Divided Families Podcast

Hosts Eugene and Paul created this podcast to give a platform to stories of family separation, and while the scope extends beyond Korea to include immigration, deportation, and displacement worldwide, the Korean War family separation episodes form the emotional core of the show. Over 53 episodes running from 2020 to 2023, they interviewed advocates, scholars, and people with lived experience of being torn apart from relatives by borders and conflicts. The Korean-specific episodes hit especially hard. Families divided by the Korean War and the subsequent hardening of the border have spent over 70 years unable to see each other, and many of the older generation are dying without reunion. The show handles these stories with care, giving guests space to talk at length rather than rushing through emotional material. It also covers adjacent topics like North Korean refugees in South Korea, DACA family separations, and residential school trauma, creating a broader framework for understanding how political decisions fracture families. The show carries a perfect 5.0-star rating from 46 reviewers, which speaks to how much the audience connects with the content. Episodes are interview-based and run at a comfortable length. The show stopped updating in September 2023, but the stories it captured are timeless in the worst way -- these separations remain unresolved.