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| the world's first non-Korean K-pop band |
That is the issue Bora Kim needed to answer when she made EXP Edition.
What began as a scholarly task before long formed into the world's first non-Korean K-pop band.
They've confronted feedback, allegations of social appointment and even demise dangers, however three years on, the band is as yet going solid.
How have they done it? Also, why?
Making a band
Experiencing childhood in South Korea, Bora Kim spent her secondary school days tuning in to K-pop - the pop/hip-bounce, Korean/English mix that has turned into a social juggernaut and generated a thousand "icons".
In any case, it was just when she went to the US in 2014 to ponder for a bosses at the renowned Columbia University in New York that she began to scrutinize the genuine importance of K-pop.
"When I was youthful I never envisioned that individuals outside of Korea would expend Korean culture," she said.
"[When I got to the US] K-pop was truly picking up force and I began seeing it from an alternate perspective. I began considering... Is it just K-pop if Korean individuals do it? How might we push K-pop? What limits are there?"
Bora settled on the choice to begin a boyband while she was learning at Columbia
She chose the most ideal approach to answer her inquiry was to make a K-pop band of her own - comprising of exclusively non-Koreans.
This would be her postulation venture over her next two years at Columbia.
The main inquiry left was: "How am I going to appear this?"
Finding the band individuals
Her objective was to make a K-pop band that could exist in reality.
"We needed to pick non-Korean individuals that would speak to New York," she said.
"So the main thing we did were tryouts."
Six individuals were in the long run picked and would proceed to make up EXP Edition.
She chose the most ideal approach to answer her inquiry was to make a K-pop band of her own - comprising of exclusively non-Koreans.
This would be her postulation venture over her next two years at Columbia.
The main inquiry left was: "How am I going to appear this?"
Finding the band individuals
Her objective was to make a K-pop band that could exist in reality.
"We needed to pick non-Korean individuals that would speak to New York," she said.
"So the main thing we did were tryouts."
Six individuals were in the long run picked and would proceed to make up EXP Edition.
"Some of them were extremely solid vocally, others were great at moving, however every one of them simply had a considerable measure of identity," said Bora.
The last hopefuls were: Croatian Sime Kosta, Portuguese-American Frankie DaPonte from Rhode Island, half Japanese-German Koki Tomlinson who experienced childhood in Texas, New Yorkers Hunter Kohl and David Wallace and Texan Tarion Anderson.
Most would agree it wasn't... splendid. Also, it was certifiably not an enormous achievement.
In any case, by that point, they had been preparing for a considerable length of time and as of now had a full set assembled - so they chose to begin performing in live shows, and were gradually reserved for occasions crosswise over New York.
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