The reluctant architect of Korean stand-up

Danny Cho did not come to Korea chasing a Korean Dream. When the Korean American stand-up comedian moved to Seoul in 2017, the plan was far less ambitious: stay two years to escape the routine that had drained him at home. "So the reason why I moved to Korea, it was supposed to be a temporary thing, like two years, and it was not to do stand-up in Korean," Cho told The Korea Herald in an interview in Seoul on Aug. 13. “It was because I was burnt out." Korea was supposed to be a detour. Instead,