Tag Archive for 'kpop'

A train wreck I can’t stop looking at…

I often complain about the quality of music in my adopted home of Korea.  It tends to be a distant cousin of Hilary Duff-style pop.  However (and perhaps I’ve been here too long), I’m embarrassed to admit that I kind of like Girls Generation’s new song, “Oh!”.
[I have always been brutal to Girls Generation... [...]

Korean pop music: G-Dragon

When you live in Korea, you become completely inundated with Kpop.  This basically means that in any given month there will be several popular songs that you hear ALL THE TIME!
I know we think this happens in America when pop groups gain fleeting popularity, but please understand, IT IN NO WAY COMPARES TO KOREA.
One artist, [...]

I want to be a cop

One Korean pop band I really like is the Wonder Girls.  They just finished touring with the Jonas Brothers in America and are evidently working on an English language album to be released this year.
Their first single “Tell Me” sparked a national dance craze, thereby prompting me to post a video of cops doing the [...]

Cops in Korea do Wonder Girls

I’m moving to Korea in about 5 weeks, so my own video editing has taken a backseat to selling everything I own… however, in the process of moving I have, of course, found many wonderful things about Korea.
And this video of cops dancing to Wonder Girls’ Tell Me has to be the most fabulous thing [...]