Minju Park
Minju Park is a Korean-American journalist based in Chicago. She’s currently an associate producer for LAist Studios.
Previously, she worked on The Big Disaster: The Big Burn for LAist Studios. She’s also worked on projects for Marketplace, PRX, WBEZ Chicago, NBC Los Angeles and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
She’s interested in thinking critically about how forms of pop culture entertainment, including movies, TV shows, music and literature, represent and influence the values of a larger community. Minju’s approach to content production is driven by the goal to translate that curiosity into her work.
Minju was born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in the Chicago area. She’s also lived in Nashville, Tennessee and Long Island, New York. She’s an alum of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Website: https://mp-productions.org/ IG: @meenjoo
Twitter: @meenjoo
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Leialani Wihongi-Santos tells the truth about her family’s history on Guam — and fights to protect her CHamoru heritage with her grandpa on Episode 7 of “Inheriting.” -
Season 1 of "Inheriting" explores how one event in history can ripple through generations -
The "Inheriting" podcast begins with Carol Kwang Park, a child cashier in Compton who lived through the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising. -
Episode 2 of “Inheriting” follows Carol Kwang Park’s mission to truly understand the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising and how it impacted her family. -
When 1TYM — pronounced “one time” — debuted in South Korea in 1998, the members had no idea they would become one of the first K-pop groups from YG Entertainment to make it big. -
We explore the origin story of KCON, which turned 10 last year. -
Many of K-pop's greatest acts are actually comprised of people who grew up outside of Korea. Among them? The guys from Solid, who were L.A. originals. -
While today’s K-pop was shaped through decades of cultural influences from an increasingly globalized world, it all started at a club for Black soldiers in South Korea. -
As we release our new podcast K-Pop Dreaming, our team put together some of the most iconic songs in K-pop history to get you hooked — or rekindle your memories.
