K-pop Academy Week 6 - Homework Assignment

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For this week's homework the theme was art, as we went to the British Museum. I did a powerpoint presentation about a Korean artist that caught my attention and captivated my heart. 

Here's my homework, take a look if you wish :^) 

Thank you! 감사합니다!

K-Pop Academy Week 6: Art and History

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This week's lesson was really interesting. We got to attend a little lecture at the KCC about the history of Korean art which was really valuable as we got to know a little bit more about Korean culture and the meaning of the country's art.

Later on we went to visit the Korean gallery at the British Museum. We did a knowledge quiz about the exposition held at the gallery. It was hard as some of the things weren't at the museum anymore. However, it was fun having to go around the gallery and we got to learn while doing the task. 

It was my first time going to the British Museum and I loved it. Here are some pictures I took from the gallery:

K-pop Academy Week 5 - Homework Assignment

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For this week's homework Laura and I decided to do a dance cover of the song "Can You Feel It" by Donghae and Eunhyuk from Super Junior, as it was one of the homework options for the week due to the dance workshop that we got to do with LoKo. 

She's probably going to kill me and I'm going to lose any dignity that I may have left, but here's the link to our homework: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeB4pPgnnJc

Don't laugh too much at us chuseyo :^)

Week 5: Dance workshop with LoKo

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Again late updating because I'm irresponsible. Nah, I've been ill for 4 weeks and I'm preparing for my exams. Anyway, mianhae!!!

For week 5 we had the honour to participate in a dace workshop with the girls from LoKo!!!
We learnt the dances for the chorus of Red Velvet's Happiness and Infinite H's Pretty. It was difficult for me, as I have no coordination between my hands and my feet, but I had a lot of fun.

I couldn't take any pictures as I was too busy trying to do even one step right...However, I'll leave below the songs that we learnt how to dance! Hopefully I won't forget them!!! 

Thank you to LoKo for giving us this opportunity and to the KCC for this amazing experience. 감사합니다!

Red Velvet's Happiness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFgv8bKfxEs

Infinite H's Pretty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efK-S_R1tfk

K-pop Academy Week 4 - Homework Assignment

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For this week's homework I chose the first option, which was creating a chart showing all of the letters of the Korean alphabet to help others learn hangul. 

I tried to make it fun, colourful and entertaining so it would be easy and not boring to look at it! 
Here's my work, tell me what you think:
Thank you! 감사합니다!

Week 4: Hangeul and Korean language

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I need to start uploading straight after the lessons, mianhae everyone....

Anyway, last week we had the honour of listening a great lecture about the history of Korean language and a bit of introduction on Hangeul (or Korean alphabet) 

I learned that Korean language is believed to belong to the Altaic language family (the same as Turkish, Mongolian, etc.). However, there's no clear evidence about it. 

The 25th year of his reign (1443, in the Lunar calendar), King Sejong created the Korean alphabet. It consisted of 28 letters and they were classified in velar, alveolar, dental, bilabial and glotal, depending on how the letters have to be pronounced. 

The modern Korean alphabet consists of 40 letters, as there are now composed letters. 

Later on in the lesson, we got to write our names in Hangul on a big piece of paper with ink!!!

I wasn't really good at it, but it was fun! :^) 

(Excuse the bad quality of the pictures I took!!!!!) 
(Source of the pictures with good quality: 7th K-pop Acedemy Facebook page)

K-pop Academy Week 3 - Homework Assignment

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For this week's homework I wanted to cook a Korean dish, but sadly I couldn't find any ingredients in my area. 
Instead, I made a powerpoint creating a menu for when Donghae and Eunhyuk come to my house! (Yes, because that is going to hapen) (probably not) :^( 

Anyway, here's my homework! Please take a look at it if you wish: 
Thank you! 감사합니다!

Week 3: Cooking lesson!

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In last week's lesson we learnt how to cook Seafood Mandu (Dumplings) and Seafood Buchigi (Pancake). Everything was delicious and really flavoursome! 

First we saw our two chef sunbaes create both dishes, everything seemed simple and fast when it was made by them. However, reality wasn't that easy...When it was our turn to prepare it we actually struggled a bit. The pancakes didn't seem to reach the perfect cooking point. Luckily, our seonsaengnim rescued us. 감사합니다, 선생님!

At the end, team EXO didn't do as bad as expected. Unfortunately, we didn't win, but we got to eat our menu and it turn out quite good! 

I will definitely try the recipes again at home! Practice makes perfect, right? :^)

Thank you to our Chef Sunbaes and our seonsaengnim for making this possible. 감사합니다!

 EXO FIGHTING!! :^)

(Source: 7th K-pop Academy Facebook webpage)

K-pop Academy Week 2 - Homework Assignment

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Sorry for the late update, I've been a bit busy lately! Blame school...

For last week's homework assignment we got to choose between three options to make
whatever piece of work we liked the most.
I chose to do the second option and use the taegugki flag to make a creative form of art. 

I called the painting "Korea's blossom". 
In the left, there's an interpretation of "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" which is a famous icon of Japan, representing Japan's force and oppression towards Korea. In the right side, there's a tree with the national flowers of Korea, Mugunghwa, representing Korea's strength and resistance towards the Japanese oppression. I also added the taegugki flags to make it representative of the country's independence.

Hope you like it, 감사합니다!

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