Caroline with her grandmother

In the first episode of Caroline Shin’s “Cooking with Granny” series, her adorable grandma, Sanok Kim, shares her simple yet delicious recipe for Korean-style pork belly. During her interview, she is joined by her friend, and together, they recount their dangerous journeys from Soviet North Korea to U.S.-occupied South Korea.

Caroline Shin is a multimedia journalist based in NYC. Recently, she launched “Cooking With Granny” – a Web series in which grandmas teach how to cook traditional dishes from their cultures while simultaneously sharing their funny, sad and surprising experiences with immigration and multiculturalism in a world that’s very different from today’s. Shin was previously a video editor at New York Magazine and holds an M.A. from Columbia Journalism School.