8 Asians

For those who are regular listeners of my podcast, POP88 or listen to me Monday evenings on SRC at omgkpop would know I’m a regular viewer of Global Talk Show, aka ChitChat with Beautiful Ladies. It’s basically an informal round table discussion with twenty female foreigners living, working, and going to school in South Korea. [...]

This article on fashion schools receiving a influx of Asian American students is an interesting one – not so much because of the rise of Asian Americans and Canadians in fashion – I’ve always known that – but mainly because that despite everything, they had to be true to themselves. I think that’s really [...]

So this is the situation: a boy from Seattle — Jay Park, AKA Jaebeom — passes an audition by one of the most respected Korean labels to train and eventually become an idol in a Korean boy band called 2pm. Things are tough for the guy over the years, having to learn and live [...]

GT, who is the blogger behind A-Tunes.net and guest blogs for MTV Iggy — which I don’t get because I’m Canadian — recently put up his first vlog sharing his thoughts on Asian Americans and the whole under/ misrepresented issue in media – specifically music.

In particular, he mentions a post from YouOffendMeYouOffendMyFamily.com about a person [...]

 

 POP 88 #35 - Part 1 - New Releases: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (72)

 

 POP 88 #35 - Part 2 - Non-stop Remixes and Mash-ups: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (31)

*shifting my feet around while looking down*
I know I haven’t been around lately. I’ve just been really really busy with school, work, classes, managing a radio station, classes, work… But I hope to make it up to you with a two-parter of my latest episode:

Part 1 – New Releases from the last 2 months
Part [...]

I remember having a conversation with a paparazzi friend of mine during the Toronto International Film Festival where that night he had chosen to “stalk” Zhang ZiYi during her film screening of The Banquet. By that time I had grown incredibly tired seeing her in period pieces and loudly remarked someone needs to throw [...]

A couple of weekends ago, I was hanging out with a couple of the DJs from the SRADIOCLUB at Toronto’s Night it Up. Because the weather was a tad chilly, we went inside where we were approached by Ashley Nguyen, who was looking for everyone to get tested to see if they were a [...]

 

 POP 88 #34 - Night It Up!/ Prize Giveaway: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (747)

Happy Canada Day and 4th of July Everyone! Hope everyone is BBQ-d out!
This episode plays all new music from One Two, Girl’s Generation and Karen Mok. Plus listen for your chance to win a POP 88 T-Shirt in our prize giveaway contest.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Night Market – Night It Up!
J-Otic: http://j-otic.podomatic.com/
If you [...]