BTOB? Who? What? Why?

In my mobile phone I still have a picture of me standing in front of the "7 Traveling Themes in Korea recommended from BTOB" poster. I am glad Lin Kuang, our amazing colleague living in LA, took that picture for me(see attached). 

After coming back to my classroom, I did some research online about BTOB whom I really did not know anything about before the field trip. I now know BTOB is an acronym for Born to Beat) is a South Korean boy band formed in 2012 by Cube Entertainment. They are famous K-pop singers with "Insane"(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmuHZa6DQOc) and "Tell Me" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y1pKXf94VA) being most popular. On the poster they recommend me to take a trip to PyeongChang for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Wow! What an eye-opener for me! Even though I am Asian, I don’t know much about Korean language and culture. Now knowing a little about the BTOB may become the start of my Korean learning journey as I am always interested in learning languages of all countries and ethnic groups. To the students in my classroom, I can ask them to compare in the target language (Chinese) TF Boys from China, Backstreet Boys from America, BTOB from South Korea, in terms of the singers’ ages, time periods they become famous, foods they enjoy, hobbies they have, language in which they speak and sing and the song appreciation in themes and style.