Jacquie Lee is a city planner in Toronto and the founder of Sonyo Kimchi. Jacquie started Sonyo Kimchi during the Covid-19 pandemic when she moved in with her grandparents to take care of them. In a conversation after a kimchi-making workshop in 2023, Harriet and Ki-Sang sit down with Jacquie to talk about her relationship with food prior to Sonyo Kimchi, the question of authenticity and intuition of food cultures, and the experiences we share as children of diaspora visiting Korea.

You can find Sonyo Kimchi on Instagram @sonyo_kimchi or go to sonyo.ca to sign up for upcoming workshops and order vegan, gluten-free kimchi across the GTA.

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groundings, a storytelling project from choa magazine, takes a deep dive into the inner lives of women in the Korean diaspora.

Hosted by Ki-Sang Yi

Music by Haedeun Kim

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