Korean Job Discussion Forums

[itaewonguy]

now if I flick through the channels on TV and MTV or Mnet or KMTV , I am just looking for cute girls!!!

I will listen to see if the song is good or not, I will make my prediction they will last 1 year 1 week what ever.. then if they get my vote for emmm pretty hot, I will turn the volume down and just watch the girls until I get bored which is usually 2 minutes that stupid dancing always makes me hate the Korean Music industry more!!
when I first came in 96-97 I thought wow check these out cool!!
that fade lasted all of a week when I realised every band was doing the same thing!!!!
I dont see the point in men in their 20's trying to be cute!!
I dont care what sells! thats crazy!! you dont see BSB or NSYNC selling out to those extremes!! well not that much anyway!

still BABY VOX and SES FINKLY and some others are still worth a look when they release a new video, they mostly use foreigner video directors so they get a little nasty sometimes,not quit christina DIRTY but ok..
I will only listen to korean ballads without pictures and a couple others if im driving or what ever..

[sakamuras]

I LOVE KOREAN MUSIC!!!!

[gibbythecat]

i just designed n built a bar in kang nam,put in the soundsystem etc.
its a cool bar,similar to a new york,london,paris etc type thing...white,modernist,concrete floor, steel n glass.cool.
a place to drink n chill in an insane ugly city.


the barman[thick,early 20s,never left korea,you know the thing]turns up with his music..he knows a lot about music,knows whats cool,couldnt be told anything by this english designer who designs and builds and visits bars all over the world.

its summer2003

he puts on..childish kpop,the beatles,queen,early60s freddy n the dreamers or somthing,celine d,theme from titanic etcetcetc

i go out and buy the type of music that bars like this should be playing,and are playing all round the world.
you know the stuff..ambient,buddah bar,massive attack,whatever i can get my hands on here ...theRIGHT music for this kind of bar.music that compliments the lighting,the atmosphere,architecture..

he refuses to play it....'i dont understand what koreans like' he told me.
I guess they are only 'comfortable' listening to the same thing,everywhere,over and over again.group mentality with music,the familar, yet he was mainly listening to music from my homeland produced before he was born...yet he was an expert on music he told me again and again.
i wonder what he hears when playing this music,what it actually means to him?is he actually hearing it,or is it some kind of mantra,background white noise?


as soon as i'm out the door..its back to queen.
last time i was in there he was playing BUGGLES'video killed the radio star'
[which he had downloaded] in an empty bar,at massive volume.
he was terribly pleased with himself,he asked me if i knew it.
i told him the year it was released,then went outside to cry.

only in korea.
HE KILLED MY BAR

they know best.
they cant be told

hiseoul...the diverse dynamic up to the minute hub of the world

[Trinny]

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

Here's a bomb track from some guys in my hometown of Wellington

Defines phatness and slinky downbeat grooviness

http://www.amplifier.co.nz/amp/view?item_id=3676&session=Td9hUIvY1sHD

[Gord]

[Bulsajo]

[syclick]

[Bulsajo]

[gang ah jee]

'Hi Seoul' is the current tourism promotion slogan for the city. If you took 2 monkeys, gave them 2 typewriters and about 3 or four hours they could probably come up with something better.

I mean 'Seoul'... think of the PUNS