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Making a K-Pop Group: Choosing a Name
You’re a big music company in Korea. Years ago, you held auditions, and chose your trainees. After years of training, your singing/dancing group is ready to debut. But wait, what will you call them?...
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Girls’ Generations’“Oh!” has been buffalaxed
You might recall this previous post in which I mentioned a YouTube user named “jeaok” who buffalaxes Korean pop videos. That is, he writes subtitles not based upon real translations but on what they...
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Grog McKnockin
I noticed this in the comments section of a post about something that I’ve blogged about, the ongoing scandal regarding the leaking of the SAT test. It sounds crazy… until you put it into perspective...
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Pop star’s English FAIL: “I want to kiss you and take a dump on your chest.”
First, some background information: Jo Kwon, of the boy band 2AM, and Ga-in, of the girl group the Brown Eyed Girls, are playing the role of a couple on the reality show “We Got Married.” Such couples...
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Updates on pop star’s epic FAIL at English
We have updates on a pop star’s recent epic FAIL at English. First, you can see all four parts of the episode with English sub-titles (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four) Second, we have a...
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Oy vey! K-pop schmucks sing schlock called “Mazeltov”
After massacring the English language through Konglish, K-pop is evidently moving onto other languages, since a boy band named ZE:A (no, I don’t know how it’s pronounced either) sings a song called...
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Those inadvertently funny “English” slogans
This is a bit of an old article, and I’m not sure if it’s been posted before by another blogger (I don’t think so), but it sure is worth the read, largely because of the interviews with two experts on...
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godam baby
(from List of the Day) Why did we have this godam baby? I don’t know if the following is from Korea or not, but it sure looks like something that you would see here.
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Hilarious video of 2PM fan
Recently, the boy band 2PM had a meet-and-autograph event with fans, and one young lady was happy to meet them. Really, really, really happy.
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Hilarious Mistake
First of all, I want to say that I was not laughing at my students. Making mistakes is a normal part of learning, especially a language. Even children who will later become native speakers make...
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