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sodabread · Joined: 30 Dec 2006

what's up with the new english fm station in seoul? And why are they going to have hours of hideous K-pop music? It's nice and all for our hosts to feel for us, but i'm sure we all get a week's worth of the dreaded K just walking to the subway. do our ears need to be further bloodied?
can you imagine a mexican ranchera station in CA playing jonas bros or the safety dance?

If we were talking about an english language station in brazil playing brazilian music, that'd be a whole different thing. brazilian music is terrifying after all. but k-pop? sad to say, i think you really need to be korean and/or musically undernourished, no?

i guess it's their station, so they can broadcast the sounds of ajummas cleaning toilets if they want. might not help ratings though.

Whirlwind · Joined: 03 Jun 2005

The hosts don't "feel" for you. They could give a crap less about you. Their only objective is to spew as much pro-korea propaganda that they can over the airwaves. Thankfully, the Internet is filled with radio stations online from back home, so this new korean propaganda radio station won't affect me in the least. I'll never have to listen to it. I'm happy with my online stations, thank you very much. They can have their "Radio Seoul" propaganda Very Happy

sojourner1 · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:32 am Post subject:

Wouldn't an English station play English music? This would encourage Korean artists to sing more in English which= the country acquiring more English ability in it's young troupes. Korea has some techno and hip hop in English, but it's probably mixed from foreign sources via the internet as it sounds European and American all the way, but more digitally mixed. I remember the English stations in Europe played music in English, often local techno beats with English vocals based on classic American songs (great party music!) and other stations like AFN would play original classic American rock'n'roll. I had a good time listening to the radio and recording onto cassette tapes during my travels. Europe was the bomb for music, art, and photography. Today, we have internet and IPOD, but I still like to break out a radio when traveling to see what the locals enjoy. I like to buy local music you can get from street vendors in many countries.

So Seoul has AFN, right? There's our English station we've had since the 1950's in Korea. I wish I could get AFN radio and TV it out in Gangwondo.