{"id":62800,"date":"2025-05-05T05:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62800"},"modified":"2025-05-05T05:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:53:37","slug":"mark-spots-two-vintage-radios-in-the-background-of-a-k-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/mark-spots-two-vintage-radios-in-the-background-of-a-k-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark spots two vintage radios in the background of a K-drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas,<\/p>\n

K-dramas with Korean subtitles can be a useful form of language immersion, so I recently came across this comedy sitcom on YouTube.<\/p>\n

In this clip, we see Winter, Karina, and Giselle of the K-pop girl group Aespa.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Behind them are what appears to be a Beomaster 900M and a Philips
\nPhiletta.<\/p>\n

Mark<\/p>\n

You’ve got sharp eyes, Mark! Thank you for sharing.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes: Thomas, K-dramas with Korean subtitles can be a useful form of language immersion, so I recently came across this comedy sitcom on YouTube. In this clip, we see Winter, Karina, and Giselle of the K-pop girl group Aespa. Behind them are what appears to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,4796],"tags":[10800,5506],"class_list":["post-62800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-vintage-radio","tag-k-pop","tag-radios-in-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gkU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58224,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/mark-spots-a-vintage-radio-in-taxi-driver\/","url_meta":{"origin":62800,"position":0},"title":"Mark spots a vintage radio in ‘Taxi Driver’","author":"Thomas","date":"November 18, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes: Thomas, I've been deep down the k-drama rabbit hole for months now and I'm trying to familiarise myself with the Korean language at the same time. 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