And one story that always kind of captures my imagination.

The street's lost culture.

And you're listening to Kearning Cultures.

Hey everyone and welcome back to the new season of Kernan cultures.

I'm Hippa Fisher. We missed you.

So I, this, as I said to you guys the other day, this story makes me feel about a million years old.

And we're going to start today's episode with a conversation between producers Nadine Shaker and Alex A.Tak and Shreda Joshi, who's interning with us.

I wanted to just kind of get you to talk me through all of the stuff that apparently is really obvious to the rest of the world that I don't know.

So, like, first, why don't we just start with Nadine?

Can you kind of, like, talk me through how you got into the story, what got you interested in it,

all of that kind of stuff?

So the simple answer is that we just wanted to understand this obsession with Korean culture

that was all around us.

Personally, I am a big watcher of Korean dramas.

Oh, you are yourself? Oh, you are yourself?

Yeah. Oh, okay, cool. I didn't know that.

I can't go like two months without watching a K-drama.

So K-pop is pop music from Korea and K-Drama are the TV dramas from Korea.

Undeniably, K-pop and K-Drama have taken the Middle East by storm.

We just noticed that, you know, all these people around the Middle East were, you know, getting obsessed with a culture that wasn't their own.

And in all aspects of life, like food culture, gender expression, music, language, you name it.

And, like, it seemed kind of shocking the magnitude of it.

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