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'The Chair' Is Yet Another Reason to Love Sandra Oh : Pop Culture Happy Hour In the Netflix show The Chair, Ji-Yoon Kim (played by Sandra Oh) has just become the first woman to chair the English department at the fictional Pembroke University. Ji-Yoon is determined to usher in a new era, but is immediately saddled with unexpected challenges, most notably the tensions between an older, whiter faculty and a younger, multicultural student body.

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'The Chair' Is Yet Another Reason to Love Sandra Oh

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'The Chair' Is Yet Another Reason to Love Sandra Oh

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Sandra Oh stars as Ji-Yoon Kim in The Chair.

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In the Netflix show The Chair, Ji-Yoon Kim (played by Sandra Oh) has just become the first woman to chair the English department at the fictional Pembroke University. Ji-Yoon is determined to usher in a new era, but is immediately saddled with unexpected challenges, most notably the tensions between an older, whiter faculty and a younger, multicultural student body.

The audio was produced by Candice Lim and edited by Mike Katzif.