B.A.P mentioned in an Argentinian documentary

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Here's the translation of the documentary:

Female journalist: we went (to the event) and we were surprised as much as you are now. People started tweeting us about these Korean bands and we asked ourselves, “what’s happening with these Korean bands?”, and that’s how we discovered K-pop; we said “let’s show people what K-pop is about, why are there so many fans and why is it so interesting”, because it’s not just a fanaticism because of the music, but it was transformed into a cultural movement; the fans are already excited about learning Korean, about the food, the dancing… and everyone wants to go to Korea. Host: really? That much? FJ: that much. H: were you with them? FJ: I was with them and this is what they told us. Yi Chongyul: K-pop means popular Korean song. There are round ten thousand Argentinean fanatics (T/N: he means people that are fully involved in Korean culture, including K-pop; the fanpage KPOP Argentina has almost 18k likes). FJ: K-pop, more than just a trend, is a cultural phenomenon that has extended to other Latin American countries. The Korean wave, or hallyu, includes movies, music, dramas and a fanaticism for the Korean culture. YC: I arrived here in 2009 and in that moment there were around ten students of the Korean language, but nowadays more than one hundred Argentinean students want to learn the Korean alphabet; the most important is that in the queue there are more than one hundred (waiting for a place to learn the language). FJ: why do you like K-pop so much? Fan: to me, basically because it shows a lot of passion, they train very hard to get where they are now, to make their dreams come true. Fan: they teach us things that we never learnt in the school; they teach us the language, the dancing, everything that involves Korea, everything that involves Asia. Fan: it makes you know about cultural stuff about Korea, the food, the language… Fan: the hallyu itself, the drama, the music, everything is even healthier, the culture they have Korea. FJ: Big Bang, Super Junior, SHINee, B2ST, EXO, B.A.P, Girls Generation, 2NE1, TVXQ, are just a few bands of this K-pop generation. If you’re asking yourself where all these Korean bands came from, we choose to close this mini documental a song we all know, because he was the person that marked a before and after in the popularity of K-pop… do you know who it was? PSY with his “Gangnam Style” H: well he couldn’t not be here, PSY and his Gangnam Style, of course. FJ: exactly; that video is the most watched in the history of Youtube. H: so, what we already knew was that, but that’s ever bigger. FJ: it’s really, really bigger, there are hundreds and hundreds of bands, a lot of bands that we couldn’t name because a matter of time, for example T-ara, CNBLUE, After School, NU’EST, a lot of bands that all the fans were asking for via Twitter; but this, in summary, is what this K-pop movement is that stimulates the children to learn the Korean culture, the language, and they learn every choreography, they sing and dance perfectly. H: I loved it.

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