Ask Me About Kpop: The Podcast

We watched a lot of commercials in this one. Sorry if you get any of the jingles stuck in your head.

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SHINee - Baskin Robbins 1 & 2  |  Irene - Chamesul Soju  |  BTS & Gfriend - “Family”  |  BIGBANG & 2NE1 - Lollipop mv  |  Jeon Somi - Yum Yum Song  |   Hyuna - Corolla “My Color”  |  SHINee - Bodyguard  |  DBSK & SNSD “Haptic”  |  EXO-M - KFC  |  2PM - Coca Cola  | 

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Astro ‘Crazy Sexy Cool’ dance practice

To keep rolling along on the subject of K-dramas, it's time to talk about their soundtracks! KDrama OSTs dominate the charts, and make us feel all the feels. So we're listening to some of the most popular OSTs of all time and some of our favorites all while dishing about their dramas of origin. Then we are once again too late to a random game group. Check out our Taemin 'Want' reaction on our YouTube channel!

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SHINee - “Stand By Me” from ‘Boys Over Flowers’ | Baek Ji Young - “After A Long Time” from ‘Rooftop Prince’ | Taeyeon - “Closer” from ‘To The Beautiful You’ | Onew - “In Your Eyes” from ‘To The Beautiful You’ | Jung Eunji X Seo In Guk - “All For You” from ‘Reply 1997′ | Hyolin - “Hello/Goodbye” from ‘My Love From Another Star | Lyn - “You Are My Destiny” from ‘My Love From Another Star’ | Gummy - “You Are My Everything” from ‘Descendants Of The Sun’ | Chen X Punch - “Everytime” from ‘Descendants Of The Sun’ | Yoon Mirae - “Always” from ‘Descendants Of The Sun’ | K.Will - “Talk Love” from ‘Descendants Of The Sun’ | Davichi - “This Love” from ‘Descendants Of The Sun’ | Crush - “Beautiful” from ‘Goblin’ | Chanyeol X Punch - “Stay With Me” from ‘Goblin’ | CBX - “For You” from ‘Moon Lovers’ | Ailee - “Goodbye My Love” from ‘You Are My Destiny’ | SHINee - “Green Rain” from ‘The Queens Classroom’ | Kim Na Young - “Hope” from ‘Marriage Not Dating’ | 

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K-drama is an integral part of the Hallyu wave around the world. And since we barely watch dramas, we called in some experts. Please welcome from the Noona Ya Business podcast, Becca & Megan! We chat about how they got into the Kdrama life, the history of Korean tv around the world, our favorite idol actors, and Kdrama tropes we love to hate. Make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube channel for exclusive bonus video content from this ep!

Follow Noona Ya Business on Twitter @noonayabusiness

LINKS TO DRAMAS MENTIONED

(apologies, some are missing as they are not easily available online)

My Love From A Star | Pasta | Busted! | Hwarang | Descendants of the Sun | It’s Okay That’s Love | Monster/I Remember You | Reply 1988 | Reply 1994 | Reply 1997 | Let’s Eat | Another Oh Hae Young | Let’s Fight Ghosts | Dream High | To The Beautiful You | Medical Top Team | Because It’s My First Time | 30 But 17 | The Guardian | Drinking Solo | The Legend of the Blue Sea | Boys Over Flowers | Because It’s My First Life | Trot Lovers | Shopping King Louie | Two Cops | 

RECS

Welcome to the very first edition of Ask Me About Kpop Movie Club! First, we have to talk through a recent trauma at the movies. Then, we go through the 2014 dance romance 'Make Your Move' starring Kpop princess BoA. From dance sex, to random saxophones there's... a lot to say. We read some reviews from you the listener, and the random game is listening to us again. Then we cede our recommendation time to complain about Seventeen. See you next week for a super special 50th ep!!

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Seventeen ‘Good To Me’ MCountdown

How did one second generation girl group go from being steps away from greatness, only to lose it overnight? We are finding out in this investigative episode of Ask Me About Kpop. We're going through T-ara's career in order, listening to some of their releases, and trying to make sense of the multi-year scandal that tarnished their careers forever.

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Lies | Bo Peep Bo Peep | You Drive Me Crazy | Yayaya | Roly Poly | Cry Cry | Lovey Dovey (zombie ver.) | Day By Day | Sexy Love | Number Nine | Sugar Free | So Crazy | Tiamo | What’s My Name

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T-ara Qri “Diamond”

Oh we definitely do want to circle back to WGM some day... we have a lot more to say about a lot more couples ;)

Happy Birthday to us! We've been doing this podcast for one wonderful year! We're taking a stroll down memory lane to talk about some of your favorite episodes! Thank you all for a wonderful year of podcasting, here's to many more! Make sure to stay tuned til the end for a supercut of favorite moments <3

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APink - “%% (Eung Eung)”

Welcome to the first podcast of 2019!!! First up we must address the recent 'Kennie' "scandal" as requested. Then it's time to learn all about the Korean broadcast channels end of the year song festivals! This year we watched MBC's Gayo Daejaejeon and we will describe it to you in great detail. Plus, an old school co-ed group in the first random game of 2019! Happy new year!

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IZ*ONE “La Vie En Rose” Dance Practice

2018 has been quite a year for Kpop. And we don't know about y'all but we're exhausted from all the greatness. We're talking the trends and tropes of Kpop in 2018 that we will remember for all time. Then, we pick our top 10 fave songs from 10 different categories. And finally, a dream come true group in the random game. We'll catch y'all in 2019!

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Today we are remembering our dear Kim Jonghyun and all the contributions he made to Kpop as a songwriter and solo artist. Listen to some songs he wrote for other artists, and sample his solo discography. Then we discuss his stint on Blue Night Radio and the inspiration he found from his listeners. There will be tears, but plenty of smiles too. Remember that it's always okay to feel your feelings. We love you all.

We have been waiting to talk about this as long as we've had a podcast, so strap in for a lot of excited yelling. We are gabbing all about our favorite reality show, We Got Married and passionately defending our obsession. Then we walk you through the entire 'Khuntoria' season in order and describe it to you since you can't watch it anymore, sorry. This episode might be just for us, but that's okay cause it's our podcast ;)

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2Young “Holding Hands” 

We're back! And in honor of EXO's latest comeback, we're here with an EXOciting look at their EXOrdinary career so far! Learn about the past and present members of EXO and join us as we EXOplore their EXOrbitant discography, including their November 2018 album, "Don't Mess Up My Tempo." We'll recommend some EXOllent B-side tracks, and finish up with a definitely-not-random viewing of the "Monster" mv.

Please note: We will not be going into EXOcessive detail about EXO's contract disputes or dating scandals, as both topics have been EXOhaustively EXOmined in previous episodes.

Welcome back EXO! We missed you!!!

LINKS

| History | Mama | Wolf | Growl | Growl Dance Practice | Overdose | Call Me Baby | Love Me Right | Lightsaber | Lucky One / Monster | Lotto | Dancing King | Ko Ko Bop | Power | Tempo |

B-SIDE RECS

Angelica - What U Do | Thunder | Christmas Day

Shannon - Baby Don’t Cry (M version) | Unfair | What If... 

Full Spotify Playlist 

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EXO Showtime Haunted House

We have to take a little break! Please send us all your ideas for episodes and keep fangirling in our inboxes and we will be back as soon as we can be!!!

Today we're going to spend a little bit of time talking about Korean artists who often lend their voices to Kpop collabs. Hear a little about their backstory, and some of the Kpop songs they have featured on. All of our artists today have their own thriving careers, and we hope you will want to check out some of their solo work. Then, hear us fully fall in love with the random game group a few minutes too late.

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Mamamoo (Feat. eSNa) “Ahh Oop”

Taeyeon (Feat. Dean) “Starlight”

Jonghyun (Feat. Zion.T) “Deja-Boo”

Crush (Feat. Taeyeon) “Don’t Forget”

SoYou X Jungiggo “Some”

Gain (Feat. Bumkey) “FxxK You” (tw. rape)

Yoona (Feat. 10cm) “Deoksugung Stonewall Walkway”

BoA X Beenzino “No Matter What”

Taeyeon (Feat. Verbal Jint) “I”

Jay Park (Feat. Loco & GRAY) “My Last” 

KNK “Knock” MV

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Dean 88Rising Showcase

Junggigo Ft. Chanyeol “Let Me Love You”

It's time to talk about a topic we've been avoiding since the beginning. Scary, obsessed, stalker "Sasaeng" fans and their counterpart, the anti-fan. Every story in this episode is upsetting. It's all upsetting. Never be like these people. EVER. Then the random number picker is being a creep again. I need a nap.

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(g)I-DLE - LaTaTA

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Got7 “Lullaby”

In this girl power packed episode, we're running down the TWENTY(!!!!) girl groups that have debuted so far this year. We listen to their debut single and talk about concepts and future hopes for the groups. Then, the random number generator (after a hiccup) delivers the exact name we needed to see. #supportgirlgroups2018

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FULL PLAYLIST

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Khan “I’m Your Girl?” Dance Practice