Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan

at Howard University.

There's already a lot of parallels to BTS here with their seven members making their way overseas over a century later.

A group of these students made a recording on a wax cylinder at the Library of Congress

that was taken by a folklorist named Alice Cunningham Fletcher.

And that wax cylinder is the first recording anywhere, including in Korea, of this song, Arirang.

So hats off to BTS for uncovering this incredible bit of cross-cultural music history.

Well, and most importantly, to say thank you for joining us.

It's been really a pleasure, all your expertise.

Switched on Pop is produced by Rihanna Cruz, edited by Alyssa Soap, engineered by Brandon McFarlane, illustrations by Iris Gottlieb, video by Nick Rips, music by Jossie Adams and Zach Tenario of Arc Iris, remember the Vox Media Podcast Network and Vulture, which is part of New York Mag.

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Tell us what else you're hearing on Are We Wrong?

Any references we missed?

Any use of traditional Korean instruments?

Because like I said, this is my new obsession.

We'll be back with a brand new episode next week.

A crossover episode.

A crossover episode.

That's exciting.

Until then, thanks for listening.