Koreatown Storytelling Program

This is the last episode of our "Notes From Koreatown Series" with another amazing intergenerational program, Heart of L.A. Eisner Intergenerational Music Programs.

Heart of Los Angeles is a non profit organization that gives underserved kids an equal chance to succeed through a comprehensive array of after school academics, arts, athletics, and wellness programs.

We will be interviewing members of its intergenerational big band an...

In a community where stories connect and collide, we bring you our episode on hip hop in Koreatown through a musical technique used in hip hop: the remix.

In this episode we learn more about hip hop stories in Ktown through four artists: 

Omar from Hist City LA, 

Rappers Preservear and Rez

and producer Jonathan.

All artists are connected through Hist City LA. They are a clothing and media company that hosts rap freestyles around...

"Notes from Koreatown" is our latest interview series with artists creating Koreatown’s music.

Today, we will be talking with garbagebarbie, a dynamic indie-rock group  featuring Fletcher Malloy, Daniel Khorashev, Anson Knopp, and Brayden Huff.

 They were recently signed to State of the Arts and known for their bold creativity through their incorporation of quirky AI intros and high energy music.

Cira connected with the band throug...

KSP’s Notes from Koreatown, is an interview series with artists creating Koreatown’s music. 

In our first episode of the series we learn about our narrator and series producer, Cira Mejia. We learn how her love for music begins, grows from admiration to creation, and the soundtrack that comes along with it. 

Cira is a KSP student turned intern, preparing for her cross-country move to college. But before she leaves, she would love ...

Today on the show KSP intern Jane Lee, and program coordinator Dilan Askew interviewed Kija Kim. Kija is was the founder and CEO of Harvard Design & Mapping Co., served on the Massachusetts Asian American commission, and has also been a board member at multiple institutions including. Most recently she has added “author” to her CV, writing and publishing “meridian” a memoir that details her childhood in Korea, her coming to and...

[Spanish Interview]

Before we begin this episode, we would like alert you all that this episode is not recommended for Children. It contains strong opinions, language and mature subjects. Listener discretion is advised.  

It is important for us to share trigger and content warnings on the topics discussed in this episode including deportation, death, and sex work. If you would like confidential free help or some one to speak wit...

Happy Halloween! 

Earlier this year, the KSP team took a trip to watch the Korean supernatural film Exhuma, which translates to exhuming and relocation of a grave. 

After watching the film, the team got together to talk more about the film and what we know/don’t know about shamanism and its influence in Korean culture. In summary,, shamanism is a practice that involves a person called a shaman, interacting with the spirit world to...

Minye Cho has helped KSP produce video interviews in collaboration with Korean American Story. She has produced videos for global companies Samsung and Spotify and for kpop musicians such as Aespa. To name a few… Today we share a part of her journey from studying engineering in Korea to making her short film “Invisible” in Atlanta, and now managing a production company in Los Angeles. We hope you enjoy this conversation! 

Join us ...

Boyle Heights Beat is a bilingual community news project produced by youth, offering “noticias por y para la comunidad,” or “news by and for the community.”

Koreatown Storytelling Program is an intergenerational, multilingual and multiethnic oral history and digital media program that teaches high schoolers how to document, investigate, and interpret the stories of marginalized members of our community for public benefit.

BHB and K...

This month KSP celebrates Pride by sharing and highlighting participants in our 23-24 cohort. We spent the last year documenting stories from Koreatown's LGBTQIA+ community, while learning history in our monthly workshops.

Check out our highlights here.

Today we would like to share our conversation with someone who celebrates QTBIPOC year-round, Jordyn Sun. She is the creator of K-Town's best QTBIPOC parties at Love Hou...

[Spanish Interview]

Hoy hablamos con Vanessa Sarmiento, leder del programa de negocios en KYCC. En esta conversacion  hablamos sobre los servicos del programa y el proceso para obtener permisos para vendedores ambulantes.

Para mas infomacion sobre el programa de negocios en KYCC visite esta pagina:

⁠⁠https://www.kyccla.org/services/community-economic-development-ced/small-business-assistance/⁠⁠ 

Para ser cita, contacte a...

Today on the show, KSP Intern Janice Yun interviews journalist Jeong Park. Jeong has written for the Orange County Register, Sacramento Bee, and was an Asian American Communities Reporter for the L.A. Times. He currently works at the Seattle Times as the Assistant Metro Editor. 

Janice spoke with Jeong on his journalist journey, his reporting on the 2023 Monterrey Park Shooting, and the state of journalism & why it is needed to...

The interview portion in this episode is in Korean.

This week marks 34 years since Los Angeles’s 1992 Civil Unrest. An event in Los Angeles history that put the light on the city’s tensions. In 2020, KSP interviewed community members on their experience on April 29th of 1992. To learn more about the 1992 Civil Unrest and community stories, head over to koreatownstorytellingprogram.org.

https://www.koreatownstorytellingprogram...

Today we are highlighting Koreatown Students!

We interviewed 4 Koreatown high school students about their experiences in the city. First we hear from Brianna Rizo and Diana Kim, two students who participate in KORYO, Koreatown Organizing to Reduce Youth Opioid Use. They talk about the changes and connection they have with Koreatown. Also why do they enjoying walking the neighborhood so much? 

We then hear from KSP students Em...

Today we look back at one of our cooking workshops from the 2023-2024 cohort.

In this workshop, community member Ms. Cathy leads us in a cooking workshop making Miyeok Guk or seaweed soup. In Korean tradition, this meal is commonly eaten during pregnancy or at birthday celebrations. It is a meal that marks birth and celebration!

In this episode, producer Tony Morales takes you between conversations and steps. How well d...

This week we are sharing an interview part of our 2023-2024 KSP Cohort. In this cohort we are focusing on highlighting the LGBTQIA+ community in Koreatown. 

Today, we are happy to share our interview with multi-disciplinary artist, activist, Drag performer, consultant, and Koreatown resident Sydney Rogers also known as Miss Barbie -Q. KSP cohort students Nadia Cho and Nathalie De Mata interviewed Sydney this semester. 

We...

Welcome to another episode of the KSP Podcast! Vicky Tesorito is a trans woman from El Salvador who has lived in Koreatown since her teens. Tesorito shares with us how she has built community at the Guatemalan Resturarant Paseo Chapin , found opportunity, difficulties and love in Koreatown. 

This interview was conducted by our summer intern Kimberly Espinoza, with a few questions from myself and KSP student Lazar Johnson. It i...

We are starting something new on the show! Before every interview episode, we will be having a round table conversation with the KSP team. 

So today’s conversation is food. The KSP team shares our semester on food, TV dinners, what foods remind us of home, and the labor of love that goes into it! 

The conversation is followed by Tony’s interview with Carmen Perez a food street vendor in Koreatown. Our interview with Carme...