ดํ›„ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ์‚ถ

    ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท ํ•œ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜จ ์ดํ›„์˜ ์ƒํ™œ


    ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ํ”ผ์†Œ๋“œ๋Š” ์—ฐ์•  ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‚ถ, ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋ฌธํ™” ์ฐจ์ด, ๊ฐ€์กฑ, ์‚ฌ๋ž‘, ์ปค๋ฆฌ์–ด์™€ ์ธ์ƒ์˜ ์˜ˆ์ƒ์น˜ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ธฐํšŒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


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    Almost Korean Podcast is hosted by Tae and Gibson, two Korean American guys living in Korea and talking about Korean culture, American culture, food, family, identity, relationships, entertainment, and what it's like living between two worlds.

    ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Subscribe to Almost Korean Podcast for more conversations about Korea, Korean American life, culture, relationships and everything in between.


    #AlmostKoreanPodcast #LoveAfterDivorce #๋Œ์‹ฑ๊ธ€์ฆˆ4 #KoreanAmerican #ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ #KoreanCulture #ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ™”


    Thu, 27 Aug 2026 - 1h 08min
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