{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/j38kd1rm98/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Episode 2: Halmoni's Kimchee"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/010/original/Aviary_QPLlogo_192x192.png?1578574261","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2022-04-18 (released)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Type"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThe 1970s, 80s, and 90s saw a wave of Korean immigrants coming to the US, many finding their way to Queens. The Korean American population in the US skyrocketed, reaching 1.2 million people by the year 2000. 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How do you help them to challenge stereotypes?\r\nDo you know what your family's earliest days in the US were like?\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eResources mentioned in the episode can be found below:\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ca href=\"https://koreanamericanstory.org/\"\u003eKorean American Story\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org\"\u003eStop AAPIHate\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org\"\u003eAsian Americans Advancing Justice\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis episode was produced by Heidi Shin in conjunction with Melody Cao, Anna Williams, and Natalie Milbrodt. It was hosted by J. Faye Yuan.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMixing and editing by Cory Choy with music composed by Elias Ravin. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpecial thanks to HJ Lee at Korean American Story, Jo Ann Yoo at the Asian American Federation, Dr. Pyongap Min, Dr. Jey Kim and Soojin and Eugina for sharing their family's story.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVoiceover work by Soyun Jeong, Eunbin Go, and Hyunae Lee.  \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis podcast has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this podcast do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 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Faye Yuan: This episode of the Queens Memory Podcast has been produced in English. If you’d like to listen in Korean, you can find that version in our podcast feed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=1.0,19.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan: You’re listening to Season 3 of the Queens Memory Podcast. My name is J. Faye Yuan, and I’m the Queens Memory Curator.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=19.0,28.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan: In this season, “Our Major Minor Voices,” we feature stories from our neighbors of Asian descent in Queens, New York.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=28.0,37.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan: Too often, these voices are deemed “minor” – as in “of a minority.” But in our borough – these voices are a major force. One in four borough residents identifies as Asian-American.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=37.0,55.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan: The stories they tell reflect their ongoing struggles and triumphs. They are our stories – a vital part of who we are – and together they represent a snapshot of our ever-changing neighborhoods as they are now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=55.0,80.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan: The 1970s, 80s, and 90s saw a wave of Korean immigrants coming to the US, many finding their way to Queens. The Korean American population in the US skyrocketed, reaching 1.2 million people by the year 2000. Flushing, Queens was a little Koreatown back then – where Korean families lived and worked.In this episode, we explore the theme of memory through the story of two sisters – Soojin and Eugina, who rode this wave of immigration from Korea to Queens in the 80s. They landed in their halmoni’s – that is, their grandmother’s – kitchen. \nProducer Heidi Shin brings us this story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=80.0,123.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: Eugina remembers the day she left Korea.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=123.0,125.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: That was my first time getting on an airplane. My mom was like, look, we're in the sky and we were above the clouds.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=125.0,131.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: As a kid, Eugina had been told that God lived up in the sky. So naturally, she asked her mom where he was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=131.0,138.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: Oh and she said, she’s, he’s even higher up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=138.0,143.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: That’s how their family’s journey to New York began. It was 1985. Eugina was 7 years old. Her sister Soojin was 4, when they moved to Flushing Queens. \nRemember when suitcases didn’t have wheels back in the 80s? Picture the five of them heaving their belongings through JFK airport where they met their aunt and uncle at the gate. Together, they headed to their grandmother’s apartment in Queens where they were going to live. The front door of the building still sounds the same today:","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=143.0,174.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: Every time you open it creeks, so its like creeek…and then it slams behind you. The five of us with all this luggage. And it was obvious that we were kind of moving in, andgoing to be here for a while.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=174.0,186.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: It was Eugina, Soojin, their brother, and mom and dad. Their suitcases were stuffed with clothes, Korean snacks, their dad’s calligraphy brushes, and a blush pink “hanbok” – a traditional Korean silk dress – that their mother would wear twenty years later on Eugina’s wedding day. As they made their way across the lobby, the building’s super spotted them:","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=186.0,206.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: And the super caught us, saw us. And he said, you can't be here. 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She made kimchi and pounded the meat for Korean BBQ in their tiny galley kitchen.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=228.0,258.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: Probably because you know, in Korea, there wasn't a lot of meat, but then we came to America and then there's this abundance of meat. 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Their father used to send them to buy Korean newspapers at the corner store:","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=268.0,296.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: So it would be like a Saturday morning, probably. Nope. 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Then they’d stop at the candy shop on the way home where they bought cough drops, and ate them like candy:","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=303.0,311.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: It was cherry or licorice, and licorice was gross.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=311.0,316.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: They remember the pharmacy, hair salons, corner stores – all Korean owned. The shops selling phone cards, the purses on display. On Sundays they’d go to a Korean church where their dad was the choir director and their mom, the pianist. The girls would climb around under the pews.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=316.0,333.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: Yeah hide and seek in the sanctuary was great because there are all those pews. Right. And so, we would play hide and go see. There would be like a big flight of stairs with banisters, we would slide down the banisters and we would kind of just roam the church.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=333.0,347.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: After church they often went out for jjajangmyun – Korean black bean noodles – though the girls would have preferred Burger King where there was an indoor playground, but their mom had read in a Korean paper that the kids from the gangs would hang out there. And so they weren’t allowed.Back in Korea, dad was a history teacher and mom had trained to be a classical pianist. In Queens, she found a job working the overnight shift in a factory. And the dad found work at a hardware store. They saved up enough money through a lending circle called geh – a revolving credit system – and eventually they opened their own small business. A hair and wig shop. Here’s Eugina again:","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=347.0,385.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: Sometimes they would kind of like plant me in front of the store, to like draw customers in…","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=385.0,391.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: She was supposed to watch for pickpocketers, too.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=391.0,393.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: And as an eight or nine year old, I don't know what they expected from me? Um, if I did see somebody?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=393.0,400.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: After the wig shop, they started a small deli grocery in Sunnyside Queens. Soojin used to play in the backroom while her mom worked the register, and her dad stocked the aisles. And there’s this one day at the store that Soojin can’t forget…","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=400.0,412.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Soojin: Being in the back room and hearing a lot of like commotion in the store and hearing racial slurs sort of like being called out at my parents. You know, like go back to your country kind of stuff. Like, I don't know FU chink or something like that. I mean, this guy was like spewing words, just like, I don't know, he just kept shouting and yelling all these words and my parents like trying to shout back at them. And so like them trying to defend themselves, um, in broken English. They didn't have the words to make him feel as small as they did.But I remember I was like, I'm staying in this room for as long as I can.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=412.0,465.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: She says it’s something that never would have happened had they stayed in Korea.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=465.0,469.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Soojin: Oh yeah sure, for sure, I mean they would never have been in a situation where they would own a bodega, so…","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=469.0,482.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: It was the first time Soojin had heard her dad swear. He cursed at the man. It was after the man had turned away and he was walking out the store.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=482.0,497.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: What Soojin and Eugina don’t remember is when they stopped speaking Korean to each other and started speaking English instead. What they do remember is their parents working all the time, changing churches when there were disagreements, trying out new small businesses. And they remember their grandmother being there for them, always.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=497.0,522.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: Eventually Soojin and Eugina’s parents saved up and moved out to Long Island, while their grandmother stayed behind in Queens. Like so many other Korean Americans, they bought their small businesses in Queens in the 1980s from immigrants who had come to the States before them. And later, they in turn, sold their businesses to more recent immigrants who arrived after them. Queens was where they found their footing for their American lives.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=522.0,559.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan: In the 1990s, when Soojin and Eugina’s family were on the move again – they weren’t alone. They were part of another wave of Korean migration from Flushing to Bayside,\nand to the suburbs of Long Island. Other places were growing as hot spots for Korean Americans, too. Like New Jersey, Virginia, and Atlanta. \nEventually Soojin and Eugina both headed to Boston for college. But their grandmother has stayed in Queens this entire time. Let’s see how she’s doing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=559.0,597.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi: Soojin and Euginia’s grandmother is 98 years old this year. She’s lived in the very same apartment in Flushing, Queens for nearly 50 years. The sisters are on their way to see her. Today the streets are much busier, and the buildings are taller now in Queens. There is a Korean hair place, and and insurance salesman, but many more signs in other languages too. Across the street there’s the new Mochi nut shop, along with bubble tea.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=597.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: Soojin and Euginia make their way to their grandmother’s place. The same apartment they lived in as kids, when they first came to the US in 1985.Soojin lives in Boston now, and she’s brought her husband and two daughters, ages 4 and 6. This apartment still feels like home to them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=630.0,649.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina:I feel like almost everybody's got a key. You know, everybody's still comes back to Mom. They still go back to Mom.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=649.0,656.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: All the aunts and uncles and grandkids. Whenever they were between jobs or needed relationship advice. Or wanted to hear the family gossip. But in recent years, the tables have turned.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=656.0,666.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: Like her body is aching from making kimchi. So we've been begging her to stop making kimchi for like many many years. And when she stopped, we were kind of grateful that she did stop.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=666.0,678.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: Now they’re busy making sure she doesn’t climb any chairs or change any light bulbs. And they’re the ones who bring her sweets instead.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=678.0,692.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: There’s been a surge in attacks against Asian American elders on the streets of New York, lots of families are worried. But for Soojin and Eugina – it’s almost a relief that their grandmother’s mostly bedridden. Because it means she’s safe at home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=692.0,710.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina / Soojin: She has nowhere to go she can’t go anywhere.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=710.0,712.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: Instead their grandmother is the one who is worried about whether Eugina and Soojin are safe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=712.0,722.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: Eugina now works as a therapist in Manhattan. Since the spring of 2021, when six Asian American women were shot and killed in Atlanta, lots of Asian American women have been coming to Eugina for help. And it hasn’t been an easy time for Eugina either.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=722.0,735.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: I am more alert on the train platforms. I’m alert more on the train cars I’m more alert as I'm walking down the street. Because we remember, we know that it could happen and it still does happen everywhere. Just recently I read an article that it happened in Manhattan, and that’s really hard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=735.0,762.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: It’s another layer of trauma, for many who grew up in immigrant homes. She says so many of us don’t even realize what it was like: not having parent who could fully be parents.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=762.0,772.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Eugina: So much of the immigrant experience is not talking about what you go through. You just get by, you just survive and you know, when my parents were working, you know, 12 hour days, if not 14 hour days, six days a week.Unless you talk about it, you don’t really get a chance to think about it. And what makes trauma so traumatic is that it's not spoken, it's not talked about, it's just kind of stays in your body. And so then it makes it very difficult to find words. It makes it very difficult to figure out what it is that is in our bodies that is left in our bodies.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=772.0,815.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: What Soojin saw as a child in the backroom of her parents store – has stayed with her. She’s now a mom with two girls of her own, ages 4 and 6. Just about the same age Soojin was, when she first came to the States. And Soojin wants something different for her girls:","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=815.0,830.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Soojin: Ihave this constant, like, fight against this sort of like quiet Asian woman stereotype and, and to not be that way and to be even more outspoken or more strong-willed, to teach my kids to not bend over backwards.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=830.0,847.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: SooJin wants her girls to know it’s ok to get angry and to speak your mind. She buys them books about Asian Americans who’ve done things to change the world. They watch movies with female leads who are strong. Not afraid to say what they think.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=847.0,860.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Soojin: You know, a generation before us couldn’t speak up for themselves, and now, it’s our turn, and I can do that, and I can teach my kids how to do that. Hopefully, with a little bit more respect and kindness...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=860.0,873.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: And she’s made the deliberate decision to live in a neighborhood that’s diverse. Because she believes that’s what helps us to understand each other better.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=873.0,1294.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: Eugina recently moved back to Queens, from Manhattan. Now she lives in Jackson Heights. She wonders how many more times will she get to see her grandmother, who’s 98 years old.She brings a recorder with her whenever she visits the apartment.\nEuginia has been asking her grandmother about what her life was like in North Korea, before she fled to the South, and what it was like, those early days after immigrating to the States. It’s a history she’s hearing for the first time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=1294.0,4517.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: Their grandmother looks tired and the great-grandkids are getting antsy, so they pack their things to leave. Grandma hands each of Soojin’s daughters an envelope of cash. \nThe girls are too little to know how much is inside. They leave the apartment and pass the park across the street--it's where Soojin and Eugina learned to ride their bikes and where they played for hours until their grandmother called them home for dinner. There's no grass here, but there’s pavement, and one tremendous gnarled tree whose branches graze the tops of the buildings nearby.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=4517.0,4564.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: Eugina continues to visit their grandmother every month. It’s been nearly 40 years since they came to the States and lived with their granfmother in Queens. It’s easy to forget those earliest days... So there’s a Korean prayer that Soojin sings with her own girls before each meal… It’s a song she wants to remember.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=4564.0,4587.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Heidi Shin: For The Queens Memory Podcast, this is Heidi Shin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=4587.0,4605.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624/transcript/36446/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"J. Faye Yuan: Join us next time for more stories from our Queens neighbors.\nThe Queens Memory Podcast is a production of the Queens Memory Project. For full transcripts, show notes from this episode, and past seasons, visit QueensMemory dot org forward slash podcast.This episode was produced by Heidi Shin in conjunction with Melody Cao, Anna Williams, and Natalie Milbrodt. It was hosted by J. Faye Yuan.\nMixing and editing by Cory Choy with music composed by Elias Ravin.\nSpecial thanks to HJ Lee at Korean American Story, Jo Ann Yoo at the Asian American Federation, Dr. Pyongap Min, Dr. Jey Kim and Soojin and Eugina for sharing their family's story.Voiceover work by Soyun Jeong, Eunbin Go, and Hyunae Lee.\nThis podcast has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. The views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this episode are those of its creators and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of National Endowment for the Humanities, Queens Public Library, the City University of New York, or their employees. I'm J. Faye Yuan. Listen with us next time on Queens Memory.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1826/collection_resources/72783/file/158624#t=4605.0,1091.712"}]}]}]}