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Giaae Kwon

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How a Wildly Popular Bread Roll Embodies a Koreatown in Flux

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By Giaae Kwon
| L.A. Material Verified
WHEN HUSBAND-AND-WIFE  co-founders Gemma Lee and Luis Kim opened Out of Ordi from their Los Angeles home kitchen in May 2024, Lee wasn’t sure there would be much demand for sogeumbbang, the one item they were selling. Sogeumbbang – or salt bread – had been wildly popular in Korea for a few years, but Lee was uncertain whether people in Los Angeles (other than Koreans) would even be familiar with the bread.
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Giaae Kwon’s music playlist for her memoir I’ll Love You Forever

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By Giaae Kwon
| largeheartedboy.com
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. The essays in Giaae Kwon’s I’ll Love You Forever powerfully illustrate the power of fandom and how music (and our love for music ) is indelibly woven into our identity.
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“Be Faithful, Steady, and True.” What K-Pop Taught Me About My Korean-American Identity

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By Giaae Kwon
| Literary Hub Verified
The rules of K-pop fandom are pretty simple: be loyal. Your boy band must be number one. Be faithful, steady, and true. No one had to teach me the rules for me to know them.
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