The Style Talent Operation Project featured
outrageous performances and costumes inspired
by popular culture and was filled with students’
own unique hilarious twists and turns.
The winners for the music category and
overall best modeling couple were juniors, Kylie
Hur and Louie Chung. “I was Zayn Malik from I
Don’t Wanna Live Forever,”said Kylie. Kylie was the
boy and Louie was the girl, which made it a funny
scene as they danced to the song. Their reward for
winning was 40,000 won and was split between
the two of them.
In the movie and drama category, the
seniors presented a creative performance from the
Disney movie “Frozen,” including choreography
and artificial snow.
“We practiced the song multiple times,”
said Soeun Kim, senior, speaking on the seniors’
success in being the class with the best talent.
“I was Elsa,” explained Soeun Kim. Soeun sang
“Let It Go” along with the help of her friends who
sprayed snow behind her back to create the illu-
sion of Elsa’s magical powers.
For juniors Betty Hwang and Dain Shim, a
lot of preparation went into their costumes in the
games category. “We spent like two or three hours.
We brought some boxes and glued some blue and
red paper in order to make sure it looked like Tetris,” de-
scribed Betty. The geometric costumes were completed with
holes for their faces and limbs, allowing them to dance in
tune to the music. “Our goal was just to be funny. We also
tried to make legitimate Tetris shapes so that we could match
together,” she concluded.
Ethan Kim, freshman, and sophomores Alice Kim and
Kona Brumsickle re-enacted a curling match for the talent
show. “We basically used our brooms and a medicine ball
from the gym,” said Alice.
They pleased the crowd by including a reference to
the Korean women’s Olympics curling team by calling out
the name “Yeongmi!” This reference to the highly-successful
Korean team mimicked the way team members called their
mate’s name in a rapid, forceful way. Because so many of
the students many watched the Pyeongchang Olympics, their
act was understandably a success.
“I dressed up as a caveman,” said Lucas Lee, junior.
“It was actually pretty successful, we got a lot of reaction,
and a lot of laughing from the crowd,“ he reflected.
Commenting on his experience, Lucas stated, “At
least for the junior class, we had a lot of fun.” According to
him, they wanted to go “all out” for this event. In the end,
it was the junior class who took home the win for the 2018
STOP. The award was a Baskin Robbins ice cream party for
all of the junior participants.
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1. Phillip Min and Jaden Jeong dress up as two influential lead-
ers to match the theme of history. Phillip was Mahatma Gandhi
and Jaden was Donald Trump. 2. The juniors were awarded for
the best overall performance. Upon hearing this, Junwoo Park,
Junwoo Kang, Louie Chung, and Lucas Lee immediately jumped
up on stage to celebrate. 3. Leslie Lee and Kaitlyn Lee represent
the sophomores in their singing performance. The two were
dressed as characters from the movie “It.” They had also par-
ticipated in the fashion walk. 4. Jennifer Jeon and Yuhee Hong
dress up in their homemade clarinet and tambourine costumes.
They performed to “Flight of the Bumblebee” and ran around the
auditorium as if they were being played. 5. Ethan Kim, Alice Park,
and Kona Brumsickle celebrate Korea’s curling team to match
the them