♪♪ Hugh: If you had told me five years ago that I would be standing here accepting an award for an all-Korean/Japanese-language show, I wouldn't have believed it.

So, it's an incredible honor.

I mean, it's based on this gorgeous book, and it felt like a story that had to have been told.

I mean, it's a very specific story about a Korean family that moves to Japan, and yet my family didn't move to Japan.

They're from Korea.

But I still recognized so many of the universal themes -- and especially as a Korean-American and an immigrant child myself.

This was my grandmother.

This was my mother.

This was my grandpar-- You know, you just felt like you knew them at their core.

And what I love about it, it is Korean, but it's universal, as well.

And so it felt like this amazing opportunity to do a really, truly global show.

Kim: Every day, we are so much into the survival mode.

So, we always survive.

We suffer so much, and we try our best to do something much better.

This happens all the time.

It's not about the past, and it's not about the history.

It just keeps going on and on and on.

That's why people are so attached to it, and that is why it attached me so deeply, too.

Woman: [ Speaking native language ] ♪♪ Hugh: Through making this, I got to ask my mom so many questions that I never even -- it never occurred to me to ask before.

Kim: So, my grandmother helped me with -- to attach to the much of more, like, personal and emotional things rather than a fact research.

Being able to see the stories shape our culture and normalize representation and to see, you know, the underrepresented voices have a stage, have a place, make an impact -- I think it's just incredible.

So, to me, it's "Pachinko."

It's all of the impact and cultural impact that these stories have woven for us.

And being able to celebrate them is an immense honor.

Tjandrawidjaja: I think it's just amazing because it's representing Asians.

Now that there's "Pachinko" and people are seeing Asians more, it's just -- it's amazing.

Cheng: I think being part of a show that affects our community and makes people within our community feel like they're reflected in some way, whether it's their history, whether it's something that's personal going on for them, whether it's an opportunity for them to learn something about their culture or their past, to inform them of the present, it's meaningful.

Yes, I think a lot of Asians -- we just don't talk about it 'cause there's a lot of trauma there.

And it's amazing how something like entertainment can break open those doors.

It allows that conversation to happen.

It can give them an opportunity to find their identity.

I just hope the audience to take it away from "Pachinko" that they can think about themselves by watching it and they can think about the generations.

They can also think about, "How can we continue our conversation between the generations?"

-- which is so important.

To have this on behalf of "Pachinko," I'm so proud of it.

Hugh: The challenges of doing a show in three different countries with three different languages, with a cast of 680 people, 92% of them that didn't speak English -- I can keep giving you statistics 'cause it just still boggles my mind that we even made this show.

But it really was through the blood, sweat, and tears of so many people who believed in it.

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