When Anderson .Paak appeared last August on the popular podcast Drink Champs , he regaled host N.O.R.E. about his travels to South Korea and love for its famed local spirit soju. The host, however, needed some clarification: “But you’re not Korean yourself?” It’s a question the 40-year-old hip-hop-soul sensation, born Brandon Paak Anderson, has heard his whole career. He is, in fact, one-quarter Korean. His mother was part of the Korean War’s baby boom, born in the country to a Korean woman and