Shadowing Practice: I’m a K-Pop Idol. I’ll Answer Your WILDEST Assumptions - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Oh sh- I'm a K-pop idol!
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I'm here to debunk all of your K-pop assumptions.
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BOO!
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Ah...
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I've asked you guys for some assumptions you have about K-pop.
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I assume you have a lot.
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And I'm here to answer them, because I'm one of the few who is actually allowed to exercise free speech.
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Most of the time.
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So here in front of me, I have some labels I made with post-it notes and utensils.
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Because we're on a budget here, okay?
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I'm gonna read out an assumption and it can either be true, false, somewhat, is yellow, and maybe...
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which means I don't know.
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Let's get started with your assumptions.
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I went to Baskin Robbins.
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Wait.
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It goes right back.
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I've been seeing a lot of these basket-robin ice cream cakes and I thought it would be cool for the video.
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If we try them together, definitely for the video.
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Here's a spoon.
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What occasion is this for?
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I don't know.
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I just wanted ice cream cake, but here.
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Cheers to- Cheers to still being alive.
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Woo!
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Okay, and I guess I'm gonna taste test these as I answer your assumptions.
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First assumption.
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I've wondered how much Kpop idols' personalities are tailored for the camera.
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I've always assumed pretty much anything on camera isn't really what idols are like.
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This is somewhat true.
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But you can't even see it.
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Sometimes we have to fake it for the camera because if we don't fake it, then it's just gonna be boring and no one wants boring content.
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So our personalities, I don't think it's necessarily fake.
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It is a lot of times exaggerated because that's also part of the job.
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The main job of an idol is to entertain and if you're boring like me, I'm a boring person.
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So whenever I'm in front of the camera, I'm gonna exaggerate and uh try to entertain because that's my job.
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I wouldn't necessarily say it's 100% fake because it's still a part of us but it is definitely exaggerated.
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The thing with Korean Baskin Robbins is that they have a very strange name for ice creams.
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This one is called Oman and Wagein.
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My mom is an alien.
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Mmm, it's just chocolate.
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Idols have fake account to track fans.
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This one's true.
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Story time!
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So my mom is chronically online.
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She would send me news, fan posts, literally anything.
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And back then to see Twitter posts, you need a Twitter account, an ex account.
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And I never used Twitter, I'm not an ex-person.
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But to see these fan posts that my mom shared, I needed to make an account.
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So I made a fake account.
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It was called Jigglypuff, uh, number, number, numbers.
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I don't know why it's Jigglypuff.
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I just like Jigglypuff.
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And I was looking at these fan pages my mom sent me.
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There were a lot of my photos, which were really pretty, and I was really thankful.
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I never interacted with them, never hit like.
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I just looked at my own posts, looked at my own face.
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Now, the only one following my account was my mom.
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One day, someone found that account, figured it was me, and started spreading rumors that I was having these relationships with certain fans.
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And I was like, bro, whoa, whoa, hold on.
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So I deactivated the account.
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My manager came to me and he was like, is this your account?
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And I was like, uh, yeah. So that happened.
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And that was the last Twitter account that I ever had.
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So now whenever my mom sends me a post, I just tell her, just screenshot it and she sent it to me.
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Also, in this day and age, everyone uses social media.
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I feel like we would all have secret accounts.
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The only thing I do with my private account is I follow mean content.
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Meme.
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Meme.
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Brain rock.
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Brain rock.
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Meme.
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Get some help.
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Anyways.
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Bro, this one is melting.
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What is this one?
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This one is, um, 이상한 나라의 솜사탕.
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A weird country's cotton candy.
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That's what this is called.
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Mmm!
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Is it true that each group only gets paid like six to eight dollars or something dollars when you go on stage, you promote your songs, and you have to split it between members?
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Music, shows, and broadcasts, they do pay you, but in most cases, it's not a lot of money.
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I don't think any idol is expecting money to come from music shows, because you're not there to make money, you're there to promote your music.
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Is it split among the members?
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It depends on your contract, but if you haven't renewed your contract, most of the time it would be split equally.
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But before that, a lot of times you would also have to pay death to the company.
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Next mo- oh yeah, oh wow, everything's melting.
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Wait, this one is um, rainbow sherbet.
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Oh st, oh.
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Do idols do those weird fan calls in front of staff?
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Are they told to act in a certain way during those if staff is present?
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This one's false.
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So here's how it works.
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Most of the time The fan calls you see, they're not actually done by the company.
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They're done by a third-party service, which specializes in fan calls.
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So the staffs you interact with, they're not going to be your company staff.
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They're going to be staff that you just met.
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Their job is to monitor the calls.
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A lot of them are really good at languages, so they can translate global calls.
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And the staff, they would not force you to act as a certain way.
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Unless your company is like, okay, let's smile more or like be more friendly to the fans. That, maybe.
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Maybe the company would say that.
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But the staffs who monitor our calls, if we feel uncomfortable with something, They would inform the fans to move on to another question.
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So yeah, in most cases, they're actually helping us more than controlling what we have to do.
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Do idols watch the edits fans made?
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I do.
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My mom sends me a lot of our group's edits.
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She sends me other groups edits.
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She just sends me every edit.
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But I assume that a lot of us do. Do we enjoy it?
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That's a different story.
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This one is New York cheesecake.
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Are K-Pop idols actually close with their members? like they show on screen where it's just for camera
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and they treat each other as co-workers.
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This, I think this is so much.
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This is really case by case.
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In general, I do think that it's a complicated dynamic to have.
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A lot of times you like the members, everything's fine, that's cool.
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But of course, you can also hate your members.
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But I do think that you can never really just be co-workers because you live with each other for what, 10 years?
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You go through all this training, you go through all of this trauma together.
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I would assume that even
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if you don't like each There would be a space of mutual understanding
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that would make you kind of more than co-workers Even if they're at each other's throats.
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But I think this is really case by case.
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Oh my god. That one's disgusting.
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Do you google yourself all the time or is it just something I would do if I was a kpop?
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I hope.
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That's a maybe.
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I personally don't search myself up online because there's nothing to search.
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But I would assume that a lot of people google themselves.
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Wait, this one's mint chocolate chip.
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mint chocolate oh my god what is that?
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what is that? shooting star uh uh
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that's not the best oh pop rocks
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part of me wonders
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if idols from different groups go to the gym together like it makes sense in my head
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but i don't know if that's actually gonna happen
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story time! the most interaction i had with celebrities outside of a workplace place is at the gym.
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There's this gym exclusively for people in this industry.
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And I think you can only get in through relations.
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And a lot of times, idols and actors would go to that gym to get personal training
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and sometimes personal training times would collide
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so I don't know I might be booked for 2 p.m and someone else is booked for 3.
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At first you just say hi
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but as you meet them more often you kind of start
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doing more interactions like I don't know give a thumbs up
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and then those become small talk and
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that is where I interacted most with people in the industry and it always just stayed a small talk.
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I never actually made a friend from the gym but I assume that many people do.
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Berry Berry Strawberry.
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When an idol goes out on date with someone, does that person have to sign a confidentiality agreement?
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I think this is false.
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But also I wouldn't know.
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You know, maybe this could happen but I think it's false.
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Because I feel like with NDAs, NDA is a very business thing.
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It's like companies would probably make people sign NDAs.
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But with dating, I don't think idols would want their company to be involved with who they date.
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Unless you're like really big, then it kind of makes sense to have NDAs.
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Also, I think idols are very careful with dating, so they wouldn't just go on dates with someone they can't really trust.
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This one is, um, Amon Du Pung Pung Imida.
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Oh sh- Mmm.
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K-pop ending fairy is a hostage situation.
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Most idols find it cringy to pant heavily and wink in front of the camera.
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False.
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Ending fairies are not a hostage situation.
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I think you just do it.
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Like, you don't really think about it.
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If the camera picks up on you, you just do it.
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And if you want to wink, you want to wink.
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It might be cringey in the moment, but like five minutes later, I don't even think anyone cares.
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Or is that just me?
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The music show actually picks who gets to be Ending Fairies.
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So when you get picked, it's actually a compliment.
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It's like, oh, the music show likes you.
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I don't think any of us would have strong opinions about Ending Fairies.
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It's just you just do it.
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Oh, damn, this is actually chocolate.
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Hmm.
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Every kpop idol has their favorite thirst trap of themselves.
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False.
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I don't have a thirst trap.
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Make me some thirst trap edits.
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Wait, now that I think about it, don't.
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Are the little people and Koreans in general really judgmental of foreigners?
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Are Koreans racist?
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In my personal experience, this is a false.
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Koreans have always treated me pretty nicely. of the time.
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But I think I'm like a special case because one, I do K-pop.
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You know, no one really looks down on K-pop.
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And two, I don't look and sound that different.
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I speak Korean pretty well.
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It's not apparent that I'm foreign.
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And also there's a lot of foreigners in Korea, I think.
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Whenever I go outside, I always meet foreigners, including myself.
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I mean, yeah.
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How is media training like?
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Is there a test?
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So media training is going to be different for different companies.
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With my company, we had media training classes in English because everyone kind of made sense in Korean.
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But when we speak English, we don't know the culture.
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We're not from abroad.
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So we We kinda need to be more educated in those cultures.
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They just kinda brief you on what you should say, what topics to avoid, how you avoid them, those kind of things.
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And then at the end of these classes, they would test us and they would give us a lot of questions
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and we just answer them like we're in an interview.
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But like there's difficulties to these questions.
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And as one of the main English speakers in our group, I was asked questions about the economy, about the political state of the world.
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The political and economic state of the world right now?
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You know what it felt like?
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Like, I was preparing for a pageant.
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I was trying to be Miss Universe.
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I was like, hi!
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I think idols read and write fanfictions of themselves, especially if they have a crush on another idol.
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Bro, that's false.
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Can you imagine a news pops up and it just says, your favorite idol is caught writing fanfics about him and another idol.
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That's kind of weird, man.
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I don't think idols read their fanfics unless it's for fun and giggles.
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Maybe you would want to read your fanfics once in a while.
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But also, if you're not an English speaker, I don't think they even know what Wattpad is. So... Would they write fanfics?
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Is that even a question?
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K-pop idols drop their cakes on purpose because they taste like crap.
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Mmm.
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A lot of times, the cakes that are provided in our lives, they're presents from fans.
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Or like our company just bought it for us.
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So I think when they actually drop it, they're not purposely dropping it.
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Because if someone's purposely dropping cakes sent from fans, I think that's pretty problematic.
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Four of these is 164 calories.
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I had 12 of these, which is three more, so it's...
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192 calories, okay.
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We still have some space.
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Do you guys actually shower together when there's not much time left?
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This is really true.
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I mean, not anymore.
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I'm living alone right now.
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When we used to live in a dorm, there's only two bathrooms and there's seven of us. And...
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And waiting can just be a waste of time.
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People just use the same bathroom.
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And actually a culture shock that I had were that Koreans were very comfortable being naked around each other.
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Back at home, I've never seen my family naked.
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I've never seen anyone naked.
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There's no public baths, there's no spas.
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But in Korea that's different.
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Like people just love getting naked.
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So it took me a while to actually adjust myself and actually start...
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...being naked in front of my members.
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Do idols have secret discord accounts to play with discord bots based on kpop?
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Okay, I don't know what discord bots are, but discord accounts?
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Story time!
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So the only game I play is League of Legends.
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Sometimes my friend would be like, hey, we need to play to fill our lobby.
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And I'd be like, okay, sure, I'll fill.
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So I get into the discord call and I'll be like, oh, Annyeonghaseyo username.
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His username might be Jigglypuff, so I'll be like, oh, Annyeonghaseyo Jigglypuff name.
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Jalehbushishyo, fighting!
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And over the game, you kind of bond with each other, you know?
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So we're making jokes.
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We're like, hey, Mr. Jigglypuff, I need some help.
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Where are you?
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Hey, Mr. Jigglypuff, stop dying.
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Later on, I asked my friend who Mr. Jigglypuff was. And turns out...
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And I made a fool of myself.
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So lesson learned, whenever I get into a Discord call, I would ask my friend what I'm getting into.
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Who are we getting into?
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So the most interaction I ever had with people in the industry was either at the gym or in Discord lobbies.
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Everything is melting.
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There's no saving this ice cream.
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I have to eat the whole thing.
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I don't think some of the idol ages are the real ages.
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Is there something like lying about their ages or am I paranoid?
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Wait, let me think.
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You can't even read these, man.
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Okay, maybe, but I don't personally know anyone who lied about their ages.
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But like, it doesn't make sense, you know?
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It makes sense.
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Some idols don't like their concepts slash songs, but just deal with it.
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Basically, like any job.
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That's true.
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I don't think you have to like a song to perform it.
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You just perform it.
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I used to think K-pop idols never farted, but then I hear squeaks so they probably do fart, but I refuse to believe that.
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I think that all K-pop idols have groups to talk to each other about the most random things
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and stuff that no one asked like randomly at 2am.
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Guys, I just exploded the toilet and I don't have toilet paper.
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Anyways.
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I refuse to believe K-pop idols don't date.
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Like what do you mean you're such fine and also surrounded by fine and you don't date?
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Imagine the most pretty popular people in your school.
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with other pretty people from other schools
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and they're young they want to experience life what's gonna happen? there's gonna be people who wants to date
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and people who that's not their priority right now I would assume
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that having good-looking people around would increase his chances of something happening you know
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but that's my assumption you know what do I know what
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do I know? living in South Korea automatically makes you feel ugly Uh, this personally is false.
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Probably because I'm not ugly.
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In media, people are really good looking.
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When you go out in the streets, most people look pretty normal.
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I suppose Paito's life is much easier than is shown in social media and they have plenty of free time between comebacks.
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Uh...
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I think this is case by case.
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In my case, we don't have comebacks, we're not touring.
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So I have a lot of free time.
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Hence, I'm doing this.
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but when someone's busy they're really busy
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but I'm doing this this is my life now right I
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can't even eat this anymore it's oh oh god the sun has set I should probably go sorry
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if I didn't get to your assumptions there were a lot of assumptions on fanfics
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which is sus on your part what what are you guys
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reading like now I'm interested send me some fanfics I don't don't send me fanfics One last thing before I go, let's play Two Truths and a Lie!
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About This Lesson
In this lesson, you’ll practice English speaking and listening skills using a lively video featuring a K-pop idol debunking fan assumptions. You’ll learn to follow conversational speech, pick up casual phrases, and mimic natural tone—perfect for IELTS speaking practice and everyday communication. The video’s mix of humor, storytelling, and real-life anecdotes makes it ideal for applying the shadowing technique, a proven method to improve fluency and pronunciation.
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Debunk: To prove something is false (e.g., "She debunked myths about K-pop idols").
- Tailored: Made to fit a specific purpose (e.g., "Her personality is tailored for the camera").
- Exaggerated: Made to seem larger or more intense than reality (e.g., "He exaggerated his reactions for fun").
- Chronically online: Spending too much time on the internet (e.g., "My mom is chronically online, checking fan posts").
- Fan posts: Content created by fans about a celebrity (e.g., "She shared fan posts with her group members").
Practice Tips
To master the shadowing technique with this video, start by watching it once to grasp the main ideas. Then, play short 5-10 second clips and repeat them immediately, mimicking the idol’s speed, tone, and pauses. Notice how she uses casual filler words like "uh" and "okay"—these make speech sound natural, a key skill for IELTS speaking practice. Focus on her playful intonation when talking about ice cream or her mom—copying this will help you convey emotion in English. For advanced practice, try shadowspeaks (speaking along in real time without pausing) to build fluency. This video’s conversational style makes it a great tool for learning English with videos—you’ll improve both listening comprehension and speaking confidence in no time.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've been seeing · I've been using |
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you don't like each There would be |
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to live · used to think |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've asked · I've wondered · I've always assumed |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.