Comments on: Meet This Year’s Token Asian American Idol Contestant: John Park

By: Meet Heejun Han, Your (Rumored) American Idol Semi-Finalist | Entertainment | 8Asians.com

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:01:08 +0000

[...] to Heejun making it far in the competition! And if not, no worries: he could always go the way of John Kim, an early Idol bootee from two years ago only to become the runner-up on a similar show in Korea, Superstar [...]

By: ErnieAtLYD

ErnieAtLYD — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:47:02 +0000

Eight words: “I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.”

By: csc3

csc3 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:40:29 +0000

a lot of the asian contestants in the past were lackluster, simply put. i stopped watching a few seasons ago though.

and how could you not mention sanjaya?

By: DinoRay

DinoRay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:27:18 +0000

Homeboy has potential – but if he does sing something like “Careless Whisper” it would be a damn shame. The integrity of Asian American all rides on John Park and his Zac Efron haircut!

P.S. – Thanks for the hat tip and linkage!

By: maria

maria — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:30:51 +0000

I loved how Shania got all flustered and giggly like a school girl. Let's just have a bit of faith in him and expect nothing but good showmanship

By: johnklin

johnklin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:01:14 +0000

You're being too cynical on John Park being a token contestant!