Hosted by Jieun Ko · EN-US · 34 episodes
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A podcast about courage, grief, identity, and the Korean diaspora.
Jieun Ko hosts Stay Soft, Stay Open, a society show with 34 episodes published.
I'm going to miss our backyard. I'm going to miss our living room chip parties. I'm going to miss our building. I'm going to miss our neighbors. I'm going to miss our apartment. I'm going to miss our home. I'm going to m
I can't leave New York perfectly. I have so many people I want to write letters to. I have so many people I want to meet up with and say goodbye to. I want to be able to gather with people before I leave. I acknowledge t
Your home makes you feel safe, and when your home is looking unstable, then I feel untable. I don't like having our bed in our living room. Our TV is being stored in the kitchen so Haejoon doesn't get hurt.
I want to hold space for all the ways that New York held me, for better and for worse. I am taking mind pictures of all of my favorite places. There's a grief in the fact that we can't take our favorite places with us wh
This episode is about slowing but surely moving out of New York, talking to Sonny, and the societal pressures of our 30s. My life happened out of order.
This episode is about telling 엄마 we're moving to 포항 and how positive of a reaction she had about it, which was shocking.
This episode is about driving down from New York to Virginia with our first haul of personal belongings.
This episode is about the addictive nature of technology and how these technology companies make them addictive on purpose. They're like pocket slot machines.
This episode is about all the times I put off the decision and the dream to move to Korea. There is so much isolation in the displacement of immigration. Death wakes us up to our lives.
This episode is about revisiting memories of all my trips to Korea that I've ever taken, and 할머니 and 하라보지 visiting us in America in 2000 when I was in 6th grade, and how they lived with us for several months in Virginia.
This episode is about watching 웰컴투 삼달리, Welcome to Samdal-ri, and seeing the stories of grief woven into the series, and the need to see the specificities of Korean grief outside of my own experience.
This episode is about our super and our friend, Cooper. I miss him, his presence, his smile, his music, his cooking. I miss doing life together with him.
This episode is about me processing all of my feelings about our July Korea trip, three months after our July Korea trip — the grief, the overwhelm, the massive feelings of longing and missing my family and my home.
This episode is about driving back and forth between New York and Virginia every weekend for two months because I needed to have our family together after death broke our family, and I was struggling to live apart and aw
This episode is about my plans for 아빠's 2-Year Death Anniversary and the anticipatory grief I was feeling leading up to the anniversary.
This episode is about the difficulties of the month, and the trauma of September 2023 coming back up two years later, in September 2025. I can't unmarry the worst days of my life from September. As much as I wanted to re
This episode is about the impossible weight of September, the massive grief I'm carrying, and all of the big mile-marker days of our lives — Haejoon's 돌잔치 (9/13), Haejoon's 돌 (9/15), Greg's and my five-year wedding anniv
This episode is a summarization of the final days of my Korea trip. Day 19: We packed all of our things into my family's cars, we went to church, we drove out to 교동도, we rode the monorail at 화개정원, and we went to 교동도 대룡시장
This day marks 1 year and 10 months of 아빠's death. This was a really hard day. Leaving Korea is always so hard, and the final days are especially hard. I always feel so much regret about the things I didn't get done, but
We went shopping at Namdaemun — clothes for Haejoon, little souvenirs for myself. We ate 만두 and 팥빙수. We ate dinner with 이모부 — 김치찌개 and 두부.
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Stay Soft, Stay Open is hosted by Jieun Ko. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 34 episodes.
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