Jae-Ha Kim 김재하

🗨️Life without kimchi is no life at all 📰Journalist: Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, MTV, Rotten Tomatoes etc. 📚NY Times Best Seller 📺Voting member of Television Critics Association 🇰🇷K-Dramas are my jam 🎙️Guest on TODAY, ET, A&E, E!

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Go away with ... Ava Dash

For New York City-based activist and model Ava Dash, traveling is less about an itinerary than it is about embracing the moments she never p

Jae: What is your favorite vacation destination? Ava: Hvar, Croatia, is somewhere I never get tired of. There’s something so timeless about it. The pace slows down, every meal feels intentional, the cobblestone streets are safe to wander, the sea is calm and refreshing and even the simplest afternoons somehow become unforgettable. It’s the perfect balance of elegance and ease.

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Jae: What is your best or worst vacation memory? Travis: When I was a kid visiting the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, I accidentally got separated from my family and got lost inside. For a kid, a giant mansion with endless rooms and hallways is basically a real-life horror movie. My parents found me after a few minutes, but at the time it felt like I had been lost for three business days.

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Kevin Jin Kwan Kim's “Goodbye, From Afar” is a Beautiful 1-Minute Film About Love, Death, and Immigration

"Go back to where you came from!" is an unhinged racist motto

For anyone who couldn’t attend a loved one’s funeral, Kevin Jin Kwan Kim’s latest short film, Goodbye, from Afar, captures how heartbreaking it can be. Running just over a minute long — about half a minute less than his earlier Halmeoni — Kim succinctly conveys grief, guilt, and regrets.

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Go away with ... Oli Higginson

Oli Higginson is an actor who's best known as Footman John in the “Bridgerton” franchise. But he also has the musical alter ego Modern Oli w

Oli Higginson is an actor who’s best known as Footman John in the “Bridgerton” franchise. But he also has the musical alter ego Modern Oli who released the song “People Pleaser” and toured the U.S. earlier this year, before finishing his European tour this fall.

“[Acting and singing] both arrived at the same time,” he said. “From as early as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with acting, singing, dressing up, [and] performing. But most of all, [I liked] the weird and kind of shamanic exercise of becoming a character, becoming someone else. Like that line between Norma Jean and Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier and Hamlet, David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust.”

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Tony Award-nominated singer and actress Melissa Errico said she remembers being unsure at first when she was asked to join the cast of “Les Misérables.” “I had to drop out of Yale to do it [which] sounds more dramatic than it was,” she said. “I was cast as Cosette on the national tour while still a student. Suddenly, I had a choice between the life I was planning and the life that had come knocking at the door. I took a leave of absence, packed a suitcase and joined the company. It was thrilling and terrifying. I was young enough to think adventure was a perfectly reasonable life plan. Looking back, it may have been the moment I learned that sometimes you don’t find your path, the path finds you.”

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Jimin Han's "Dreamt I Found You" Retells a Famous Korean Folklore

The author offers a fresh, modern take on "Chunhyangjeon"

Jimin Han, Writer's latest book "Dreamt I Found You" references a famous Korean folktale that centers on Chunhyang and Mongryong. While some people have compared their love story to that of "Romeo & Juliet," I would disagree. Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers were equals, hailing from prominent and powerful families that hated each other. There was no power imbalance between the two (though that didn’t save them from tragic deaths). But "The Tale of Chunhyang" is a story of resilience (that ultimately offers a happy ending).

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"The Scarecrow" is the Best K-drama of 2026 (so far)

Based on the real-life Hwaseong Serial Killer, "The Scarecrow" is a masterful whodunnit.

Based on the real-life Hwaseong Serial Killer who brutally murdered 15 South Korean girls and women from 1986-1994, The Scarecrow covers much of the same ground as Bong Joon-ho’s 2003 film Memories of Murder. But this K-drama more than holds its own, adding fictional twists to keep viewers engaged and guessing.

Park Hae-soo (Squid Game) portrays Kang Tae-joo, an ace Seoul detective who is demoted back to his rural hometown of Gangseong. He’s a hot head, but he’s honest and by-the-book. When he’s reunited with his high school frenemy Cha Si-young (Lee Hee-joon), who is now a powerful prosecutor, Tae-joo wants nothing to do with him. They have a complicated past based on jealousy, lies, and social hierarchy. Si-young cares less about finding the real culprit than utilizing state-sanctioned force to create one.

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The 100 Best BTS Songs

We count down the top 100 BTS songs, from "Burning Up (Fire)" to "Butterfly" and beyond.

I reviewed some songs from BTS' latest album Arirang (for Rolling Stone magazine).

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The 7 Best K-dramas of 2026 So Far

This year has already been a strong one for K-dramas.

Some people mistakenly describe K-dramas (even the best K-dramas) as soap operas. While daytime shows certainly exist in Korea—typically airing Monday through Friday for about 50 to 200+ episodes—the K-drama umbrella covers a multitude of genres. There’s crime (Signal), fantasy (Alchemy of Souls), medical (Hospital Playlist), slice of life (Our Blues), time travel (Lovely Runner), reincarnation (See You in My 19th Life), legal (Extraordinary Attorney Woo), historical sageuk (Moon Embracing the Sun), zombies (Kingdom), horror (Strangers From Hell) and more.

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Go away with ... Travis Yee

Born in San Francisco and raised in Millbrae, California, and Las Vegas, singer-songwriter Travis Yee now calls Nashville home. “Each place

Born in San Francisco and raised in Millbrae, California, and Las Vegas, singer-songwriter Travis Yee now calls Nashville home. “Each place shaped me differently,” said Yee, whose latest singles are “Neon Light Year” and “Prove Em Wrong.” “Growing up in the Bay Area exposed me to a lot of different cultures and perspectives. Las Vegas taught me that entertainment is both an art and a business. Nashville challenged me to take songwriting and country music seriously. Being an Asian American artist in country music isn’t something I saw much growing up, so all of those experiences have influenced the stories I tell and the perspective I bring to my music.”

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For the K-pop group AtHeart, traveling around the world is a perk of their job that they don’t take for granted. “Even though I had been to Los Angeles before, I had only been there [previously] as a tourist,” said Katelyn, who hails from the Philippines. “This time, however, we were filming a music video, so it was a completely new experience for me. It was so much fun and really exciting because I love L.A. and I hope we get the chance to go there more often in the future. Since there were more people who spoke English, I was able to better understand what they specifically wanted from me, which made the whole experience even more enjoyable.”

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If You Could Obtain Enormous Wealth by Trading Parents, Would You?

The K-drama "The Golden Spoon" reveals complicated answers. (You might need a flow chart!)

If you could change places with a wealthy acquaintance, but you have to give up your parents and family if you decide to make this switch, would you? That’s the moral question behind “The Golden Spoon,” which stars BtoB’s Yook Sung-jae (“Goblin,”) “Mystic Pop-up Bar“).

“The Golden Spoon” has similarities to Song Joong-ki’s K-drama “Reborn Rich.” Both shows deal with how you could live your life if fate intervened and your life of poverty was traded for one of extreme wealth.

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Tony Award-nominated singer and actress Melissa Errico said she remembers being unsure at first when she was asked to join the cast of “Les Misérables.” “I had to drop out of Yale to do it [which] sounds more dramatic than it was,” she said. “I was cast as Cosette on the national tour while still a student. Suddenly, I had a choice between the life I was planning and the life that had come knocking at the door. I took a leave of absence, packed a suitcase and joined the company. It was thrilling and terrifying. I was young enough to think adventure was a perfectly reasonable life plan. Looking back, it may have been the moment I learned that sometimes you don’t find your path, the path finds you.”

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For “Dreamt I Found You” novelist Jimin Han, putting herself in different environments is a great way to channel her creativity. “Traveling creates an energy that spurs me on to write,” said Han, who also teaches at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. “I notice more things than I do when I’m home. Right now, I’m sitting on a terrace in a hotel in Myeongdong in Seoul. Already, I’ve written on the flight and [wrote] earlier this morning working on the new book. Fingers crossed I have another novel [published] soon.” Han, who resides in Westchester County, New York, is active on social media (@jiminhanwriter). 

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Go away with ... AtHeart

For the K-pop group AtHeart, traveling around the world is a perk of their job that they don’t take for granted. “Even though I had been to

For the K-pop group AtHeart, traveling around the world is a perk of their job that they don’t take for granted. “Even though I had been to Los Angeles before, I had only been there [previously] as a tourist,” said Katelyn, who hails from the Philippines.

“This time, however, we were filming a music video, so it was a completely new experience for me. It was so much fun and really exciting because I love L.A. and I hope we get the chance to go there more often in the future. Since there were more people who spoke English, I was able to better understand what they specifically wanted from me, which made the whole experience even more enjoyable.”