K-Pop Dreaming - Trot

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🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Vivian begins her exploration of K-Pop's history with a genre of Korean music called trot that emerged during the Japanese colonization of Korea. Trot holds up a mirror to Korea’s history and gives rise to an enigmatic quality that, some say, informs K-pop. Vivian’s guide for this episode: her grandmother. Also features 2023 Korean Music Awards nominee and K-pop artist, 250.
(Originally published March 2, 2023)

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0:30.0	Hello?
0:31.0	Baby, aren't you?
0:33.0	Yes, can you hear me?
0:36.0	This is me chatting with my almost 90-year-old grandma.
0:39.0	She's at home in Los Angeles.
0:42.0	And when I imagine her on the phone, I picture her wearing a matching set of floral PJs.
0:47.0	Historically, our phone conversations have never lasted more than 10 minutes.
0:52.0	And they've always followed the same sort of script.
0:55.0	Is everything good with you? Did you catch a cold? You can't catch a cold?
0:59.0	Things like that.
1:00.0	But then, a couple years ago, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic,
1:05.0	our conversations changed.
1:07.0	For one thing, don't catch a cold became don't get COVID.
1:12.0	But the main difference was that my grandma sounded really happy, like uncharacteristically happy.
1:29.0	And this change in, like, her entire personality, basically,
1:33.0	it happened during lockdown when she started watching a show called Mr. Trot.
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