"Just Hatched"

So back when I was working on my acceptance to the TaLK program, which would let me venture to South Korea, I meet a girl in my professor's office. She was also applying at the time to go to Korea through the same program. I remember standing there and seeing a pin on her bag, instantly recognizing the face on the pin to be Daesung of Big Bang, I questioned "Did I had found someone who knew what Kpop was beyond Gangnam style or if she only knew of a few sorts of the Kpop world, as do most stony brook students because of the immense Korean population here?" I piped up and said "nice pin." She upon exiting the professor's office just blew up in a huge rather concise conversation about not only Big Bang and Daesung, but Kpop as a whole. I was taken aback. Never have I ever met another person who was non-Asian who not only enjoyed Kpop as much as myself, but understood it's deeper fabrications and workings of it as a business.

Accepted! 한국에서 가세요!

Destination Korea!

 I was just notified at 4:30am this morning that the Korean government has extended the offer to me to teach English under their TaLK program! Finding this out at such an hour, i was vehemently breathing trying to stifle my screams of overwhelming excitement, to not wake up my roommate and the rest of the dorm building. So I postponed my excitement screams and victory dance till morning. Which I have to say, I did sleep very soundly. Worry free and high on life.

What the Author has been Up To: The Inside Scope

I must say from my deepest regrets that I have not been able to spend any time on my blog for the last two months. I come to check up on it from time to time and always see the numbers steadily climbing. It makes me happy to see that it still has it's potentials. Now that the school year is coming to it's close, there is a lot that I plan to do with this site. I wanted to revamp my blog to make it look cleaner and function better. However, because I'm not a web designer wiz this might be a far fetched idea for a girl who is also really busy with preparing her plans to go to Korea!

Supporting the EYK Family

If there is one thing I love about the internet, its amazing bloggers and video vlog artists like Simon and Martina who are the hosts of Eat Your Kimchi at Eatyourkimchi.com. Yesterday morning when I got online I saw a post from the two Canadians, now living in Korea, that they were in need of help. They announced that they will be continuing their website and will be building a EatYourKimchi  business in Seoul, about 15 minutes from where they are currently living. However, they needed to buy a townhouse studio to make it work, and as for foreigners living in Korea, making a business there is way expensive on top of the expenses to purchase a living space in what is one of the top busiest cities in the world. So they gave a shout out to their viewers stating that if only half of their 200,000 subscribers were to donate even $1 it would be more than enough for them to get the townhouse studio.

Check It out Here:

Help! K-pop Addict Exposure Syndrom?

So the new semester has started here at my University in Long Island. And It's great to see all the returning students come back into the swing of things greeting each other in ample excitement, because for us 3 months of not seeing one another is just too long. We love each other. And while new faces pop up within our residence dorms we upper grads take special interest in getting them feeling like this is their new home.

But with new comers always comes a certain measurement of uncomfortableness, unfamiliarity. Because right now you don't know how each person is going to judge or make opinions based on the things they perceive mixed with their own experience or inexperience. So how would a recently graduated high school boy from the Bronx, whose just been admitted to college, come to a sense of understanding me? A white American K-pop and Korean cultural enthusiast, who makes aims to move to Korea to teach English?  How could I even make someone who is straight out of Korea understand me?

"Fly So High"

Yesterday was the first time I ever flown in a plane. I was so scared! The build up prior to boarding had my heart beating in my head with adrenaline pumping throughout my entire body. I got lost in the terminal and yelled at a few times by security because of a few minor mistakes. :(

Big Bang Comes to New Jersey!

Big Bang.... NOT to be confused with Big Bang Theory... No, no... Big Bang is Korea's biggest boy band to date. Also may I add they've been around longer then that sloppy American show. (Opps... Sorry, don't hate me if you like it.)

Their newest album called "Monster" was released just 2 months after their album "Alive." Currently these sweet, beautiful, talented boys are touring the globe in their "Alive" tour, visiting China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and here in the US! They will in New Jersey and L.A. Can you say Fantastic Baby? I'm so excited and counting the days down to their arrival on November 9th. Ahhh!!!!! Can't wait.

When I first started to explore Kpop, Taeyang's "I Will Be There" MV was my first taste of it. I was immediately hooked on him. See it here. So everyday little ol' me would get online and watch this beautiful creation of art, fascinated by his voice, dancing and *Ehhem.. body.  From there one thing lead to another. I researched the band he was most known for being in, and slowly my love for Korea's artists grew and infected me and now... I'm a Kpop crazed American Girl.

New Website here. Hope to get it up and running by the end of the week! This blog will feature tons of artists, actors, and all the people who make up Korea's pop culture. All the beautiful people such as Rain, Big Bang, Lee Min Ho, the cast from Running Man, Secret Garden along with many other dramas, hits, and just gossip about all the latest on whats going on in the pop culture of one of the greatest places on earth.