K-Pop Academy [Week 9]

First off, apologies for the last post. Amidst exam stress, I almost forgot to write this review. Oops~.
The focus of this weeks class was British Pop vs K-Pop. Honestly I haven't listened to Brit-Pop much lately because I've been so absorbed in K-Pop, actually Korean music in general. But as a child I loved British Pop music from Spice Girls to 5ive.

The first half of the class started where we left off last week. We listened to different variations of Arirang. I had heard a few beforehand but I didn't know there were so many different types. We then sang the chorus of Arirang in groups. I am by no means the best singer but I gave it my best shot and it was a lot of fun. 

Then we heard the difference between Brit-Pop and K-Pop over time. When it came to the current music, we all got excited and started singing along.

Lyrics to Arirang

Before the break we were split into groups for the MulChoong Noraebang game for the second half of the class. Each team was given a song. My team was group B so our song was Gee, a catchy energetic hit song by SNSD. The other teams were Bad Girl Good Girl, Black and White and I Need A Girl.

The aim of the game was that each member of the team was given a small section of the lyrics to memorize and then if they made a mistake when singing it, the whole team got wet. It was fun shoting water at the other teams but it wasn't great when I was on the receiving end~.. o__O Haha.

Overall I had an awesome day, as usual~! Thanks KCCUK! ^0^

Here's a short video of what us KA students got up to this week:

K-POP Lovers' Party [28-12-11]

This Wednesday I went to the K-Pop Lovers Party in New Malden. They have started holding karoke (노래방) sessions for 2 hours every Wednesday courtesy of The East.

Unfortunately we couldn't attend the first session they held on the 14th December so I was excited to see what all the hype was about.

The event started at 6pm but I attended the Han Resturant at around 6.20pm, fashionably late.When I arrived we were warmly welcomed by Romeo, the event organiser. We went downstairs to the karoke area and there were about 5 doors leading to different karoke rooms.

I opened each door in turn to see which one my friends were in. I must say, all the rooms were far nicer than any of the other karoke rooms I have been to in London. The biggest room was crammed with about 20 people so I stuck in that room for a while.

The atmosphere was great. Even though I didn't know half of the people in the room, everyone was having a great time singing and dancing so 2 hours flew by in a flash.
Once we'd finished we all headed to the ground floor where food and drinks were being served.

We were talking to Romeo about KPop culture in the UK and the possibility of language exchanges being held between us and Korean people studying the the UK so we could help each other have a better understanding the others culture. It was very insightful.
We even got KPop magazines which had awesome pictures of KPop idols.

Overall, I had a blast. I really enoyed it and I'll definitely be going again next year.

If you want to find out more about future KPop Lovers' Partys then join their Facebook group or check out their website.

-Tamanna