New podcast tells the story of K-Pop’s coming of age

K-Pop Dreaming is a new podcast about the rise and history of K-Pop in the United States.

Hosted by Vivian Yoon, the story is told from the point-of-view of Korean’s in Los Angeles. It explores K-Pop’s origins in Korean trot music and American presence in post-war South Korea to the 1992 LA Uprising and the booming global popularity of K-Pop today.

Vivian Yoon is a Korean American writer-performer and K-Pop fan who has written on various animated shows for Netflix, Amazon, and Verizon Media. The K-Pop story is also told against Yoon’s own coming of age as a second generation immigrant in Los Angeles, struggling to fit in and come to terms with her own identity.

K-Pop Dreaming is described as “pop culture history lesson, a coming-of-age second generation immigrant memoir, and a love letter to the city of Los Angeles blending into one educational and heart-warming podcast”.

The first two episodes will be available from 23 February on the LAist Studios hubpage. The podcast will also be available in video format on LAist Studios’ YouTube Channel and can be heard on all podcast platforms.