K-Pop Academy: Week 1 - Introductions
I've decided to start a new blog series to help maintain my blog, but also to give you guys the opportunity to find out more about this programme called K-Pop Academy which I have recently started.
So what exactly is K-Pop Academy?
Well, K-Pop Academy is a 10-Week Programme organised by the Korean Cultural Centre UK. The programme features a wide range of Korean cultural activities ranging from Korean Cuisine to Korean History to K-Pop Dance. The programme is held twice a year, and currently there have been 10 K-Pop Academy terms which have taken place.
So how did you find out about this programme?
Well, I had actually found out about this programme a few years back in 2013 or 2014 I believe? This was one I was an active participant in a group called KLUE. I'd also found out about the programme through research as well as social media promotions.
Why did you decide to apply?
So back then, I decided to apply with some friends but unfortunately was not chosen. However, due to my life with education and lots of things getting in the way, I never had the chance to apply again. Fortunately, due to my gap year, I thought it would be a good chance to apply once again and see whether I'd get in. I was really lucky to have my application accepted and be announced as one of the many students for the 10th K-Pop Academy.
How do you apply?
Currently, there aren't any more spaces for K-Pop Academy until after the 10th K-Pop Academy term. The next chance to apply will be in the Spring Term, as there are applications for Spring and Autumn term usually each year. You can usually found out information regarding K-Pop Academy through KCCUK's website here but you can also check out their social media links to find out more, just click below:
I hope that has been informative in regards to information about the K-Pop Academy, now let's move onto the actual events of the day.
Before, we began our class for Week 1, we were told to create presentations which we would present to the class for our first day. We were allowed to make it however we liked, through a video, a PowerPoint presentation, a speech or whatever we saw fit. The presentation should be max 3 minutes, and if you were to have a presentation it should be maximum 5 slides. We were advised to talk about ourselves e.g. Our favourite K-Dramas, favourite K-Pop groups and stuff regarding our lives too.
For my presentation, I decided to be a creative as a Gap year, Media student I thought I would take a chance to present myself in a form of a video. I'm actually really camera shy, but I thought it would be good practice for the future. You can check out my video for my presentation below:
WARNING: I personally think this is very cringey... So I apologise aha! A few things I mentioned before the video were the fact I worked backstage at concerts such as MYNAME and HISTORY (but if you're an avid blog reader of mine, you'd know that already aha!) as well as mentioning I'm a foodie who has a bad habit of taking pictures whenever they eat...
I'd personally like to give a big thanks to Stevie, you guys may know him as KpopSteve! As a film student, he assisted me in creating my own introduction video with his awesome filming and editing skills.
To think we started the day turning up late... With about 8 of us rushing to get the door... I was speed walking in platforms aha. But luckily we weren't too late, and we were welcomed by the KCC staff with our own personal name tags followed by our names written in Hangul. We also all got an individual K-Pop Academy bag to go with our name tags.
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After our presentations, we took a short break to go get some snacks and drinks which were provided for us at a table. There were a range of cute Korean snacks with different flavours, and a sparkling Pineapple drink.
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Overall, the first day was a good chance for all of us to socialise. Originally at the beginning of the day, a group of us all created a FB group to get to know each other better and meet up before class to get bubble tea. It definitely made us more comfortable with each other but the presentations made it better despite how dreadful they were to complete.
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We also had a chance to all exchange contact details and social media at the end of the day which was meaningful, it's interesting to see how close people can get after just a day!
Before I forget, we also had a special recording by Arirang. They came to record our first week of K-Pop Academy for their video. You can check our their video below:
(The previous K-Pop Academy graduates from the 9th K-Pop Academy are also featured).
Arirang TV is an international English-language broadcasting network based in Seoul, South Korea. Their aim is to provide us with a broadcasting station dedicated to promoting Korea to the world. You guys should check them out! They recently have joined with Freesat and Sky making it much more accessible for you guys to watch programmes on your TV such as the famous, After School Club and much more!
I hope you enjoyed my account of the first week of K-Pop Academy and I hope that you'll tune in to find out more about my K-Pop Academy experiences in the upcoming weeks! Thanks for reading!
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