On the 20th, JTBCŌĆÖs Knowing Bros invited a few dancers from Street Woman Fighter dancers. In this episode, MONIKA talked about street dance and its history. When it was time to introduce ŌĆ£popping,ŌĆØ she said, ŌĆ£All dance moves that pop is called popping. Sometimes, you take out the ŌĆśgŌĆÖ and call it ŌĆśpoppin.‘ŌĆØ Immediately after the broadcast, some dancers pointed out that MONIKA used the wrong term. Their claims are that the correct name is ŌĆ£poppingŌĆØ and that they ŌĆ£were embarrassed because her explanation was so wrong.ŌĆØ They even wrote, ŌĆ£Please correct your mistake. As a street dancer, you must know how much love the dancers have for these dances.ŌĆØ However, many debated that these dancersŌĆÖ reaction is over the top. As a matter of fact, the terms ŌĆ£poppingŌĆØ and ŌĆ£poppin’ŌĆØ are often used interchangeably. And as the debate went viral online, people started asking some well-known dancers for an answer. PoppinŌĆÖ Hyun Joon, who is considered a pioneer of South Korean breakdancing, answered, ŌĆ£How can this become a problem? Popping and poppinŌĆÖ are the same things.ŌĆØ He added, ŌĆ£You can read it as poppinŌĆÖ. And you can add poppinŌĆÖ in dancersŌĆÖ nicknames.ŌĆØ One person even brought the issue to Step Up 3D actor Chadd Smith. To the question ŌĆ£ThereŌĆÖs recently been a debate over whether POPPIN or POPPING is the correct term as a genre of dance,ŌĆØ Smith replied, ŌĆ£Same thing in my opinion.ŌĆØ
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