Knee Slappin Kpop Podcast

Maria, Sammi, and Kayla are back again for our look back in kpop to talk about our top 10 kpop songs from 2013! In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B, Korean fashion, variety shows, and everything in between! Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDHRqO765Bw...

Welcome to our first ever episode of Kpop Taskmaster! This episode has been four months in the making and inspired by the British comedy panel show Taskmaster, but kpop themed obviously. Join Sammi as the Taskmaster and Kayla as the Taskmaster's assistant as we present and react to four lovely competitors complete a variety of kpop themed tasks. Our competitors are Maria, former knee slapper D...

As a palette cleanser to Fantasy Boys, Kayla and Sammi decided to watch another kpop kdrama, and it ended up being one of the wildest shows we've watched together. Join on for our discussion on The Heavenly Idol, a drama essentially about kpop Jesus. In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&...

Before Kayla and Sammi even finished watched Boys Planet, the best season of reality television we've ever seen before, we also started watching Fantasy Boys, the all male second season follow up to My Teenage Girl, which really isn't similar at all to the original concept of the show. We so fast went from the highs of Boys Planet to one of the worst produced and trashiest seasons of telev...

In this week's episode Kayla, Maria, and Sammi discuss the worst 10 kpop songs of 2014! In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B, Korean fashion, variety shows, and everything in between! Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDHRqO765Bw1YSuI8OUebcQ Follow...

In this week's episode, Sammi, Maria, and Kayla discuss our top 10 kpop songs of 2014! In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B, Korean fashion, variety shows, and everything in between! Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDHRqO765Bw1YSuI8OUebcQ Follow u...

We had originally shoved this into our podcast schedule because we expected this show to be awful, but to our surprise, we had a lot of fun watching it! Join Kayla and Sammi (with a statement from Maria as she also watched the show) as we talk about the surprisingly good time we had watching this show. In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop inclu...

We're back for part two of our apology for only having read bad books on this podcast so far. In this week's episode we have all read books by Asian authors, which have since been translated into English. Join us for our book reviews as Sammi read Confessions by Kanae Minato, Maria read the Graveyard Apartments by Mariko Koike, and Kayla read Seven Years of Darkness by Yu Jeong Jeong. In t...

Kayla, Sammi, and Maria continue to go further back in time on our journey through the year in bad kpop and we have finally reached the year 2015, a year that mainly just makes us uncomfortable. In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B, Korean fashion, variety shows, and everything in betw...

Sammi, Kayla, and Maria have reached 2015 in our look back through kpop, and this week we're here to talk about the best 10 songs of the year! In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B, Korean fashion, variety shows, and everything in between! Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://w...

In part one of an apology episode mainly due to the fact we have only talked about terrible kpop books on this podcast, we decided to read some books we thought we would actually enjoy for a change! Join us for a special episode cover a wide range of books by Asian American authors as Kayla read Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim, Maria read I Guess I Live Here Now by Claire Ahn, and Sammi read B...

While Sammi and Kayla were watching Boys Planet, we were also watching Peak Time, but a wide range of unfortunate circumstances for Peak Time, mainly just sharing a broadcast timeline with Boys Planet, led it to be least interesting of the two shows. But we still watched it and are here to talk about it. In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop inc...

Part one of our episode on Boys Planet! For the past three months, Kayla and Sammi have been consumed in all things Boys Planet. Join us for what can only be described as the ramblings of two crazy people as we discuss everything and anything about this show that has changed our lives forever at an absolutely breakneck pace, because as we have so much too say only three hours of free time to recor...

Part two of our episode on Boys Planet! For the past three months, Kayla and Sammi have been consumed in all things Boys Planet. Join us for what can only be described as the ramblings of two crazy people as we discuss everything and anything about this show that has changed our lives forever at an absolutely breakneck pace, because as we have so much too say only three hours of free time to recor...

In this week's episode Kayla, Sammi, and Maria are back to discuss the worst 10 kpop songs of 2016 In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B, Korean fashion, variety shows, and everything in between! Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDHRqO765Bw1YSuI8OUe...

In this week's episode Kayla, Sammi, and Maria are here to discuss the top 10 kpop songs of 2016 In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B, Korean fashion, variety shows, and everything in between! Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDHRqO765Bw1YSuI8OUebc...

For Maria's birthday episode, she wanted an episode all about Hybe, so this week she's joined by Kayla and Sammi as we go over many unpopular opinions about Hybe Labels. All unpopular opinions taken from r/unpopularkpopopinions. In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B, Korean fash...

Big news stirred up the kpop scene earlier this year when Hybe Labels announced they had initiated the acquisition of stock in SM Entertainment from the label's founder Lee Soo Man. What followed was battle between Hybe and Kakao for majority shares in SM Entertainment, which has recently come to a close. Join Kayla, Sammi, and Maria as we discuss the entire situation and our thoughts on what...

In this episode Kayla, Sammi, and Maria discuss our worst 10 kpop songs of 2017, one of our least favorite years in kpop. In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B, Korean fashion, variety shows, and everything in between! Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC...

In this week's episode, Kayla, Maria, and Sammi discuss out top 10 kpop songs from 2017! In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B, Korean fashion, variety shows, and everything in between! Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDHRqO765Bw1YSuI8OUebcQ Follow us...

In this week's episode, Kayla and Sammi are here to give an update on the genre of K-Jpop. What started with only 4 groups and a genre name we made up entirely, is now turning into a rapidly growing genre of music with subgenres of its own that now covers more than 10 groups.  In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kd...

In this week's episode, Sammi has written a second edition of Well, Literally, our kpop only game show based off the Dropout TV  show Um, Actually, and Kayla and Maria are here to compete to see who can make the most pedantic corrections to false statements about kpop! In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, c...

In this week's episode, Kayla, Sammi, and Maria are here to discuss the best 10 kpop songs of 2018, arguably one of the best years in kpop! In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B, Korean fashion, variety shows, and everything in between! Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.yout...

In this week's episode, Maria is joined by special guest Sat once again to go over all of the Korean Hip Hop and R&B music from 2022 including album and song recommendations, talk on Show Me the Money, major scandals, and company news!  In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B, Ko...

As a final follow up to the scandal iceberg series we did in 2022, Kayla, Maria, and Sammi are here with a chronological timeline of *most* of the major kpop scandals that occured in 2022. Sensitive content is covered in the episode including sexual assault and harassment. Listener discresion is advised.  In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kp...