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Following Your Passion With Jungwoo Chang
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Ever dreamed of trading the monotony of your day job for the exhilarating world of music? Join us as we delve into the inspiring journey of Jungwoo Chang (aka Jaywoozy) who dared to quit their 9-5 and chase their musical passion full-time. We'll explore the challenges, sacrifices, and life-changing decisions that led Jung to take this bold leap. Whether you're an aspiring musician, a dreamer seeking inspiration, or simply curious about the life of a professional songwriter, this episode is sure to leave you feeling motivated and empowered.
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Introduction and Guest Welcome
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nourishing the mind, body, and soul for the Asian diaspora. Have you eaten? Hi, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Have You Eaten? We're so excited to introduce you today to someone very special who has been so incredibly brave in taking a leap forward and doing something that he's really passionate about.
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And as you
Journey from Engineering to Music
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know, Have You Eaten is all about reclaiming our narratives and giving space to those who have stories to tell. And Jung Woo Chang ah joins us today, and he certainly has some stories to tell. So welcome, Jung. Thank you so much, Ji, for having me.
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Yeah, I am so excited to have you. And um also Jung is our second episode of Happy Mike. And so that will be launching or it would actually be launching already by the time this airs. So go check it out on Happy Mike and listen to Jung's beautiful voice. um So that said, as you guys probably have already guessed, Jung is a musician.
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um So John, the reason why I think you're so brave and is that you, and I'm gonna let you tell the story, but you essentially left an engineering career to be in music. yeah um So about that tell us about that in your and your own words. like How did that happen? like what What drove you to you know doing music full time? And yeah, let's talk about that.
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Yeah, definitely. um It was quite it was quite a quite a journey, I'd say, in terms of the trajectory of where I saw my life going. um Should I take it all the way to the beginning? to like like migrating over to the United States and things like that? Or should we just keep it career-based for now? Well, i I mean, I would love to dive into your background too. so um But tell us about tell us about this switch into um going into music, right?
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yeah So, I mean, yeah, tell us, tell us whatever you feel comfortable in sharing with us. Cause I know you did
Falling in Love with Blues Guitar
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immigrate to the US, um, from Korea. So tell us about that journey. And then ah we would love to learn more about how you got into switching careers the way that you did. because yeah mean as asian asian immigrants or you know I'm a child of an Asian immigrant and I was always brought up to you know be a doctor well until my bio scores came and my grades were really shit.
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Um, then it was like, you're going to be a lawyer, you know, and then I switched to a theater major from economics. And then my dad was like, well, you can use that theater degree in the courtroom. So it was always this path that, um, my parents and my dad wanted me to go on. And I also like you veered off pretty drastically. And so, you know, maybe where we can start is.
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Where did your love for music stem from? Like where did that come from? Um, so I've always, my mom has always wanted me to take some form of music, uh, in my life growing up. And I was raised in Korea, in South Korea. And to me, it felt like every, uh, every friend that I had did, they took piano lessons and they took taekwondo lessons. Like at least those two things right after school. So it was like,
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I'd say in the community that I grew up in anyway, it was a very commonplace thing to kind of just have some sort of music. Granted, I didn't necessarily fully fall in love with music the way that I did it until I was a freshman in college because I feel like the music training that I'd done to that point being classical piano was very um It felt more like academic in a way, if that makes sense, where it's more like, here's the material, learn it really well, perform it really well at a recital, you get graded. So in terms of like what I really strive to do nowadays, which is to fully express myself using
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um everything I know about music in the best way possible, there was none of that really at all.
Cultural Expectations vs. Passion
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um Until I was a freshman in college when I was hanging out with a good friend of mine and we were just like jamming on guitars, you know, just being obnoxious college freshmen in the halls of the dorms, just strumming our guitars real loud.
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And he showed me, we were playing along to a song called Slow Dancing in a Burning Room by John Mayer, and he showed me some like cool guitar licks, some pentatonic scales, and I was like, whoa, that was so cool. It blew my mind. Looking back, it was like such a simple thing to play on the guitar, but something about it just like really grabbed my attention. um And then he told me that that was the blues scale.
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And I was like, i got a this is all I want to do now. And so like starting from then, which was probably 19 years old freshman year in college, is when I got addicted to like playing around and practicing blues guitar, which kind of was my gateway into the rest of what I feel is more self-expressive and yeah I guess self-expressive kind of music where you learn tools to imp empower yourself, to express yourself through songs. Just going back to your college career, tell everybody what you were going to college for. Oh, okay. ah Yeah, I should have probably mentioned that first. When I first went to college, I was a pre-med student and um
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I was majoring in neuroscience when I first went in. Yeah. And I thought I was going to do the whole female track because that's what everyone else, that's what all my other friends that I grew up with did, you know, it was very like career based, like, you know, take these summer courses, do really well in your SAT, ACT, get into a good college. And then from there, you just keep building up. And it was like,
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from the environment that I was raised in, it was definitely like the thing to do. Like no one else is doing anything else. It's like Yeah, you you studied really well, go to good college and then prepare for med school. And kind of like what you were saying along the lines of like kind of being told what you're going to be when you grow up, I like heavily relate with that because it was like, I don't think it was necessarily pushed on me to be fair to my family, but the moment I had, the moment I learned something cool in like a biology class and I came home and I was like, you know what, being a doctor could be cool. They were like, yes, being a doctor would be very cool.
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And um it was them just like the moment I had just a smidgen of interest, they made it, you know, they were really encouraging that and pushing that. And I always joke and tell my friends like, yeah, like my mom told me I was going to be a doctor. So that's what I was studying to do. um So I did neuroscience study or I'll study neuroscience through the pre-med track at the University of Michigan.
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when I first got into college and then it was about three years of that and doing the whole thing like volunteering in hospitals, working in labs, not necessarily because that's what I was passionate about regardless of what have I might have written in my essays to get into different programs being like this is what I want to do with my life. At that point I had never I have never just sat down and been like what do I really want to do with my life it was kind of just like It kind of just felt like being in the middle of a race where everyone's like just scattering to go somewhere and you're like, okay, I guess that's that's what I'm doing. um So I did three years of that. And then around my junior year, I had
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I was just like, I don't know exactly what it was in me, but i I saw my sister graduate and get into med school. She's two years ahead of me. She's a star she's like the star student and star child, by the way. like she's like every Asian immigrant mom's dream. Because like, I mean, she was the one kicking butt and like doing well on our courses, like getting into great schools and things like that. But that was not for me. So when I saw my sister get into med school, which I feel like that really was her calling. And I saw her really struggle through it and still like
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really fight to like push through these things that are really difficult. I was like, if she's passionate about it, and she's struggling that hard, like, how much am I going to be struggling if that's not even what I really want to truly be doing? And so one time at dinner, it was me, my sister and my mom. And like,
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it Thankfully, my sister was already talking about how her other friends in med school were struggling a little bit. And that kind of gave me a ah segue to kind of hop up on that and then just be like, basically, just say what I told you, which was just like,
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I don't know if I really want to do med school and anymore. like I don't know if that's my path. like I feel like I can still... And in my head, because i had because the science, um med school, academia path was the only thing I knew, my other option wasn't like anything else. It was like, I could still do research in labs. I was like, I don't have to be a doctor. I'll still be like a researcher.
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And
Pursuing Music Full-Time
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um thankfully, my sister was there to kind of back me and be like, yeah, like med school is really hard. Like you gotta really want to really get in. um And then my mom seemed to be understanding through that. So I was at that point where I was like, okay, I know I'm a junior in college and I was gonna do this whole thing, but maybe this isn't what I want anymore. So I was just like scrambling for a bit.
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And then my ah one of my housemates, my friend Kostas, this was this is like during the summer, we're doing an internship. I remember going to my lab and making like $9.25 an hour, just counting V cells all day. And then my housemate would come home from like his fancy software engineering internships and be like, yeah, I'm making you like 42 bucks an hour. i'm like What are you doing to make that much money? So then in my, in my head at the time, because once again, I hadn't really sat down to think about what I want to do with my life. I was like, I need job security. I need money. Cause that's a lot of, especially being um like immigrants. I feel like those are things you really have to like, it's very drilled into you from your parents.
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um So then I was like, you know what, let me finish up my neuroscience major and let me finish out my computer science, and then let me start and finish my computer science major. like I only had a few more courses to go, so I was like, I'll just do the double major. Might as well have both. I remember going into an advisor's office and talking to him about like adding on a computer science major at my junior your year. And they were basically like, don't do it. They're like, do not do it. That's like way too much work. It's not really going to make sense. like Don't do it.
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And then I was like, all right. And then I stepped out of the office and I was like, um'm I'm still going to do it. I might as well just try for it. Let's let's fast forward to when you made that switch, right? Like, I think it's so funny when you were talking about how your mom was like, you know, are all your friends growing up played an instrument or antenna tech window. Yeah. In my mind, I I was thinking your mom probably wasn't expecting you to become a musician when she told you to take like music, right? oh yes To like get into college, to put something on your resume. ah So when you switched and when you, when was that moment where you decided, you know what, all of this other stuff is just noise and I don't want to do any of that. I want to do music. Like, do you remember that moment?
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Yes, it was fast-forwarding post-college when I ah finished my ah computer science degree and then got a great job straight out of college. um And it was COVID and so everything was remote at the time. And so I remember having graduated college, having moved to California with my girlfriend at the time, and having this great job, like making a great paycheck And like something that like something was off. I feel like this is what you strive for all throughout college. like To do this, to do that, and then like end up in a nice place with a nice job, hey like getting nice paid. And like I was like, this is not it. Why is this not it? And I really had some moments to think about it with myself.
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And I reflected back on the summer before when I was hanging out with some of my friends in like the apartment complex that I lived in. And like all we did was like, and he wasn't he was in biology too, my friend Harrison. And all we did that summer was just like hang out, play games, listen to music and just fantasize about how cool it would be to live a life as a musician. And it was a lot of like talking and being like,
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Yeah, it was just like we would both get really excited about it and be like, can you imagine if we did that? That'd be so cool. um And so in that moment later of like feeling like I had everything and feeling not fulfilled, like I wasn't actually doing anything with my life, I was like, wait, why couldn't I just like be a musician? And just like, like what's stopping me from just going and doing the thing that when I think about it, it makes me so happy. Like I'm fantasizing about this thing this thing that I could actually go out and try to do if I like put in some effort. And so i I got really excited about it. And I was like, I think I'm going to do this. like i I think I'm going to do this. And I set my mind up to do this thing. I was like.
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And then so I called my friend Harrison. I was like, dude, remember all those talks we had over the summer? Like, I think I'm going to really try to pursue a path as a musician. Like we only live once. We might as well try to do what we love the most and our most passionate about in our lives while we live here. like Because what else are we here to do? yeah What was his response? He was like, Jung, I cannot believe you said that because I had I had to talk to my friend last night and we decided the same thing to pursue music like we were just about to call you and let you know. So it was like everything was synchronized. The universe felt like it was like
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When I made that call and I got that response from it, it kind of felt like some affirmation from the universe is locking that down and be like, yeah, you're doing like, that's that's the that's the hint that you're on the right thing. It just like made everything. It just really gave me a sense of support, I guess, and confidence to do this thing from the universe. It was like some additional affirmation. and What was the call to your family like?
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the call to my family. Oh, like when I... Yeah, to let them know. Oh, okay. Well, real quick before that, I'll say I still work the tech job, work from home for about three years, working from home while I did the music thing. And it wasn't until recently in January when I left the job and I didn't tell my parents for to do music full time. I left my job to do music full time this past January. And I didn't tell my parents for about a month.
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And like
The Universe's Guidance
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I hate keeping things from my parents. I don't tell them everything about my life, but I feel like in general, like these bigger important things, I want to keep them up to date, but I just couldn't fathom like telling them what their response was. So for a whole month, I was like, they'd be like, are you working right now? And I'd be like,
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Yes, I just feel so guilty. But then eventually like I was actually watching the ah you know, the brother's son Netflix show. Uh huh. Yeah. um He was talking about how he was hiding doing improv classes from his mom because his mom would be disappointed. And his brother looked at him and he and he was just like, well, I'm just a rebel. And he's like, well, if you're keeping that from her, like you're not a rebel, you're just a liar.
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And I was like, that is this show talking to me? And I was like, oh, they might be right. So I was like, OK, I got to tell my parents. slide First time I called up was my mom. And I was like, Mom, my house is going to tell you. And whenever I say things in that tone, I think my mom has like that motherly sense. And she was very cautious. She was like, what is it? And I was like, um I quit my job.
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and I'm gonna do music full-time. I made sure to make X some amount of savings I planned out how long I'm gonna do it for and like I told her that um I feel like everything I've done to my life at that ah up till that point if I really wanted like I'm like you've seen me anytime I really wanted to do something that I would get things done and I've never wanted anything as bad as this
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right now so like I like I need you to trust me to be able to do this and at first she seemed like a little hesitant but then she told me yeah she told me like that was a very brave thing to do which was like the last thing I thought I'd hear from my mom I thought she'd be freaking out and I thought she'd be like asking me about backup job plans and things like that but she just like told me like that was a really brave thing to do like I'm And that was kind of it. And she was like being a little careful around it. um She was like, I'll still support you while you figure this whole thing out. like And that was that. And so that's all I heard about it from her back then. yeah But then later I found out that ah my mom and my girlfriend
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having much together and my mom had confessed to my girlfriend that she seeing how much I loved doing music all this time that she had always kind of been like rooting for me and cheering me on to be able to make a full leap into it. But she but like as that that Asian like immigrant protective mother, she could never just you know tell me to do it. So I think she had been secretly like wanting me to just yeah live the life that I wanted to live. and so That's so beautiful. yeah And how did that make you feel? like what What went through your head when you heard that?
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I mean, I honestly was like, tearing up a little bit. And like, I just felt really, yeah, but it's funny because like, paul i I feel like I should have known that like all I've been very fortunate with my mom where like all I've ever gotten from her on my life was unconditional love. So I feel like apart, sometimes I'm like, maybe it was silly to think that she wouldn't have been supportive.
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But I think, um yeah, it just felt like it was all this pressure of like, but I spent all my life growing up, like all the like tutoring classes she had me go to, like now it feels like it'll have been for nothing like I can't imagine.
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how she might feel like trying to raise a child one way for them to go pursue something else. But it's not it though because you were very methodical in how you made the switch, right? Like you saved up and you thought about it. And it feels like like what you said earlier, the universe had a path for you.
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And I think that's so just amazing and beautiful. That's, you know, um, not everyone can see that, that, that the path has been kind of paved by the universe that way. yeah Um, and I certainly believe in it. Yeah. I certainly believe in universe and like, you know, things happen the way they're supposed to, not necessarily the way that we want them to, but the way they're supposed to. So you're, you're, you're destined to be a musician.
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Yes. Yeah, I very much believe in all the the universe stuff too. I just think sometimes we're fortunate enough to see things that at least in ways that makes sense to us anyway, that we're on the right track.
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Well, I
Musical Influences and Inspirations
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think we have to be self-aware and um we have to not only be self-aware, but also be aware of you know what's happening around us. Because we can there's so many people who are so blind to things yeah that you know you just kind of get hit over the head with it and there's they still don't know what's happening. um Yeah. i think um I think we all kind of... I think the only way we make our lives have any meaning is to kind of sign meeting ourselves. And you're right, we're not like very vigilant of everything that's going around us or like just repeating patterns that we're seeing in our lives are easy to, you know, be hit over the head with something unexpected or something.
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ah Yeah. Um, let's talk about your music a little bit because I had the um pleasure of being at the shoot, the happy mic shoot and so much fun perform and it was a lot of fun. And, um, I've been telling my friends about you, um, and telling everyone about, about you, um, you know, and about the shoot and we have some mutual friends as well that were asking about how the shoot went. And I was like, the dude sounds like an Asian John Mayer.
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john me I was like, his voice is so beautiful, but it's like, it's not exactly like John Mayer, right? But it's like very um heavily inspired, heavily inspired, but just like beautiful. Thank you. Just beautiful sounding. um So um who else has been your influence? I know John Mayer has been a big influence of yours.
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Yeah, I think John Mayer is definitely the stepping off point for getting the courage to do the whole music thing. Nowadays, I've been really into, oh my gosh, Keshi. Keshi is great. And I'm meant to like,
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maybe like alt, R and&B, sad boy, age kind of thing. It's like Christian Korea, Kamal, Cautious Clay, um just to name a few. But yeah, I just really like singer songwriter. I like, like, it's like late, late night drives reflecting back on your own life kind of music.
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so I could see that, I could totally see that. But yeah, that's what I've been into lately. And you write all your music, right? Yes. I say the thing too, I love and love good guitar players, singers and writers. And if they happen to be all three, it's like, yeah, that's that's how you know you kind of have a ah jackpot of an artist. And I really look up to artists that can do those three things like in a very, very tasteful way.
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Yeah. Are there local artists that you look up to or inspire you? Oh, yeah. ah My friend, Kennedy Doren, W-R-E-N, um she's been, I don't know, she kind of just recently started to go full out in music as well. And she's just kicking butt. like She, the things that she does for her music and the quality of everything she puts out um and just like the obvious and evident passion that she has for her music and like getting this thing off the ground is like so admirable. Every time I go see her, every time I go talk to her, like I feed that, I,
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I feel that energy off of her and it burns under fire inside me. um So Kennedy's great. Cole Swenson, my first producer, singer-songwriter. ah He's great too. Man, who else? Yeah, there's so many. yeah There's so many, but people in the scene. I really appreciate everyone that I can kind of look up to as role models, almost.
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like it's very They always kind of a humble me, and but like they always give me perspective to see that I can always be reaching higher. um
Korean American Background
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Yeah.
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oh Man, the the amount of bravery and I know we've said that word a few times um and just I mean, I don't even know, I don't even know how to describe like, I mean, everything it's bold. I mean, I think that's another word to use is bold. You know, um not everyone will, will travel down the road that you have. um And so I commend you and I applaud you for taking that big leap and doing something that you really, really love.
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Thank you. um yeah I've always um've also been so fortunate and grateful that everything in my life has put me in positions where I you know can get a college education, can get a job, can move out somewhere, um and then can have a job that like ah pays me enough for me to start making savings and things like that.
00:28:02
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Yeah. Oh, by the way, um I think the last time we saw each other, um ah there was a name that I needed you to call me, which was Nuna. Oh yeah. You were also Korean. Yes.
00:28:15
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Yes, no so yeah, I know we're going backwards, but um tell you know, I think our audience would love to hear like your background. um So you're Korean American. Yes. Yeah. So I was born in Seoul, Korea.
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And I did most of my growing up. Well, no, I did my all of my childhood growing up until I was seven or eight years old in Korea.
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um And. Yeah, I don't. I'm not too sure what else to say about my life in Korea because it's so. Well, what I find interesting is that you went from Korea to the Midwest.
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hu as I always find that so interesting because i mean when we immigrated here, we came by way of Honolulu to Southern California. so and so In my mind, I'm like, that's just how everyone comes is through Hawaii and then to California and then people go to New York. um and i don't Whenever I hear people migrating to places like the Midwest, I'm like, how did you guys end up there?
00:29:31
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That is an interesting point. I've never thought about it like that. um Well, ah my mom's sister, my aunt was already living in the US. And I believe she was working at the University of Michigan. And so like she had been settled down there with her family, with file from my uncle and my cousins. And so when my When my mom was looking to get my sister and me an education in the United States, this was like the perfect opportunity because my aunt was like, hey, we have a spare bedroom. You guys can just come live with us. It was actually ah coming out of my parents' did divorce at the time. So it was kind of like my mom just wanting to
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Yeah, I guess just to move away and just like get a new life started for us. Yeah. But yeah, I was so, so grateful for my aunt and my uncle who took us in because I hear these other stories of how like other options for people that don't live in the US to come to the US and get an education and like live here and have like, I don't know, someone to look out for them.
00:30:57
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It's a lot that goes in and a lot of money. And I hear about other people that have, they have these programs that they take kids in and like they look after them. And it's like a place, maybe kind of like an exchange program, except it's like a lot of money sent from the parents. Yeah, I grew up in Southern California where, when I was in high school, there were a few Korean kids actually who were sent here by themselves. And I remember thinking,
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Oh my god, you're living alone in an apartment? Yeah. Like that it was nuts to me. um Like, you know, so but it happens, you know, to get the education and and to get the opportunities. um People who have the means, you know, we'll do that. Yeah, um we
Bravery and Future Aspirations
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definitely our family definitely did not have the means. But we had a way. Thankfully.
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yeah So yeah, hearing other people's stories kind of just puts my own story into perspective and i it makes me even more grateful that I even got to come here and have a place to stay.
00:32:02
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yeah oh i'm I again just cannot commend you enough for just taking the brave step into, you know, taking ownership of, of your life, you know, but again, you set it up, you know, you set up how, um, the, the possibility of you being a ah musician, like all the road leading up to now, you know, so I don't want you to forget that. Thank you. chief Yeah. Um,
00:32:37
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Yeah, it's it's been an interesting path for sure. Yeah, and the team here at Hello Happy is definitely a big fan of your music, big fan of you as a musician. um We can't wait to see where you go and remember us, remember the little people.
00:32:55
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When you become big? No, you guys, remember you but we're both gonna be big. I told you this before, but this is gonna be like being on the first season of Hot Ones. Yeah. And just be like, wow, look, I was on that show before I blew up.
00:33:11
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Well, so, um, we are doing something new today. I'm testing it with you, but we have this jar of questions. I don't know what the questions are. And so I'm going to pull out, we're going to, um, pull out, let's see. I want you to pick a number between three and 10. I'm gonna go seven.
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Okay. So we're going to divide that by two and that's not an even number. there ro Yeah. So we're going to do four questions. Okay. And I just totally made that up too. on the fly All right. So these are fun questions. and These are from our team. cool um Oh, what's your favorite non-English speaking TV or movie?
00:34:09
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Parasite came to mind. But I feel like that's such a basic Korean-American answer. yeah No, it's not. Parasite. Okay, that's a good one. Yeah. um So are you a horror movie fan?
00:34:23
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ah I'm not. Those things scare me. the um I had such a crazy experience watching Parasite because like I knew nothing about it when I went into the theaters. like It was a Thursday night and I was like busy with things and my housemate was like, dude, I was going to go watch this Korean American movie that's playing in the state theater, but I can't go. Do you want my tickets? And I was like, sure, I'll take them.
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And it was like, I mean, if you've seen Parasite, you know how much of a role, like I didn't even know it was a horror movie. i Because when you first watch the movie, it's like, oh, it's like a fun, happy movie. And then it takes all these twists and turns. I'm so grateful to my friend, Jack.
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Forgive me those tickets like what when I had no knowledge about it. Because you know sometimes like watching movies, it's a lot more fun to not know anything about it going in if it's going to be a movie. True. You know what I do sometimes? and i look up I look up in Wikipedia and I read the ending. Before you go watch the movie? Why? don't know. I don't know why I do it. And then so then depending on what I read, i I decide whether I want to go see it or not.
00:35:33
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Oh, okay. Okay. So wait, so are you, my mom might kind of be the same person where she doesn't like to watch a movie until she knows going to be like not sad or patted. Oh no, I love horror movies. Okay. I just don't want to see any animals suffer. Okay. But man, you, you throw some zombies in there and some eating brains. I'm all of all about it. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. So second question.
00:36:05
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Oh, what was the last song you listened to? Let me look on my Spotify, I'm not sure.
00:36:18
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I really have... I really have no idea. Wait, can I see a history real quick? Listening history. Tiptoe by HYBS.
00:36:31
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It's a great it great song. I'm going to check it out. Very cool. All right. Number three, do you play any sports? I played i did take one though growing up. I played soccer until high school and I tried to learn tennis, but right now I don't play any sports. Okay. I guess you get enough exercise strumming your guitar.
00:37:01
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i guess
00:37:04
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It's a good workout. So our team wants to know how do you de-stress or relax?
00:37:12
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um I play games with my girlfriend on our switch or nice just watch silly cartoons. Yeah, I guess spending time with my girlfriend was great.
00:37:26
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Nice. Well, those are your four questions. Thank you for taking in that first test run of our question jar. Yes, of course. We did a name for that jar. So think about it. Email me. I got you. Thank you. I'm honored to be the first.
00:37:47
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Yeah, but this was so fun. Thank you so much for being a guest today. um I am so honored to know you and now call you my friend and you're Nuna and um yeah and I just can't wait to see where you go. I can't wait to see how big you're going to blow up.
00:38:06
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and um And everybody go watch Happy Mike with Jung and just fall in love with his voice like we all did. so ah that yeah Thank you so much you for having me on this show. Thank you for all your kind words and thank you for believing in me. um Your support and belief in me is another pillar that I can lean on to have to draw a strength from to keep going in this musical career. so
00:38:36
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Thank you to you and your whole team, Kyle and Danielle as well, for being so supportive. um And like thank you, Ji, for like setting all of this up and like getting Hello, Happy going. um I think it's like yeah it's about time we have a lot more representation and like showing off of like Asian-American um talents. And um thank you for creating a platform to be able to do that. And it's like really, really cool what you're doing. Oh, thank you. And where can listeners find you? You can find me on any streaming platform. I am under my artist name, Jay Woozy. That's J-A-Y-W-O-O-Z-Y. And then you can follow me on my socials at jung.guitar. That's J-U-N-G dot guitar.
00:39:33
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Amazing. Well, that's, that's all the time that we have today. Unfortunately. And so thank you so much for joining us today. Uh, and I'm so happy that you got to meet my new friend, John. So go listen to him. You're going to thank me later. And until next time, I hope your stomachs and your heart stay full. Bye everyone.
00:39:59
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