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Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Welcome back to the K Factor, Everything k

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Speaker 1: Pop hosted by your hosts Bomhan, and today we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be delivering you the latest.

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Speaker 2: K pop news live from New York right now.

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Speaker 3: I am in New York and also happening in New

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Speaker 3: York right now is the Megala, and the Megala this

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Speaker 3: year features a whole bunch of K pop acts.

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Speaker 2: This year.

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Speaker 3: We have black Paints Lisa, we have black Paints Rose,

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Speaker 3: and we have black Pinks Jenny. Also, we have s

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Speaker 3: Coops from seventeen at the Megala this year.

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Speaker 2: And they served looks.

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Speaker 3: I love each and every single one of their outfits,

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Speaker 3: and apparently the magazines did as well, because Jenny was

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Speaker 3: ranked number four on the best dressed list of all

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Speaker 3: of Megala, right behind I think do Chi. Some of

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Speaker 3: you fact check me on that, but yeah, everyone was great,

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Speaker 3: and the theme was it was I think it was

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Speaker 3: tailored to you. That was the official dress code, and

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Speaker 3: it was kind of like, uh, restylizing these tailored looks

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Speaker 3: from like kind of these historical times, and s Coops

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Speaker 3: took that historical times theme and ran with it, and

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Speaker 3: he had a hunt Book inspired outfit representing Korean culture

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Speaker 3: which I thought was beautiful because it's not it was

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Speaker 3: it's such a new thing for K pop acts to

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Speaker 3: kind of appear in these events, and for Scoops to

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Speaker 3: show up alone from his group of one hundred and

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Speaker 3: seven members and bring Korean culture with him is is

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Speaker 3: so beautiful. And I'm such a huge fan of seventeen

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Speaker 3: and I thought that was that was just an amazing

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Speaker 3: thing for him to do. Lisa, Rose and Jenny also

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Speaker 3: wore their own individual brands that they were sponsored by,

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Speaker 3: and Jenny, our ball figurehead for Coco Chanel, wore an

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Speaker 3: all Chanelle outfit featuring black and white tones and it

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Speaker 3: looked amazing and she served looks. Lisa wore a black

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Speaker 3: lace outfit with the soilhouettes of historical black figures, uh

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Speaker 3: from just from from across like history, you know, and

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Speaker 3: it was these little soiloetta that printed on her Louis

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Speaker 3: Baton outfit and that's what she wore to the Megala

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Speaker 3: and as she ate, and she ate a little bit

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Speaker 3: too hard, and the Internet is now going crazy over

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Speaker 3: black pink Lisa's outfit. And this is because unfortunately, not

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Speaker 3: by faults of her own, maybe Louis Baton, but we

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Speaker 3: had Rosa Parks landing in the underwear of Lisa, and

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Speaker 3: Lisa walked around the Megala with Rosa Parks and the

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Speaker 3: internet was going crazy. They're like, there, there she goes,

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Speaker 3: Lisa has black in her pink and that is not good.

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Speaker 2: That is that is not good at all. It is

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Speaker 2: not a great look.

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Speaker 3: However, uh as you know, these artists, the celebrities, they're

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Speaker 3: styled by somebody, and unfortunately the team didn't catch it.

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Speaker 3: And hopefully they can do better in the future and

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Speaker 3: they can be more sense about these.

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Speaker 2: Topics, you know.

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Speaker 3: And another hot internet topic for kind of the Day

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Speaker 3: today is a group that I'm a personal fan of

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Speaker 3: called Fantasy Boys, and they're a group debuted from a

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Speaker 3: survival show that took place and on one of their

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Speaker 3: recent live streams, they were showing very obvious international distress

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Speaker 3: signals and I.

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Speaker 2: Was when I first saw it, I was like, oh, hey, okay,

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Speaker 2: that's cool.

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Speaker 3: That's like a new like group sign like we're gonna

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Speaker 3: we're gonna do our ending fairies like this. Oh hey

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Speaker 3: boom bam bob, you know, And and then it started

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Speaker 3: getting a little serious. Their faces were looking a little

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Speaker 3: over and over and we're like, oh, okay, this is

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Speaker 3: a little concerning now, but you know, it's probably nothing big.

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Speaker 3: And then they'll go on like a music show and

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Speaker 3: they'll do it, and then they'll go and do it

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Speaker 2: And I wanted to bring this to kind of the front.

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Speaker 3: Stage so that there could be some action taken, maybe

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Speaker 3: by a fan or by the company, and you know, if.

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Speaker 2: It's serious or if it's not too serious, we'll never know.

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Speaker 3: If it's not too serious, maybe they're they're maybe they're

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Speaker 2: Hopefully they can have a little.

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Speaker 3: Bit more leniency so that they don't have to resort

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Speaker 3: If it's a little bit more serious, then that's out

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Speaker 3: of our hands and we're just going to bring attention

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Speaker 3: You know, Fantasy Boys, we are rooting for you and

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Speaker 3: hopefully everything will be okay, and good luck.

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Speaker 2: Step you away from boy groups for a second.

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Speaker 3: We have g Idyle, a girl group and g Idle

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Speaker 3: rebrands officially to the name Idle before the release of

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Speaker 3: their upcoming album.

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Speaker 2: We Are this combination of kind of the.

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Speaker 3: Upcoming album and and like the rebrand. It seems like

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Speaker 3: a strong statement about their new identity. They released the

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Speaker 3: track list pretty recently and looking through it, it seems pretty interesting.

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Speaker 3: So I'll definitely be tuning in to g the Idol's

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Speaker 3: a big move. Seems to be a big move moving

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Speaker 3: forward with girl groups. We have clips of Espa's.

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Speaker 2: Music video being leaked. The music video.

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Speaker 3: Showcases the concept that I kind of don't want to

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Speaker 3: bring up here because I think it's a little disrespectful

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Speaker 3: to the artist to keep talking about leaks but the

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Speaker 3: group's But the reason why I bring it up is

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Speaker 3: because one of the group's members, Nick Ning, expresses her

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Speaker 3: frustration and her disappointment online following the news, which I

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Speaker 3: think is a very brave thing to do.

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Speaker 2: She went a little far.

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Speaker 3: She was like, oh my god, we are doomed, and

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Speaker 3: that that's a little far. But I think it's very

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Speaker 3: brave to express your disappointment and your frustrations to your

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Speaker 2: And I think that having your stuff leaked.

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Speaker 3: What it feels like is is you're building a lego

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Speaker 3: set for eight months, because these comebacks they take usually

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Speaker 3: like four months to even maybe like two years. And

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Speaker 3: you're building this concept, you're recording your songs, you're you're

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Speaker 3: the meanwhile, you're probably promoting something else, or you're doing

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Speaker 3: your live streams, and you're trying your best and out

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Speaker 3: let the fans figure out for literally four months to

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Speaker 3: two years, and all of a sudden, someone just comes

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Speaker 3: in and kicks over your lego set and defrustration and

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Speaker 3: that disappointment. I really empathize with the group, even though

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Speaker 3: I didn't have any incidents like this. I think is

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Speaker 3: a super terrible thing to go through. So good for

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Speaker 3: them for speaking up. In May eleventh, if you live

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Speaker 3: in America, you should be here. S Town is having

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Speaker 3: performances on May eleventh in La featuring tv XQ Super Junior,

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Speaker 3: Key Minho of shiny Suho, Tanyor Kai of XO, Red

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Speaker 3: Velvet Set one two seven Set, Dream Wavy Espa Rise Set,

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Speaker 3: Wish Nevus, and Hearts The Hearts so if you want

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Speaker 3: to provide your support for these groups, you can get

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Speaker 3: a ticket and it's very very soon, so get it

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Speaker 2: Speaking of concerts, we have Day six. Day six is

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Speaker 3: I've been listening to them on the train in high

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Speaker 3: school for like almost my whole life, like from their

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Speaker 3: which I also really appreciate. Even though like the concert

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Speaker 2: Of the demand that is K pop.

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Speaker 3: You know, I find that a lot of the times

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Speaker 3: when these things happen in these K pop concerts, the promoters,

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Speaker 3: the venue holders, they underestimate the power of K pop,

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Speaker 3: They underestimate how much like love and support that there is,

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Speaker 3: on from day six, we have XC had a new

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Speaker 2: Abs, and I'm like, nice.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's not a lot of creative ways you're

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Speaker 2: You know. I checked the video.

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Speaker 3: It was very similar. It's very similar. And then people

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Speaker 2: Like all these things.

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Speaker 3: And for me, it's not my position to say it

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Speaker 3: because I am not Tayman. I'm not the choreographer for

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: I would have liked for it to have been inspired

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Speaker 2: It's it's it's a lot of bit the same. So, uh,

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Speaker 2: the ideas there, the ideas there, we're building on.

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Speaker 3: We're inspired and we create art that is that that

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Speaker 4: This is the K Factor Everything.

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Speaker 3: K Pop vosted my Bumbhan, I voiced Bumhon and I

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