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DOWNERS: the definitive podcast about sadness and sometimes Korean food, hosted by Jack, Kate, and Hao. It's released every Wednesday and sometimes Thursday and sometimes, sigh, even Friday if work is really busy.

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Jun 26, 2019

#121 – We're back with our curious medical maladies in addition to a rare rule-break so that we can talk about the Hong Kong protests as they DIRECTLY affect one of our correspondents, sort of, maybe. Kate breaks down the recent protests, and outlines how we got to this point! She might get extradited to China, she...


Jun 19, 2019

#120 – As an adult, one of the things you find yourself doing over and over, tedium after tedium, is scheduling events. Establishing who, what, and where over SMS, email, and Slack is the bread and butter of adulthood, and we devote the hour to this particularly beige piece of modern life. How can one get better...


Jun 12, 2019

#119 – It's just Hao this week! We're gonna really get into it. We're really gonna tear it up. WHALE SONGS. THE NEWS. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT: DOGS.


Jun 5, 2019

#118 – Suki Kim's 2014 book WITHOUT YOU, THERE IS NO US, which documents her 2011 visit to North Korea as an English teacher to its elite students, is the topic of the hour. This episode was released very late because the time slipped away from Hao... but no matter! We talk about the nature of Korea's geopolitics...