Seoul Dive

Seoul Dive is back with a new format and a whole lot of opinions for the start of our first official season. This episode is all about K-Pop diets, industry beauty standards, and the effects they have on idols and fans. Obvious TW: if you struggle with any of these topics, please skip this episode, get yourself some boba, and be kind to yourself.

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Happy New Year, fellow K-Poppers! To ring in 2023, we get a little drunk and talk a lot of nonsense—or do we? This week, we bring to you our predictions and manifestations for the new K-Pop year. And fear not, we once again managed to trash talk Mnet and mullets. New year, good old Seoul Dive.

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It’s time to wrap up the year, and what better way to do that than to each talk about 20 of our favorite K-Pop songs of 2022! Join us on a journey through the K-Pop year with artists such as Monsta X, BIBI, Stray Kids, Girls’ Generation—and that’s just the beginning!

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In our last K-Pop release roundup of the year, we dive into Queen BIBI’s first album Lowlife Princess: Noir, Kang Daniel’s repackaged first album The Story: Retold, and Woo Wonjae’s EP comma. Merry Christmas and a very K-Popful 2023, everyone!

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We’re back—again! After a long overdue vacation, we’re back to follow our new calling: become a Star Wars podcast! Well, we’re not quite there yet, which is why we’re instead talking about some of our favorite performances from the Melon Music Awards and the Mnet Asian Music Awards 2022. The year may be coming to an end, but at least we still have all the end-of-the-year shows!

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Our last episode before our short break is dedicated to three October releases we haven’t talked about yet: our badass lady crushes Dreamcatcher’s EP Apocalypse: Follow Us, band babies N.Flying and their album Dearest, and Monsta X’s Kihyun singing about Youth.

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This episode is all about SM artists—and one of the ones that got away. We review K-Pop veteran Jaejoong’s Born Gene, crop top connoisseurs NCT 127 and their album 2 Baddies, Seulgi’s sexy solo debut 28 Reasons, and NCT’s tiny dancer Ten’s song Birthday.

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BTS may be on army hiatus, but they leave ARMY with a lot of precious memories. One of them is the 화양연화—The Most Beautiful Moment in Life—era, and since it’s a favorite of the podcast, we’re revisiting the three fantastic albums, beautiful concepts, confusing storylines, and amazing memories it has given us. Gather round, fellow ARMY, and listen to our tales of peak fangirling, Officer Jungkook, mint hair, and many more!

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The Rose are back, so naturally, we have to do a deep dive on them! As usual, we talk about the band’s history, the band members, and the new album. Of course, we also have some fun facts ready for you! Dive in with us to learn more about the artists formerly known as Windfall.

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In this episode, we’re stepping a little bit outside the K-Pop world to talk about some of our favorite new Korean hip-hop releases! We offer you the AOMG crew turning the f up, Crush coming back strong with BTS’s J-Hope by his side, BE’O’s first EP, and the legendary Dynamic Duo, so make sure to tune in!

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This week, we’re bidding summer farewell with a little round-up of some of our favorite summer releases that we have not yet had a chance to talk about. The list includes J-Hope’s solo ventures, Ravi making us miss VIXX during spooky season, and Pentagon’s Kino filling in for Taemin.

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To celebrate the first anniversary of Seoul Dive, we are looking back on K-Pop events, songs, or memories from the last 16 years that were significant to us. From the big names of the early days, over our BTS tunnel vision, to what made us fall in love with K-Pop all over again, come with us on a very special trip through the K-Pop timeline.

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In our newest mini dive, we take a look at former C-Clown member and current DIY badass DPR IAN! We talk a little bit about the background of DPR, IAN’s crazy K-Pop background, and of course his newest masterpiece M II T O—Moodswings In To Order.

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We’re back with another themed K-Pop catch-up! This week, we have three solo releases by members of boy groups. We discuss GOT7’s Youngjae’s aesthetic Sugar, VIXX’s piano man Leo, and SHINee’s Key getting us all fired up with his Gasoline.

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When worlds collide, we get—more music! This week, we look at a few selected collaborations of K-Pop and western artists. From famous collabs, like BTS and literally everyone, over throwbacks like the Wonder Girls and Akon, to unexpected ones like Seventeen and Anne-Marie, we cover some interesting and definitely surprising projects.

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When our Kingdom groups call, we come a-running! This week, we’re here to wake up and be aware of ATEEZ’s and The Boyz’s new albums. We talk about what we like, what we don’t, and a whole lot of hair color choices.

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This week, we once again honor the ladies of K-pop! We talk about our favorite siren Sunmi giving us the best kind of Heart Burn, Heize’s Undo and the onslaught of MVs, and our bubbly princess Chungha giving it to us Bare&Rare (Part 1).

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Throwing caution to the wind, this week we’re facing the sun we revolve around: Seventeen! We talk about their recent-ish album Face the Sun, the repackage of said album, Sector 17, and of course honorary Tiger King Hoshi’s song Tiger, a collaboration with Tiger JK—we’re sensing a theme here.

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For our second K-Pop legends Mini Dive in a row, we‘re focusing on our butterfly queen Hyuna! On the occasion of her comeback with Nabillera, we talk about her start (and re-start) in the entertainment world, her 15-year career, and the amazing artist she is now.

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In order to celebrate his return from the war and the release of his new EP, we’re doing a Zico Mini Dive this week! We talk about his connections to Japanese high school girls and teenage RM, his manifold company-related struggles, and his most recent release, Grown Ass Kid—a title that probably speaks to all of us.

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This week, we’re catching up with the releases of four artists who all have one thing in common: big tiddies! We talk about Wonho’s album Facade, KARD and its Big Tiddie Committee Commander BM, BtoB’s Minhyuk aka Huta delivering a real BOOM, Jay Park’s Need To Know, and Dawn’s summer song Stupid Cool, because we like to break our own rules.

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No summer is complete without a banging summer playlist, so we each picked 22 of our favorite K-Pop summer songs for your listening pleasure! From throwbacks and lesser known songs, over obvious summer jams and evergreens, all the way to recent releases, our list has it all. Put on some sunscreen and enjoy!

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This week, we present a Japanese K-Pop special! We catch up on recent Japanese releases from ATEEZ, The Boyz, and Stray Kids. We also throw it back to the K-Pop artists who paved the way in Japan and discuss some of our favorite releases from the past.

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We always enjoy a chance to talk about what brought us together: BTS! In honor of the release of Proof, we take a trip down memory lane to the glorious era of HYYH, talk about current events like the White House visit (Namjoon for president), and contemplate what is yet to come. We also ended up both choosing songs to recommend that were produced by Yoongi, because he is just that good.

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In this week’s catch-up episode, we discuss ONEWE serving emotional damage, GOT7’s impressive result of their new (creative) freedom, and our never-ending dream of Kang Daniel reuniting Wanna One under his label.

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On our never-ending journey to catch up with our favorite releases, we discuss Woosung‘s linguistic prowess, kings of colorful K-Pop ASTRO, having a meat-off, and ONEUS finally giving us a new wolf song.

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This week, we’re bringing you a bit of a deeper Mini Dive into P Nation’s first boy group, TNX! We introduce the members, discuss our first impression of their debut EP Way Up, and curse both PSY and Penomeco for giving us yet another excellent group with great songs to care about.

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We’re fully back and ready to get into some K-Pop releases. We join the Monsta X Shape of Love party a little late (but better than never), enjoy iKON bringing the 80s pop, appreciate Woodz letting us touch his Colorful Trauma, and, as per usual, are confused by yet amazed at TXT’s concepts.

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We’re back from hiatus and here to share what we’ve been up to! We talk about our reunion after almost 3 years, our little eurotrips, and of course the event that made it all happen: ATEEZ live in Berlin!

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In our last episode before our little hiatus, we talk about Jesus doing the most for us, our plans for when we finally reunite after almost 3 years, holding Seventeen to a very high standard, and the legendary 2NE1 reuniting for an incredible performance at Coachella. Oh, and Mnet being questionable as always.

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In this episode, we talk about our current life and fitness challenges, Onew embracing his youthful side, Dreamcatcher serving us ballads and bangers, and our BFF Jessi Zoom-ing in with dance squad LACHICA.

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While we’ve been hard at work preparing for our May vacation, NCT have been hard at work releasing music! We talk about NCT U’s excellent decision to give Shotaro some well-deserved screen time, Taeyong coupling up with the amazing Suran, and NCT Dream giving us another Dream-y album. Oh, also Big Bang is back. No biggie. We totally only cried a little bit.

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This week, we discuss the perils of online shopping and long train rides, the music maniacs Stray Kids, Seventeen’s THE 8 taking us to the beach, and Red Velvet bringing us Johann Sebastian Bach oppa’s K-Pop debut.

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In this very special episode, we pay homage to spring with an American tradition: March Madness. We send 32 K-Pop boys from groups such as BTS, ATEEZ, Seventeen, TVXQ, NCT, and BtoB into the Battle of the Biases. Who would take over JYPE? Who would get a tattoo of Hitman Bang? Who would win over Michelle’s mom? Find out who will come out on top and earn the title of Ultimate Bias.

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In this episode, we discuss our spring plans taking shape, the duality of Astro’s Sanha, Monsta X’s Kihyun making us want more, and Mamamoo’s Solar’s wonderful FACE.

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In today’s relaxed dive, we discuss the intercultural aspects of Love is Blind, British humor, Jackson Wang being a multilingual king, suspiciously non-retired Jay Park’s song featuring IU, and the last 3 (and arguably most interesting) episodes of Single’s Inferno.

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In this episode, we talk about why we don’t like pranks, letting dice and cards decide our future, cinnamon roll Wonho, Seungkwan and Youngji bringing the juice, and much more!

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This week, we talk about BTS in the MCU, our nerd(le) interests, letting go of our ageist ways, and the new album of BtoB (Born to Ballad).

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Sticking to our relaxed guns, this week we talk about recent (mis)adventures and academic endeavors, our updated opinions on Single’s Inferno, Epik High’s new album, and how we really feel about Astro’s Moonbin in crop tops.

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This week, we’re chilling for a bit at the Winter Olympics before things get hot in the Single’s Inferno. We talk about our impressions after watching the first two episodes, which candidates we’d go to Paradise with, and of course the most important participant—Jintaek’s chest hair.

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In this relaxed dive, we talk about recent Netflix endeavors, our favorite brand of ATEEZ, sparky Mark, and the K-Pop engagement the world has been waiting for.

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This week, we are getting real—about life, about adulting, but of course also about K-Pop! Tune in to find out where we and Seoul Dive are headed for the time being, why Pentagon deserves more love and the world needs more Hui, why Wanna One is getting our hopes up, and more!

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In this week’s episode, we discuss the number of butt cheeks in Hyolyn’s Layin’ Low, K-Pop dad bods, our love for lazy anthems, EXO Chen’s family planning, and more!

This week, we bring you a “skinny dip”—a mini Seoul Dive! In this short but sweet episode, we focus on international treasure and national boyfriend, Eric Nam! We talk about his past ventures, his new album, and his status as BFF of the podcast.

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On our first regular Seoul Dive of 2022, we talk about the sisterly love of Oneus and Onewe, the Heartbreak SHINee’s Minho caused us, our favorite firecrackers of AOMG and H1ghr Music, and much more!

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Happy New Year and welcome back to Seoul Dive! To get the good vibes going, we’re doing a drunk dive into one of our sources of happiness: ATEEZ! Tune in for a lot of love, a lot of puns, and a side of BTS.

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For our last episode of the year, we curated a selection of our 21 favorite K-Pop songs of 2021. We were blessed with countless amazing releases so the choice was hard, but we are harder. Good riddance, 2021; we’re leaving you behind, but we’re taking your good music with us!

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It’s award show season, so obviously we have to add our two cents! Join us as we go over some of our favorite performances from the AAA, MMA, and MAMA 2021, including Stray Kids spending all the production money, TXT bringing the emocore, and Wanna One giving us the comeback we didn’t know we could hope for.

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We’re catching up with K-Pop releases some more this week. Join us as we let Stray Kids and The Boyz get us into the holiday spirit, discuss the significance of peaches in the music industry, rejoice at FTISLAND joining the K-Pop renaissance, prepare ourselves for another NCT attack, and go into great but necessary detail about ATEEZ’s Zero: Fever Epilogue and why it’s the album of the year.

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Our regular Seoul Dive is back this week as we catch up with November K-Pop releases and talk about things we love: ONEUS giving us traditional Korean aesthetics, T-ARA joining the K-Pop Renaissance, BTS celebrating another milestone, and Sexy Fantasy 9 living up to their name.

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 It’s another birthday special, and as promised, this week is all about Michelle! Let’s go on another voyage from the SM triangle, over the birth of K-Pop hip hop, all the way to the best thing that came out of Mnet’s Kingdom: becoming Atinys!

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This week, we go on a little trip through time as we look at Rike’s K-Pop timeline. From the J-Rock infused beginnings to the ATEEZ-riddled present, join us on this magical K-Pop ride and definitely stay tuned for Michelle’s K-Pop experience next week!

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This week’s regular Seoul Dive is all about Queens, Kings, and our usual Wild Card, Mnet. Featuring Somi, Ailee, 2AM, VIXX’s Leo, Astro’s MJ, TO1, and ONF.

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Get it? Got it! This week, we’re taking a deep dive into The Boyz. Since they just had a comeback and the 4th anniversary of their debut is coming up, we travel back through time to bring you two of the most memorable moments for each member, including but definitely not limited to Boyz vs. Cakes, Boyz vs. English, and Boyz vs. Animals.

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It’s time for another good old Seoul Dive! This week we’re discussing our favorite cold-blooded unni Jessi, queen CL, rock stars Seventeen, our favorite (vampires) NCT 127, Epik High trolling everyone, and more!

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Hello, witches! This week, we present to you our favorite K-Pop songs, special videos, and live performances for Halloween. Settle in and get spooky with VIXX, Dreamcatcher, SHINee, ATEEZ, and many more! You can check out our K-Pop Halloween Playlist on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Gat01v

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We finally gave in to the hype and watched Squid Game. Obviously, we have opinions. We also look at the story behind Squid Game, the main cast, and the childhood games from the show that are now forever ruined.

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The K-Pop gods blessed us with some great releases recently, and we’re here to talk about them! Tune in for Coldplay X BTS in their own little universe, Key’s Bad Love, Vibin’ with Youngjae, and more! We also talk about The Fact Music Awards (well, mostly ATEEZ’s new hair), and the Mnet survival shows SMTM 10 and Street Woman Fighter.

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The Seoul Dive Bar is officially open! On our first deep dive, we dive into the K-Pop group ATEEZ! We quiz each other on their questionable talents and Gen Z hobbies, throw a tantrum about having to pick favorites, and discuss ATEEZ constantly choosing violence—mostly against each other.

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In our first episode, we discuss ATEEZ’s comeback and their driving prowess, The Boyz’s Juyeon’s many hairstyles, Stray Kids’ MV landslide, BTS’s efforts to generate more clout for the UN General Assembly, NCT 127’s and Woosung’s new songs, and The Boyz’s Kevin Moon’s general existence.

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Welcome to Seoul Dive with Michelle and Rike!

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