The Janchi Show
The Janchi Show is a podcast where three Korean adoptees explore what life is like after you're adopted by white people. Nathan Nowack, Patrick Armstrong, and KJ Roelke share their own unique journeys into discovering and learning more about their Korean and adoptee identities through conversations with each other and guests. Each episode they'll also try a Korean snack or drink! Join us each week and follow us at @janchishow across all social platforms.
Episodes
Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down and talk about whether we (adoptees) have backed ourselves into a niche too hard by leaning into the ‘adoptee’ tag, or whether it’s just a byproduct of being fully conscious of our identity.
Later, we try a Baskin Robbins Choco Ball….does Baskin Robbins even make non-ice cream products?!
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down and reply to a listener's email about “What’s next” when you come out of the fog.
Later we get into Bi-cho-bi by Orion….what’s up with the derpy tiger? Is that from KPop Demon Hunters?
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down with KJ’s friend Saki and talk about growing up in the Midwest as a Japanese American!
Show Notes & Corrections:
- This isn’t episode 180
- Saki isn’t our first non-adoptee guest
- The audio is really low quality and all over the place—sorry about that!
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys reflect on the importance of 삼일졀 ("Samiljeol" or the March 1st Movement) and what it means to be courageous in the small things—even while a lot of big things are going on.
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down and talk about code switching, the struggle to balance constantly learning with using what we know, and whether or not we’re better off now than 5 years ago (from before we started the show).
Later, we dig into Muzik Tiger’s Cream Candy….our dentists aren’t thrilled about it
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys chat about dealing with online spaces you thought were safe, making neighborhood friends, and getting real about our feelings with regards to ICE in our communities and country.
Later we try Haitai’s Espresso Ace Cracker…can we get this dipped in chocolate?
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down with Jae Carelli and talk about growing up in a family of 5 Korean adoptees, how working at a ramen shop got them in touch with their Asianness, creating an album and stage show around the 7 core issues of adoption and the intersection of language, neurodivergence and music to help us communicate effectively.
Later, we ...
Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys react to the news that South Korea will stop international adoption by 2029, and also get into parenting while adopted—how our relationships with Korean culture affect our children’s relationship to it, and whether we should let it.
Later, we dig into Nongshim’s Melon Kick….what the heck?!
Episode Summary: We're back with a short one, and the last one of 2025! In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down and talk about whether or not we can trust our origin stories, and have further reflections on the TRC Report — Human Rights Violations in Intercountry Adoption
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down and talk about whether or not Patrick hates Korea, the role of governments (and how America's is perfect and has never made any missteps ever), and integrating Koreanness as parents.
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean (& Asian) Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down Mei Tomko and talk about growing up in the age of OG Youtube and embracing your asianness, doing the most with what you’ve got, and building things that last.
Later we get into some Bibim Chips by Paldo…did they just make this to promote their sauce?!
Meet Mei!
- On Instagram as @postnostalgia!
- Buy ...
Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down and react to the news of South Korea admitting to adoption fraud. It’s not a light topic, but it is the Janchi Show so there’s still a fair amount of laughs!
Later, we get into HBAF Flavored Popcorn! Can someone tell us what the heck a “New York Cheeseburger” is?!
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down with Sara Docan-Morgan and talk about the burden of magical thinking while adopted, being in reunion with your birth family and how casual familial interactions can reduce the spotlight that is so often placed on adoptees when they meet their birth families.
Meet Sara Docan-Morgan!
Instagram: @in.reunion
Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down and talk about storytelling, what it looks like in 2025 and all the stuff that goes into it.
Me and Korea “Omma Poom” Art Installation: https://meandkorea.org/ommapoom2025
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down with our first guest in a while, Lynn Sando and chat with her about growing up (and living in) Minnesota, being a therapist and adoptee, and how important it is to be in community and what it means to “do the work.”
Meet Lynn Sando
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sandowellness
Instagram: @sandowellness
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down and talk about our words / intentions for 2025, how parenting (unsurprisingly) can unearth a lot of extra feels around being adopted, and really just work to find our groove again.
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down and reflect on three years of the show, how our lives have changed since the trailer, and how the show (and the adoptee community) has changed our lives.
Editor’s note: I think we toe the line of conflating friends and fans of the show with the interracial, Asian adoptee community at large. For what it's worth, this...
We're taking a break while our lives are as unstructured as they are. We'll be back, hopefully soon!
Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down and talk about decompressing from KAAN, the adoptee conference we all met up at a month ago, re-entering non-adoptee spaces, and the mental fatigue that code switching brings.
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Episode Summary: In this week’s episode of your favorite Korean Adoptee podcast, the Janchi Boys sit down with Jean and talk about Star Trek, KAAN, disability, queer identities and more! Jean is a Chinese adoptee from Wuhan and we talk about self-racializing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic back in 2020.
There’s no snack and no Patrick this ep, but did we mention we talk about Star Trek?
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