You named your disc Stereotype . Why? There is a song on it called “Stereotype” that I feel is one of the strongest songs I have ever written. It made sense since I am just breaking through on the scene. When people meet me, they usually don’t think I do music. When they find out, they think it’s classical music. You did a mini-tour, as you describe it, this summer in Seoul.

Aside from “sweating gallons” in the humidity, how was it to go home? My trip was amazing! I definitely felt like a tourist, but I also felt really welcomed by the whole atmosphere. Being around other Korean adoptees helped a lot, but when I was walking around the streets I had no feeling of regret, abandonment, or estrangement.

I felt really proud and lucky with my past and identity! We left after only a week because everyone in the band needed to go back to work as well as myself…although I would have loved to stay longer! I guess the trip left me wanting more. Do the audiences respond to your music any differently in Korea than in the Twin Cities? I got pretty much the same reaction any good crowd would get. People were a little less surprised with my physicalities since everyone there is Korean-looking like me.

Audiences here are more taken back because they don’t expect a small Korean lady to be singing the music I do. You write, sing, and play guitar’”and you are a producer. How’d you come by all these skills? Since I was a baby, I have always been into music and movement. I feel like I have always had to explain or prove something to somebody.