The girlies took a little trip to right-wingers' beloved Yasukuni Shrine and consider whether Japan really did nothing wrong ever. Sources: Ryu, Y. (2007). The Yasukuni Controversy: Divergent Perspectives from the Japanese Political Elite. DOI: 10.1525/as.2007.47.5.705 (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ find us: spacehey.com/whitenoisepod patreon.com/WhiteNoise_Podcast instagram.com/whitenoise__pod Sorry about the sound quality this ep :C we're trying out new microphones

We reunite in Tokyo to talk about all of the expat cringe that has surrounded our lives overseas and try to reassure ourselves that we are not a part of it. Please do not send hate to anyone mentioned in this episode. For entertainment/educational only. Check out our new website! www.space hey.com/whitenoisepod Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/WhiteNoise_Podcast Instagram: whitenoise__pod

Today we’re becoming the expat influencers we hate the most by talking about our experiences with the English education industry in Japan and Korea. Sources: McConnell, David. “Japan’s Image Problem and the Soft Power Solution: The JET Program as Cultural Diplomacy.” In Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States, edited by David McConnell and Yasushi Watanabe, 18-33. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008.

We’re taking a look at the girlboss influencer politician AOC and exploring whether she is our generation’s leader of the upcoming Bolshevik revolution or an Among Us-playing CIA plant. https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/about https://twitter.com/Edward__Bernays/status/1438131799243243523?s=20 https://youtu.be/GxFtn5EMBGk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=theoRnX1NT0&ab_channel=FoxNews https://jezebel.com/aoc-breaks-with-squad-votes-present-on-1-billion-to-f-1847733155

In our debut episode, we sit down and look at the life and works of North Korean celebrity defector Yeonmi Park and talk about the lives of North Korean defectors in order to answer our burning questions: Does North Korea have no concept of love? Is America a woke communist hellhole run by capitalists? And most importantly: can we stan Yeonmi’s grift? Patreon: patreon.com/WhiteNoise_Podcast IG: whitenoise__pod Twitter: whitenoisepd Further Reading: The speech that started it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufhKWfPSQOw The Strange Tale of Yeonmi Park https://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-strange-tale-of-yeonmi-park/ Why Do North Korean Defector Testimonies So Often Fall Apart? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-korean-defector-testimonies-so-often-fall-apart Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkUMZS-ZegM&t=929 Lankov, Andrei. The Real North Korea : Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2015. Cumings, Bruce. North Korea: Another Country. New York: New Press, 2004. Hough, Jennifer and Markus Bell. “North Koreans’ Public Narratives and Conditional Inclusion in South Korea,” Critical Asian Studies 52, no. 2 (2020): 168-181. DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2020.1740606 Kim, Sungkyung. “‘Defector,’ ‘Refugee,’ or ‘Migrant’? North Korean Settlers in South Korea’s Changing Social Discourse.” North Korean Review 8, no. 2 (2012): 94-110. Kim, Nora Hui-Jung. “Co-ethnics, refugees, or immigrants? Multiple Identities of North Koreans in multicultural South Korea,” Asian Ethnicity 12, no. 2 (2017): 167-170. DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2016.1151238 ‌90s North Korean love movies: O Youth! 청춘이여! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-32wJ9yK8Sc Urban Girl Comes to Get Married 도시처녀 시집와요 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1Gjw9GucKk&ab_channel=mavp1917