KPOP

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What is KPOP?

• KPOP stands for Korean pop music.

• Although mainly Korean, most KPOP groups sing and perform in MandarinChinese and Japanese as well.

• In Korea, there are a few main entertainment companies that representthe KPOP industry: YG Entertainment, SM Entertainment, and JYPEntertainment are the BIG THREE.

Characteristics of KPOP• Members

• Dance Number

• Complicated Dance

Numbers

• English

• Rapper

• Music Videos

• Trainees

• Idol Image

KPOP Terms

KPOP Terms

Early Kpop

• Korean singer Seo Taiji and two dancers, Lee Ju-no and Yang Hyeon-seok (YG), joined forces as Seo Taiji and the Boys in 1992 to give us the song known as Nan Arayo (I Know).

The BIG 3

• These three entertainment companies are the largest talent agencies and record labels in South Korea:

Key moments in the history of Kpop

Key moments in the history of Kpop

What I like and what I dislike of Kpop

• I LIKE …

What I like and what I dislike of Kpop

• I DISLIKE …

• What is KPOP?• KPOP stands for Korean pop music. It has a heavy influence from the pop music of Europe and the U.S., but stands on its own.• Although mainly Korean, most KPOP groups sing and perform in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese as well.• In Korea, there are a few main entertainment companies that represent the KPOP industry: YG Entertainment, SM Entertainment, and JYP Entertainment are the BIG THREE.• Characteristics of KPOP• Boy or girl groups, usually 4-9 members, or solo artists.• Singing and entertaining dance numbers• Can sing with microphones in hand while performing complicated dance numbers• Catchy tunes with English sprinkled in for effect (usually the title of the song/chorus)• Usually a “rapper” status assigned to at least one member• Usually music videos are of high production value and can even include many different versions (dance version, movie version, and even different versions for different languages)• All artists start as trainees for management companies and can train and work as backup dancers for star acts for 2 to 6 years. • Most artists and trainees are discouraged from scandals, dating, and partying/drinking to keep their idol image.• KPOP Terms• Maknae: The youngest member of a group• MV: Music video• Oppa: Brother (Mostly used by girls to describe an older male as “close”; “Sweetie”• Hyung: Term younger males use when talking to or referring to an older male• Hallyu Star: Someone Korean who is “world famous” or famous throughout Asia• Hallyu Wave: The spread of Korean music outside of Korea.• Netizens: Members of internet and forum communities• Selca: Self-taken picture; KPOP stars love to post these for fans• Hwaiting/Fighting!: Words of encouragement and support; “Go!”• Ulzzang: “Best face” ; Beautiful man or woman• Ssanti: “Cheap” in a goofy or raunchy way (usually a dance)• Sasaeng Fans: is widely known to be an excessively obsessed Hallyu fan. Although "sasaengs" are largely not considered as fans, many sources still refer to them as "sasaeng fans".• Early Kpop

• Korean singer Seo Taiji and two dancers, Lee Ju-no and Yang Hyeon-seok (YG), joined forces as Seo Taiji and the Boys in 1992 to give us the jewel known as Nan Arayo (I Know). • Nan Arayo was heavily influenced by early 90s hip hop, and was widely accepted by Korea’s young people but panned and shunned by the older generations. In Korea today, Nan Arayo

is THE karaoke song and almost every single KPOP performer knows the song/dance. • The BIG 3• These three entertainment companies are the largest talent agencies and record labels in South Korea.• SM Entertaintment: • Founded by Lee Soo-man• Lee surveyed teenage girls or what they wanted and created boy band H.O.T. and girlband S.E.S. in the late 90s. • Problems began to pop up with SM after the breakup of H.O.T. Then S.E.S. followed by leaving SM a year later. Band Shinwa left them in 2003 (Group chose new management outside of

SM instead of breaking up).• Label of BoA, TVXQ, Girls’ Generation, SHINee, TRAX, and Super Junior and Super Junior-M.• YG Entertaintment:• Founded by Yang Hyun Suk after the breakup of Seo Taiji and the Boys• Label is stronger influenced by hip hop and R&B• Expanded into the foreign markets in 2005, with artist Se7en the first to expand into the rest of Asia.• Label of 1TYME, 2NE1, Big Bang, Gummy, and Se7en. •

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• JYP Entertainment:• Founded by singer Park Jin-young (JYP)• Merged with J. Tune Entertainment• Label is known for having artists with the best English speech (more open to signing artists from America)• Label of Rain, Miss A, Wonder Girls, 2PM, 2AM, 8eight and represents a lot of actors.• Former label of G.O.D. and K.Will.• JYP has the most artists to tour the U.S. out of the other BIG THREE Entertainment companies.•

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• Key moments in the history of Kpop• In October 2009, girl group Wonder Girls entered the US Billboard Hot 100 with a single called Nobody which became famous due to the viral spread of the music video for this song after

it had surpassed 50 million views on YouTube. • In November 2011, Big Bang won the MTV Best Worldwide Act against Britney Spears and the German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut. • Girl’s Generation appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman and Live! With Kelly in January and February 2012. • September 2012 – B.A.P has topped and ranked within the top 10 in the German K-Pop Music Chart for 17 months straight. • Psy’s Gangnam Style because the most viewed video on YouTube in November 2012. After topping the record charts of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic,

Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Honduras, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and UK, it was awarded the Best Video Award in the MTV EMAs. It also became the first video to hit a billion views on YouTube.

• 2NE1’s performance in New Jersey in December 2012 was selected as one of the “Best Concerts of 2012” by The New York Times. • Girl’s Generation won the “Video of the year” award for their music video “I got a boy” on the first YouTube awards in November 2013. •

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• What I like and what I dislike of Kpop• I LIKE…• CREATIVITY: If anything stands Kpop and Korean music is generally implied by the creativity that comes with it. We find dramatic stories, with

psychedelic scenes, colors busting our eye moments balloons, sinister stories or when you just drool is the norm. The Kpop brings this and more.• VARIETY: The kpop is variety and heterogeneity. A fan of Korean music can find all genres on a single disc. Jazz, Bossanova, swing, rock, hip-hop,

electronic, a hodgepodge that despite being based on the pure and pop make it a music heard and easily reach very different listeners each ..• Genres as diverse among themselves fit surprisingly songs ever expect, making us appreciate other music that might otherwise had not come to

listen. This fusion of styles give the kpop a great musical richness that few musical styles may be able to get over the years.• Draws attention to turn the entire Korean music becomes regarded kpop despite having their own subgenres, encompassing such diverse artists and

giving that feeling of uniformity and the Korean music is "one". That is, it would be like taking Julion Alvarez and put it on par with Reik ... well ... almost ...

• HARD WORK: If something should praise the kpop is for its artists. Boys and girls who leave the skin to go ahead and make your dreams come true. Hard work that every day is embodied in different recordings, videos on YouTube or even reality shows that show the more human side closest to theartists. Because if something is Asian artists are human. Away from the concept of divinity and God of the universe of Western stars, most Asianartists have their feet on the ground and often show their true faces regardless of "paper" causing them to interpret their artistic side.

• INNOCENCE: A music and some videos very "light" do not hurt or ear or sight and can take occasional smile or tear someone unaccustomed to thisgenre. And if you already try to decipher his letters we find messages of love, youth, fun and protest songs, critical to society ... but all within so sweet, so innocent and artificial wrapper will not be difficult digest.

• ARTISTS: The kpop was, is and will be the artists. Professionals skin and soul, struggling against the odds and endure waves of criticism as true Spartans are left. Foot wing fighters head that are overcome either by their own pride or their desire for success.

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• I DISLIKE…• PLAGIARISM: The counterpoint of creativity give the high accusations of plagiarism that occur in the kpop. This lack of creativity, whether in the form

of "covers" or curious coincidences, tarnish the industry and work of many people who see their creation is covered with complaints and criticisms.• 10 years ago the kpop and asian music were far from the world, internet has globalized, overcrowded and therefore has access to millions of Internet

users who watch your videos from anywhere in the world with the risk involved in all this. Often the "coincidences" are purely fortuitous and totallyjustifiable, by the end of the day today has been invented everything and statistics is normal to have details to share different videos and songs, quite another thing to be identical . Plagiarism is the order of the day even allegedly artists themselves have written songs and their labels are oftenjustified as "tributes" when what they really mean is COPY.

• Monotema: The biggest problem with this multiplicity in terms of gender comes fashions and repetition of concepts. How many times have we seenthe same concept or to the same rate in the weekly releases? How many times repeated "tronic" and "nanananana" in songs? Not to mention howmany times we have used the sexy concept or the helpless schoolgirl full of blood glucose.

• The problem with so many pitches and continuing is saturating the market with very similar concepts and rhythms together to make the first nor thelast stand, looking a few copies of others and so on to infinity and beyond.

• SLAVES: But much hard work does not usually leave at will (not I say that some would like to enslave them and stuff ...) and many times we see thedarker side of kpop. Many falls, fainting and crying these are not as honest and natural as they seem, behind it all is a great stress and pressure at which the record itself subjected them every day. Contracts slaves now abolished were the order of the day not much, artists who fainteddehydrated or defenses to a minimum due to strict diet and hard training, this my friends is also the true face of kpop.

• Following a busy schedule rarely allows them to rest and under layers of makeup and bright costumes they feel unhappy and completely alone. Unable to get away from his dream are trapped in a golden cage true.

• HYPOCRISY (DOUBLE STANDARD): What I did not like so much of all this is hypocrisy industry respect. A boyband dance in the rain as the waterdrops her toned abs is fine, but a girlband out dancing too short skirts makes all Korea lashes out at them as if they were the Witches of Salem. Thefact treat artists like puppets media as mere objects of manipulation of young people is something I do not like. Using them as advertising claims, as distorted models of reality which follow do nothing but harm to a company that follows faithfully and creates a totally ridiculous and unattainableexpectations.

• They sing of love but they can not have a partner, sing against society and politics and then announce KFC or dress up clothes, this fully actuateddouble standard that allows one thing and another is not one of the most annoying things kpop

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• FANS: And we go with the most difficult and thorny treat in the kpop point the fans. Registered as a negative point in this list because they are more trouble than joy that brings this group. With the (unfounded or not) power and the right (this is the most dangerous) to raise an artist or destroy himas a person in the blink of an eye. The common fan that only satisfied with listening to their records and see them perform (constructive fan) to thosewith psychological problems that dedicates 100% of your daily chase, run, time poison, pollute and harassing the life of your favorite artist (fan destructive apocalyptic death -> sasaen