Ask Me About Kpop

It's time for the 3rd annual AMAK awards! We've got 2 new categories this year and a lot of agonizing to do over our choices. But i'm sure you'll all agree that our choices are perfect ;) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Now that the quarterly nightmare is over, it's time for a new struggle! Picking our favorite b-sides of 2020! We doubled the amount of slots on the list this year and it still wasn't enough! Hear us poetically describe these wonderful songs and what they meant to us. Then, a really weird technical glitch of a random game! See you all in 2021!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

We've finally finished this very dumb project that we never should have started. The beast is vanquished. Merry Christmassy! We love you <3 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to a terrible mistake we will never make again. This was dumb. We're going back to bed now. Even though this ep is low on clips we at least spent hours on a playlist if you wanna follow along - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-8Wdlv0O5P5D4T7Sr7WowlzvosmdkyA1 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh man y'all, what have we gotten ourselves into? There was too much Kpop this year... we're giggly messes in this one. The Kpop...it just, broke our brains. Here's a list of what came out between April and June. ...Also a really great early GG in the random game that makes us angry at SM for ruining a good time like always!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Because we love a year-end spectacular, we're extending ours by doing an audit on this year so we don't miss anything in our best of lists!! We're starting out with Q1 (Jan - Mar) and listing and listening to notable releases, with a few once sentence news items thrown into the timeline. For the history!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

AMAK Book Club 'Shine' edition comes to an end today in a grand Hollywood spectacular! We are joined by Kpop journos Alexis Hodoyán and Natalie Morin to get out our Shine feelings one last time and make a couple of rewrite suggestions. Then it's time to pull up a power point presentation (follow along here: https://bit.ly/33ftNME ) of the headshots for all of the listener submitted candidates for...

Welcome to the 3rd installment of Shine bookclub! And it's the ep you've been waiting for, where we try to get to the bottom of what is based in truth in this darn book! And we were joined by delightful Jessie from Certified Noonas to talk all about it! Hear all the theories we've collected about who Jason and other characters are based on, and the truth contained in Rachel's struggles as a traine...

Just cause we felt we needed it, here's an extra episode!! As a treat! We've been drinking wine and now we're gonna rundown everything in October since the last comeback episode. Listen to us lose our minds over Seventeen in ugly glasses, get a toothache from our sweet TXT soft babies, worship the ground that Twice dances on, get into the whole Loey situation, and be rendered absolutely speechless...

Welcome to our 2nd Shine Book Club episode! We start off the ep with a few clarifications from last week about Jason and that whole 'trading' business. Then we were joined by Roxy & Jay from Kraze magazine to dive into examples from Shine and from real life Kpop of double standards and misogyny both behind the scenes and from fans. We had a really good discussion despite a sometimes heavy and...

Welcome to the very first book club episode of Ask Me About Kpop! It's time to dig into the new YA novel 'Shine', written by former snsd member Jessica Jung. Follow along as we give you the 'too long didn't read;' recap of Shine. So, if you didn't read it, we're gonna describe it to you! Once you're all caught up, join us for a little chat with DJ Peter Lo from the Kpopcast about the very specific...

Hi Friends!! Sorry for being absent last week, but we're back and ready to try and make sense of all the comeback glory of this month! We've got new friends, old faves, cute hair colors and gorgeous tan chests!! What has been your fave so far, and what are you looking forward to next? Get ready for Shine bookclub starting next week! Read the whole thing before next week! You can do it! :D Hosted o...

Who doesn't love a game of name that tune? Apparently our brains don't today! Listen along as we pull up some youtube guessing games and flow between impressive knowledge, near misses, and some of the most embarrassing brain farts we've ever had on air. Stick around to have your ears truly *b l e s s e d* by the random game group! Videos watched in this ep: Can You Guess 50 Kpop Songs In 10 Minute...

It's been a minute since we've done a deep dive that wasn't for a solo artist, so let's return to groups with the longest lasting girl group ever, Brown Eyed Girls! Learn all about the creation of this singing group who debuted well past 'standard' kpop age and went on to cement themselves as an important chapter in the second gen story! There's great vocals, self-composition, iconic dance moves,...

Today's episode of AMAK is brought to you by the listeners!! That's right. We got our listeners from the 'seasoned-fan' tier of our Patreon (sign up now patreon.com/amakpoppod) to send us a video of whatever they wanted! A fave mv or choreo, a fanmade meme video, variety clip, whatever they wanted. And we watched them all. Tune in for some fun (and loud) surprises, a few old favorites and even som...

It's that time of year again! Welcome to the 3rd annual Support Girl Groups spectacular! Because girl groups need support!! First up, a few updates from some of last year's more interesting entrances. Then we dive into every girl group we could find who has debuted since September 2019. We've got 27 girl groups of all sizes (and age ranges!) to discover today. Who has the star power to carry on to...

It's time to watch PART TWO of MBC's 2010 hit stage mix!! Watch along to see the thickest, swoopiest asymmetrical bangs. Plus, fingerless gloves, oiled chests, and a lost shoe! Finally, random game redemption for a song battle last place finisher! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's time to watch PART TWO of MBC's 2010 hit stage mix!! Watch along to see the thickest, swoopiest asymmetrical bangs on earth. Plus, fingerless gloves, oiled chests, boys that look like earthworms, and a shoe mishap! Finally, random game redemption for a song battle last place finisher! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to our two-part deep dive into the Kpop legend that is BoA! This time, BoA is grown all the way up and has whole albums to write all by herself! Things are getting saucy and the outfits are ranging from extremely questionable to the most amazing glamour! And the hats!! Oh the hats! But the songs, y'all. The songs they are bops. Plus, we cap it all off with a viewing of a choose your o...

Welcome to part one of our deep dive into the queen that is our dear BoA! This time we're dancing through 2000-2009 in the career of BoA. Meet the sweet 13 year old with baggy pants and bold dance moves and follow as she quickly goes to make history in Japan. Hear snippets of her truly giant discography and discuss a few direct rip offs, legendary anime songs, children wearing cult smocks and more...

It's time once again for a famed song title battle, but this time, the listeners are in on the action. Find out how we, along with our seasoned-fan tier patrons, ranked 10 different songs titled "Runaway". We've got rap music, cheesy commercial songs, and fairy tale imagery to sort through, and the competition was fierce. Listen in to find out how we decided who came out on top. Thanks to all of o...

You begged and pleaded to hear from your favorite guest so we roped him in to an emotionally grueling task of course! Please welcome back Yusong Liu to the show!!! We're playing our fantasy group draft again, but this time it's the ladies turn! Spreadsheets have been made, lines have been drawn, and we're is ready to fight. What girl groups will we come out with?! Listen and find out! Hosted on Ac...

It's game time baby! We're expanding on the game we tested in the 'random r&d' episode and playing a round of guess that mv! How well can we describe a music video? Which videos are easiest to describe, and who will win the record of fastest guess? Listen and find out! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode was recorded live on zoom at the 2020 #kpsnpodcastfest! We're running down a list of vocabulary words that somehow haven't fit into the last 117 episodes! Learn some Konglish words and find out the deal with 'manner hands'. Plus, a boy group in the random game that really stuck with their name gimmick. Thanks to everyone who came to the festival and a bigger thanks to the folks at MAC...

This week we're taking a side step from Kpop to learn all about Korean Trot music! Find out what makes a trot song, the history and debate over who 'owns' Ppongjjak, and a quick lesson on Pansori singing. Then, we take a quick cruise through the best in trot music from the 1950s to 1990s, and meet some of today's modern trot superstars. Finally, trot's resurgence in pop culture and the sudden expl...