From Pachinko to Real Life: Lessons on Growing Up as Asian American Immigrant Kids

Fun With Dumb

Jonnie Park

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Music

4.9 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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🎉 A Special Thanks to Pachinko Season 2 and Apple TV+! 🎉 We’re thrilled to share this episode with the Fun With Dumb family, diving deep into the themes of Pachinko Season 2 and how they resonate with the Asian American immigrant experience. A huge shoutout to Pachinko Season 2 and Apple TV+ for sponsoring this video and making it possible! We explore the powerful storytelling of Pachinko and how its portrayal of identity and resilience mirrors the journeys of many immigrant families. Don’t miss out—tune in to see how these stories connect with our own experiences. 👉 Catch Pachinko Season 2 on Apple TV+ on August 23rd, 2024 and experience the incredible narrative that’s sparking conversations everywhere. Follow Dumbfoundead: / dumbfoundead Follow Rick: / yox_lyricks Follow Steffie: / steffiebaik Business Inquiries: [email protected] Join Our Patreon: / funwithdumb More FWD: https://linktr.ee/funwithdumb Hosted By Jonnie "Dumbfoundead" Park Dumbfoundead: @dumbfoundead Intro Animation by: @yeetheeast Intro Song by: @sweater_beats Fun With Dumb Producers: Jonnie "Dumbfoundead" Park Dave Wu Alex Kim #PachinkoSeason2 #AppleTVPlus #AsianAmericanExperience #ImmigrantStories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's good everybody? Welcome to another episode of Fun With Dumb. You know we're doing a Mukbang edition once again.
0:07.3	The family comes together and this is all my favorite Korean dishes.
0:12.2	Yeah.
0:13.0	And a lot of it is inspired from Pachinko, we just saw the show, all of season one, and season
0:19.4	two is going to drop on Apple TV Plus, August 23rd.
0:23.4	So in celebration, I thought, you know,
0:24.9	why not put together some of my favorite Korean dishes?
0:27.2	There's like six different Kimchis over here
0:29.2	we're going to learn about.
0:30.2	One thing I learned a lie I loved about Pachinko
0:32.3	season one ending was she was selling Kim Chim on.
0:34.9	You know what I mean? I was like, the fermentation saved her life baby.
0:38.0	Yeah, for sure. The firmamentate, the Kimchi is the backbone.
0:41.8	It's the backbone of our Korean heritage and also last
0:46.1	week was the National Liberation Day of Korea and in Pachinko it covers that period of time.
0:55.0	And it's an intergenerational story.
0:56.8	And there's tons of themes on this show
0:59.2	that really speak to us personally.
1:01.0	So we're going to talk about a lot of these things today since the theme is
1:05.3	Korea so you know the show is good I feel like the first season really did a good job of
1:09.7	depicting the book actually oh Oh, you read it?
1:13.0	I read it.
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