Introducing Mission K-Pop
You Didn't See Nothin
USG Audio
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Caty Szeto is a woman with a dream: to become a K-Pop superstar. The 23-year-old Asian American is traveling from her home in LA to South Korea’s capital Seoul to attend a K-Pop academy. There she’ll do hardcore training in singing, dancing and styling. All this is to prepare for make-or-break auditions for K-Pop entertainment agencies. If she makes it, Caty could be like all those chart-topping idols who travel the world, perform to legions of fans and make millions. But this quest has its challenges. Caty finds out about ageism in the industry, where many new idols are in their teens. Then she comes face-to-face with incredibly specific K-beauty standards while navigating being a foreigner in K-Pop. Over just three months, our host journalist Haeryun Kang follows Caty to see if she can overcome these obstacles and reach K-Pop stardom.
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| 0:00.0 | Novel. |
| 0:10.6 | There's a particular performance Katie Zito can't get out of her mind. |
| 0:21.9 | The location? |
| 0:23.7 | A festival, Coachella. |
| 0:26.1 | Katie is a pop star. |
| 0:27.8 | More specifically, a K-pop star. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm a solo artist. |
| 0:33.0 | I am on the main stage. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm standing backstage. I'm a little bit nervous. I'm standing backstage. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm a little bit nervous. |
| 0:41.3 | I'll always forever be just a little bit nervous |
| 0:44.3 | every time I go on stage. |
| 0:46.3 | I sit up onto the stage. |
| 0:49.3 | I hear cheering and I hear conversations, |
| 0:52.3 | but they're all muffled. |
| 0:58.5 | I hear the instruction coming through my earpiece. |
| 1:02.8 | Testing music, testing everything, get into position. |
| 1:07.8 | The atmosphere is very high. |
| 1:17.6 | The roaring of the crowd begins to mix with some unmistakable beats. My very first song that went viral. |
| 1:20.6 | Katie emerges, singing and dancing in front of thousands of her fans. |
| 1:26.6 | And the next 30 minutes are a flurry. |
| 1:30.2 | Costume reveals. |
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