As a Korean who deeply loves these roots of Korean music, Thank you so so much for putting this together! Exploring Korean music history in context of war, dictatorship, protest, and censorship is just such a fascinating and painfully beautiful journey, and not only that, it's simply so real given how recent these events were, like literally my parents and their friends reminisce about the songs they sang as they marched during protests in their college days
*Unfortunately, this video is WRONG about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao. You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions." Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic." ---- The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever. Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla) The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example. Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu. Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet) The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards. Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again. The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern. Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want): 私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治) Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
*Unfortunately, this video is WRONG about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao. You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions." Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic." ---- The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever. Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla) The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example. Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu. Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet) The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards. Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again. The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern. Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want): 私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治) Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
어떤 나라의 음악을 제대로 이해할려면 사회적 이슈들과 정치적 배경을 알아야 비로소 잘 들린다는 그거는 굳이 한국이라는 특정 나라 음악에 국한되는게 아니라, 거의 모든 나라가 마찬가지쥬. 몇달 전 프랑스인 티에리 테스톤 감독의 my way라는 다큐멘터리를 우연히 본적있는데 대부분 사람이 아는 대중적인 곡 마이웨이라는 노래 하나가 프랑스에서 시작되서 니나 시몬, 데이빗보위, 엘비스 프레슬리, 클로드 프랑수와, 시드 비셔스등등을 거쳐 미국서 프랭크 시나트라라는 가수를 통해 전세계적으로 절정에 이르기까지 베트남전쟁, 반전운동, 독일 통일등등등 이렇게 많은 시대적 상황과 사건들, 사회적, 법적 상황들과, 프랑스인 그리고 미국인, 가사가 바뀌어 가며 몰락 직전인 사람들의 인생에 절묘하게 얽혀 엄청난 명곡으로 탈바꿈되어가는 과정 보면서 단순한 곡 하나에 얽힌 그 배경적 깊이감과 서사에 통탄을 했었는데ㅎ
*Unfortunately, this video is WRONG about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao. You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions." Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic." ---- The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever. Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla) The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example. Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu. Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet) The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards. Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again. The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern. Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want): 私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治) Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
This in-depth discography of modern Korean music would be something that even a Korean historian would be hesitant to put together- hence the reason why you had such a difficult time putting this together. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this video. I am a korean that’s been trying to get into older korean music. And while I have had more success in finding bits and pieces across the korean internet, it is refreshing to hear an overview like this.
some of my favorite musicians are korean! (nastyona, humming urban stereo, mid air thief, the deep, and prob more I can’t think of rn) and honestly I got into all of them after getting into k pop while giving it a shot on a drive home. bf and I were like “woah, this actually great work”
fellow hus and nastyona fan spotted in the wild!! love yr taste, reminds me of some other artists/bands i love like clazziquai and linus' blanket.. for me djmax was such a goldmine for discovering cool korean artists from the aughts but the kpop to korean shibuya-kei/electronica pipeline is sooo real
there are theories that speculate that enka was inspired by old sea folk songs from busan, korea during the early parts of japanese occupation. so in essence, trot made a full round trip from korea to japan to korea.
Correct. *This video is completely WRONG about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao. You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions." Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic." ---- The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever. Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla) The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example. Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu. Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet) The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards. Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again. The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern. Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want): 私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治) Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
You earned a new sub! Hi, as a korean, im really happy and grateful that someone has done this much research and made a video about my country. I think this video was a great way to refresh my memory about Korea's history which I think is relatively unknown, at least outside of korea. I would have liked to hear about the Korean independence music that came out during the annexation period, but this was an incredible video regardless. If you want a new add to your korean music track, I think you should give Jannabi a listen, I would say hes more of a Korean rock band. Some of their songs like "legend", "good good night", and "blue spring" are really great.
This is intense bro. I'm a K-American living in L.A. and a musician myself. Thanks for your in depth and thorough video on history of Korean music. Loved watching this.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for putting so much time, effort, thought, humor, and love into this extraordinary video. It is a TREASURE! For some years, I have been wending my way through the algorithms of Apple Music going deeper and deeper into the Korean music of the 1970s and 1980s, with a particular fascination for Shin and Kim Jung Mi. Along the way, I have been learning so much about the political context and cultural repression, and really kind of heartbroken by the stories of their silencing...it makes me happy that you and others are getting this information out there for people like me in the west who do not speak Korean. (Especially because, as you note, finding info in English is not easy at all.) The music is so fantastic...and then there's all more recent and contemporary stuff that isn't big label K-pop (which also has its pleasures)...I was excited that you celebrated Lang Lee in particular, who I think is brilliant. So happy to have found this on the Korean Rock Albums blog! Thanks again!
Seo taiji was a legit genius for k music. He was an inspiration for some of the members of bts and seo taiji asked bts to be part of his 25th anniversary in 2017 and they performed together. Bts also released a cover of come back home. I recommend you watch the concert seo taiji had where an Orchestra accompanies his music. It's called the great 2008 seo taiji symphony with tolga Kashif and royal philharmonic.
holy shit this is geniunely such an awesome video, you can clearly see the amount of research and effort put into it, thanks for highlighting so many artists cuz it seems like a HUGE rabbit hole am gonna start checking some of these out, thanks a lot!
@47:20, the scene is a literal depiction of a scene in a Sanulim (read "Sahn-wool-lim") hit. "Thirsty in the middle of the night, I opened the fridge to find a mackerel salted in one corner." I haven't finished the video yet, but I'm subscribing to your channel!
This video is absolutely elite, especially when virtually all discussion around Korean music is Kpop and idol centered. This was so comprehensive and thorough, and you answered a lot of questions that I had about how certain elements came to be and why korean music evolved the way it did. Can't even imagine how much research and time you sunk into this. (I got so happy when you mentioned Sister's Barbershop, Rollercoaster and Clazziquai.) Thanks so much for putting this video out, probably one of the best video essays out there. Some artists that I want to mention (because this comment section seems to be the only place where I can talk about anything like this): Oldie but goldie: Kang Susie 강수지- 1990s artist that really has that ethereal city pop sound, and definitely looks the part. Favs: Violet Fragrance, 시간 속의 향기 Kim Kwang-Jin 김광진- Just has a really nice but awkward voice. Feels like being hugged by your favorite uncle that you haven't seen in years. Favs: 동경소녀 JTL- 2000s Hip hop group that has some pretty fun songs, with iconic beats. I think they broke off from H.O.T. Favs: A Better Day, My Lecon Rock bands and Indie: Bulldog Mansion 불독맨션- I have no idea why they never popped off. All their songs have such a catchy melody but feel s refreshing and unique, and the energy in some of their songs is stupidly infectious. The lead singer 이한철 has a few solo stuff, and is in my opinion a genius songwriter. It pains me to see that he never got much recognition. Favs: Destiny, 알듯말듯, 침대 Sultan of the Disco 술탄 오브 더 디스코- Just a cool ass band that blends disco, funk, hiphop, and a whole bunch of other genres while wearing the snazziest outfits known to man. I wasn't too much of a fan of their beginning works, but their later works honed in on a certain sound that I really enjoy. Favs: 사라지는 꿈, 통배권, Shining Road Cotoba 코토바- Korea's one and only mathrock band (as far as I know). Pretty sure they are inspired by Tricot, which is definitely not a bad thing. I hope they blow up one day. Favs: melon (2022 ver.), reyn, odori Surl 설- Indie band with that k-indie sound. If you like Hyukoh, you'll like Surl. Favs: Dry Flower, 눈 Silica Gel 실리카걸- Psychedelic rock band with a little bit of grunge mixed in. Some of the coolest guitar riffs and solos imo. Favs: T + Tik Tak Tok, No Pain, Realize Thorneapple 쏜애플- Really cool sounding band with a cooler sounding vocalist. Not exactly similar to Mass of Fermenting Dregs, but I have a feeling their fans will love Thorneapple. Favs: Strange Tropics, Extinction, Headphone Enlightenment Session Younha 윤하- Ok so Younha is really popular in Korea. But I feel like only Korea, as I never see anybody talk about her in the west. She is really similar to IU in that they both are powerful vocalists with extensive careers from a young age. But I think that Younha is leagues better (hahaha sorry not sorry). Especially now that her discography has been hitting a wider range of genres (rock especially). Favs: 사건의 지평선, 바람, Houki Boushi (yup she did the Bleach ED!), 태양물고기 Hip-hop and rap: Supreme Team 슈프림팀- Rap duo similar to Dynamic Duo. They're songs are catchy but also really sophisticated (Koreans use 세련돼 a bunch). Favs: 그땐 그땐 그땐, Because of You Choilb 최엘비- Indie rapper that really speaks from the heart. There's a raw authenticity to him and his message really hits you in your core. Support this artist cause he deserves it. Favs: Run Away!, 독립음악, Story of someone I know BeWhy 비와이- The undisputed greatest rapper of Korea (and perhaps the world). His flow and skills are unlike anyone else and it almost doesn't even seem like he's speaking Korean. What's crazy is that he has a strong Christian message in a lot of his songs, but it never impedes the quality. Favs: 찬란, Celebration, 나의 땅 Video game related: I know these artists through a rhythm game called DJMax, and there's kind of this niche here that I feel warrants its own genre. TAK- Goated DJ and producer. He has done a lot of collabs and produced a bunch of songs that you will see here and there, but I think he's starting to do some more independent stuff. His K-pop Mashup videos on his TH-cam will show you how skilled of a DJ he is. Favs: K-Pop Culture 2015, Tic! Tac! Toe! HouseRulez 하우스룰즈- Makes some of the best house music out there. Fresh and doesn't feel repetitive or simplistic. Blends funk, bossa nova, and jazz, started to dip into Lo-Fi and city pop recently as well. Favs: Do it, Beautiful Fantasy, Snow Piano, 희망이라는 이름의 별 3rd Coast- If you like Clazziquai, 3rd Coast hits that niche. Hell, their discography could populate a Persona game soundtrack. Sadly I don't think they have much of a following outside DJMax, but they have so many good songs. They have a little bit of a house and 2000s pop feel, but their melodies are unique and should be instant hit material. Favs: Closer, Jealousy, On & On, Reason Japan inspired: Recently there's been an emergence of Korean style Utaite and Vocaloid producers, as well as J-rock style bands. It was bound to happen due to the proximity and similarity in cultures, plus Korea always had an apparent weeb culture. I'm just personally surprised it hadn't happened sooner, but at least finally here. Even though these artists draw a lot of inspiration from Japan, they have succeeded in making their own identities that sound uniquely Korean. Dareharu 달의하루- For how good they were and their potential, its such a tragedy that Ampstyle (the producer and husband of the duo) had passed so early. They released two songs that made a huge splash in the community, and I'm just thankful that Chohee was able to complete the trilogy after Ampstyle's passing. All of them are masterpieces. Favs: 순혈주의자, 염라, 너로피어오라 Miiro- Definitely an artist/producer to watch out for. You can really hear the utaite inspiration, and but Miiro still retains a lot of Korean elements. Especially 괴물이 피는 숲(Monster Forest), which I think is one of the greatest pieces of songwriting of all time. Favs: 괴물이 피는 숲, Shout Out!, 계절범죄 LUCY- Boy band that is probably the most J-rock out of anything. Their songs are very enjoyable, and they retain this theme of youthful optimism throughout. This culminates in an energy that makes it very hard not to root for them. Also they have a violinist, which is a plus! Favs: 못 죽는 기사와 비단 요람, 놀이, Hero, 개화 QWER- Girl band formed from a bunch of streamers, so you know their target demographic is the gamers (QWER is the controls for LoL). Definitely have a sort of blend between the most popular parts of bubbly K-pop and J-pop idol music, but I can't deny that its fun af to listen to. Call me crazy, but they might become the future of K-pop, especially among gen-z/alpha koreans. Favs: T.B.H 고민중독, Discord, UmYull 음율- Literally Korean Yorushika (that's what the comments agree as well). Warm sound/vocals with a really good guitarist. Definitely going to inspire a lot more utaite-like artists in Korea. Favs: Wa;volution, 피차일반, 월담소녀
THIS... is absolutely wonderful. Painstaking research--I'm in awe--and the narration is delightful, as well. I actually took notes! And I've sent the link to lots of friends who will absolutely love it, too.
*Unfortunately, this video is WRONG about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao. You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions." Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic." ---- The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever. Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla) The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example. Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu. Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet) The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards. Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again. The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern. Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want): 私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治) Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
A quick note about the hip-hop section is that yes, the tall guy in seo-taeji and the boys is yg, and drunken tiger’s early things are mixed bags because the two guys were korean americans from the la sphere trying their best to rap the things they grew up listening and rapped about in english in korean, which for them was really hard, as explained in a later interview by tiger jk
Wow. This is a great one. I am a 58 year old Korean man and can understand and can confirm what you are saying here is CORRECT. Really extraordinary job you did! ❤
Great job, man! What I appreciate most about your work is that you synthesise the reasons for the historical and social changes that led to the evolution of modern Korean pop into what it is today. I can’t even believe that you did this decent research despite the language barrier. And, of course, just love all your narrations that express the painful process of making it!
Ahhh have only just started the video but I'm excited. I moved to Korea a almost 5 years ago & found a lot of non-K-pop music that I really love, but don't hear about much in English. Looking forward to this. Edit: This was one of the most satisfying videos I've ever watched. Like someone did a deep-dive into exactly my favorite music. Finding someone else who likes the same music as you is a very special feeling ha. Plus I found new artists & learned fascinating history. Thank you so much for this 🥹
thanks for explaining this so detailed! As a korean, I love to listen to korean music beside k pop! What I see as a mistake is in 1:10:21, you better not pronounce it "Soo- tai-jee" but it is more accurate to say his name "suh(pronounce like bruh or huh)-teji". Also, crying nut's debut was 1996 while seo taii's was 1992, so korean indie rock appeared after the hip hop boom in korea such as Seo taiji, Hyeon jin-young, and DEUX. Well I think I'm not supposed to tell these flaws to you because I'm not knowledage of American Music or European Music, so 😅😆 anyways, thx for making this video!😂👍👍
Korean songs come from the heart. There is a vibrant music culture in Korea. So many amazing artists with different sounds. The way you talk about it gives you a feeling of disconnection and a generic undertone about korean music. By no means is it generic. It is vibrant.
My first exposure to Korean-produced music was Loveholic and their rock ballads. I was hoping to diversify my palate, and by coincidence and the power of the algorithm came K-retro playlists and eventually this video. I always wondered what the music scene was like over there because Yoo Jae Suk from time to time had mentioned that music was illegal until relatively late into the 20th century at some point, or at least listening to it in public was-I don't remember exactly how that conversation went. So once I find the time, I'd love to sit down and hear a briefing of Korea's history with music and hopefully find some new artists I like.
@@thedisneyfan0918 I was able to sit through the video recently and heard about the censorship. It's hilarious how the government at the time insisted that certain songs were to be interpreted in these ways that then started political movements against them. Sort of Barbara Streisand Effect maneuver they did
@@thedisneyfan0918 I sat through the video recently, and based on context, I assume Yoo Jae Suk meant that music from the USA was especially not allowed until late 20th century. Vendors on the street were only permitted to sell domestically produced and approved stuff, so otherwise you'd have to get a contraband tape.
i absolutely love the dedication you put into exploring an important part of a country's culture, such as their music, mostly overlooked by foreigners (like me) and share it to other people by putting it all together in one video.
Great video! But regarding Trot and Enka, trot wasn’t derived from Enka.. Korean trot is a genre that developed through mutual influence among traditional Korean music, including folk songs, Western blues-based music culture at the time, and Japanese modern popular music known as enka. Enka itself was influenced by Korean folk songs and trot. Koga Masao, who is considered the founder of enka, spent his childhood in Korea and incorporated Korean folk songs into the primitive form of enka (艶歌), creating the true form of enka (演歌). After Koga Masao, Japanese enka was significantly influenced by Korean folk songs, and the Koga-style enka, which became a massive hit in Japan, flowed into Korea during the Japanese colonial period, leading to mutual influence between the two.
한국인으로서 헛소리란 생각이 드네요.엔카가 한국민요의 영향을 받아 탄생한건지 어떤건지는 내가 그 시대를 살지 않아 단정할 수 없지만 현대 트롯가요는 사실상 엔카와 거의 똑같지만 그 엔카나 트로트에 우리 민요나 한국 전통 보컬(예를 들어 판소리등)이나 전통적 음막적 성향 어디와 유사점이 있는가를 생각해보면 전혀 다른 영역에 있는것으로 이해된다. 현대 노년혹은 기성세대가 좋아하는 것은 우리 정서에 맞아서가 아닌 소싯적 왜색에 대한 동경 때문이리라 생각된다. 아마 70년대생인 내가 브리티시 락이나 미국팝을 동경하는 것과 같은 이치라 생각됨. 요즘 케이팝이 세계적으로 인기 있어지고 있는데 누군가 그런소리를 하게될수도 있지.미국팝의 아버지라 할수 있는 누구누구가 어린시절 주한미군 아버지를 따라 한국에서 자라며 신중현 음악을 듣고 영향을 받아 만든것이 미국팝이고 결국 케이팝은 한국 고유의 것이라고. 하지만 그것은 그다지 중요한 것도 아니긴 하지만 누구나 귀가 있고 듣고서 영향이 있었는지 알 수 있는데 주장한다고 사실이 되지는 않는법이지.
I plan on studying a semester abroad in Seoul this year and I was looking for an insight into korean culture besides k-pop. This video did exactly that! Showing the evolution of korean culture in this medium and learning the historical context makes me even more excited! Love the work, thank you so much!
I just started reading H2 again after getting reminded of it from your video. And I've been slowly getting into more Korean music. So, things couldn't have aligned better.
I am so impressed and shocked by your thorough explanation of Korean pop culture. I thought you were a Korean!^^ Your narrative on Korean music is very very interesting and well thought out. I was shocked how you understand social and political background of Korean music. We appreciate very much of your huge understanding and explaining. You must be a Korean previous life!^^ If you have a chance to visit Korea, let me know, I would love to treat you!^^
*Unfortuntately this video starts off wrong about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao. You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions." Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic." ---- The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever. Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla) The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example. Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu. Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet) The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards. Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again. The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern. Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want): 私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治) Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
As a Korean-American-Korean who's lived a quarter-century on either side of the Pond, I find this to be really, really good stuff! Thoroughly entertaining and enlightening. Great job!
*Unfortuntately this video starts off wrong about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao. You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions." Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic." ---- The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever. Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla) The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example. Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu. Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet) The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards. Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again. The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern. Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want): 私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治) Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
THIS IS SO INTERESTING TO ME AHH! When kpop started popping off, I found it fun but not exactly what I listen to 24/7 except a few specific groups. So, I ended up falling into the indie/rock side of k-music after listening to Day6 (check out Entropy and Unlock if you’re curious!) and other idol bands like Lucy. Which is a fun pipeline to fall into because it lead me Se So Neon and Hyukoh hahah! I appreciate the recommendations! While I recognised a lot (Meaningful Stone, Crying Nut, IU, Yerin Baek and her band, The Black Skirts), it’s nice to get see some more stuff I may have missed! Surprised you didn’t mention Hyukoh since I think they’re quite big on that section and they definitely have cool music...but there’s so much out there! And considering you focused on smaller acts I totally get why! Anyway, again, thank you for the video!
Me too haha! Big fan of hyukoh, se so neon, surl, jannabi, the black skirts, etc and more recently wave to earth, car the garden, the poles, (and the volunteers, yerin baek's band) and lots of acts in the indie sorta scene like jungumul, dosii, jiwoo, dasutt, off the menu, 92914, youra, mingginyu, adoy, lacuna etc
having been into K-pop for years to then switch to K-Hiphop and now more indie style(Nerd Connection i love) i was glad i found this video, it gave me alot of new music to discover so thanks!
Ah yes, the evolution of a kpop fan because me too! Except I go from kpop to indie (including korean rock, rnb, coffee shop style songs) to proper khiphop. I also have like 2 songs from nerd connection in my playlist
@@oo8962 like i still like something kpop songs, mostly older tunes, but lately been more into the indie scene, h1gher music was my go to for a while in hiphop
It would have been nice to see akmu covered. Their evolution has been a nice surprise. They got their start from K-pop star competition in 2014 but they’ve outgrown that start by miles and evolved. Brother sister duo. Brother writes all the songs, they both sing well but sister’s voice is amazing and the songs are unique and silly. Apparently when they signed with YG, they contractually made YG promise not to ask them to get plastic surgery. Considering they were 18 and 15, that’s pretty baller.
akmus pretty close to the mainstream though right? maybe its not Kpop in the way that theyre idols but its pretty close considering they debuted on "kpop star 2" in 2013
always enjoy so much seem your experiences diving into those vast layers that cultures brings to music, looking forward whatever catches your interest next, and hoping the future is holding a nice and intriguing exposure to the Brazilian atmosphere at some point.
Great video, I know what you mean by SO MUCH.... as far as the infusion of Gugak goes there's my favourites Haepaary, that combines Joseon Court music with great electronica, Leenalchi that reimagines Pansori (yes rap existed in Korea hundreds of years ago in it's own form) with bass driven new wave from Jang Young Gyu, not to forget Jang's other legendary bands (Uhuhboo Project with Baek Hyun Jin long-standing pioneers of avant-garde Korean pop music. The band scored two films of the director Park Chan-Wook; 복수는 나의것 - Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance and Night Fishing), Ssing Ssing, and Be-Being, Then there's the gut/Gugak inspired Black String with Jazz and almost prog. And Jambinai's hard rock with traditional instrumentation... There's a whole World of Contemporary music with very strong elements of hundreds of years of traditional music and instrumentation.
Well done! This is a really concise and entertaining dive into south korean music and history. The time spent polishing really makes it stand out, excellent work🎉
Love your videos and I am so happy that a video like this is finally being made in English because I feel like everyone focuses on jrock. I loveeee indie Korean artist like sisters barbershop ,autumn vacation and busker busker, hyukoh, baek yerin, sunwoojunga, 10cm, acourve, car, the garden, cheeze and delispice are amazing (I wrote these out before finishing the vid lolol) . I honestly find most of mine from watching variety shows(Gary from Lee sang is in one of these variety shows). The hosts usually sing a lot of songs they loved from the past and also a show called amazing Saturday always shows great songs. Also Netflix tends to censor kdramas because reply is also how I found a few good songs but I didn’t watch it through Netflix.
im surprised you didnt mention se so neon. theyre decently popular in korea and are probably my favourite korean indie band. their song the wave has got to be one of my favourite songs ever and the ep its on summer plumage is really good in general.
Damn you did the research man! Thanks for your interest in Korean music. Personally, Drunken Tiger 3rd album, the Legend of, is my middle school cd number one rotation. It was them at the most lyrical and boom bap.
as a korean who really loves music, I really appreciate this video! it was very interesting to see the flow of korean music from an outsiders perspective. i wanna make some recomendations for ur future listens. parannoul (파란노을; shoegaze), SUMIN (수민; rnb, artpop), Bulssazo (불싸조; shoegaze), fisherman (hiphop). the list would go on but guess i gotta end it somewhere lol.
Big vouch on the Parannoul shout out, hes been super influential to the modern shoegaze scene and a breath of fresh air with some really unique sounds for the genre
Damn dude, this is so well researched that I almost wish you did cover boy bands, it might have actually got me to check the music out. Also, even if you never do this structure again, the depth of knowledge here is awesome and extremely captivating
I wish there was more coverage of artists/bands from Annual College Musicians Festival/competitions (대학가요제). So many amazing artists/bands like Sanullim and Shin Hae Chul came out of that. Also Songolmae (송골매) and many many many others. College musicians became mainstream because there was a big void caused by so much government censorship of professional singers.
I've always wanted to learn more about this topic since my mom had told me about some of the korean hits from the 70/80s. In short, THANK YOU for listing the resources you used.
bro going way deeper than most of korean people, i really appreciate letting me know several banger tracks and artists i've missed! wish there was Kiha & the Faces mentioned though...
*Unfortuntately this video starts off wrong about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao. You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions." Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic." ---- The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever. Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla) The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example. Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu. Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet) The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards. Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again. The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern. Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want): 私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治) Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
Very nice and informative video 👍 I’m going to watch your Japanese music video because lately I’ve been listening to J-Pop and it’s really fun and uplifting. Thank you!
I’m a korean. Before watching this video, thank you for making this video. Thank you for being interested in Korean music. I will learn from watching this video. 감사합니다!
Holy Crap~! From the script, knowledge, and research to editing, this is more than pro. Beautifully done. I had to pickup my jaw. Sir, you are truly great. But the best thing was how your love for music shone through. BTW, how much music do you listen to? OMG
I was hoping to see Jang Ki Ha mentioned, but, glad to see Chu Ha Hye at the end as I was listening to Sing Sing Band at tiny desk, just before watching this. I recommend Chu da hye and Lee nal chi if you are looking for more exotic sounds from Korea.
"if you wanted to play rock music yourself, you weren't going to bars and clubs in the city, you were going to a military base" this is sounds funny, this is the first video I watch of your channel and it makes me happy, as a korean I love listening to older music, hell, sometimes I even listen to Joseon music, and while I was aware of the political and historical situations, I never connected the dot between them and music, thank you for doing this video, its much more than that, I hope more people get into older korean music, history and culture
This is my first video of yours I’ve seen and it’s amazing! I’ve also fallen into the pit of eternal frustration trying to find korean music that shouldn’t be so obscure. I’m kind of glad someone else has experienced a similar kind of pain. Here’s some acts to look into: Younha, Crush, Daybreak, Day6, Akmu, and Leenalchi. Since you recommended Chudahye Chagis and I’d listen to Leenalchi’s Sugungga first they both have drawn from pansori and other traditional Korean music.
Not even ten minutes in but ive also tried to research more niche (in the english speaking world) korean topics both without being able to read hangul and after learning to read it, and its almost impossible a lot of time using just english. I highly encourage anyone wanting to look into a subject like this to learn how to read hangul, its very easy and simple and just takes a couple days of practice to get the hang of it. Youll be able to more easily search things by copy pasting hangul and then translate any webpages you find using google translate or similiar
I’ve been listening to many 80/90’s Korean artists recently (Yang soo kyeong, Susie kang, Lee sun hee, Seoul family, etc). It’s an era of music I’d never expect myself to dive into but I’m glad I did.
That's great omg I'm kinda mad he left out aaaaallll the fantastic female 80s acts and other hit songs (ans the rise of the "teen idol" such as Park Namjung and Lee Jiyeon most notably) and the city pop acts (Kang Susie, Yoon Sang, Kim Hyun Chul)
@@shruthakeerthi4559 I didn’t expect him to cover ballad artists too much. I used to associate it as ‘old people’ music but I started appreciating them more. I actually have been listening to Lee Jiyeon and Park Namjung for a while and I love them both.
As a Korean I actually learned a lot from your point of view. Thanks for the quality content. Also, lyrics of the songs of Kim Gwang Seok are the best that I've ever heard of, highly recomend them, specially: "A Sexagenary Couple's Story (어느 60대 노부부 이야기)" hope more people give them a shot.
Man this brings so much memories. I lived near U.S base in Seoul in 80s. Eventhough Korean Government banned music from entering Korea, people bought contraband music from US soldiers and we heard all the popular music from US via US military radio and TV. Oh, fun fact band NEX.T front man, Shin hachul appeared in soap opera "answer me 1988" with his band named muhangaedo.
Fun fact. Band "Sisters barber shop" formed from lie. Vocal and leader of band was famous troll and later he lied he was in the band called "Sisters babershop" eventhough there were no band nor he had experience with music. But lucky for him his friend helped him to form a band.
Could you do the Philippines if possible? I really enjoyed this video because I've been looking for a video like this. I'm Filipino and would be interested in learning about the history
During this process I actually did end up reading a bit into modern Philippines history and found it especially interesting with how much Ferdinand Marcos parallels Park Chung Hee. Also listened to Eraserheads and liked them. So it's at least one of a few places that I've dipped a toe into, so maybe, but no promises on anything further.
The origin of the word enka is during the Meiji period, when activists of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement were giving street speeches criticizing feudal clan politics, and the Meiji government began to crack down on them harshly, so the activists turned the contents of their speeches into songs and sang them in the streets. I got through the crackdown. That's why songs sung by activists were called enka. Korea has nothing to do with it.
If you see a Korean word written with “eo” in it, it’s probably pronounced “uh”. (“u” is pronounced “oo” like in “too”.) So Incheon Airport is not “intchy-on”. And “Seo” is not “see-oh”, but “suh”. And “mukbang” should technically be written “meokbang”. 1:11:28
@@oo8962 I guess it depends on how you pronounce “oh”. In a typical Midwestern American accent, “oh” is similar to Korean “오“, so it might be a little humorous to say “mokbang” / “목방”. The problem with using the Latin alphabet is that it only has 5 letters for vowels (a,e,I,o,u). Korean, like English, has more vowel sounds than this. So how do you express them using those 5 letters? The current standard is to use those 5 as they would probably have originally been pronounced in Latin (or modern Spanish or Italian, perhaps: a -> ah (아), e -> eh (에), i -> ee (이), o -> oh (오), u -> oo (우)). Then the remaining vowel sounds are written as combinations of those: uh -> eo (어), a vowel similar to the schwa sound in English is eu (으), and there’s another eh written as ae (애 - these days largely pronounced the same as 에).
Korean here, I'm so thankful of your video since it references Mr. Shin, Yu jae ha and Kim gwang seock as well. It wouldve been better if it included Silica gel or Sultan of the Disco. It's awesome video anyways! Thanks for noticing my country! P.S. Soorry I'm writing this while i'm drunk lmao
When I became a kpop fan, I gravitated a lot towards pansori, ballad and rock music over time. I really love a lot of recent k-rock artists Guckkasten and The Solutions. Guckkasten in particular reminds me of 70s/80s psychedelic rock. From watching a couple of kdramas over the years, I kinda knew a brief history of Korean music during he Japanese colonial era till now, but I didn't know all the details to this extent. This video is really lovely.
This is so good?!?! great work!!! I was very excited to see this recommendation, because after I watched the japanese music vid a lot of those recommendations made it into my regular listening rotation! They were so good! And I listen to Mass of the fermenting dregs almost every day. Haven't finished watching this video yet but just the history part already is soooo interesting! Ican't wait to finish the video and have more new music to listen to!
AYE I JUST COMMENTED THORNAPPLE WOO! ive been into them since their strange weather album! carried me through high school! their albums just keep getting better and better. verrry psychedelic. and his voice is amazing.
south korea has literally some of the best music coming out of it (both past and modern) and so little people know because kpop is such an eclipser!! i say that as someone who originally got into kpop but is also an avid rock/indie listener. dreamtalk, 201, a lot of iu and a lot of clazziquai are some of my favorite albums/artists ever, and i was young enough when i started listening to them that they've had a huge influence on what i listen to now. for anyone reading this and wanting some more specific clazziquai and iu recommendations, i recommend instant pig and metrotronics for clazzi, and for iu i recommend modern times as well as her two remake albums flower bookmark part 1 and 2 :) jambinai is also a really cool more recent band i've been getting into who mix korean folk music with prog rock and they are super super cool!
Woah, this video is such a delight to watch. I've been into mostly kpop for YEARS when I was in high school. The oldest thing I listen to is like H.O.T, G.O.D, Jinusean, those hiphop 1st gen kpop stuff. I listen to some korean rock stuff but mostly 2000 something release. I think I'm gonna start listening to some underground korean rock bands.
Concerning the censorship on Korean dramas, I don't think it's a Netflix or international distribution thing, but some idiosyncrasy of Korean TV production. Even while watching the original broadcast versions through... alternative means, there's a ton of half-hearted censorship: a thin tape over a brand name on a shirt or box, not really obscuring anything, a blur that is not tracked properly and slips off the target, or the blur is not strong enough to actually obscure the name or a logo. I would actually want to know more about this, because it seems quite silly to choose brand name costumes or props just to do the bare minimum to make it seem there was an effort to remove them.
I remember in my early days of being a kpop fan, I was watching the official vlogs of a group I liked, and one of the members was trying to sabotage the vlog as a joke - so he just shouted "Adidas! Nike!" They thought it was hilarious. So clearly even Koreans find the situation to be kind of silly.
It's like the right not to watch ads Korea is a very strict country about advertising, especially if you want to advertise on air, they have to give a notice before show start (usually cutted in the vod seen by foreigners) If a particular brand legally advertises on the show, it doesn't cover the logo, but as you know, many celebrities have their own advertising sponsors. The logo is covered at the clothes worn like that Cigarettes and tattoos are, well, cultural, but they're being criticized because its too old thing. Maybe it'll be gone soon
@@youolive_ I did not actually know Korean celebrities have sponsorship deals to display certain brands on public appearances. But what you're saying is that the star is sponsored by some brand that is not sponsoring the drama, so the actor (and thus the character) visibly uses anyway that brand but then the production crew needs to slightly tape over or blur it?
@@W4l0p Yes, but it still has advertising effects. Brands can advertise that the celebrity wears their clothes (there are photos in stores) and people can easily search for them if they like the clothes. For certain celebrities, they are sold out right away. In the case of top celebrities, there are cases where the brand itself sponsors, and even if not, there are places where several brands gather to rent clothes for free. What the coordinator of Korean celebrities does is go there and rent and style matching clothes Celebrities can show up in expensive clothes for free and brands can advertise for free
damn…i am watching this video from Montgomery Texas on my business trip from Korea. What a world I am living now. BTW this video is so epic!! Modern Korean Music 101!!!!
Sanulim set the sense of primal K-POP throughout such a tough age. The leader of the band is still active in thesedays with his own band, Kim Changwan band. unfortunately, Sanulim was disbanded in light of tragic pass away of a member, the leader's brother.
Awesome video, but you skipped over the 70s/early 80s Korean funk, disco, and soul scene! Bands like Black Butterfly (검은나비) and lots of female singers from that era were major exponents of that sound. There's a compilation out there called Funky Coup that gives a brief overview of the era, and I highly recommend it!
As a Korean who deeply loves these roots of Korean music, Thank you so so much for putting this together! Exploring Korean music history in context of war, dictatorship, protest, and censorship is just such a fascinating and painfully beautiful journey, and not only that, it's simply so real given how recent these events were, like literally my parents and their friends reminisce about the songs they sang as they marched during protests in their college days
I hope Korea unites again one day peacefully
@@PersonManManManMan 고마워요
들국화의 노래 다 좋아합니다. 그 중에 행진 지금도 좋아합니다.
*Unfortunately, this video is WRONG about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao.
You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions."
Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic."
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The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever.
Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla)
The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example.
Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu.
Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet)
The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards.
Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again.
The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern.
Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want):
私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治)
Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
@@PersonManManManMan thank you!!!!!!!@#!!!
There’s SO MUCH more to Korean music besides Kpop, thank you for this video
*Unfortunately, this video is WRONG about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao.
You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions."
Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic."
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The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever.
Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla)
The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example.
Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu.
Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet)
The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards.
Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again.
The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern.
Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want):
私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治)
Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
@@CrabTastingManCould you expand more on it?
이 영상을 제작하기 위해 보낸 시간들과 노력, 그리고 완성도에 큰 박수를 보냅니다.
뭐지 이 사람? 한국인아니야? 왜 이렇게 잘 알아? 한국음악은 특히나 사회,정치적배경을 알아야 비로소 들리는 건데, 인상깊은 통찰력이네. 멋진 영상!
어떤 나라의 음악을 제대로 이해할려면 사회적 이슈들과 정치적 배경을 알아야 비로소 잘 들린다는 그거는 굳이 한국이라는 특정 나라 음악에 국한되는게 아니라, 거의 모든 나라가 마찬가지쥬. 몇달 전 프랑스인 티에리 테스톤 감독의 my way라는 다큐멘터리를 우연히 본적있는데 대부분 사람이 아는 대중적인 곡 마이웨이라는 노래 하나가 프랑스에서 시작되서 니나 시몬, 데이빗보위, 엘비스 프레슬리, 클로드 프랑수와, 시드 비셔스등등을 거쳐 미국서 프랭크 시나트라라는 가수를 통해 전세계적으로 절정에 이르기까지 베트남전쟁, 반전운동, 독일 통일등등등 이렇게 많은 시대적 상황과 사건들, 사회적, 법적 상황들과, 프랑스인 그리고 미국인, 가사가 바뀌어 가며 몰락 직전인 사람들의 인생에 절묘하게 얽혀 엄청난 명곡으로 탈바꿈되어가는 과정 보면서 단순한 곡 하나에 얽힌 그 배경적 깊이감과 서사에 통탄을 했었는데ㅎ
한국인이 한국에 대해 가장 잘 안다는건 말이 안되는거죠 우리보다 우리나라 역사에 대해 잘 알고 공부하는 사람들 많아요
한식으로 미슐랭 스타를 받은 세계 음식점이 꽤 많아요 반면 우리나라는 미국보다도 적죠
@@그저햄버거냠냠 근데 그 한식 미슐랭 한국계 사람들이 하는거 아니에요??
*Unfortunately, this video is WRONG about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao.
You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions."
Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic."
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The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever.
Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla)
The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example.
Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu.
Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet)
The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards.
Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again.
The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern.
Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want):
私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治)
Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
@@CrabTastingMan 👍
THE RETURN OF THE GOAT
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This in-depth discography of modern Korean music would be something that even a Korean historian would be hesitant to put together- hence the reason why you had such a difficult time putting this together.
Thank you.
47:21 I think he had a song called "mother and mackerel" He's pulling out a mackerel out of the fridge is my guess
Sorry kids, no dinner tonight. Shoes in the Dryer dropped.
와 이 영상은 우리나라 음악업계 모든 사람이 봐야할 영상인듯. 아티스트부터 제작자까지. 진짜 귀한 영상이다. 고생하셨습니다.
Thank you so much for this video. I am a korean that’s been trying to get into older korean music. And while I have had more success in finding bits and pieces across the korean internet, it is refreshing to hear an overview like this.
Oh and you got here at the perfect time because the 3rd Garion album you were looking for is dropping next month.
fuckin awesome
some of my favorite musicians are korean! (nastyona, humming urban stereo, mid air thief, the deep, and prob more I can’t think of rn) and honestly I got into all of them after getting into k pop while giving it a shot on a drive home. bf and I were like “woah, this actually great work”
fellow hus and nastyona fan spotted in the wild!! love yr taste, reminds me of some other artists/bands i love like clazziquai and linus' blanket.. for me djmax was such a goldmine for discovering cool korean artists from the aughts but the kpop to korean shibuya-kei/electronica pipeline is sooo real
AHHHHH i LOVE nastyona. such amazing music
Mid Air Thief is so good!
MID AIR THIEF YESS
조금만 듣다가 관두려고 했는데 끝까지 봤네요. 언어 장벽을 넘어 이정도로 분석했다는 것은 놀라움 그 자체입니다. 👍👍👏👏👏
there are theories that speculate that enka was inspired by old sea folk songs from busan, korea during the early parts of japanese occupation. so in essence, trot made a full round trip from korea to japan to korea.
Correct. *This video is completely WRONG about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao.
You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions."
Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic."
----
The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever.
Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla)
The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example.
Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu.
Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet)
The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards.
Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again.
The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern.
Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want):
私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治)
Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
yes. 'Koga melody' actually have some Korean folk melody.
20:29 WHAT IS THAT MELODY?!
You earned a new sub! Hi, as a korean, im really happy and grateful that someone has done this much research and made a video about my country. I think this video was a great way to refresh my memory about Korea's history which I think is relatively unknown, at least outside of korea. I would have liked to hear about the Korean independence music that came out during the annexation period, but this was an incredible video regardless. If you want a new add to your korean music track, I think you should give Jannabi a listen, I would say hes more of a Korean rock band. Some of their songs like "legend", "good good night", and "blue spring" are really great.
This is intense bro. I'm a K-American living in L.A. and a musician myself. Thanks for your in depth and thorough video on history of Korean music. Loved watching this.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for putting so much time, effort, thought, humor, and love into this extraordinary video. It is a TREASURE! For some years, I have been wending my way through the algorithms of Apple Music going deeper and deeper into the Korean music of the 1970s and 1980s, with a particular fascination for Shin and Kim Jung Mi. Along the way, I have been learning so much about the political context and cultural repression, and really kind of heartbroken by the stories of their silencing...it makes me happy that you and others are getting this information out there for people like me in the west who do not speak Korean. (Especially because, as you note, finding info in English is not easy at all.) The music is so fantastic...and then there's all more recent and contemporary stuff that isn't big label K-pop (which also has its pleasures)...I was excited that you celebrated Lang Lee in particular, who I think is brilliant. So happy to have found this on the Korean Rock Albums blog! Thanks again!
Seo taiji was a legit genius for k music. He was an inspiration for some of the members of bts and seo taiji asked bts to be part of his 25th anniversary in 2017 and they performed together. Bts also released a cover of come back home. I recommend you watch the concert seo taiji had where an Orchestra accompanies his music. It's called the great 2008 seo taiji symphony with tolga Kashif and royal philharmonic.
holy shit this is geniunely such an awesome video, you can clearly see the amount of research and effort put into it, thanks for highlighting so many artists cuz it seems like a HUGE rabbit hole am gonna start checking some of these out, thanks a lot!
@47:20, the scene is a literal depiction of a scene in a Sanulim (read "Sahn-wool-lim") hit. "Thirsty in the middle of the night, I opened the fridge to find a mackerel salted in one corner." I haven't finished the video yet, but I'm subscribing to your channel!
This video is absolutely elite, especially when virtually all discussion around Korean music is Kpop and idol centered. This was so comprehensive and thorough, and you answered a lot of questions that I had about how certain elements came to be and why korean music evolved the way it did. Can't even imagine how much research and time you sunk into this. (I got so happy when you mentioned Sister's Barbershop, Rollercoaster and Clazziquai.) Thanks so much for putting this video out, probably one of the best video essays out there.
Some artists that I want to mention (because this comment section seems to be the only place where I can talk about anything like this):
Oldie but goldie:
Kang Susie 강수지- 1990s artist that really has that ethereal city pop sound, and definitely looks the part. Favs: Violet Fragrance, 시간 속의 향기
Kim Kwang-Jin 김광진- Just has a really nice but awkward voice. Feels like being hugged by your favorite uncle that you haven't seen in years. Favs: 동경소녀
JTL- 2000s Hip hop group that has some pretty fun songs, with iconic beats. I think they broke off from H.O.T. Favs: A Better Day, My Lecon
Rock bands and Indie:
Bulldog Mansion 불독맨션- I have no idea why they never popped off. All their songs have such a catchy melody but feel s refreshing and unique, and the energy in some of their songs is stupidly infectious. The lead singer 이한철 has a few solo stuff, and is in my opinion a genius songwriter. It pains me to see that he never got much recognition. Favs: Destiny, 알듯말듯, 침대
Sultan of the Disco 술탄 오브 더 디스코- Just a cool ass band that blends disco, funk, hiphop, and a whole bunch of other genres while wearing the snazziest outfits known to man. I wasn't too much of a fan of their beginning works, but their later works honed in on a certain sound that I really enjoy. Favs: 사라지는 꿈, 통배권, Shining Road
Cotoba 코토바- Korea's one and only mathrock band (as far as I know). Pretty sure they are inspired by Tricot, which is definitely not a bad thing. I hope they blow up one day. Favs: melon (2022 ver.), reyn, odori
Surl 설- Indie band with that k-indie sound. If you like Hyukoh, you'll like Surl. Favs: Dry Flower, 눈
Silica Gel 실리카걸- Psychedelic rock band with a little bit of grunge mixed in. Some of the coolest guitar riffs and solos imo. Favs: T + Tik Tak Tok, No Pain, Realize
Thorneapple 쏜애플- Really cool sounding band with a cooler sounding vocalist. Not exactly similar to Mass of Fermenting Dregs, but I have a feeling their fans will love Thorneapple. Favs: Strange Tropics, Extinction, Headphone Enlightenment Session
Younha 윤하- Ok so Younha is really popular in Korea. But I feel like only Korea, as I never see anybody talk about her in the west. She is really similar to IU in that they both are powerful vocalists with extensive careers from a young age. But I think that Younha is leagues better (hahaha sorry not sorry). Especially now that her discography has been hitting a wider range of genres (rock especially). Favs: 사건의 지평선, 바람, Houki Boushi (yup she did the Bleach ED!), 태양물고기
Hip-hop and rap:
Supreme Team 슈프림팀- Rap duo similar to Dynamic Duo. They're songs are catchy but also really sophisticated (Koreans use 세련돼 a bunch). Favs: 그땐 그땐 그땐, Because of You
Choilb 최엘비- Indie rapper that really speaks from the heart. There's a raw authenticity to him and his message really hits you in your core. Support this artist cause he deserves it. Favs: Run Away!, 독립음악, Story of someone I know
BeWhy 비와이- The undisputed greatest rapper of Korea (and perhaps the world). His flow and skills are unlike anyone else and it almost doesn't even seem like he's speaking Korean. What's crazy is that he has a strong Christian message in a lot of his songs, but it never impedes the quality. Favs: 찬란, Celebration, 나의 땅
Video game related: I know these artists through a rhythm game called DJMax, and there's kind of this niche here that I feel warrants its own genre.
TAK- Goated DJ and producer. He has done a lot of collabs and produced a bunch of songs that you will see here and there, but I think he's starting to do some more independent stuff. His K-pop Mashup videos on his TH-cam will show you how skilled of a DJ he is. Favs: K-Pop Culture 2015, Tic! Tac! Toe!
HouseRulez 하우스룰즈- Makes some of the best house music out there. Fresh and doesn't feel repetitive or simplistic. Blends funk, bossa nova, and jazz, started to dip into Lo-Fi and city pop recently as well. Favs: Do it, Beautiful Fantasy, Snow Piano, 희망이라는 이름의 별
3rd Coast- If you like Clazziquai, 3rd Coast hits that niche. Hell, their discography could populate a Persona game soundtrack. Sadly I don't think they have much of a following outside DJMax, but they have so many good songs. They have a little bit of a house and 2000s pop feel, but their melodies are unique and should be instant hit material. Favs: Closer, Jealousy, On & On, Reason
Japan inspired: Recently there's been an emergence of Korean style Utaite and Vocaloid producers, as well as J-rock style bands. It was bound to happen due to the proximity and similarity in cultures, plus Korea always had an apparent weeb culture. I'm just personally surprised it hadn't happened sooner, but at least finally here. Even though these artists draw a lot of inspiration from Japan, they have succeeded in making their own identities that sound uniquely Korean.
Dareharu 달의하루- For how good they were and their potential, its such a tragedy that Ampstyle (the producer and husband of the duo) had passed so early. They released two songs that made a huge splash in the community, and I'm just thankful that Chohee was able to complete the trilogy after Ampstyle's passing. All of them are masterpieces. Favs: 순혈주의자, 염라, 너로피어오라
Miiro- Definitely an artist/producer to watch out for. You can really hear the utaite inspiration, and but Miiro still retains a lot of Korean elements. Especially 괴물이 피는 숲(Monster Forest), which I think is one of the greatest pieces of songwriting of all time. Favs: 괴물이 피는 숲, Shout Out!, 계절범죄
LUCY- Boy band that is probably the most J-rock out of anything. Their songs are very enjoyable, and they retain this theme of youthful optimism throughout. This culminates in an energy that makes it very hard not to root for them. Also they have a violinist, which is a plus! Favs: 못 죽는 기사와 비단 요람, 놀이, Hero, 개화
QWER- Girl band formed from a bunch of streamers, so you know their target demographic is the gamers (QWER is the controls for LoL). Definitely have a sort of blend between the most popular parts of bubbly K-pop and J-pop idol music, but I can't deny that its fun af to listen to. Call me crazy, but they might become the future of K-pop, especially among gen-z/alpha koreans. Favs: T.B.H 고민중독, Discord,
UmYull 음율- Literally Korean Yorushika (that's what the comments agree as well). Warm sound/vocals with a really good guitarist. Definitely going to inspire a lot more utaite-like artists in Korea. Favs: Wa;volution, 피차일반, 월담소녀
THIS... is absolutely wonderful. Painstaking research--I'm in awe--and the narration is delightful, as well. I actually took notes! And I've sent the link to lots of friends who will absolutely love it, too.
*Unfortunately, this video is WRONG about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao.
You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions."
Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic."
----
The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever.
Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla)
The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example.
Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu.
Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet)
The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards.
Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again.
The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern.
Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want):
私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治)
Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
외국사람이 한국의 근현대음악사에 대해 이 정도로 깊은 지식과 통찰력을 보여주다니 대단하군요.
A quick note about the hip-hop section is that yes, the tall guy in seo-taeji and the boys is yg,
and drunken tiger’s early things are mixed bags because the two guys were korean americans from the la sphere trying their best to rap the things they grew up listening and rapped about in english in korean, which for them was really hard, as explained in a later interview by tiger jk
Wow. This is a great one. I am a 58 year old Korean man and can understand and can confirm what you are saying here is CORRECT. Really extraordinary job you did! ❤
Great job, man! What I appreciate most about your work is that you synthesise the reasons for the historical and social changes that led to the evolution of modern Korean pop into what it is today. I can’t even believe that you did this decent research despite the language barrier. And, of course, just love all your narrations that express the painful process of making it!
Sanullim had a whole song about his mom making mackerel dish for him… 47:21 called mom and mackerel (어머니와 고등어)
Ahhh have only just started the video but I'm excited. I moved to Korea a almost 5 years ago & found a lot of non-K-pop music that I really love, but don't hear about much in English. Looking forward to this.
Edit: This was one of the most satisfying videos I've ever watched. Like someone did a deep-dive into exactly my favorite music. Finding someone else who likes the same music as you is a very special feeling ha. Plus I found new artists & learned fascinating history. Thank you so much for this 🥹
Also feel like the comment section's gonna be a treasure trove of new music to try 🥰
thanks for explaining this so detailed!
As a korean, I love to listen to korean music beside k pop!
What I see as a mistake is in 1:10:21, you better not pronounce it "Soo- tai-jee"
but it is more accurate to say his name "suh(pronounce like bruh or huh)-teji".
Also, crying nut's debut was 1996 while seo taii's was 1992, so korean indie rock
appeared after the hip hop boom in korea such as Seo taiji, Hyeon jin-young, and DEUX.
Well I think I'm not supposed to tell these flaws to you
because I'm not knowledage of American Music or European Music, so
😅😆 anyways, thx for making this video!😂👍👍
Loved what you do in your channel. Please keep on doing!
Korean songs come from the heart. There is a vibrant music culture in Korea. So many amazing artists with different sounds. The way you talk about it gives you a feeling of disconnection and a generic undertone about korean music. By no means is it generic. It is vibrant.
My first exposure to Korean-produced music was Loveholic and their rock ballads.
I was hoping to diversify my palate, and by coincidence and the power of the algorithm came K-retro playlists and eventually this video.
I always wondered what the music scene was like over there because Yoo Jae Suk from time to time had mentioned that music was illegal until relatively late into the 20th century at some point, or at least listening to it in public was-I don't remember exactly how that conversation went.
So once I find the time, I'd love to sit down and hear a briefing of Korea's history with music and hopefully find some new artists I like.
music wasn't illegal, some musicians were basically censored into being illegal. my parents had samsung mymy walkmans, vinyl players.
@@thedisneyfan0918 I was able to sit through the video recently and heard about the censorship.
It's hilarious how the government at the time insisted that certain songs were to be interpreted in these ways that then started political movements against them. Sort of Barbara Streisand Effect maneuver they did
@@thedisneyfan0918 I sat through the video recently, and based on context, I assume Yoo Jae Suk meant that music from the USA was especially not allowed until late 20th century. Vendors on the street were only permitted to sell domestically produced and approved stuff, so otherwise you'd have to get a contraband tape.
@@Harmonia96 eh not really, like some bands came to perform. my parents listened to bon jovi, bruce springsteen, etc. it was just more expensive.
@@thedisneyfan0918 Oh, so I guess they weren't vetted as much as I was led to believe
i absolutely love the dedication you put into exploring an important part of a country's culture, such as their music, mostly overlooked by foreigners (like me) and share it to other people by putting it all together in one video.
Great video! But regarding Trot and Enka, trot wasn’t derived from Enka.. Korean trot is a genre that developed through mutual influence among traditional Korean music, including folk songs, Western blues-based music culture at the time, and Japanese modern popular music known as enka. Enka itself was influenced by Korean folk songs and trot.
Koga Masao, who is considered the founder of enka, spent his childhood in Korea and incorporated Korean folk songs into the primitive form of enka (艶歌), creating the true form of enka (演歌). After Koga Masao, Japanese enka was significantly influenced by Korean folk songs, and the Koga-style enka, which became a massive hit in Japan, flowed into Korea during the Japanese colonial period, leading to mutual influence between the two.
I did not know this. I thought Enka came first and it influenced trot later.
한국인으로서 헛소리란 생각이 드네요.엔카가 한국민요의 영향을 받아 탄생한건지 어떤건지는 내가 그 시대를 살지 않아 단정할 수 없지만 현대 트롯가요는 사실상 엔카와 거의 똑같지만 그 엔카나 트로트에 우리 민요나 한국 전통 보컬(예를 들어 판소리등)이나 전통적 음막적 성향 어디와 유사점이 있는가를 생각해보면 전혀 다른 영역에 있는것으로 이해된다.
현대 노년혹은 기성세대가 좋아하는 것은 우리 정서에 맞아서가 아닌 소싯적 왜색에 대한 동경 때문이리라 생각된다.
아마 70년대생인 내가 브리티시 락이나 미국팝을 동경하는 것과 같은 이치라 생각됨.
요즘 케이팝이 세계적으로 인기 있어지고 있는데 누군가 그런소리를 하게될수도 있지.미국팝의 아버지라 할수 있는 누구누구가 어린시절 주한미군 아버지를 따라 한국에서 자라며 신중현 음악을 듣고 영향을 받아 만든것이 미국팝이고 결국 케이팝은 한국 고유의 것이라고.
하지만 그것은 그다지 중요한 것도 아니긴 하지만 누구나 귀가 있고 듣고서 영향이 있었는지 알 수 있는데 주장한다고 사실이 되지는 않는법이지.
@@dbzzyo18 내가 일본 살때 코가마사오가 tv애서 자신이 한국 살때 어릴때 부터 들어왔고 그걸로 엔카의 기본이 되는 음율을 만들었다고 말했어요...그때가 95년도 쯤 됩니다.. 엔카와 트롯은 비슷해 보이지만 달라요. 판소리가 아니라 민요라는 장르에서 포카,트롯등이 접목됬것 같네요.. 민요도 안들어 본거 아닙니까?
@@dbzzyo18
한글댓글은 맞는데 문맥이 이해가 안돼요 구글 번역어플쓰는 외국인 이세요???.
일본혐한댓글부대 냄새가 나네요@@찬란한-i2l
I plan on studying a semester abroad in Seoul this year and I was looking for an insight into korean culture besides k-pop. This video did exactly that! Showing the evolution of korean culture in this medium and learning the historical context makes me even more excited! Love the work, thank you so much!
I just started reading H2 again after getting reminded of it from your video. And I've been slowly getting into more Korean music. So, things couldn't have aligned better.
I am so impressed and shocked by your thorough explanation of Korean pop culture. I thought you were a Korean!^^ Your narrative on Korean music is very very interesting and well thought out. I was shocked how you understand social and political background of Korean music. We appreciate very much of your huge understanding and explaining. You must be a Korean previous life!^^
If you have a chance to visit Korea, let me know, I would love to treat you!^^
*Unfortuntately this video starts off wrong about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao.
You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions."
Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic."
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The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever.
Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla)
The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example.
Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu.
Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet)
The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards.
Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again.
The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern.
Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want):
私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治)
Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
As a Korean-American-Korean who's lived a quarter-century on either side of the Pond, I find this to be really, really good stuff! Thoroughly entertaining and enlightening. Great job!
*Unfortuntately this video starts off wrong about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao.
You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions."
Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic."
----
The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever.
Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla)
The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example.
Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu.
Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet)
The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards.
Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again.
The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern.
Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want):
私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治)
Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
THIS IS SO INTERESTING TO ME AHH! When kpop started popping off, I found it fun but not exactly what I listen to 24/7 except a few specific groups. So, I ended up falling into the indie/rock side of k-music after listening to Day6 (check out Entropy and Unlock if you’re curious!) and other idol bands like Lucy. Which is a fun pipeline to fall into because it lead me Se So Neon and Hyukoh hahah!
I appreciate the recommendations! While I recognised a lot (Meaningful Stone, Crying Nut, IU, Yerin Baek and her band, The Black Skirts), it’s nice to get see some more stuff I may have missed! Surprised you didn’t mention Hyukoh since I think they’re quite big on that section and they definitely have cool music...but there’s so much out there! And considering you focused on smaller acts I totally get why! Anyway, again, thank you for the video!
Me too haha! Big fan of hyukoh, se so neon, surl, jannabi, the black skirts, etc and more recently wave to earth, car the garden, the poles, (and the volunteers, yerin baek's band) and lots of acts in the indie sorta scene like jungumul, dosii, jiwoo, dasutt, off the menu, 92914, youra, mingginyu, adoy, lacuna etc
@@soupchops AH! so much good stuff you mentioned! I'll jolt down the stuff I dont recognise! thank you!
having been into K-pop for years to then switch to K-Hiphop and now more indie style(Nerd Connection i love) i was glad i found this video, it gave me alot of new music to discover so thanks!
Ah yes, the evolution of a kpop fan because me too! Except I go from kpop to indie (including korean rock, rnb, coffee shop style songs) to proper khiphop. I also have like 2 songs from nerd connection in my playlist
@@oo8962 like i still like something kpop songs, mostly older tunes, but lately been more into the indie scene, h1gher music was my go to for a while in hiphop
It would have been nice to see akmu covered. Their evolution has been a nice surprise. They got their start from K-pop star competition in 2014 but they’ve outgrown that start by miles and evolved.
Brother sister duo. Brother writes all the songs, they both sing well but sister’s voice is amazing and the songs are unique and silly.
Apparently when they signed with YG, they contractually made YG promise not to ask them to get plastic surgery. Considering they were 18 and 15, that’s pretty baller.
akmus pretty close to the mainstream though right? maybe its not Kpop in the way that theyre idols but its pretty close considering they debuted on "kpop star 2" in 2013
I'm Korean and akmu is mainstream here
They were already popular from the start and won kpopstar2 I remember rooting for them with my family
이런 거 조사하는데 엄청 시간과 집중, 관심, 연구, 수집, 탐구에 열일 하셨네요. 박수 보냅니다.
always enjoy so much seem your experiences diving into those vast layers that cultures brings to music, looking forward whatever catches your interest next, and hoping the future is holding a nice and intriguing exposure to the Brazilian atmosphere at some point.
Great video, I know what you mean by SO MUCH.... as far as the infusion of Gugak goes there's my favourites Haepaary, that combines Joseon Court music with great electronica, Leenalchi that reimagines Pansori (yes rap existed in Korea hundreds of years ago in it's own form) with bass driven new wave from Jang Young Gyu, not to forget Jang's other legendary bands (Uhuhboo Project with Baek Hyun Jin long-standing pioneers of avant-garde Korean pop music. The band scored two films of the director Park Chan-Wook; 복수는 나의것 - Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance and Night Fishing), Ssing Ssing, and Be-Being, Then there's the gut/Gugak inspired Black String with Jazz and almost prog. And Jambinai's hard rock with traditional instrumentation... There's a whole World of Contemporary music with very strong elements of hundreds of years of traditional music and instrumentation.
I really enjoy Leenalchi, Ssing Ssing & Jambinai, so I'm looking forward to looking up the others you mentioned. Thank you for this~
OH MY GOD WHATTTT, JOSEON AND ELECTRONICA???????/ I GOTTA LISTN TO THAT
Parannoul saved my life
YESSIRRR!!!! #PARANNOULGLAZE4LYFE
Yes! He is so good!
Well done! This is a really concise and entertaining dive into south korean music and history. The time spent polishing really makes it stand out, excellent work🎉
Love your videos and I am so happy that a video like this is finally being made in English because I feel like everyone focuses on jrock. I loveeee indie Korean artist like sisters barbershop ,autumn vacation and busker busker, hyukoh, baek yerin, sunwoojunga, 10cm, acourve, car, the garden, cheeze and delispice are amazing (I wrote these out before finishing the vid lolol) . I honestly find most of mine from watching variety shows(Gary from Lee sang is in one of these variety shows). The hosts usually sing a lot of songs they loved from the past and also a show called amazing Saturday always shows great songs. Also Netflix tends to censor kdramas because reply is also how I found a few good songs but I didn’t watch it through Netflix.
im surprised you didnt mention se so neon. theyre decently popular in korea and are probably my favourite korean indie band. their song the wave has got to be one of my favourite songs ever and the ep its on summer plumage is really good in general.
Damn you did the research man! Thanks for your interest in Korean music. Personally, Drunken Tiger 3rd album, the Legend of, is my middle school cd number one rotation. It was them at the most lyrical and boom bap.
as a korean who really loves music, I really appreciate this video! it was very interesting to see the flow of korean music from an outsiders perspective. i wanna make some recomendations for ur future listens. parannoul (파란노을; shoegaze), SUMIN (수민; rnb, artpop), Bulssazo (불싸조; shoegaze), fisherman (hiphop). the list would go on but guess i gotta end it somewhere lol.
Big vouch on the Parannoul shout out, hes been super influential to the modern shoegaze scene and a breath of fresh air with some really unique sounds for the genre
그놈의 as korean ㅋㅋㅋ
Woah the amount of effort put into this is impressive, i'll surely have a good time getting into all those artists
Damn dude, this is so well researched that I almost wish you did cover boy bands, it might have actually got me to check the music out. Also, even if you never do this structure again, the depth of knowledge here is awesome and extremely captivating
I wish there's part 2 for this where he talk about khiphop, krnb and just regular kpop.
awesome video boss, i added 14 albums to my library from your vid and the comments 👍
This video was awesome! Very informative and entertaining.
I've been searching for such a video for a long time, thank you!
Missed Kim Gun mo, the most successful artist of the 1990's and a fusion of jazz, soul, and ballad. Not to mention rap.
was waiting for jannabi the entire video?! happy about it regardless :)
Ikr! Jannabi is my current favorite korean artist
I wish there was more coverage of artists/bands from Annual College Musicians Festival/competitions (대학가요제). So many amazing artists/bands like Sanullim and Shin Hae Chul came out of that. Also Songolmae (송골매) and many many many others.
College musicians became mainstream because there was a big void caused by so much government censorship of professional singers.
another shoes in the dryer banger. Awesome vid!
Such a great creator. Don’t stop!
crazy printer sitcom man is back also i took your recommendation on adachi and watched cross game great stuff thanks man
I've always wanted to learn more about this topic since my mom had told me about some of the korean hits from the 70/80s. In short, THANK YOU for listing the resources you used.
yeah, come here to know some good music. great content, bro.
Thanks for making this video! Subscribed :)
bro going way deeper than most of korean people, i really appreciate letting me know several banger tracks and artists i've missed!
wish there was Kiha & the Faces mentioned though...
hell yeah, kiha is easily my all time korean fave. his original band was badass, too
*Unfortuntately this video starts off wrong about Enka.* This is what really happened: Hit enka singer Koga Masao grew up in Korea and he listened to a lot of Korean folk songs for all his school life (11 years) and played them in high school as part of a band with Park Shichun, Son Mokin, Jeon Surin, and introduced these tunes to the Enka scene back in Japan, causing big waves. His was a distinct Korean style the people in Japan called *"Koga Melodies."* Takaki Ichiro, Nakayama Hiroyuki, Kobayashi Asei says this too. Enka did exist before, but it was starkly different from the enka you know in the 1900s thanks to Koga Masao.
You can look up Park Shichun's certificate for Koga Masao which reads "I hereby show my gratitude for you to have beautifully harmonized Korea’s unique music into your music and have contributed immensely to the two countries' emotional interactions."
Fujinami Kensuke (Enka musician, heads a music publisher) has said: "To put it simply, Enka’s colors, since Enka’s original place is Korea, The original is Korean, and then it came into Japan, and there are parts it got re-exported. Like the tune, and the 'bending' technique, this is Enka’s characteristic."
----
The narrative this video has is like saying "black American music was from white rock musicians because white people dabbling in it must mean they created it." When it is the opposite. I find many people with the totally wrong idea that culture flowed from Japan to Korea when it has been opposite forever.
Look at Karakami Jinja ("Korean God Shrine"), Koma Jinja ("Goryeo Shrine"), Kudarao Jinja ("Baekje King Shrine") etc., Shiragi Myojin ("Enlightened Shilla God") and the 28 Korean castles in Japan and many others. There are numerous scholars in the west and within Japan that says the popular Susanoo himself comes from the Shilla kingdom as well (The mythology around him even says the first place he came to on earth was Shilla)
The Japanese palace itself has music played there where the genres are blatantly named after Korean kingdoms. Komagaku is one example.
Wagyu? Do you think a country can have a delicious breed of cattle suddenly pop into existence when it was forbidden to eat beef for 1200 years? 2 million cattle was taken from Korea to Japan in the early 1900s and with some mixing with Aberdeen Black Angus it was rebranded as Wagyu.
Even in the colonial era the in an ineffectual attempt to patch over relations some elements in the colonial administration printed books about how numerous regions in Japan were named after Korean place names, and various Japanese culture are from there as well. (朝鮮総督府中樞院、｢朝鮮の国名に因める名詞考｣ 1940, you can see scans of these in the digital library for the national diet)
The 2nd largest silver mine in the world (they didn't have to export Japanese slaves to buy muskets as much any longer, like when the 4 Japanese boys who followed a Portuguese missionary to Rome and every port they stopped in along the way they found them there) in Iwami were made possible by Gyeongsu and Jongdan (Known as Keiju and Sotan in Japan). Before that the traditional Japanese refining methods were too inefficient to turn a profit. This powered Japan's economy and war in the 1500s and onwards.
Aritaware, Hagiware, Satsumaware pottery were all invented by Koreans as well. It does not even begin before them. These were Japan's major exports and powered their economy again.
The name for traditional "Tatara smithing" itself comes from the ancient Dadara (now Dadaepo) in southern Korea. In fact for millennia anything that comes from the continent was painted with the broadstroke "Kara" prefix, which stems from the Gara region in southern Korea. This is not surprising, the first people u contact can often lead to be the term for the entire continent, look up the etymologies of "Africa" or "Asia" and you will see the same pattern.
Nakazawa Keiji, the author of the book in every school in Japan, Barefoot Gen, himself said (google this quote if u want):
私は、ゲンの物語に、朴さんという一人の朝鮮人を登場させました。地理的に最も近い国、そして古くは文化をもらい、学ばせてもらった国・朝鮮なのに、戦争遂行のためにいかに日本が差別し、侵略してきたか、そのことを多くの読者に知ってほしかったからです。(中沢啓治)
Basically he is saying he regrets Japan's ungrateful decision to destroy the neighbor that gave them much culture and teachings to Japan.
Very nice and informative video 👍 I’m going to watch your Japanese music video because lately I’ve been listening to J-Pop and it’s really fun and uplifting. Thank you!
I’m a korean. Before watching this video, thank you for making this video. Thank you for being interested in Korean music. I will learn from watching this video.
감사합니다!
Holy Crap~! From the script, knowledge, and research to editing, this is more than pro. Beautifully done. I had to pickup my jaw. Sir, you are truly great. But the best thing was how your love for music shone through. BTW, how much music do you listen to? OMG
I was hoping to see Jang Ki Ha mentioned, but, glad to see Chu Ha Hye at the end as I was listening to Sing Sing Band at tiny desk, just before watching this. I recommend Chu da hye and Lee nal chi if you are looking for more exotic sounds from Korea.
"if you wanted to play rock music yourself, you weren't going to bars and clubs in the city, you were going to a military base" this is sounds funny, this is the first video I watch of your channel and it makes me happy, as a korean I love listening to older music, hell, sometimes I even listen to Joseon music, and while I was aware of the political and historical situations, I never connected the dot between them and music, thank you for doing this video, its much more than that, I hope more people get into older korean music, history and culture
This was an awesome watch! My recomendations to add to this would be early Verbal Jint and the band Jambinai. This was a really great music dive! 😃
This is my first video of yours I’ve seen and it’s amazing! I’ve also fallen into the pit of eternal frustration trying to find korean music that shouldn’t be so obscure. I’m kind of glad someone else has experienced a similar kind of pain. Here’s some acts to look into: Younha, Crush, Daybreak, Day6, Akmu, and Leenalchi. Since you recommended Chudahye Chagis and I’d listen to Leenalchi’s Sugungga first they both have drawn from pansori and other traditional Korean music.
Not even ten minutes in but ive also tried to research more niche (in the english speaking world) korean topics both without being able to read hangul and after learning to read it, and its almost impossible a lot of time using just english. I highly encourage anyone wanting to look into a subject like this to learn how to read hangul, its very easy and simple and just takes a couple days of practice to get the hang of it. Youll be able to more easily search things by copy pasting hangul and then translate any webpages you find using google translate or similiar
goated video, ur love for other cultures is truly inspiring
I’ve been listening to many 80/90’s Korean artists recently (Yang soo kyeong, Susie kang, Lee sun hee, Seoul family, etc). It’s an era of music I’d never expect myself to dive into but I’m glad I did.
That's great omg I'm kinda mad he left out aaaaallll the fantastic female 80s acts and other hit songs (ans the rise of the "teen idol" such as Park Namjung and Lee Jiyeon most notably) and the city pop acts (Kang Susie, Yoon Sang, Kim Hyun Chul)
Susie kang---->Kang suji
@@shruthakeerthi4559 I didn’t expect him to cover ballad artists too much. I used to associate it as ‘old people’ music but I started appreciating them more. I actually have been listening to Lee Jiyeon and Park Namjung for a while and I love them both.
As a Korean I actually learned a lot from your point of view. Thanks for the quality content.
Also, lyrics of the songs of Kim Gwang Seok are the best that I've ever heard of, highly recomend them, specially:
"A Sexagenary Couple's Story (어느 60대 노부부 이야기)" hope more people give them a shot.
Man this brings so much memories. I lived near U.S base in Seoul in 80s. Eventhough Korean Government banned music from entering Korea, people bought contraband music from US soldiers and we heard all the popular music from US via US military radio and TV.
Oh, fun fact band NEX.T front man, Shin hachul appeared in soap opera "answer me 1988" with his band named muhangaedo.
Fun fact. Band "Sisters barber shop" formed from lie. Vocal and leader of band was famous troll and later he lied he was in the band called "Sisters babershop" eventhough there were no band nor he had experience with music. But lucky for him his friend helped him to form a band.
Could you do the Philippines if possible? I really enjoyed this video because I've been looking for a video like this. I'm Filipino and would be interested in learning about the history
During this process I actually did end up reading a bit into modern Philippines history and found it especially interesting with how much Ferdinand Marcos parallels Park Chung Hee.
Also listened to Eraserheads and liked them. So it's at least one of a few places that I've dipped a toe into, so maybe, but no promises on anything further.
I heard the father of Enka, famous Japanese, once mentioned that the Enka is based on Korean traditional music scale.
The origin of the word enka is during the Meiji period, when activists of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement were giving street speeches criticizing feudal clan politics, and the Meiji government began to crack down on them harshly, so the activists turned the contents of their speeches into songs and sang them in the streets. I got through the crackdown. That's why songs sung by activists were called enka. Korea has nothing to do with it.
Personal Faves - Drinking Boys And Girls Choir, Omega Sapien, HOA, Green Flame Boys, Hitchhiker, Say Sue Me, Wedance, and Rumkicks.
Kolo Kolo by Omega Sapien my ish 🩷🩷
first time I heard HOA's Longing, it made me cry 😅
If you see a Korean word written with “eo” in it, it’s probably pronounced “uh”. (“u” is pronounced “oo” like in “too”.)
So Incheon Airport is not “intchy-on”. And “Seo” is not “see-oh”, but “suh”. And “mukbang” should technically be written “meokbang”. 1:11:28
More like oh rather than uh.
Meokbang would be fine read as mokbang.
@@oo8962 I guess it depends on how you pronounce “oh”. In a typical Midwestern American accent, “oh” is similar to Korean “오“, so it might be a little humorous to say “mokbang” / “목방”.
The problem with using the Latin alphabet is that it only has 5 letters for vowels (a,e,I,o,u). Korean, like English, has more vowel sounds than this. So how do you express them using those 5 letters?
The current standard is to use those 5 as they would probably have originally been pronounced in Latin (or modern Spanish or Italian, perhaps: a -> ah (아), e -> eh (에), i -> ee (이), o -> oh (오), u -> oo (우)).
Then the remaining vowel sounds are written as combinations of those: uh -> eo (어), a vowel similar to the schwa sound in English is eu (으), and there’s another eh written as ae (애 - these days largely pronounced the same as 에).
❤ Nice to have you back
Korean here, I'm so thankful of your video since it references Mr. Shin, Yu jae ha and Kim gwang seock as well. It wouldve been better if it included Silica gel or Sultan of the Disco. It's awesome video anyways! Thanks for noticing my country!
P.S. Soorry I'm writing this while i'm drunk lmao
When I became a kpop fan, I gravitated a lot towards pansori, ballad and rock music over time. I really love a lot of recent k-rock artists Guckkasten and The Solutions. Guckkasten in particular reminds me of 70s/80s psychedelic rock.
From watching a couple of kdramas over the years, I kinda knew a brief history of Korean music during he Japanese colonial era till now, but I didn't know all the details to this extent. This video is really lovely.
This is so good?!?! great work!!! I was very excited to see this recommendation, because after I watched the japanese music vid a lot of those recommendations made it into my regular listening rotation! They were so good! And I listen to Mass of the fermenting dregs almost every day. Haven't finished watching this video yet but just the history part already is soooo interesting! Ican't wait to finish the video and have more new music to listen to!
"(besides k-pop)"
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hey look I've made it! awesome video!
i havent had the time to watch the full vid but commenting bc i can alreayd tell its a well researched and well made. thank you!
Nice documentary! Love this vid
You should listen to Thornapple (쏜애플) . Peak psychedelic rock
yes !!!!
Alt rock? Absolutely, like on point. Psychedelic? Naaahh
AYE I JUST COMMENTED THORNAPPLE WOO! ive been into them since their strange weather album! carried me through high school! their albums just keep getting better and better. verrry psychedelic. and his voice is amazing.
south korea has literally some of the best music coming out of it (both past and modern) and so little people know because kpop is such an eclipser!! i say that as someone who originally got into kpop but is also an avid rock/indie listener. dreamtalk, 201, a lot of iu and a lot of clazziquai are some of my favorite albums/artists ever, and i was young enough when i started listening to them that they've had a huge influence on what i listen to now. for anyone reading this and wanting some more specific clazziquai and iu recommendations, i recommend instant pig and metrotronics for clazzi, and for iu i recommend modern times as well as her two remake albums flower bookmark part 1 and 2 :) jambinai is also a really cool more recent band i've been getting into who mix korean folk music with prog rock and they are super super cool!
Woah, this video is such a delight to watch.
I've been into mostly kpop for YEARS when I was in high school. The oldest thing I listen to is like H.O.T, G.O.D, Jinusean, those hiphop 1st gen kpop stuff.
I listen to some korean rock stuff but mostly 2000 something release.
I think I'm gonna start listening to some underground korean rock bands.
Concerning the censorship on Korean dramas, I don't think it's a Netflix or international distribution thing, but some idiosyncrasy of Korean TV production. Even while watching the original broadcast versions through... alternative means, there's a ton of half-hearted censorship: a thin tape over a brand name on a shirt or box, not really obscuring anything, a blur that is not tracked properly and slips off the target, or the blur is not strong enough to actually obscure the name or a logo. I would actually want to know more about this, because it seems quite silly to choose brand name costumes or props just to do the bare minimum to make it seem there was an effort to remove them.
I remember in my early days of being a kpop fan, I was watching the official vlogs of a group I liked, and one of the members was trying to sabotage the vlog as a joke - so he just shouted "Adidas! Nike!" They thought it was hilarious. So clearly even Koreans find the situation to be kind of silly.
It's like the right not to watch ads
Korea is a very strict country about advertising, especially if you want to advertise on air, they have to give a notice before show start (usually cutted in the vod seen by foreigners)
If a particular brand legally advertises on the show, it doesn't cover the logo, but as you know, many celebrities have their own advertising sponsors. The logo is covered at the clothes worn like that
Cigarettes and tattoos are, well, cultural, but they're being criticized because its too old thing. Maybe it'll be gone soon
@@youolive_ I did not actually know Korean celebrities have sponsorship deals to display certain brands on public appearances.
But what you're saying is that the star is sponsored by some brand that is not sponsoring the drama, so the actor (and thus the character) visibly uses anyway that brand but then the production crew needs to slightly tape over or blur it?
@@W4l0p Yes, but it still has advertising effects. Brands can advertise that the celebrity wears their clothes (there are photos in stores) and people can easily search for them if they like the clothes. For certain celebrities, they are sold out right away.
In the case of top celebrities, there are cases where the brand itself sponsors, and even if not, there are places where several brands gather to rent clothes for free.
What the coordinator of Korean celebrities does is go there and rent and style matching clothes
Celebrities can show up in expensive clothes for free and brands can advertise for free
Seo Taiji's albums are soooo good. I just recently bought album 5, ultramina, and the 7th one. All bangers 🎉
You gotta hear Jambinai, it’s Tool with elements of traditional instruments
damn…i am watching this video from Montgomery Texas on my business trip from Korea. What a world I am living now. BTW this video is so epic!! Modern Korean Music 101!!!!
Sanulim set the sense of primal K-POP throughout such a tough age. The leader of the band is still active in thesedays with his own band, Kim Changwan band. unfortunately, Sanulim was disbanded in light of tragic pass away of a member, the leader's brother.
Awesome video, but you skipped over the 70s/early 80s Korean funk, disco, and soul scene! Bands like Black Butterfly (검은나비) and lots of female singers from that era were major exponents of that sound.
There's a compilation out there called Funky Coup that gives a brief overview of the era, and I highly recommend it!
Korean ballets hit so hard