#8 Interview with Niki Perkins

Guest: Niki Perkins
Interviewer: Nari
Recording Date: January 12, 2008
Length: 55 minutes

Niki Perkins is a Korean American adoptee who now lives in Gwangju. Despite her plans to return to the States in the spring and her strong connections to people from her home in Nashville, Tennessee, Niki has plans to earn a Masters Degree and eventually come back to live in Korea again in the future. In this episode, Niki thoughtfully processes her choices in friends, her relationships with Korean people, and her place as a foreigner-but-not in Korean society.

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#7 Interview with Bill Packard

Guest: Bill Packard
Interviewer: Chris
Recording Date: January 10, 2008
Length: 55 minutes

Bill Packard is a half-Korean American from Toledo, Ohio. Bill came to Korea after college and some work experience in America and first moved to Suncheon where he spent about two years teaching English. After a quick move back to America to see if things worked there, he moved back to Korea, this time to Seoul, where he’s roughly been for the past three years working in the publishing industry. In this interview Bill discusses growing up slightly ethnically isolated yet well-integrated, as well as the surprising normalcy of growing up with two parents of different ethnicities before his move to Korea.

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