In this episode of Culture by Culture, Delia speaks w/ hosts of Black Girl Seoul, Something Else and Song Rae. We talk navigating K-drama fandom as Black folk, what we hope to see from fandom & industry, NCT, and of course Asian dramas. What is your favorite Asian drama? Find the transcript of this episode here: https://culturexpodcast.com/episode/3-black-girls-and-k-dramas/
Recs: Age Harassment (J-drama) Extraordinary Attorney Woo (K-drama), The Glory (K-drama), Search: WWW (K-drama), Meet Yourself (C-drama)
Things discussed in this episode:
Boys Over Flowers
J-dramas: Cool Doji Danshi
K-dramas: Backstreet Rookie (and controversy), Family: The Unbreakable Bond, Fated to Love You, Itaewon Class, Penthouse, So Not Worth It, Start-Up, Webdramas
K-pop: “On the Street (w. J Cole)” - J-Hope, NCT, New Jeans, “Slow (with Ciara)” - Jackson Wang, Yuta
Famous folk: Babyface, Backstreet Boys, Chris Lyons, Ciara, Han Hyun Min, J. Cole, NSYNC, Sam Kim
Video game: Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Appropriation
Disney Plus
One Mic History (Korean Fried Chicken video)
Guest:
This ep. features Something Else and Song Rae of the pod & blog Black Girl Seoul! Find them here:
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Credits:
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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.
