Maru Kim: Bridging Cultures, One Mic at a Time | 3x35

Known as MC MARU, Maru Kim is a Korean-American professional emcee, motivational speaker, and CEO of @maruonthestage Entertainment. With his unique, uncanny trilingual (Korean, English, Spanish) ability, cross-cultural sensitivity, and 600+ appearances on the stage as MC and speaker, he has been entertaining, motivating, and growing with Korean, Hispanic, and many other multi-ethnic immigrant communities.

Maru is based in LA, and with an enormous amount of support and recognition from his Korean American and Latino community, he has been traveling all around the United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Paraguay, etc. to embrace and connect multicultural audience gathered at all kinds of events such as K-pop concert, multi-ethnic festival, leadership conference, fundraising gala, business expo, showcase, fan meeting, corporate/private events, weddings, and so on. With his “No one left out” emceeing philosophy, MC MARU does his magic on stage firing up the audience with his charisma, character, and passion. 

In this episode, MC MARU talks about his ongoing journey as the face of the Korean American community, and his relentless efforts to expand his territory and influence to embrace and engage with the Latino community. You can see his footprints on his Instagram @maruonthestage.