EP.23 ✌ The continuous Holidays with K-Culture!

💐Let’s enjoy K-Culture contents from the start to the end during the continuous holidays!✌

In Korea, there are substitute holidays in this week and the next week as well.

Despite of substitute holidays in a row, it’s so sad that people can’t enjoy it because of Pandemic!

BUT, no worries! Many contents are waiting for you to fully fill your holidays!

DOLPIN prepared all! All you need to do is just to pick what you like~!🐳

🌱 Newbie of the week 💿

🎧 WAITING

5^th, October, 2021. WOODZ

A gifted artist WOODZ came back~! WOODZ composed and wrote all songs in his 3^rd mini album, 'ONLY LOVERS LEFT'!!! This is a love story of growing love, realizing each other’s love and making a deep relationship but eventually breaking up because of not loving each other anymore~! Aren’t you curious about love sung by WOODZ’s own feeling? Among the double title tracks, let’s listen to ‘WAITING’ that WOODZ wonderfully sang the tragic of love with it~!🐳

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🎧 DDARA

5^th, October, 2021. Golden Child

Golden Child came back with their new song, ‘DDARA’! It is remarkably addictive with its rhythmical beat and new jack swing melody! Especially, the unaccompanied acapella in intro is so awesome~! ‘DDARA’ delivers the message of ‘Trust me and follow me.’ delightfully and strongly. And it emphasized ‘Becoming the real myself’ without caring others~! Let’s follow Golden Child and go to listen to ‘DDARA’~!🐳

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🎧 Savage

5^th, October, 2021. aespa

A monster-like super rookie aespa’s 1^st mini album! ‘Savage’, the title song of Trap genre with strong sound of drum and bass has been released~! Not only aespa’s unique rapping and powerful ad-lib, but also addictive hook and exclamation in ‘Savage’ are impressive! Especially, let’s pay attention to the story that aespa and their avatar, ‘ae’ that, following 'Black Mamba’ and 'Next Level', goes toward KWANGYA fights against 'Black Mamba'~!🐳

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🤫 Shh!! BTS Story of K-POP 🔇

Behind story of group names

ep.5, CRAVITY

CRAVITY getting attention as a boy group that is being expected to lead K-POP the 4th generation! The group name of CRAVITY is a compound of 'Creativity' and 'Gravity'. It means that ‘we’ll attract people to our universe(Parallel World) with our unique charms’. And, it contains the ambition of ‘Members with different character became one and make the perfect balance resulted to perfect performances’. CRAVITY is famous for their overwhelming performances to be called as ‘Perfor-vity'! Their group name is as awesome as their performances.🐳

‘Hitman'Bang’ alone clamored YES when others said NO!

'Although the love left from me~ Although my heart broke~ I was able to eat well~ It was just a moment~ It was not deadly painful.’ You guys all remember this song, right? Yeah! This is a big hit song, <I was able to eat well> that LEE HYUN and Chang-min from 2AM released as a male duo ‘Homme’! Though, this was one of the songs that all staffs in their agency at that time were against. LEE HYUN said during a recent shooting that ”While everyone is against, only one person, ‘Hitman Bang’ insisted to promote this song. He is a person who can read the era and lead the trend.”. A person with sense is definitely different, isn’t it? ‘Hitman Bang’ has good eyes like the producer of BTS!🐳

📺 Start binge-watching! Hottest Drama 🔥

📺KBS2 <The king's Affection>📺

11^th, October, 2021.~ (Mon,Tue)

9:30pm Will be on aired

Historic dramas that rarely can’t be seen come back one after one. This time, PARK EUN BIN who has 20 years of career with historic dramas will appear dressing up like a man. <The king's Affection> is a romance drama in palace originated from a cartoon of same name and it has a story that a girl who was thrown away because she is a girl became to live as the fake crown prince because of the death of her elder brother. RO WOON and Jung Chae-yeon who are from idol groups take the leading role and supporting role do that it is gathering expectation and worries at once. Don’t miss the first episode of <The king's Affection>!🐳

Watch the beauty of the fake crown prince

📺JTBC <Reflection of You>📺

13^th, October, 2021.~ (Wed,Thu)

10:30pm Will be on aired

The king of drama is tragic romantic dramas, isn’t it? JTBC’s new TV series of thriller with passion, <Reflection of You> originated from the novel of same name is waiting for its 1^st episode will be on aired next week. Ko Hyun-jung who appears on a TV series 3 years after 'My Lawyer, Mr. Joe' season 2 and Shin Hyun-bin who is being loved with a role of Jang Gyeo-wool in ‘Hospital Playlist’ series will take lead roles. The love affair and betrayal, decadence and revenge between 2 actress who are 15 years apart will be spread in this TV series. If you’re a fan of tragic romantic dramas, don’t miss this!🐳

Go to watch a bleeding love affair

⏰ Time Flies! What’s for the entertainment shows? 🧨

📺MBC every1 <The man at the Tteokbokki House>📺

4^th, October, 2021.~ (Mon)

8:30pm Being on aired

Newly opened! ‘Men with sincere heart’ opened a Tteokbokki restaurant! Every Korean has their own memories about Tteokbokki, right? Jee Seok-jin, Kim Jong-min and Lee Yi Kyung opened a Tteokbokki restaurant of memories, stories and delicious taste and the visitors of the restaurant were also special. We could listen to not only a shocking story ever from a former diplomat but the owner of an udon restaurant now, but also a moving story from a female firefighter! Casts fully prepared for opening their restaurant by learning a recipe from a professional chef of Tteokbokki! May I order Tteokbokki~🐳

Eat up Tteokbokki of stories!

📺tvN <Hospital Playlist in Mountain Village>📺

8^th, October, 2021.~ (Fri)

8:50pm Will be on aired

There’re many people who failed to get over the aftereffect after ‘Hospital Playlist 2’ ended. But ‘Mido and Falasol’ members came back right after it with a TV show in a mountain village! The combination of a TV show of PD Na Young-seok and 99s! Isn’t it awesome? To watch 99s who fell into characters in ‘Hospital Playlist’ a lot in mountain village as well is so confusing whether we’re watching ‘Hospital Playlist’ or a spin-off TV show. As we watched that an actress Kim Hae-sook who acted Jung-won’s mother, Jung Ro-sa appeared on the teaser video, we can expect other casts to appear on this show as well!🐳

Let’s meet ‘Mido and Falasol’ of mountain village version!

👁️ Daehangno News of this week 🔍

No one told me that

The history starts under the black sky

and grows under the stink of rain-soaked plants

eventually is completed when a young bird falls.

There’re many musical fans who are enthusiastic for the strong story of a performance based on novels. This original musical <Dawin Young’s the origin of evil(hereinafter Dawin Young)> is originated from a writer Park Ji-ri’s novel of same name that more than 850 pages. Don’t think this will be boring because it was based on a serious novel! A writer Lee Hee-jun who is working hard and diligently is in charge of the script and lyrics, so, although this musical is serious, everyone can enjoy this! Since its 1^st season in 2018, this musical <Dawin Young> came back its 3^rd season this year after its 2^nd season in 2019! Let’s overcome the long title of this musical!🐳

<Dawin young> recorded high GPA so it is called as a GPA rich. In the ‘Inter park’, its 1^st season got 9.4 of GPA and its 2^nd season got 10 of GPA. So, from fans, it is being praised as ‘The best performance ever in their life.” Not only showed the conflict between the good and evil, it showed a direct way to solve the problems of justice and social class. As there are many loyal fans, this musical is famous for its many fan arts and fan accounts. We decided to call this ‘Dawin Young syndrome’!🐳

Differently from other performances that enlarge its venue while repeating its seasons, <Dawin Young> persists CJ Towol Theater. It means that fans can watch this musical with the feeling of its 1^st season! Because the numbers and characters have been rarely changed, fans can watch this musical with the feeling of recalling the memories every year. But, this this season, the cast for Dawin and Neice had been changed to a new double casting and young Learner was added. There are some changes like this so that it is gathering expectation!🐳

Dawin Lee Chang-seob who feels like a 16-year-old boy in the novel who faces the secret and feels

Dawin Kim Yong-han who became a grown-up while facing the truth under the harsh fates

Neice Min Woo-hyuk who conceals the hideous truth and pretends a perfect father

Neice Yoon Hyeong-ryeol who is stuck in conflict and worries in the faltering relation

Rumy Song Moon-sun who is the 1^st love of Dawin and bravely ferrets out the truth of her uncle’s death

Leo Lee dong-gyu who desires freedom and is a friend of Dawin

Learner Choi In-hyung who is the grandfather of Dawin and stated the secret

Moreover, there’s one more reason to watch this season of <Dawin Young>! This musical <Dawi Young> was produced as an ambitious work of Seoul Performing Arts Company’s planning team but the license of this musical will be handed to a private production company after this season. It means that this season can be the Seoul Performing Arts Company’s last version of <Dawin Young>! This performance is a special performance of Seoul Performing Arts Company so that the new chairman of the board said that ‘we love this performance as if it's our child’. So, you will be sad if you miss this season!🐳

Lastly, you don’t need to read the original novel before you watch this musical <Dawin Young>. It’s okay to decide the order according to your taste. Musical fans recommend the course of Musical-novel-musical that you watch the musical first and read the novel after it and watch the musical again. It means to focusing on the musical first and to enjoy the lines and story through the novel later and to watch musical again! Because this musical is filled with awesome story and lines! How about being together with <Dawin Young> upcoming holidays!?

📌PERIOD : 3^th October, 2021. ~ 17^th, October. 2021.

📌PLACE : Seoul Art Center CJ Towol Theater

📌RUNNING TIME : 165 min. (Including intermission)

📌TICKET PRICE : R 90,000 KRW / S 60,000 KRW / A 30,000 KRW

📌INQUIRIES : Seoul Performing Arts Company (02-523-0986 / No. 3)

(Image source: Seoul Performing Arts Company)

💌Micro-Monitor behind Stage!🔍

The musical <Myeolhwagoon>

Backstage self-camera

Do you remember the musical <Myeolhwagoon> that DOLPIN introduced last week? This was a performance telling about the first firefighters ever in Jo-seon era. <Myeolhwagoon> has been being praised a lot since it started performing on last Tuesday and the video of profile shooting were open to fans! This is a generous self-filmed relay video that all casts showed their chemistry and fun moments! If you want to watch the actors who even put pins for the performance at the back stage right before the strong acting on the stage, hurry up to watch this! 🐳

Let’s enjoy the chemistry of actors!

The musical <FRANKENSTEIN>

The tour of the 1^st practice by ‘Butler THE RUNGE-Z’

Only about 2 months has left till the 4th season of the musical <FRANKENSTEIN> will start. Because it has strong and loyal fans, getting tickets for it was so hard! In order to return the love from fans, a web show that shows everything of this musical <FRANKENSTEIN> has been released! Kim Dae-jong and Lee Jeong-soo who take a role of ‘RUNGE’, a butler led this show under name of ‘RUNGE-Z’. Their chemistry that was extraordinary since the prior meeting exploded at the site! ‘RUNGE-Z’ who became to act as the outside director for promotion! Let’s meet right away!🐳

Let’s go to watch the practice following ‘RUNGE-Z’!

‘Street Woman Fighter’ doing well ‘Mnet’ doing poorly

It is said that too many cooks spoil the broth. But even one cook can spoil the broth with the faulty decision. Same goes to Mnet’s ‘Street Woman Fighter’.

‘Street Woman Fighter’ is a competition show of female dancers. Since its 1st episode, it became hot issue and it recorded twice of view rate with its 2nd episode. And it became the most popular TV show among the current TV shows.

The popularity of ‘Street Woman Fighter’ wasn’t originated from dancers’ wonderful dance or its prize money. The dance genres that ordinary people don’t know and battles. Skill of TOP dancers and the relationship between independent dancers and the story attracted people who didn’t know about dance at all.

The combination of unique, independent characters and cool and hip dancers caused thrilling and touching feeling. Because not only domestic view rates, but also view rate in YouTube is high, it is said that Mnet that caused a lot of controversies like manipulating the vote got a chance to get over these controversies through ‘Street Woman Fighter’.

But Mnet started to wrongly cook the broth in their hands. The early purpose of the program was to popularize dancers. But the purpose of ‘popularization’ seems to have been changed.

At the beginning, it showed the ability of dancers and the fun of dance battles. The world of dance battles that ordinary people don’t know and their attitudes were so attractive. But as soon as the missions started, the dance of dancers started to fall in the swamp of devil’s editing.

The mediation of dancers’ opinions was deteriorated as conflict and the self-confidence became the sniping. A rule of pointing out the drop-out was added so that dancers can’t enjoy dancing and just do things with strategy rather than their dance skills. The process of completing the performances became a minor part and the conflict and check between crews became a major part.

The editing emphasizing dancers getting nervous against the score from 3 judges of BoA, TAEYONG of NCT and a choreographer Hwang Sang-hoon and crying with the fear of being dropped make people uncomfortable. The scenes that dancers who was full of self-esteem and self-confidence are being shaken by judges from other field weren’t what viewers wanted.

Insincere editing was also the problem. Difficult terms have been came out since the 1^st episode of ‘Street Woman Fighter’. But there’s no captions explaining them. And there were a lot of mistakes of terms about dance battels. It was corrected after getting feedbacks. The higher the view rates get, the more likely to be careful with editing it gets. But Mnet didn’t correctly mark the name of dancers and it wrote a caption of ‘Name check’ so it was frowned.

The one that covers the shining dancers is Mnet. The negative editing that devalues each other makes people pay attention to the conflict rather than the dance itself. It feels like that they are just using dancers for being issue and getting high view rates with the excuse of making people know about dancers.

The point that people like is not the tears and conflict of dancers. If Mnet keeps using stimulating ‘devil’s editing’ in order for being an issue, it will make people know that the cooks of Mnet is incompetent again.