Interviewee: Caleb Jung
Interviewer: Cole Tully
Interview Synopsis:
This interview is with Mr. Caleb Jung, a 22-year-old man from La Mirada, California, who is currently a Senior at Colby College, where he studies Psychology and is a captain on the Colby Baseball Team. Caleb is an outgoing, baseball-loving individual who prides himself on staying highly committed to academics, athletics, and his religious faith. Throughout the interview, Caleb discusses many topics, including his recent stay in South Korea (1/2/23 – 1/26/23), his lifelong experiences as a Korean American, and his love of Korean cuisine. In addition, Caleb provides thoughtful, in-depth answers that demonstrate a combination of emotion, personal experience, and cultural knowledge.
Caleb and I have been close friends since I arrived at Colby, bonding over shared experiences on the Colby Baseball team and our older brothers having been teammates throughout their college baseball careers. Caleb and I conducted this interview over Zoom so that we could both secure and coordinate quiet settings to ensure the best environment for this interview while using headphones with high-quality external microphones to record our historical conversations.
This interview was conducted by Cole Tully, a third-year Government and History major at Colby College who is interested in foreign policy, U.S. history, and the many fascinating elements of East Asian history.
Subject Biography:
Caleb Jung is a 22-year-old Korean American man, born and raised in La Mirada, California, and currently resides in Waterville, Maine, where he attends Colby College. At Colby, Caleb is a Psychology major, a member of the Student Athletic Advisory Committee, and captain of the Colby Baseball team. In every aspect of his life, Caleb consistently demonstrates leadership on and off the field. Caleb also spent his senior JanPlan semester studying abroad in Seoul, South Korea, as a student at Yonsei University. Baseball and religion are two of Caleb’s main passions, but Caleb also loves listening to music, particularly a popular American hip-hop subgenre, “Trap music.” This past summer, Caleb worked as an Assistant of Baseball Operations for Stack Sports in Torrance, California. During the fall and winter of his senior year, Caleb worked as an Agent Assistant for GSI Sports, a sports management company operating out of Atlanta, Georgia, preparing himself for a post-graduate career in the field of baseball, his longtime passion.
Interview Transcript: https://web.colby.edu/voices/files/2023/04/From-La-Mirada-CA-to-Seoul-South-Korea-Transcript-Final.pdf