Big Ocean: Meet the K-Pop stars with hearing loss - What in the World podcast, BBC World Service

Big Ocean are the world’s first K-Pop boy band with hearing loss. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM Each of the three members; Jiseok, PJ and Chanyeon, has a different level of hearing. They use hearing aids and cochlear implants to hear sounds and use lip reading for communication. The band use metronomes that display lights and smartwatches that communicate the beat through vibrations to help them when dancing. And they have used AI technology trained with the members' voice data to help them hit the correct pitch. As part of their first European tour, they came into the What in the World studio to chat to us about the challenges they’ve faced and overcome and how the deaf community has responded to them. We also hear from Big Ocean fan or PADO (which means wave in Korean) Jade Dunne who is a musician and has progressive hearing loss, on how the band has inspired her. Big Ocean incorporate Korean Sign Language, American Sign Language and International Sign into their choreography. Gavin Songer from the UK charity the National Deaf Children’s Society explains what other tech there is to help people with hearing loss experience music. 00:00 Introduction 00:51 Challenges faced as musicians with hearing loss 03:10 What devices help Big Ocean making music together 04:39 How Big Ocean make music accessible and inclusive in their videos and live shows 05:40 Gavin Songer, National Deaf Children’s Society 07:33 How has the deaf community responded to Big Ocean’s music 08:04 Jade Dunne, musician and Big Ocean’s fan 09:50 What is it like to be a disabled person in South Korea 11:37 Big Ocean teach Hannah signs 12:29 Listen to some of our other episodes Watch more episodes from What in the World here 👉🏽    • What in the World   Instagram: @bbcwhatintheworld Email: whatintheworld@bbc.co.uk WhatsApp: +44 330 12 33 22 6 Presenter: Hannah Gelbart Producers: Benita Barden and Julia Ross-Roy Video Journalist: Beatrice Guzzardi Editor: Verity Wilde ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   Twitter 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   Facebook 👉🏽   / bbcworldservice   BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #WorldService #kpop #bigocean #koreanpop #hearingloss