17 Carat K-Pop
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17 Carat K-Pop
This channel hosts two podcasts that currently have an audience spanning 50 countries! 17 Carat K-Pop is a podcast covering news from both the world of K-pop and the music industry as a whole. Episode topics include the history of K-pop, artist-specific episodes diving into their music video univers...
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MAESTRO! (Seventeen Talk, Vol. 16)
A massive guide to all things 17 IS RIGHT HERE! Hope breaks down everything worth knowing about the compilation album’s four new songs and music video...
All Things IU
From being a “Lost Child” to the “Winning” superstar that she is today, this episode chronologically recaps IU’s career and catalog! This is both a gu...
Best New Music: April 2024
A ranking and review of the best new releases from K-pop, J-pop, and C-pop artists!
Read more about one of the top picks here!
(Part 5) Tony Hsieh and the Quest for Happiness (Enthusiasts, Ep. 70)
While this five-part series is about one extraordinary man who deserves as much name recognition as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, it’s also about the...
iHAARTRadio
Thorough breakdowns of the latest K-pop-company-related feuds, from the drama between HYBE and its subsidiaries to the lawsuit against a different “Bi...
(Part 4) Tony Hsieh and the Quest for Happiness (Enthusiasts, Ep. 69)
While this five-part series is about one extraordinary man who deserves as much name recognition as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, it’s also about the...
(Part 3) Tony Hsieh and the Quest for Happiness (Enthusiasts, Ep. 68)
While this five-part series is about one extraordinary man who deserves as much name recognition as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, it’s also about the...
Best New Music: March 2024
A ranking and review of the best new releases from K-pop, J-pop, C-pop, P-pop, and T-pop artists!
(Part 2) Tony Hsieh and the Quest for Happiness (Enthusiasts, Ep. 67)
While this five-part series is about one extraordinary man who deserves as much name recognition as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, it’s also about the...
minisode 3: TOMORROW Explainer
Throughout this in-depth guide to The Little Prince, Hope draws attention to the parallels TXT make to it in their new songs, short film, “Deja Vu” mu...
DREAM()SCAPE Theory Time! (NCT Talk, Vol. 21)
Everything to know about NCT DREAM’s DREAM()SCAPE-era videos and images, from the overall plot to the specific nods to EXO’s story!
Tony Hsieh and the Quest for Happiness (Enthusiasts Ep. 66)
While this five-part series is about one extraordinary man who deserves as much name recognition as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, it’s also about the...
Best New Music: February 2024
A ranking and review of the best new releases from K-pop, J-pop, and T-pop artists!
For more information about these picks:
Episode about...
TY for TY Tracks
The ultimate guide to TAEYONG’s TAP Era: the best lyrics, the thematic parallels to the SHALALA Era, theories about the “TAP” music video, the hidden...
LE SSERAFIM's New Era
Hope uses the movie Black Swan as a starting point for understanding the messages in LE SSERAFIM’s new mini-album, EASY; assesses the ways the group’s...
Still Monster (Energy)
A short overview of times the makers of Monster Energy (aka Monster Beverage Corporation) sued entities who used the word “Monster” in branding, the l...
Best New Music: January 2024
A ranking and review of the best new releases from K-pop, J-pop, and T-pop artists!
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Streaming the best...
Hi, It'z Me Again
After explaining the reason for this show’s hiatus and what the future of 17 Carat K-Pop looks like, Hope makes seventeen predictions for 2024 (mostly...
BONUS: Best K-Pop x J-Pop of 2023
A ranking and review of last year’s seventeen best Japanese releases from K-pop artists!
While 17 Carat K-Pop and Enthusiasts are...
BONUS: Enthusiasts 2023 Recap
A quick overview of each episode of Enthusiasts that was released in 2023, along with some story updates!
While 17 Carat K-Pop and Enthusiasts a...
BONUS: More of the Best K-Pop of 2023!
From unique highlight medley videos to pre-album-release short films, this mini-sode celebrates the coolest, most creative, and overall best teasers f...
K-Pop Year in Review
After revisiting her 2023 predictions, Hope recaps both the year in K-pop headlines and in episodes of this podcast, while adding new commentary and s...
Best Non-K-Pop Releases of 2023
Fifty different artists from the worlds of J-pop, C-pop, T-pop, and P-pop who released the most interesting, creative, and/or overall excellent music...
Best Songs of 2023
A guide to the best songs of the year from Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Thai artists!
See the final ranking of these picks the second it’s of...
Best Albums of 2023
A fast-paced guide to over 100 of 2023’s best albums released by Korean, Japanese, and Chinese artists!
The albums are discussed in a random ord...
Best K-Pop Music Videos of 2023
The best music videos released by Korean artists this year, a list revealed in the form of a guessing game!
Stay tuned for the final ranking of...
Best New Music: November 2023
A ranking and review of the best new releases from K-pop, J-pop, and C-pop artists!
“STAY Tuned,” Ep. 17
Hope covers a WIDE range of news stories related to the music industry, starting with recent (separate) lawsuits involving Genius and the team behind...
Phantom of the BOPera
HYBE and MBC’s olive-branch moment, BLACKPINK’s visit to Buckingham Palace, interesting data about how English language in K-pop songs has changed, FI...
Gyubin Interview
Artist-to-watch Gyubin addresses her “super rookie” label, shares why she admires IU, explains why she’s content with not clearly defining her musical...
ORANGE BLOOD Album Guide
Hope decodes all of ENHYPEN’s ORANGE BLOOD pre-release material: the concept trailer and other video teasers, the pictures, and even the tracklist! Fr...
ROCK-STAR Celebration!
Thoughts and theories about everything related to Stray Kids’ new album and corresponding videos: what the clown characters represent, how different p...
Best New Music: October 2023
A ranking and review of the best new releases from K-pop, J-pop, T-pop, and C-pop artists!
Pras Michel, AI, and an Unusual Trial (Enthusiasts, Ep. 65)
As strange as Fugees member Pras Michel’s corruption trial was, featuring everything from a fugitive accomplice to Leonardo DiCaprio’s testimony, the...
The Star Seekers: The Ultimate Guide
A comprehensive overview of TXT’s Webtoon: a guide to the characters and themes, an episode-by-episode summary, and a look at the many nods to TXT’s m...
ENHYPEN “FATE” World Tour & Webtoon Recaps
After summarizing each chapter and the core themes of ENHYPEN’s Webtoon, DARK MOON: THE BLOOD ALTAR (in the first twenty minutes of this episode), Hop...
SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN (Seventeen Talk, Vol. 15)
A track-by-track guide to SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN, a rundown of all the Easter eggs in the “God of Music” video, and a summary of how SEVENTEEN’s new album...
QueenKARD
This episode covers an ENORMOUS amount of K-pop and J-pop news in under an hour: Song and Show of the Summer poll results, a monumental day in J-pop h...
Fact Check (NCT Talk, Vol. 20)
Why the NCT Cinematic Universe is like an asterisk, how the characters NCT 127 play in the “Fact Checkmate” murder mystery special have more in common...
The Name Chapter: FREEFALL and What's Next for TXT
Hope shares her first impressions of TXT’s new album, The Name Chapter: FREEFALL, points out all the “Chasing That Feeling” music video details worth...