Waiting Over Coffee: SEVENTEEN and "Falling For U"

We go to South Korea today for some K-Pop with multi-faceted group Seventeen. A boy group formed in 2015 by Pledis Entertainment, Seventeen consists of three sub groups, or units. One unit specializes in hip-hop, another in vocal and the third in performance. Each member of the group is very involved with the composition of music as well as choreography and discography, and therefore the band is considered to be self-producing. The band has released two official albums, though it also released a third which was a previously released album with four new songs included. Today's song, Falling For U, features the talents of the vocal unit, particularly Jeonghan and Joshua, and it can be found on that third album called SEVENTEEN Special Project: Director's Cut, released in 2018.

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_(band)

Red Flag: Ladies' Code and "Bad Girl"

Some K-pop in store for you today by Ladies' Code, a South Korean girl group formed in 2013. They released their first mini-album in 2013 which featured this tune, Bad Girl. They followed up with another mini-album. They continued to release hit singles through 2014 until September of that year, when they were involved in a tragic accident while returning to Seoul from a concert. Two of the group's members were killed when their van, piloted by their manager, lost control on a wet road and rolled over several times. The manager was later convicted of causing a fatal accident. The remaining three members of Ladies' Code have not officially reunited, though it is rumored that they are practicing together. Bad Girl can be found on the Code01-Bad Girl EP (2013).