K-Pop Academy [Week 7]

This week was the 'Hot and Cold' class where members of our family and friends were invited to come to our class to discuss their opinions, about K-Pop and Korean class. It was a chance for the students to show their loved ones why they love K-Pop culture so much and for some, it was a way for people to convince their parents that K-Pop was helping them for the better.

Class started with a performance from Katrina, a fellow K-Pop Academy student. She composed an amaing song about the K-Pop Academy and her experience so far. She performed so well, Its a shame I don't have a video of her performance. After her performance, the lyrics were displayed on screen and we all sang along.

Katrina singing the song she composed about the K-Pop Academy
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The song was a brilliant way to display all the students experiences and how much fun we're having so far. A short presentation was then given about K-Pop in the UK and what we've done for the past 6 weeks at the K-Pop Academy. All the guests were engrossed in the video as it gave them an insight into the various task we've done so far.

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 In the second half of the class, students were required to make a short pitch why they are passionate about Korea and K-Pop. The guests then scored the teams on how convincing the team was in persuading them to become interested in K-Pop and Korean culture.

My group decided to talk about how we were first introducted to Korean culture and we prepared a K-Pop dance to 2NE1's Clap Your Hands. We tried to go for the entertaining perspective rather than being very perssuasive. Other groups has really convincing pitches about how they met a lot of their good friends through an interest in K-Pop and it helped them to be movitvated in academic studies. The best 2 groups were given a prize.

A group giving their pitch
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Guests scoring the pitches

The last activity of the day was a quiz for the guest to test their knowledge about K-Pop. As some o the guests were K-Pop fans themselves, the groups were split equally with a mixture of K-Pop fans and people who had never heard of K-Pop.

Guests taking part in the quiz
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Afsana looking eager to answer a question
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Us students then joined our guests team to help them answer the question so I joined group A. It then turned into a game of 'who can get their hands up the fast'. Haha. In the end, the winning team was Team B. Congratulations guys~! =)

Overall, the day was really enjoyable as it was useful for both us students and the guests. I'm glad my sister had the chance to see what I do in the K-Pop Academy because after every class I always tell her what an awesome time I've had~! ^^