January 17, 2026 • 27 mins
Beomhan kicks off the first episode of the year with big energy and even bigger plans.
He breaks down the latest on BTS, EXO, Stray Kids, and NewJeans, while teasing a bold new direction for the show—including expanding the format into C-pop alongside K-pop. New music, new conversations, and a fun-filled year ahead—this episode sets the tone for what’s next.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Let's make.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of The
K Factor. Everything k Pop with your host Bomhan, your
best source for the latest K pop news, updates and
general Asian entertainment.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
This is our first episode back for the new year
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And this year we're expanding our horizons from not just
K pop news, but also anything.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Entertainment in the scope of Asia.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Before we chat a bit, I'm gonna bring you, guys
k pop updates as we are normally used to.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
In the realm of K pop. We have Stray Kids
and their concert film Stray Kids the Dominate Experience, kind
of bouncing off of their Dominate tour and it's hitting
theaters really soon, literally like in like three weeks, as
soon as February sixth, inviting used to join them on
their sold out stadium tours. These films are always super inspiring.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Literally, when I was like eight years old, that was
the first time I watched one of these like kind
of concert tour like documentaries, and it sparked such like
emotion in me that I went home that night and
had a dream about me performing in front of like
forty thousand people.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And that's what literally changed my life.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
So I had that dream and I was like, you
know what, that's what I'm gonna do with my life
and I'm gonna pursue it until I die. And that
was coming from one of these concert film experiences.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So if Straight Kids.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Is someone that you guys hold dear and like you
guys would like to kind of like be inspired and
join them along on that tour, please It's hitting the
theaters as soon as February sixth. So Strake Kids, if
you guys love Strait Kids, that's something for you guys
to do.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
XO.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Another group is also coming back. Their new album Reverse
is set for release on January nineteenth, twenty twenty six,
and they haven't made a comeback since twenty twenty three.
This is the Unction, I'm not. I shure have a
lot to say that Exo is coming back. They haven't
made music in a while, and I'm very very excited.
(02:05):
I don't think I can call them the Junction, but
definitely they are a little bit older now, they're still
beautifully just as talented, and I see them promoting on
all these other podcasts and they're looking just as amazing
as they always used to. And yeah, speaking of people
coming back who haven't been back in a while, BTS
is also back.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
BTS is coming back March twentieth. March twentieth, everybody remember
March twentieth.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
They're coming back with a new album and a new
World's tour, announcing seventy nine shows across thirty four cities.
Tickets pre sales start January twenty second to twenty third,
with general sales starting January twenty fourth.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Once again, they're coming back March twentieth.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Their tickets pre sales start January twenty second to twenty third,
and the general sales start January twenty fourth. I wouldn't
wait for the general sales because I am going to
buy them all.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You are competing against me.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
If you're refreshing that page, just know that I am
refreshing the page with you, and I am snagging your tickets.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So Betest is back.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
We've been talking about BTS kind of like hopefully coming
back for the entirety of this podcast existing, and now
it has finally arrived, and yeah, speak things being back,
We're also back. iHeartRadio and all these things is beautiful.
And with this new year, we're gonna touch on a
little bit of entertainment happening in other parts of Asia,
(03:24):
and for example Japan. Japanese city pop is making a
huge resurgence across the entire world, trending literally globally, and
one of my favorite songs happens to be a city
pop song, and I'm like, wait, it's trending again.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
So it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I wanted to share my favorite songs and hopefully we
get more opportunities to kind of talk more about the
entertainment happening in these areas of the world.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But just a little soft touch.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Today, I want to give my favorite city pop recommendations
for you guys to kind of explore the genre, a
genre from the nineteen seventies. Yeah, so one of my
favorite songs is fly by Day by Toshiki Kato Matsu
and it's a beautiful song. I literally listened to it
with my dad at one point. And another song is
Plastic Love by Maria Takiyuchi. So these are my two
(04:11):
favorite songs from this genre, and it's kind of researching again,
so I kind of want to see where this goes,
and if you guys want to kind of like listen
to these songs and get the vibe. I recommend these
two songs to start, and I do you know, my
favorite songs. And that's just kind of like a soft
touch of like this new segment that we're trying to explore,
(04:32):
you know, but that's enough of like cape on news,
capop updates and like all these things, these big major
things that aren't kind of like the day to day
stuff like we've had like UK pop idols, kind of
like sitting artist sections being tired.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We've had.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
We have news with like new genes, Danielle leaving and
creating her own personal Instagram account. But we'll kind of
leave these to like the next episodes, you know, kind
of like good day by day stuff as we start
doing this podcast more regularly. Today I kind of just
want to like talk to you guys, kind of update
you guys on like what's been going on and like
the realm of me Bomhan the host, you know, and
(05:07):
like where this podcast has been and where this podcast.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Is going to move. It was good, it's going to
go moving forward.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
And yeah, I mean the podcast took a break, my
page took a break.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Everything just took like a little bit of a break.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And in that time, me personally I have joined a
new group called Project Capture, and Project Capture is if
I if you guys can spare me a little bit
of time to like talk about my own little personal
project right now.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It's called k Capture.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's capture with a K, and it's about me and
a bunch of my friends who all used to be
K pop trainees coming together sharing this dream of like
performing together when we were kids and then ending up
in like separate companies and like separate places in life,
and then now we kind of come back and we
want to like do one last hurrah of like doing
like a tour together or like performing together and all
these things. And this entire project was my idea and
(06:03):
it's all independent. It's coming out of my own podeck kit,
and it's about us. It's about our stories, about our
story as friends, and also about the fans and making
memories and like how can the fans memories be a
part of our memories and like kind of how can
fans be a part of this last hurrah that we're
doing to kind of like push this push this thing
(06:23):
all the way to the end of the tourm you know,
and like you know, it's like it's like everything I've
learned over the years and like kind of like putting
it together.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Like I'm having a lot of fun, and it's been
very busy, Like I've had my friend. Oh, one of
the friends is.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Anthony or some of you guys know him as June,
and he was on the podcast literally earlier last year
talking about his experiences being in CJ Entertainment and Cube
and kind of leaving that company and then joining like
a company in Atlanta, being taken advantage of like stuck
in a contract for like five years, not being able
to get out coming out of that contract, and like
(06:59):
being like five years behind in school. He was like
a super senior, Like he was like literally going to
school like fourteen year old as like an eighteen year
old because like literally like K pop like like like
took his entire life and then like he couldn't go
back to like a normal life, you know, and like
I'm not like airing out his business like literally he
has come on the podcast to like say all these things,
(07:20):
but like yeah, he's like finally like kind of been
in a comfortable position in his life.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
He got out of his last contract and now he's.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Kind of like floating around like being a dance teacher,
being all these things. And now he's a part of
Project Capture. Me and Anthony are performing together. Literally we
have this new setting and like all these things to
like kind of like move into like his home together
to like prepare for these performances. He actually moved here
four weeks ago, and we have been pre we have
been preparing for this tour and like this kind of
(07:49):
like Capture experience for the past four weeks, rehearsing every
single day and like all these things, and like, yeah,
our first show happens to be in New York City,
Lower East Side Bowery Electric. So if you guys are
in New York, if you guys are in the area,
if you guys want to come and like check it out,
you guys can like come.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
It's like fifteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
If you guys can't afford fifteen dollars, She's like message
me and like you guys are probably get in for free.
It's like it's literally just like about having fun and
like showing up and like being friends.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Like we're all friends when we come to these concerts.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's gonna be like max like one hundred people every show,
and we're all gonna interact and like all these things.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
So yeah, it'll be fun. What was I saying?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, if you cannot make it to the show, there
will be content posted about each one of these events
and whatever we do.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
If you come to these events, you're gonna be on
our social media.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
You're gonna be on these things, and you're gonna be
remembered as part of this journey that we're all on.
So yeah, I'm kind of going this long rant about
like this little group, this little Project Capture group, because
like I have been, That's where I've been for like
the past couple of like weeks instead of like doing
my other responsibilities.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Sorry guys, but yeah, we're.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Gonna bring this whole experience on tour, and like I'm
very excited hopefully like a lot of the K Factor
listeners can also kind of join us and experience this
kind of like K pop slash rock concert.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Kind of blend and have fun with us.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Like, for example, like a lot of the concepts that
we're doing that is very like fan engaging, is like
having like camcorders be given now for free at the door,
and like you walk in first fifty people, they get
a camcorder. They get to record themselves, they gets to
record the fans, they get to record like their experiences
done dancing, they get to record the concert that we're doing.
And then at the end of the tour, we're gonna
(09:38):
take all the SD cards and then we're gonna make
like one big music video with all.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You guys's footage.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And it's like literally like this is the celebration of
our friendship and you guys are part of it, and
you guys create it, so it'll be fun if you
guys can make it. We're gonna be going to all
these cities. If we come to your city, you guys
will hear about it because I'm gonna be gapping about
it NonStop because it's literally all I'm doing. And maybe
and then you can also like start co co hosting.
Like some episodes we'll kind of like figure it out.
(10:04):
But like you know, today it's about the K factor.
This podcast has literally been like a a how how
to say, It's like a like a rock that I
can lean on and be like, you know what, like
everything is all right. You know, we've been going through
like ups and downs in our life and only thing
that's been steady is like, you know what, we're gonna
(10:25):
do this podcast every single week. You know we're gonna
come in here, We're gonna be in front of this
mic and we just talk kate pop. Just just get
out our feelings, get out, get out our updates, and
get all these things. I could be like literally like yeah,
I'm not even tell you guys all what this all
this stuff that I was going through last year, but
whatever it is, I was still able to come here
and have a steady presence in front of you guys,
to be able to kind of like talk into like
you guys' ear while you guys are already commute to work,
(10:47):
commute to school, commute like wherever, and just like kind
of having me like gap in your ears is like
it's such an honor and such a privilege.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So thank you for allowing that to happen.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And this year we're gonna be cranking it up notch
instead of just K pop and like K pop guests.
We've been getting like requests for like all these people
to come in, but like they didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Quite fit that that mold.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You know, I feel like a lot of like guests
that we had last year, like Moon for example, it
was like, it's a beautiful artist that we want a
platform and like has an amazing story. It's hell that
has these K pop elements, but at the end of
the day, it doesn't fit exactly. So we want to
kind of like break that mold a little bit of like,
oh hey, like guess is not K pop exactly, But
(11:33):
if you're anywhere adjacent, just come and like, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Like we're here to have a conversation. We're here to
have fun, you know where I'm here.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
To to to shoot the craps to like to be
able to sit here and like connect and like connect
and let you guys see these artists through my eyes
and like how I can interpret their story and their
emotions and like their journeys, because like I've also had
a crazy journey, you know, and it's like I have
I have a deep range, I have all these things
like whatever you through, yeah, I've probably been there too,
(12:01):
you know. So I hope that you guys can like
connect with these artists that we bring in that aren't
exactly K pop molded.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
And uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's where the direction of this K Factor podcast is
going to go. And iHeart video is blessing us with many,
many great opportunities coming.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And I hope that we can all enjoy.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
And watch this podcast grow, you know, and like this
is also me on camera for the first time.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I think I haven't been on.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Camera for this podcast for like a month and a half,
no two months when was the ampers in one podcast
that was like two months ago, I think, And like,
look like I look different, you know, the setting looks
a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
We're probably gonna be in like different studios in and out.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
But we found our voice, we found our little pocket,
and we found where we are comfortable, and we found
where we shine.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
So we're gonna lean into that out a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
And hopefully with this like new look, this new kind
of visually experience, we can just have an amazing podcast together,
amazing place to go every week to like get all
these news have some fun shoot.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
The crabs, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And you know what, We're back from commercial break now,
and I actually I was gonna wait.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I was gonna wait until next week.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I'm not gonna lie to talk about this whole new
Jeans Danielle situation. I kind of quietly grazed and like
kind of touched on it throughout the episode, kind of
being like, oh, like, I'll talk about it later. I'll
talk about it later, but this has been eating me
up inside and I can't kind of like wait to
like share this story with you guys. And also I
kind of like what I think if it even matters,
(13:41):
and objectively, I'm gonna kind of like catch everybody up
on the teat like who is Nugen's, who's Danielle, who
is all these who's all these people? So so to
catch everybody up from the very frigging beginning. Eugens is
arguably one of the biggest girl groups in South Korea
at the time of their debut when they debuted it
under A Door, a sub label of Hi BTS's company.
(14:04):
The CEO of A Door at the time of their
debut was a woman named Minhi Gin.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
She was doing pretty well and then one day she.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Was audited because Hibe caught win that she was trying
to break off of the company and become independent with
New Genes. And once this news broke out and she
was audited, she was forced to quit. In August of
twenty twenty four, and New Genes sided with Minhi Gin.
They didn't like it, and they protested Hibe on a
YouTube live stream stating that they are terminating their contracts
(14:35):
with a door if you guys don't bring back my
boss Minhi Gin. And then hib was like, hey man,
you can't do that. And then they sue New Genes
and they're like, yo, you can't just break your contract
because it's not how it works, and you guys can't
really perform activities until this thing is settled, and you
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guys cannot do anything outside of your contract.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
And as this lawsuit is going on, Eugen's goes, you
know what, freak the rules.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
And then they go and they rebrand as NJZ and
then they start scheduling events and concerts and like charity
events and all these things. So the court eventually go like,
hey man, you can't do that again. And the court
comes to this conclusion and side completely with a door
and rules that each member needs to pay one billion
(15:24):
Koreean wand or in USD is about seven hundred thousand
dollars for every instance that they violated their contract, which
is a lot of times up until this point.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And now each member.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Is now in debt for all these activities and the
troubles that they have caused signing with Minhi Jin.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
On top of all these things.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
After this ruling has happened, Danielle, one of the members
of New Genes, which is kind of like the kind
of star of all this controversy, has been kicked out
and blamed for a lot of things, and it's rumored
that Danielle's family has been sued for up to one
hundred and eight billion, one or eighty million US dollars
(16:02):
for the troubles that they cause. There's all these different
numbers floating around of like eighty million dollars or like
thirty million dollars. Either way, thirty million dollars or eighty
million dollars, that's a lot of money. If I was
sued for two million dollars, I'd be in generational debt.
But I don't think it really matters what the exact
number is. She sued for a lot of money, and
(16:24):
it's very unfortunate. There's two different sides of this, because
this controversy has been going on for I think about
like two years now now that it's twenty twenty six,
and there's a lot of publication on the news painting
the girls in a certain way, and there's a lot
of fans who have been following them because they were
one of the biggest groups of all time, who are
attesting to their character and how they're just sweet, Like
(16:46):
they're just sweet little girls, like chasing their dreams, like
like pursuing this k pop stage and all these things,
and now all of a sudden they're stuck with literally
generational debt because they didn't understand the rules. And there's
like different sides to this where if you guys just
follow the news and like what the television programs and
like what the hard facts say is that at the
end of the day, these these people, these these members
(17:10):
in this group violated a contract and now they're suffering
the constant questions of violating this contract. On another side,
there's nuances of them like not knowing what they're doing
and just kind of like starting off this whole fiasco
wanting to like sing and dance and like chase their
dreams and moving to Korea and then seeing like their
their cherished boss kind of like.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Go through things and they're like, you know what, we're
gonna stand up for. We're gonna stand up for our boss.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And now all of a sudden boom generational debt, and
it's like they don't they don't deserve it because on
one side, you're trying to do the right thing, you're
trying to follow your heart, you're trying to do what
you believe in.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
On the other side, this is the law, and you
have to do the right thing in the frame of
the law.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
And then they did do things like rebranding when they
weren't supposed to, mus when they weren't supposed to do
all these things when they weren't supposed to, and now
they're suffering very, very real consequences from that. And now
people are also making them an example of like, hey,
this is what happens when you violate a contract.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
This is what happens when all these things.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It's like a contract is a contract for a reason,
Like you can't just you can't just whatever. But it's
like there's also the nuance of like the people who've
been following these girls for a long time, and for example,
Danielle has been very outspoken, and the reason why she
was kicked out was because she was kind of like
the front runner and like the face of like like
being outspoken about mistreatment and k pop companies, and and
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and their parents and like their their family being very
outspoken in that way, and like Danielle being like supposedly
the closest to menhigen And and Danielle has like, for example,
gone live talking about all these things that like that
like she would go through. Like for example, like she's
talked about having to leave a message to like a
group chat before like before using the bathroom to like
(18:54):
ask for permission. She's like, that didn't make no sense,
and it boomed eighty million dollars in debt, and like
she was like, oh, man, like I feel like it
didn't really make sense that I had to like take
pictures of my food and ask for permission if I
could eat this or or or I didn't.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I didn't really like that boom eighty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And it's like at the end of the day, we
know about her character and we know about these things
because we followed these people ever since they debuted, like
they were in such mass attention, and like, for example,
Danielle was recently credited for having donated to the YANA organization.
YANA stands for You Are Not Alone. It is a
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child welfare organization and they shouted her out recently for
having donated about three hundred and two million dollars I
mean three hundred and two million one, which in dollars
is about two hundred thousand dollars. And she was doing
this quietly throughout her promotions and never like having.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Like a being credited for He shouted out for it.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And it was on Yana's four year anniversary that they
were like, hey, oh, by the way, Danielle has been
doing this, and everyone's like whoa, Like why is this
kid with such a good heart standing up for their boss,
standing up for the things that they believe and only
just have like a dream to like chase all these
things suddenly dealing with a lifetime like probably thirty lifetimes
(20:15):
of consequences over what, you know, just kind of like
following their heart. And it's kind of like, you know what,
at the end of the day, you do have to
respect these rules, you do have to do these things
otherwise this, you know. So there's all these nuanced and
like all these people like sticking up for like you
know what, you got to follow the rules and like well,
like but she's like such like a but she's such
like a good person and she does a good person,
you know, like to like some like depends on your perspective.
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But then like there are like these credits to like
her character that people are kind of like fighting and
standing for, and like she still has massive star power.
She created like this new instagram, like her personal instagram,
and pr managers from Selene and Omega they're following her
personal instagram sparking conversations about like the brand's loyalty and
like proving like proving all these things about how dnyak
(20:59):
is still like even actually promote maybe you'll help alleviate
some things. But at the end of the day, she's
in a pretty big hole. Hopefully this whole situation finds
its fri us All finds it finds like a light
at the end of the hunnel. And me personally hearing
these things, it hurts me a lot. And I don't
know how qualified I am so like be able to
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speak fully on like the pain that she endured, because
I haven't reached those those high stoo like being the
greatest like whatever. But I know what it's like to
be a kid and to move away from home to
like audition for all these things and be like you
know what, Like with my life, I just want to
sing and dance and eventually get there and be like, well,
you know what, if you just do these things, you
can sing and dance for the rest of your life
and eventually, like feelings get involved and you're a human
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and it's like, hey, there's people that I care about,
Like I want to stand up for my bandmates, I
want to stand up for my boss, I want to
stand up for my manager, and like what like I
just want I.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Came here to sing and dance, Like why am I
taking pictures of my food?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Like even something that like like.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Like something I had to do.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
It's something super silly, but like like something like something
something that I was like, hey man, this doesn't really
make sense. Was like being evaluated I was getting. I
used to get like appurance evaluations where they would I
would just stand there and I would get grilled, and
that was the entire schedule. I would just stand there
and You'll be like, boo behind you have small shoulders,
(22:20):
boo behind you have a big head.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Bo behind your nose looks stupid, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Just like okay, and then I and then like like
they could have just like wrote it down and like
made a plan to like fix like some things, and
like before I'm like ready to go on camera or something, but.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
They were just like, hey man, your nose is dumb.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And I was like all right, And then I would
go back in my room and just like feel kind
of bad about myself and it's like maybe like there's
a purpose to it, you know. But then it's like
like there's like all these things like I would love
to like speak out on, and but like you know,
it's like it's like that could have been anywhere.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
That could have been anywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
But like it's like you go into like these settings
and and you expect one thing and it turns out
to be something else. And no matter how much of
a good hearted kid you are, no matter how whatever
like you're gonna want like you're gonna be a little
bit disappointed. And people handle that differently, and new genes
decide to speak up and take a stance, and their
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good heart and their good will led them to doing
something against the rules, and maybe their guidance around them,
like adults around them like didn't emphasize how important these
rules were that you had to follow, and it's like
it's not a problem with the kids. It's a problem
with the adults around them not educating them properly or
like being stern enough, or maybe they were just like
kids and wanted to rebel. Who knows, but like, this
(23:40):
is what happened with the situation. There's people, there's people
supporting Danielle. There's people kind of going against like this
whole like, oh, like, we don't care if your kids
look at this, if you break the rules.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
This is what happens to you. But like eighty million
dollars in debt, I mean, that's kind of crazy. That's
kind of crazy. So that's the situation with Danielle.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
However you guys feel about it, please let us know
in the comments, Please please share online, go kind of
go crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
This is the news that I wanted to deliver.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And there's been recent escalations with Yelle with all these things,
and it's really a story that touched my heart personally
and maybe hopefully touched yours and wherever whatever you guys
decide to do with this information, whether you guys a
following Danielle and like supporting her or like supporting the
decisions of these like major corporations, kind of like setting
an example and like being stern on their decisions. I'm
not gonna lie. I've done a lot of crazy stuff.
(24:31):
I've done a lot of crazy stuff. And my contracts
were very lenient, very loose, and even my termination with
my company like like like it was also very loose.
And I was very grateful for that. And they let
me know. They're like, hey, man, this is very loose.
We love you. And I'm like, I love you guys too,
(24:53):
And they're like, you can keep your name. I'm like thanks,
They're like, you can do any promotions you want. I'm like, thanks,
that's really cool. And then and then like some other
stuff happened, you know, But then not everyone is blessed
with that kind of privilege, and not everyone is kind
of graciously let go in. There's such a such a
such a beautiful, like caring way, and and yeah, this
(25:15):
is an example of how of how cruel and and
unforgiving like life could be, like how cruel and forgiving
the industry, any industry could be.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
And it's like, you break these rules.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
It doesn't matter who you are, how kind you are,
how you how how what is in your heart and
your spirit. The fact of the matter is we told
you to do one thing, you did another thing, now
pay And that's the situation. And people are sympathizing with Danielle.
And at the end of the day, this isn't a statistic.
This isn't just like an example. This is a real
(25:46):
person with a real heart, with a real dream and
is now suffering real consequences. So how you how you
guys want to support or or whatever size you guys
want to take.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
That's the news. That's the update, and that's okay. Fact
her and I really wanted to talk about this in
another week, but it was burning at me.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I was like, oh my god, I need to take
a commercial break and I need to settle on whether
or I'm gonna talk about this or not.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
And I decided to talk about it this week.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
But I guess I'll see you guys another week and
we'll have other things to talk about and other sides
of the of the kind of Asian entertainment.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
But for now, this has been our first episode back
or the K Factor.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
He's a reminder that you guys can listen to this
podcast a Apple podcast wherever podcast.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
You got me by, Oh I'm.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Just looking for company, save yourself. You don't want to
get too wrapped up in the middle of it. I
just want to see your days. Don't think about it,
save myself. I don't want to get to a test
seven million, aboudy. I'm just showing a link.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I'm just being honest.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I don't want to get caught up you. I don't
want to get done wrong.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Let's don't take this, brother.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I don't want to get caught up. Way too young
to know.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Please don't make this harder.
Let's make.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of The
K Factor. Everything k Pop with your host Bomhan, your
best source for the latest K pop news, updates and
general Asian entertainment.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
This is our first episode back for the new year
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
And this year we're expanding our horizons from not just
K pop news, but also anything.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Entertainment in the scope of Asia.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Before we chat a bit, I'm gonna bring you, guys
k pop updates as we are normally used to.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
In the realm of K pop. We have Stray Kids
and their concert film Stray Kids the Dominate Experience, kind
of bouncing off of their Dominate tour and it's hitting
theaters really soon, literally like in like three weeks, as
soon as February sixth, inviting used to join them on
their sold out stadium tours. These films are always super inspiring.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Literally, when I was like eight years old, that was
the first time I watched one of these like kind
of concert tour like documentaries, and it sparked such like
emotion in me that I went home that night and
had a dream about me performing in front of like
forty thousand people.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
And that's what literally changed my life.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
So I had that dream and I was like, you
know what, that's what I'm gonna do with my life
and I'm gonna pursue it until I die. And that
was coming from one of these concert film experiences.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
So if Straight Kids.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Is someone that you guys hold dear and like you
guys would like to kind of like be inspired and
join them along on that tour, please It's hitting the
theaters as soon as February sixth. So Strake Kids, if
you guys love Strait Kids, that's something for you guys
to do.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
XO.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Another group is also coming back. Their new album Reverse
is set for release on January nineteenth, twenty twenty six,
and they haven't made a comeback since twenty twenty three.
This is the Unction, I'm not. I shure have a
lot to say that Exo is coming back. They haven't
made music in a while, and I'm very very excited.
(02:05):
I don't think I can call them the Junction, but
definitely they are a little bit older now, they're still
beautifully just as talented, and I see them promoting on
all these other podcasts and they're looking just as amazing
as they always used to. And yeah, speaking of people
coming back who haven't been back in a while, BTS
is also back.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
BTS is coming back March twentieth. March twentieth, everybody remember
March twentieth.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
They're coming back with a new album and a new
World's tour, announcing seventy nine shows across thirty four cities.
Tickets pre sales start January twenty second to twenty third,
with general sales starting January twenty fourth.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Once again, they're coming back March twentieth.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Their tickets pre sales start January twenty second to twenty third,
and the general sales start January twenty fourth. I wouldn't
wait for the general sales because I am going to
buy them all.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
You are competing against me.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
If you're refreshing that page, just know that I am
refreshing the page with you, and I am snagging your tickets.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So Betest is back.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
We've been talking about BTS kind of like hopefully coming
back for the entirety of this podcast existing, and now
it has finally arrived, and yeah, speak things being back,
We're also back. iHeartRadio and all these things is beautiful.
And with this new year, we're gonna touch on a
little bit of entertainment happening in other parts of Asia,
(03:24):
and for example Japan. Japanese city pop is making a
huge resurgence across the entire world, trending literally globally, and
one of my favorite songs happens to be a city
pop song, and I'm like, wait, it's trending again.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
So it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I wanted to share my favorite songs and hopefully we
get more opportunities to kind of talk more about the
entertainment happening in these areas of the world.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
But just a little soft touch.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Today, I want to give my favorite city pop recommendations
for you guys to kind of explore the genre, a
genre from the nineteen seventies. Yeah, so one of my
favorite songs is fly by Day by Toshiki Kato Matsu
and it's a beautiful song. I literally listened to it
with my dad at one point. And another song is
Plastic Love by Maria Takiyuchi. So these are my two
(04:11):
favorite songs from this genre, and it's kind of researching again,
so I kind of want to see where this goes,
and if you guys want to kind of like listen
to these songs and get the vibe. I recommend these
two songs to start, and I do you know, my
favorite songs. And that's just kind of like a soft
touch of like this new segment that we're trying to explore,
(04:32):
you know, but that's enough of like cape on news,
capop updates and like all these things, these big major
things that aren't kind of like the day to day
stuff like we've had like UK pop idols, kind of
like sitting artist sections being tired.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
We've had.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
We have news with like new genes, Danielle leaving and
creating her own personal Instagram account. But we'll kind of
leave these to like the next episodes, you know, kind
of like good day by day stuff as we start
doing this podcast more regularly. Today I kind of just
want to like talk to you guys, kind of update
you guys on like what's been going on and like
the realm of me Bomhan the host, you know, and
(05:07):
like where this podcast has been and where this podcast.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Is going to move. It was good, it's going to
go moving forward.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
And yeah, I mean the podcast took a break, my
page took a break.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Everything just took like a little bit of a break.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And in that time, me personally I have joined a
new group called Project Capture, and Project Capture is if
I if you guys can spare me a little bit
of time to like talk about my own little personal
project right now.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
It's called k Capture.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's capture with a K, and it's about me and
a bunch of my friends who all used to be
K pop trainees coming together sharing this dream of like
performing together when we were kids and then ending up
in like separate companies and like separate places in life,
and then now we kind of come back and we
want to like do one last hurrah of like doing
like a tour together or like performing together and all
these things. And this entire project was my idea and
(06:03):
it's all independent. It's coming out of my own podeck kit,
and it's about us. It's about our stories, about our
story as friends, and also about the fans and making
memories and like how can the fans memories be a
part of our memories and like kind of how can
fans be a part of this last hurrah that we're
doing to kind of like push this push this thing
(06:23):
all the way to the end of the tourm you know,
and like you know, it's like it's like everything I've
learned over the years and like kind of like putting
it together.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Like I'm having a lot of fun, and it's been
very busy, Like I've had my friend. Oh, one of
the friends is.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Anthony or some of you guys know him as June,
and he was on the podcast literally earlier last year
talking about his experiences being in CJ Entertainment and Cube
and kind of leaving that company and then joining like
a company in Atlanta, being taken advantage of like stuck
in a contract for like five years, not being able
to get out coming out of that contract, and like
(06:59):
being like five years behind in school. He was like
a super senior, Like he was like literally going to
school like fourteen year old as like an eighteen year
old because like literally like K pop like like like
took his entire life and then like he couldn't go
back to like a normal life, you know, and like
I'm not like airing out his business like literally he
has come on the podcast to like say all these things,
(07:20):
but like yeah, he's like finally like kind of been
in a comfortable position in his life.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
He got out of his last contract and now he's.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Kind of like floating around like being a dance teacher,
being all these things. And now he's a part of
Project Capture. Me and Anthony are performing together. Literally we
have this new setting and like all these things to
like kind of like move into like his home together
to like prepare for these performances. He actually moved here
four weeks ago, and we have been pre we have
been preparing for this tour and like this kind of
(07:49):
like Capture experience for the past four weeks, rehearsing every
single day and like all these things, and like, yeah,
our first show happens to be in New York City,
Lower East Side Bowery Electric. So if you guys are
in New York, if you guys are in the area,
if you guys want to come and like check it out,
you guys can like come.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
It's like fifteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
If you guys can't afford fifteen dollars, She's like message
me and like you guys are probably get in for free.
It's like it's literally just like about having fun and
like showing up and like being friends.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Like we're all friends when we come to these concerts.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
It's gonna be like max like one hundred people every show,
and we're all gonna interact and like all these things.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
So yeah, it'll be fun. What was I saying?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, if you cannot make it to the show, there
will be content posted about each one of these events
and whatever we do.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
If you come to these events, you're gonna be on
our social media.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
You're gonna be on these things, and you're gonna be
remembered as part of this journey that we're all on.
So yeah, I'm kind of going this long rant about
like this little group, this little Project Capture group, because
like I have been, That's where I've been for like
the past couple of like weeks instead of like doing
my other responsibilities.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Sorry guys, but yeah, we're.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Gonna bring this whole experience on tour, and like I'm
very excited hopefully like a lot of the K Factor
listeners can also kind of join us and experience this
kind of like K pop slash rock concert.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Kind of blend and have fun with us.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Like, for example, like a lot of the concepts that
we're doing that is very like fan engaging, is like
having like camcorders be given now for free at the door,
and like you walk in first fifty people, they get
a camcorder. They get to record themselves, they gets to
record the fans, they get to record like their experiences
done dancing, they get to record the concert that we're doing.
And then at the end of the tour, we're gonna
(09:38):
take all the SD cards and then we're gonna make
like one big music video with all.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
You guys's footage.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
And it's like literally like this is the celebration of
our friendship and you guys are part of it, and
you guys create it, so it'll be fun if you
guys can make it. We're gonna be going to all
these cities. If we come to your city, you guys
will hear about it because I'm gonna be gapping about
it NonStop because it's literally all I'm doing. And maybe
and then you can also like start co co hosting.
Like some episodes we'll kind of like figure it out.
(10:04):
But like you know, today it's about the K factor.
This podcast has literally been like a a how how
to say, It's like a like a rock that I
can lean on and be like, you know what, like
everything is all right. You know, we've been going through
like ups and downs in our life and only thing
that's been steady is like, you know what, we're gonna
(10:25):
do this podcast every single week. You know we're gonna
come in here, We're gonna be in front of this
mic and we just talk kate pop. Just just get
out our feelings, get out, get out our updates, and
get all these things. I could be like literally like yeah,
I'm not even tell you guys all what this all
this stuff that I was going through last year, but
whatever it is, I was still able to come here
and have a steady presence in front of you guys,
to be able to kind of like talk into like
you guys' ear while you guys are already commute to work,
(10:47):
commute to school, commute like wherever, and just like kind
of having me like gap in your ears is like
it's such an honor and such a privilege.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
So thank you for allowing that to happen.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And this year we're gonna be cranking it up notch
instead of just K pop and like K pop guests.
We've been getting like requests for like all these people
to come in, but like they didn't.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Quite fit that that mold.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
You know, I feel like a lot of like guests
that we had last year, like Moon for example, it
was like, it's a beautiful artist that we want a
platform and like has an amazing story. It's hell that
has these K pop elements, but at the end of
the day, it doesn't fit exactly. So we want to
kind of like break that mold a little bit of like,
oh hey, like guess is not K pop exactly, But
(11:33):
if you're anywhere adjacent, just come and like, you know.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Like we're here to have a conversation. We're here to
have fun, you know where I'm here.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
To to to shoot the craps to like to be
able to sit here and like connect and like connect
and let you guys see these artists through my eyes
and like how I can interpret their story and their
emotions and like their journeys, because like I've also had
a crazy journey, you know, and it's like I have
I have a deep range, I have all these things
like whatever you through, yeah, I've probably been there too,
(12:01):
you know. So I hope that you guys can like
connect with these artists that we bring in that aren't
exactly K pop molded.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
And uh yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
That's where the direction of this K Factor podcast is
going to go. And iHeart video is blessing us with many,
many great opportunities coming.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
And I hope that we can all enjoy.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
And watch this podcast grow, you know, and like this
is also me on camera for the first time.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
I think I haven't been on.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Camera for this podcast for like a month and a half,
no two months when was the ampers in one podcast
that was like two months ago, I think, And like,
look like I look different, you know, the setting looks
a little bit different.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
We're probably gonna be in like different studios in and out.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
But we found our voice, we found our little pocket,
and we found where we are comfortable, and we found
where we shine.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
So we're gonna lean into that out a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
And hopefully with this like new look, this new kind
of visually experience, we can just have an amazing podcast together,
amazing place to go every week to like get all
these news have some fun shoot.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
The crabs, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (13:13):
And you know what, We're back from commercial break now,
and I actually I was gonna wait.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I was gonna wait until next week.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
I'm not gonna lie to talk about this whole new
Jeans Danielle situation. I kind of quietly grazed and like
kind of touched on it throughout the episode, kind of
being like, oh, like, I'll talk about it later. I'll
talk about it later, but this has been eating me
up inside and I can't kind of like wait to
like share this story with you guys. And also I
kind of like what I think if it even matters,
(13:41):
and objectively, I'm gonna kind of like catch everybody up
on the teat like who is Nugen's, who's Danielle, who
is all these who's all these people? So so to
catch everybody up from the very frigging beginning. Eugens is
arguably one of the biggest girl groups in South Korea
at the time of their debut when they debuted it
under A Door, a sub label of Hi BTS's company.
(14:04):
The CEO of A Door at the time of their
debut was a woman named Minhi Gin.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
She was doing pretty well and then one day she.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Was audited because Hibe caught win that she was trying
to break off of the company and become independent with
New Genes. And once this news broke out and she
was audited, she was forced to quit. In August of
twenty twenty four, and New Genes sided with Minhi Gin.
They didn't like it, and they protested Hibe on a
YouTube live stream stating that they are terminating their contracts
(14:35):
with a door if you guys don't bring back my
boss Minhi Gin. And then hib was like, hey man,
you can't do that. And then they sue New Genes
and they're like, yo, you can't just break your contract
because it's not how it works, and you guys can't
really perform activities until this thing is settled, and you
(14:56):
guys cannot do anything outside of your contract.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
And as this lawsuit is going on, Eugen's goes, you
know what, freak the rules.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
And then they go and they rebrand as NJZ and
then they start scheduling events and concerts and like charity
events and all these things. So the court eventually go like,
hey man, you can't do that again. And the court
comes to this conclusion and side completely with a door
and rules that each member needs to pay one billion
(15:24):
Koreean wand or in USD is about seven hundred thousand
dollars for every instance that they violated their contract, which
is a lot of times up until this point.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And now each member.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Is now in debt for all these activities and the
troubles that they have caused signing with Minhi Jin.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
On top of all these things.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
After this ruling has happened, Danielle, one of the members
of New Genes, which is kind of like the kind
of star of all this controversy, has been kicked out
and blamed for a lot of things, and it's rumored
that Danielle's family has been sued for up to one
hundred and eight billion, one or eighty million US dollars
(16:02):
for the troubles that they cause. There's all these different
numbers floating around of like eighty million dollars or like
thirty million dollars. Either way, thirty million dollars or eighty
million dollars, that's a lot of money. If I was
sued for two million dollars, I'd be in generational debt.
But I don't think it really matters what the exact
number is. She sued for a lot of money, and
(16:24):
it's very unfortunate. There's two different sides of this, because
this controversy has been going on for I think about
like two years now now that it's twenty twenty six,
and there's a lot of publication on the news painting
the girls in a certain way, and there's a lot
of fans who have been following them because they were
one of the biggest groups of all time, who are
attesting to their character and how they're just sweet, Like
(16:46):
they're just sweet little girls, like chasing their dreams, like
like pursuing this k pop stage and all these things,
and now all of a sudden they're stuck with literally
generational debt because they didn't understand the rules. And there's
like different sides to this where if you guys just
follow the news and like what the television programs and
like what the hard facts say is that at the
end of the day, these these people, these these members
(17:10):
in this group violated a contract and now they're suffering
the constant questions of violating this contract. On another side,
there's nuances of them like not knowing what they're doing
and just kind of like starting off this whole fiasco
wanting to like sing and dance and like chase their
dreams and moving to Korea and then seeing like their
their cherished boss kind of like.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Go through things and they're like, you know what, we're
gonna stand up for. We're gonna stand up for our boss.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And now all of a sudden boom generational debt, and
it's like they don't they don't deserve it because on
one side, you're trying to do the right thing, you're
trying to follow your heart, you're trying to do what
you believe in.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
On the other side, this is the law, and you
have to do the right thing in the frame of
the law.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
And then they did do things like rebranding when they
weren't supposed to, mus when they weren't supposed to do
all these things when they weren't supposed to, and now
they're suffering very, very real consequences from that. And now
people are also making them an example of like, hey,
this is what happens when you violate a contract.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
This is what happens when all these things.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
It's like a contract is a contract for a reason,
Like you can't just you can't just whatever. But it's
like there's also the nuance of like the people who've
been following these girls for a long time, and for example,
Danielle has been very outspoken, and the reason why she
was kicked out was because she was kind of like
the front runner and like the face of like like
being outspoken about mistreatment and k pop companies, and and
(18:34):
and their parents and like their their family being very
outspoken in that way, and like Danielle being like supposedly
the closest to menhigen And and Danielle has like, for example,
gone live talking about all these things that like that
like she would go through. Like for example, like she's
talked about having to leave a message to like a
group chat before like before using the bathroom to like
(18:54):
ask for permission. She's like, that didn't make no sense,
and it boomed eighty million dollars in debt, and like
she was like, oh, man, like I feel like it
didn't really make sense that I had to like take
pictures of my food and ask for permission if I
could eat this or or or I didn't.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I didn't really like that boom eighty million dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
And it's like at the end of the day, we
know about her character and we know about these things
because we followed these people ever since they debuted, like
they were in such mass attention, and like, for example,
Danielle was recently credited for having donated to the YANA organization.
YANA stands for You Are Not Alone. It is a
(19:33):
child welfare organization and they shouted her out recently for
having donated about three hundred and two million dollars I
mean three hundred and two million one, which in dollars
is about two hundred thousand dollars. And she was doing
this quietly throughout her promotions and never like having.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Like a being credited for He shouted out for it.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
And it was on Yana's four year anniversary that they
were like, hey, oh, by the way, Danielle has been
doing this, and everyone's like whoa, Like why is this
kid with such a good heart standing up for their boss,
standing up for the things that they believe and only
just have like a dream to like chase all these
things suddenly dealing with a lifetime like probably thirty lifetimes
(20:15):
of consequences over what, you know, just kind of like
following their heart. And it's kind of like, you know what,
at the end of the day, you do have to
respect these rules, you do have to do these things
otherwise this, you know. So there's all these nuanced and
like all these people like sticking up for like you
know what, you got to follow the rules and like well,
like but she's like such like a but she's such
like a good person and she does a good person,
you know, like to like some like depends on your perspective.
(20:38):
But then like there are like these credits to like
her character that people are kind of like fighting and
standing for, and like she still has massive star power.
She created like this new instagram, like her personal instagram,
and pr managers from Selene and Omega they're following her
personal instagram sparking conversations about like the brand's loyalty and
like proving like proving all these things about how dnyak
(20:59):
is still like even actually promote maybe you'll help alleviate
some things. But at the end of the day, she's
in a pretty big hole. Hopefully this whole situation finds
its fri us All finds it finds like a light
at the end of the hunnel. And me personally hearing
these things, it hurts me a lot. And I don't
know how qualified I am so like be able to
(21:19):
speak fully on like the pain that she endured, because
I haven't reached those those high stoo like being the
greatest like whatever. But I know what it's like to
be a kid and to move away from home to
like audition for all these things and be like you
know what, Like with my life, I just want to
sing and dance and eventually get there and be like, well,
you know what, if you just do these things, you
can sing and dance for the rest of your life
and eventually, like feelings get involved and you're a human
(21:41):
and it's like, hey, there's people that I care about,
Like I want to stand up for my bandmates, I
want to stand up for my boss, I want to
stand up for my manager, and like what like I
just want I.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Came here to sing and dance, Like why am I
taking pictures of my food?
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Like even something that like like.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Like something I had to do.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
It's something super silly, but like like something like something
something that I was like, hey man, this doesn't really
make sense. Was like being evaluated I was getting. I
used to get like appurance evaluations where they would I
would just stand there and I would get grilled, and
that was the entire schedule. I would just stand there
and You'll be like, boo behind you have small shoulders,
(22:20):
boo behind you have a big head.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Bo behind your nose looks stupid, and I'm.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Just like okay, and then I and then like like
they could have just like wrote it down and like
made a plan to like fix like some things, and
like before I'm like ready to go on camera or something, but.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
They were just like, hey man, your nose is dumb.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And I was like all right, And then I would
go back in my room and just like feel kind
of bad about myself and it's like maybe like there's
a purpose to it, you know. But then it's like
like there's like all these things like I would love
to like speak out on, and but like you know,
it's like it's like that could have been anywhere.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
That could have been anywhere.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
But like it's like you go into like these settings
and and you expect one thing and it turns out
to be something else. And no matter how much of
a good hearted kid you are, no matter how whatever
like you're gonna want like you're gonna be a little
bit disappointed. And people handle that differently, and new genes
decide to speak up and take a stance, and their
(23:17):
good heart and their good will led them to doing
something against the rules, and maybe their guidance around them,
like adults around them like didn't emphasize how important these
rules were that you had to follow, and it's like
it's not a problem with the kids. It's a problem
with the adults around them not educating them properly or
like being stern enough, or maybe they were just like
kids and wanted to rebel. Who knows, but like, this
(23:40):
is what happened with the situation. There's people, there's people
supporting Danielle. There's people kind of going against like this
whole like, oh, like, we don't care if your kids
look at this, if you break the rules.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
This is what happens to you. But like eighty million
dollars in debt, I mean, that's kind of crazy. That's
kind of crazy. So that's the situation with Danielle.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
However you guys feel about it, please let us know
in the comments, Please please share online, go kind of
go crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
This is the news that I wanted to deliver.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And there's been recent escalations with Yelle with all these things,
and it's really a story that touched my heart personally
and maybe hopefully touched yours and wherever whatever you guys
decide to do with this information, whether you guys a
following Danielle and like supporting her or like supporting the
decisions of these like major corporations, kind of like setting
an example and like being stern on their decisions. I'm
not gonna lie. I've done a lot of crazy stuff.
(24:31):
I've done a lot of crazy stuff. And my contracts
were very lenient, very loose, and even my termination with
my company like like like it was also very loose.
And I was very grateful for that. And they let
me know. They're like, hey, man, this is very loose.
We love you. And I'm like, I love you guys too,
(24:53):
And they're like, you can keep your name. I'm like thanks,
They're like, you can do any promotions you want. I'm like, thanks,
that's really cool. And then and then like some other
stuff happened, you know, But then not everyone is blessed
with that kind of privilege, and not everyone is kind
of graciously let go in. There's such a such a
such a beautiful, like caring way, and and yeah, this
(25:15):
is an example of how of how cruel and and
unforgiving like life could be, like how cruel and forgiving
the industry, any industry could be.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
And it's like, you break these rules.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
It doesn't matter who you are, how kind you are,
how you how how what is in your heart and
your spirit. The fact of the matter is we told
you to do one thing, you did another thing, now
pay And that's the situation. And people are sympathizing with Danielle.
And at the end of the day, this isn't a statistic.
This isn't just like an example. This is a real
(25:46):
person with a real heart, with a real dream and
is now suffering real consequences. So how you how you
guys want to support or or whatever size you guys
want to take.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
That's the news. That's the update, and that's okay. Fact
her and I really wanted to talk about this in
another week, but it was burning at me.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
I was like, oh my god, I need to take
a commercial break and I need to settle on whether
or I'm gonna talk about this or not.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
And I decided to talk about it this week.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
But I guess I'll see you guys another week and
we'll have other things to talk about and other sides
of the of the kind of Asian entertainment.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
But for now, this has been our first episode back
or the K Factor.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
He's a reminder that you guys can listen to this
podcast a Apple podcast wherever podcast.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
You got me by, Oh I'm.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Just looking for company, save yourself. You don't want to
get too wrapped up in the middle of it. I
just want to see your days. Don't think about it,
save myself. I don't want to get to a test
seven million, aboudy. I'm just showing a link.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I'm just being honest.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I don't want to get caught up you. I don't
want to get done wrong.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Let's don't take this, brother.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
I don't want to get caught up. Way too young
to know.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Please don't make this harder.
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