
Guest: Josh Kim
Interviewer: Chris
Recording Date: June 15, 2008
Length: 49 minutes
Josh Kim is a 27 year-old Korean American filmmaker from Orange, Texas. Over the course of his life he says he’s been to Korea over 20 times. As an adult, he’s lived in Korea for nearly three years. In addition to this, Josh has spent time working and studying in France, Beijing and Hong Kong. Here in Korea he teaches at times, but otherwise works for a film production company as well as his own projects, including a short film that premiered at the Busan International Film Festival. In this interview he discusses growing up in small-town Texas, working hours in his mother’s wig shop, steadfastly pursuing his desire to learn Korean, and settling and working here as an artist.