Women in K-Pop: the success of BLACKPINK
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
As we’ve mentioned recently, the number of children being taken into care in England is currently at a 10-year high. Two weeks ago we looked at the repeat removals of children by the court and the lengths some mothers have gone to avoid that. Today we look at one of the most frequent outcomes for children removed from their parents' care - placement with a Special Guardian, usually a member of their extended family, under a Special Guardianship Order. A recent study from Lancaster University shows that while only 5% of children placed with Special Guardians end up back in care, there is a severe lack of support from local authorities and government. What more could be done to support these families, often looking after children in very difficult circumstances?
Trying to live an environmentally friendly life is complicated. With our hectic lives, caring for the environment might seem like a problem too big to solve. We hear from Dr Tara Shine and Madeleine Murray, who run Change by Degrees, a sustainability consultancy that offers advice to business and communities, and environmental journalist, Lucy Siegle for some tips on the ways we can live better, greener lives.
Last week, K-pop girl group BLACKPINK made history by becoming the first of its kind to perform at the festival, Coachella. With a world tour set for this year and their single ‘Kill This Love’ climbing the charts in the UK and the US, it looks like they might be poised to break the western pop music market. We discuss the role of women in K-Pop, both as performers and as fans. How powerful are their female fans? What’s behind the ‘girl crush’ concept? And how are women being marketed? We’re joined by K-Pop dance instructor Tammy Jane Mejia, music journalist Biju Belinky and Dr Haekyung Um from the University of Liverpool.
Presenter: Jane Garvey Producer: Kirsty Starkey
Interviewed Guest: Professor Judith Harwin Interviewed Guest: Dr Tara Shine Interviewed Guest: Lucy Siegle Interviewed Guest: Madeleine Murray Interviewed Guest: Tammy Jane Mejia Interviewed Guest: Biju Belinky Interviewed Guest: Dr Haekyung Um
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| 0:34.4 | Hi, this is Jane Garvey and this is the Women's Hour Podcasts from Friday the 19th of April 2019. |
| 0:40.3 | Today, the first all-female K-pop group to perform at Coachella, and they were in the UK top 40 as well. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm talking about Black Pink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:54.0 | Black Tank and Yair. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | Chons I got to know. Is this the moment for women in K-pop? Something we're discussing on the |
| 1:16.4 | Women's Hour Podcast today. If you happen to see the Sir David Attenborough documentary |
| 1:21.2 | on BBC One last night it was called Climate Change The Facts. You might |
| 1:25.1 | well be reassessing how you live your life. So we'll have a debate on the program today |
| 1:30.0 | about what exactly you can or could do in the home to make things a little better. |
| 1:36.0 | First though this morning we talked about a couple of weeks ago on the programme the number of children |
| 1:39.8 | taken into care in England. |
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