sun brings outsider’s eye to Mexico’s stand

“Hablo español.” The words are simple: “I speak Spanish.” But when Kim Byung-sun opens with it before a Mexican audience, the room often laughs before he has delivered a conventional punch line. Part of the joke is the surprise of seeing a Korean man walk onto a local open-mic stage in Latin America and announce in Spanish that he can speak the language. Part of the joke is his own self-awareness that even by his own account, his Spanish is far from flawless. “People who majored in Spanish would probably say I cannot speak Spanish well,” Kim said with a…