{"id":515476,"date":"2026-04-06T07:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515476\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:53:08","slug":"birmingham-k-pop-fan-i-learned-korean-to-understand-k-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515476\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham K-Pop fan: &#8216;I learned Korean to understand K-Pop&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richards said: &#8220;K-Pop was definitely my gateway into Korean culture, which I think it is for a lot of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she said that led her into watching Korean dramas and learning more about the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After visiting for two weeks in the summer she said she enjoyed the atmosphere so much she &#8220;decided to go back and study for a bit&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time, because of the lack of English subtitles on Korean exports, she said: &#8220;You had to wait for really dedicated fans who could speak Korean to translate voluntarily and put subtitles out for you, and sometimes you had to wait weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought if I go and learn Korean I won&#8217;t have to wait,&#8221; she reasoned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Richards enrolled in a Korean language school at a Korean University and said it was surprisingly easy to learn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Korean is known as the most scientific language on the planet and the actual alphabet you can learn in four hours,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richards said: &#8220;K-Pop was definitely my gateway into Korean culture, which I think it is for a lot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-515476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}