Knee Slappin Kpop Podcast

In this week's episode, Kayla, Sammi, and Maria are back for more old kpop talk! After discussing the highs of 2019 in kpop, we now present the lows with the top 10 worst songs of 2019.  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...

We're starring off this year's long running series by taking a look back at 2019, the year before we started this podcast! This week Sammi, Maria, and Kayla are here to talk about the top 10 kpop 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, an...

In this week's episode, Sammi has prepared a fun game of lateral thinking for Kayla and Maria based off of the TV show Only Connect, but obviously all kpop themed! 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 C...

Part one of our 2022 year end award show is here! Join Kayla, Maria, and Sammi as we discuss the winners and nominees for the music awards! 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...

Part two of our 2022 year end award show is here! Join Kayla, Maria, and Sammi as we discuss the winners and nominees for the group, Asian drama, KHH and KRNB awards with two surprise categories at the end! 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 everyt...

It's time for our favorite episode of the year! Last week we brought you the top 10 best songs of the year, and this week to end out the year we're here to bring you the 10 worst! Join Maria, Sammi, and Kayla as we discuss the worst kpop had to offer this year.  In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas,...

It's that time of year again! Kayla, Sammi, and Maria are all here to wrap up the year of 2022 in kpop and bring to you our top 10 kpop 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: h...

For the season finale of our review of kpop companies this year, we are ending the year off on Hybe Labels. Join Kayla, Sammi, and Maria with discussion on Hybe labels and it's history. What is truly a story of the little kpop company that could, Hybe Labels, which started off as Big Hit Entertainment, grew from a run of the mill small company to one of the industry's largest and most influential...

In this week's episode, Kayla and Sammi have prepared a very fun kdrama based game for Maria where she will have to guess the main plot of a kdrama when given only the poster, title, or un subtitled trailed for the show! 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 sho...

It's time for us to finally wrap up the big 3 with out reviews of kpop companies. In this episode Kayla, Sammi, and Maria discuss SM Entertainment, which has remained one of the largest and most influential companies since the existence of kpop, but is also the origin of many of the big issues that still exist within the agency.   Warning: This episode contains brief discussion of suicide tha...

In this week's podcast Kayla and Sammi are here to cover two different but very similar topics. First off, we cover the topic of Korean musical theater and their adaptations of western Broadway (and off Broadway) musicals into Korean. This focuses mostly on the 2022 Korean performance of Altar Boyz and how much of what makes the show funny is lost in translation. We then talk about Kpop the Musica...

We're finally here with some more kdrama content again! In this week's episode, Kayla and Sammi go over our 11 favorite and 11 least favorite tropes commonly seen in kdramas of all genres from rich people murders to late show amnesia to rich, young, hot CEOs, to time travel and more! In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews,...

It's Kayla's birthday episode! And for this week's episode she has prepared a presentation on kpop groups, and what Pokemon gym leaders would be, assigning each group a type of Pokemon, and each member in the group their own specific Pokemon! Highly recommend tuning into the video of this episode on our Youtube channel if you're unfamiliar with pokemon!  In this podcast we’ll talk about every...

In this episode we continue on with our review of major kpop companies! This week we talk about our second of the big three companies. YG Entertainment and their very unique management and promotional styles. 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 ever...

In this week's episode we bring back a series  we haven't done for a while now: Retro Mixtape! Maria and Sammi take a look back on the history and music of SM Entertainment's first kpop boy group and girl group, HOT and SES 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, var...

In this week's episode we finally get to an episode that we have been promising for over a year now, the complete history of the kpop boy group Topp Dogg! 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: h...

In this week's episode Kayla has prepared a new game for Sammi and Maria! Based off the game show Um, Actually by DropoutTV, Sammi and Maria will be presented with false kpop statements and must figure out what is wrong with them and how to make them correct. In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-ho...

Part 2! In this week's episode, Maria has prepared a very thorough introduction into the world of Korean hip-hop and R&B including the major companies that host these artists, backgrounds on some major artists, as well as album and song recommendations. In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/...

In this week's episode, Maria has prepared a very thorough introduction into the world of Korean hip-hop and R&B including the major companies that host these artists, backgrounds on some major artists, as well as album and song recommendations. In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B...

This is part two of our Kpop Book Club Series. In the second half of this episode, Kayla, Sammi, and Maria continue their discussion of Kpop Books and discuss Kpop Confidential and Kpop Revolution by Stephan Lee.   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...

Part one of two of our Kpop Book Club! In this episode Kayla, Sammi, and Maria have all read different YA books about kpop and we're here for a very spoiler heavy discussion of all of them! In this episode we discuss the books Once Upon A K-Prom by Kat Cho and XOXO by Axie Oh In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas,...

We've finally reached the Big 3 in our reviews of Kpop Companies and we're kicking things off with JYP Entertainment. In this episode, joining Kayla and Sammi for this series for the rest of this year is Maria and we discuss the MANY groups and artists that have been under JYP since it's founding.  In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop incl...

In what will be a really weird episode for the vibe of this entire podcast, Sammi, Kayla, and Maria have gathered together for our love of consuming true crime media and are here to review two South Korean true crime documentaries that are available on Netflix: Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror about the Nth Room scandal, and The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea about serial kill...

In what will be our last Kpop company review before starting on the Big 4 companies, Kayla and Sammi take a look at RBW Entertainment and how they manage their wide range of groups from Mamamoo to Onewe, and their recent company acquisitions.  In this podcast we’ll talk about everything and anything even tangentially related to kpop including song reviews, kdramas, cdramas, khip-hop/kR&B,...

We've finally reached the bottom of our eight month long journey through the Kpop Scandal Iceberg! The bottom tier of our iceberg features scandals from groups like Lovelyz, TST, Fanatics, and Cocosori along with some first gen artists as well! Thank you so much for following us through one of our biggest and most time consuming projects to date and we hope you enjoyed this series! In this podcast...