Anyway...I always wanted to write about this Korean wave things... I mean, about 10 years ago, I watched that Taiwanese Meteor garden.. and then afterward, I was infected by these Asian stars, and then there were the K-drama. But, long before that, I really like Manga Animees like Sailormoon and Inuyasha (Sorry, I don't like Doraemon..:). And, Inuyasha's theme songs were good. I like Do as Infinity's Fukaimori and "Every heart" sung by BoA. Really had no clue that she is a Korean at that time. So, afterward, I started to look for BoA's albums at the Cassette/CD stores. I was still an undergraduate student that time, and I only had an old tape recorder...not a CD player.
Well, then I like some of BoA's songs in Japanese, even though my friend Mayumi said that well...most of the Japanese version of Korean pops were not so Japanese..:) But, off course i don't know that since I only like the voice and the music..not the artist or the singer..:) Well...except for some of those really good looking male singers..^_^ Yet....as most of my best friends know that if I have to mention favorite singer... I will definitely say : A-ha..:)(even thought I still like Richard marx, Peter Cetera, Shade, savage garden,Enya..:)..and they know that my taste in music is weird...:P --I don't like popular things I guess... I just don't like to like what everybody likes, what everybody wears... what everybody uses...--> might explain why I don't want to have a blackberry and my laptop is not Toshiba or Acer... since seems like everybody has them...:D
I do not really know lots of J-pop stars or movie stars... I only know--well not "know" I guess...more likely listen to the music from SENS after watching Takeshi kaneshiro in Kamisama...and Kitaro long before that... and Monkey Majik since couple years ago..and Monkey majik guys are not even Japaneses..:)) But somehow... i really like the language... (Well, most of SENS musics have no lyrics..:).
After that BoA stuffs...and some Korean Dramas... I started to like Korean language.. I even wrote about Korean military government for my last assignment to get my BA.. Well, off course the reason was not because of BoA. And it was not because of Korea either actually... but it was because of the power transition from Military to Civilian... (not the other way around), and because in Gadjah mada University, there was a Center for Korean Studies.. :D.. Well.. off course i also wanted to know why there are lots of "Kim" in Korea. But mr. Koh, the scholar there couldn't explain better than "well.. it's probably like Indonesian name "Bambang" in which lots of Indonesians use 'Bambang' as their names... " hahaha...
Well...it went well with the fact that I liked to watch Arirang TV. I usually watched it when i had my school vacation at home since here, you've gotta to have a satellite dish to watch TV..:). And off course, afterward, I started to watch the Pops in Seoul program... and also watch J-pop in NHK.
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| Arirang Restaurant, in Antwerp - Belgium (May, 2011) |
I am amazed about how this Korean Wave became a global trend recently. I mean... I have liked J- songs and k-songs since 15 years ago, and i think they started to go global only in these past 5 years... I see that this wave or probably I can say that as a movement was so big... I think Korea has a brilliant strategy to promote Korean Culture by using media and by winning the heart of young people all over the world. Well, since my reference to Korean TV only to Arirang and KBS...I can see that this movement is not just a trend created by the industry...but I think it's more like a very well thought national strategy that includes government, industry/ private sectors and the korean themselves. I think, that K-wave is very big.
It so big that now, lots of new K-pop stars wannabes became so popular in Indonesia. I, not that i do not respect their hard work-- feel that it sooo not cool. I mean, well, musicians might have inspiration from other musicians... Why can't those new boybands or girl band in Indonesia try to be original... Well...if they can't at least they have gotta to be total...that makes me sick watching them copying the style of the K-pop stuffs but only makes it look so crappy ... (sorry..... can't find other more polite words for that"
This K-pop star wannabees became a joke between me and some of my friends. One lady i know from the Dutch Institution awarded me scholarship, was really really sick of one particular boy band who copy the name of an original Korean Boyband... and we always make fun about it in facebook. Well... I can't blame them though... (even though I always laughed watching their dance and the "lebay" lyrics they enunciate...)... But, K-songs lately also use this sort of "tacky words" --I must say-- in their songs. I mean...somehow, they use English words or sentences which is too much that most of the times it became " weird' for my ears..:P I mean...why they don't just use full Korean words for the lyrics... I think that won't make their song less international... :D
Anyway... don't waste your time to think too much about what I wrote here... It's really not as thoughtful as you thought... REALLY....:D
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