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Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD look back on the past idol group audition shows and talk about their legacies.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD listen to the songs of artists that went their own way in a solo career.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD listen to duet songs where two voices harmonize together.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD will listen to the award-winning songs and go over the reasons for their wins.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: Spring songs we all hear every spring. SJ and YD debate on which spring song is the best.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD discuss why it is difficult to find K-POP albums on the top 100 music albums and discuss which albums could make the list going forward.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD listen to the 90s albums which made it to top 100 music albums and discuss reasons why so many of the 90s albums made the list.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD listen to the top 100 music albums which were selected three times and talk about how they were selected and changed throughout time.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD listen to Korean hiphop songs and look back at the changing tides of K-hiphop

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD talk about the remake craze while listening to various K-POP remakes.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD listen to songs about people's beloved hometowns

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: Winter vacation is back. SJ and YD talk listen to title songs of TV animations from the past.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD listen to songs that gives hopes and wishes in the new year.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD wrap up the year 2022 by reviewing the aspects in the K-POP market that was noteworthy this year.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD listen to various Christmas songs played in Korea and other parts of the world, and discuss which songs are loved in Korea.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD talk about songs to sing in Norae-bang while looking at the list of the most popular songs.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD look back on the beginning of the K-POP hallyu, Boa, who has been loved constantly by 22 years.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD talk about songs that are climbing back up the charts way after they were released.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: The World Cup season has kicked off in earnest. SJ and YD listen to and talk about the World Cup songs that cheer the South Korean teams.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: In the heyday of dating shows, SJ and YD talk about how the reality dating shows reflect the particular times they was broadcasted.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD discuss who deserves to be called the queen of ballad among female ballad singers we listen to when the weather gets chilly.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD listen to songs of remembrance for the families of the victims of tragedies

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD listens to scary songs for Halloween to get ready for the Halloween vibes.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD listens to ballad songs that come to mind in the fall and talk about their favorite ballad singers.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD explore various musical films loved by Koreans.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD talk about the 4th generation girl groups getting on various charts with new and different images and messages.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD talk about Park Jeongun, a 90s singer-songwriter who passed away recently, and listen to his songs.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD talk about impressive soundtracks of Hallyu dramas from the 2000s that took Asia by storm.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: With K-Drama taking the world by storm, SJ and YD talk about the greatest K-Drama soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s and their features.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD talks about songs everyone can enjoy when people are thinking of their families on the Chuseok holiday.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: Celebrating the 19th anniversary of Arirang Radio, SJ and YD look back on the memories of the radio media which everyone has.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD discuss the meaning of 'getting sentimental in the fall(가을 탄다)', and the songs that fits the particular season.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD talk about Rock in K-POP and its relations with the characteristics of K-POP consumers.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD talk about the present and future of girl groups from the 3.5th generation girl groups who emerged with the boom of audition programs to the 4th generation who debuted recently.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: SJ and YD take a look into iconic K-pop girl groups that debuted between the mid-2000 to 2010, by sharing their favorite songs that defined this era.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: From the Kim Sisters to Girl's Generation whose debut was 15 years ago, SJ and YD talk about the iconic K-POP girl groups in each generation.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: From the rock n roll of the 70's to the cute and smoking songs sung by female singers... SJ and YD does naming competitions of songs for you to enjoy.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: It has already been a decade since Gangnam Style hit the world. Today, we are going to throw back the days in 2012, when PSY rocked the whole world, and how it affected K-pop afterwards.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: We are going to talk about several key elements that shape K-pop as K-pop.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: We are going to talk about foreign members in K-pop group's positions and performance.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: Plagiarism issues are commonly seen in the global music industry. But, is there an absolute criterion for determining the similarity in music? We will take a look at the complicated stances on music plagiarism.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: BTS announced that they would temporarily stop group activities nine years after its debut and turn into the next chapter with solo projects. We are going to talk about the background and potential effects of their decision.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: We are going to talk about stars, from Jeon Yeong-rok to IU, rocked both fields of acting and singing. (전영록부터 아이유까지, 연기와 노래 두 마리 토끼를 모두 잡은 스타들에 대해 이야기해 본다.)

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: We are going to talk about songs that make your driving more exciting and fun. (여행의 시작점인 운전할 때 듣고 싶은 노래, 차에서 들으면 더 좋은 노래들에 대해 이야기해 본다.)

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: We are going to talk about the ‘National Singing Contest' that have been loved by Koreans for a long time and the oldest host Song Hae, and how one program became a legacy of mass culture in South Korea.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: Trot, which was considered as the exclusive property of the elderly, now encountered its second golden age with the appearance of a number of young and attractive trot singers. Today, we are going to talk about trot's origin in genre and the most beloved trot songs in South Korea.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: We are going to talk about Japanese 1980s music genre, Citypop, that has became popular in South Korea amid Retro boom.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: Marking the opening of Jeonju International Film Festival, we are going to talk about movies and sound track musics that embodied radio.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: We will talk about B graded songs that amuse people.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: Classical pieces in pop. Today, we talk about K-pop songs that were inspired by popular classical music.

Music critic Kim Young-dae's interesting take on music and culture. - Today's Topic: We're going to talk about BTS' performance at 2022 Grammy Awards, and eye-catching episodes at the awards.