How ‘Pachinko’ Star Jin Ha, Creator Soo Hugh, Producers Theresa Kang-Lowe And Michael Ellenberg Merged 3 Languages – Contenders TV
deadline.comIn the Apple TV+ series Pachinko, Solomon (Jin Ha) speaks Korean, Japanese and English. The show, based on Min Jin Lee’s book, traces four generations of his family from Korea and Japan (as Zainichi Koreans), so all three languages are involved.
Ha does not speak Japanese and studied the different dialects with vocal coach Yu-Mi Kang.“Having lived in Korea and Hong Kong before I came to America with my family, the experiences of being dropped in a foreign place and having to fit in or find myself, that’s hard enough for anyone,” Ha said on a Deadline Contenders panel on Sunday at the Paramount Theatre. “Being an immigrant as well or an Asian American person, was an experience that I felt directly connected to Solomon’s straddling the three different cultures he’s a part of.
My grandparents and relatives lived through the colonial era in Korea. My grandparents only spoke Japanese for most of their lives.
My dad studied Japanese because of the influence.”Often Solomon speaks both Korean and Japanese in the same line of dialogue.
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