In this episode, Delia interviews Howard University’s K-pop dance team One of a Kind (1OAK), as part of Culture by Culture’s “Musical Connections” mini-series! We discuss being the first K-pop dance group at an HBCU, sitting with contradictions, going to Howard, K-pop choreography, and more!

Things discussed in this episode:

• Favorite K-pop choreography:

  
  





• Reinah - “Breathe” by miss A

  
  



• Hannah - “Love Dive” by IVE

  
  



• Mia - “The Boys” by Girls Generation, “Like This,” by Wonder Girls, “Danger,” by BTS, and “Butterfly,” by LOONA

  
  





• 1OAK’s performance at Passport DC

  
  



• K-pop songs and groups - Itzy, “ASAP” by StayC, “Step Back” by Got the Beat, “Into the New World,” by Girls Generation, “Talk That Talk,” by TWICE (from ‘Between 1 & 2’), “Hot” by Seventeen, NCT, LOONA, “Favorite,” by NCT, KARD

  
  



• Konnect DMV

  
  



• Koreaboo is a non-Korean person who is obsessed with Korean culture often to the point of wishing they were Korean. (derogatory)

  
  



• Big Bang member G-Dragon’s Trayvon Martin blackface controversy 🫣

  
  



• Lee Soo Man quote: “"South Korea has best consumed black music in Asia. Just as J-pop was built on rock we made K-pop based on black music”” (’What Is the K in K-pop? South Korean Popular Music, the Culture Industry, and National Identity’)

  
  



• Mars Sebastian Episode

  
  

Guest:

This episode’s guest is 1OAK! You can find them here:

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Credits:

Host, Executive Producer, Editor, Engineer: Delia

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About Culture by Culture:

Culture by Culture is a multidimensional podcast exploration into Black and Asian pop-cultural ties. Part sociology, history, and pop-culture podcast, it covers everything from deep-dives into our favorite gateway media, interviews with experts to help guide us through our historical and current cultural connections, and conversations with fellow nerds digging into our cultural identities and our pop-cultural interests.

Our mission is to understand and foster the unity that has historically existed between our cultures through our shared interests in each other’s pop-culture.