Guest: Joo Kim
Interviewer: Chris
Recording Date: December 11, 2007
Length: 52 minutes
Joo Kim is a 24 year-old Korean American from Palisades Park, New Jersey. Although he’d only been living in Korea for 7 months at the time of the interview, we thought it would be interesting to hear from someone of his perspective: Joo is the first male, first fluent Korean-speaker and first member of the US Army to be interviewed by Canaries in the Motherland. In this interview we discuss his family’s move to America, initially to a white suburb and eventually to a high-density Korean neighborhood, obtaining US citizenship at the age of 21, and almost haphazardly entering the US military to come to Korea.
Oh yeah, Joo and Chris also went to college together. Above, Joo is pictured with a muskrat on his head.
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