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Growing Up With K-Pop

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A story of two friends growing up together alongside K-pop.

Hi, I'm Eunice! Hi, I'm Minji! (1996–2006) Early Childhood eunice Minji and I first met when we were nine years old, at a Korean language school that operated out of a high school on Saturday mornings. We were kids in the late '90s in the suburbs of Detroit, where hanging out meant going to each other's houses doing nothing. For us, though, we had a familiar routine: drink aloe, eat Korean snacks, and sit cross-legged on the floor of her family's living room while listening to BoA's "No. 1" on repeat. Later, when we discovered YouTube, we’d crowd around her family desktop computer and…

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