Ep. 178: Establishing Artists

This week's episode starts out with a surprise love bomb from the listeners and Shannon crying. (thank you for the love you sneakies) Then we get into a rundown of groups and solo artists that were the very first to debut at their companies. What kind of impact did these folks make on the scene at large? Who stuck around and who was quietly disappeared? It's a return to Kpop college with a bunch of history and stages you have to see! Then, a super fun 2nd gen group in the random game! A million more thank yous for your support. Y'all are the greatest listeners on earth.The one hundred seventy-eighth episode of Ask Me About Kpop aired on November 3, 2021.
== Links ==
YouTube Playlist
* SM - Hyun Jin-young 
* DSP Media - Sobangcha
* YG - Keep Six [EN: there's no real link giving a lot of info about them and I refuse to link to allkpop on principle so just listen to them in the YT playlist]
* JYP - Pearl/Jinju
* Woollim - Epik High
* Kakao M/Loen - IU
*Big Hit Music - 8Eight
*Cube - 4Minute
*FNC - FTISLAND
*Pledis - Son Dam Bi
*Starship - K.Will
*WM - Taegoon
*RBW - Phantom
*Fantagio - HELLOVENUS
=== Random Game ===
GROUP: ZE:A
SONG: "Breathe"
== Recommendations ==
Lots of manhwa on the Webtoon app
SEVENTEEN - SEVENTEEN 9th Mini Album 'Attacca'
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