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The pHo posted:I feel ashamed, but every time myself or my housemate are in a situation where we go 'woah' (eg nearly knocking a glass of water over) the other will always respond with the 'oo' from 'Oo-oo-oo-oppa Gangnam Style'. You should feel ashamed, since it's actually "Oppan." 
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Lyer posted:Speaking of SNSD... they released another song from their Japanese album a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNqFrJMsPe0 I cannot wait for the album, it's going to be so loving awesome. I'll get my pile of shrooms out of the freezer, take the day off and listen to it over and over and over when it comes out. It's going to be the best vision quest ever.
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Jamesman posted:You should feel ashamed, since it's actually "Oppan."  yet even Koreans hear and say oppa.
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Nov 16, 2012 03:58
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BrainDance posted:
Are these Koreans deaf and blind, perhaps?
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Nov 16, 2012 04:03
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Jamesman posted:You should feel ashamed, since it's actually "Oppan." It's a contraction of 오빠는 and Koreans frequently drop particles. 오빠는, 오빤, 오빠 are all fine spoken. However you should be ashamed at perpetuating the cultural smallpox that is Gangnam Style. E: There's this van that drives around my city with the word 호박 (pumpkin) on the side and giant speakers blasting Gangnam Style. I have no idea what the gently caress but I wish for a bazooka every time it goes past. Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Nov 16, 2012 |
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Nov 16, 2012 04:06
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Grand Fromage posted:It's a contraction of 오빠는 and Koreans frequently drop particles. 오빠는, 오빤, 오빠 are all fine spoken. I know it sounds like I care WAY too much. It's just really, really weird to me how you have this song with hundreds of millions of views, where people listen to it a hundred times over, with a word recited a dozen+ times, and only a small handful of listeners seem to hear that "N" sound at the end. Now if you excuse me, I'm going to go listen to my favorite Beatles song, "Hey Jew."  Grand Fromage posted:E: There's this van that drives around my city with the word 호박 (pumpkin) on the side and giant speakers blasting Gangnam Style. I have no idea what the gently caress but I wish for a bazooka every time it goes past. Why would a "pumpkin" van drive around blasting music? Are they advertising pumpkins, or is it just what those darn kids do in Korea? Jamesman fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Nov 16, 2012 |
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Nov 16, 2012 04:19
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Pumpkins are a common food in Korea, they're not exactly the same as pumpkins in America. The Koreans I know aren't blind or deaf, they're just the normal people around Ansan and Seoul. I guess it just doesn't matter to most of them, like GF said it all amounts to the same thing "it's OPPAN not OPPA" is something I've only heard on the Internet. I think the song is finally dying though, the club outside my apartment only plays two remixes a night now! 
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Nov 16, 2012 04:48
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Jamesman posted:Why would a "pumpkin" van drive around blasting music? Are they advertising pumpkins, or is it just what those darn kids do in Korea? It's Korea. It's best not to try to work out logical reasons for things.
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Nov 16, 2012 04:52
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BrainDance posted:Pumpkins are a common food in Korea, they're not exactly the same as pumpkins in America. Yeah, I know. I'm just not sure what the van is supposed to be doing, unless the music attracts attention, and then they stop and sell pumpkins out of their van. Or if they're just raising pumpkin awareness.
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Nov 16, 2012 05:34
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Jamesman posted:Yeah, I know. I'm just not sure what the van is supposed to be doing, unless the music attracts attention, and then they stop and sell pumpkins out of their van. There's nothing. The van doesn't stop and does nothing but drive around. I presumed it was an advertisement but there's literally nothing else written on it except 호박. Now I assume it's following me around because it knows I have PTSD from that loving song and fly into a rage/curl into the fetal position, weeping, when so much as half a second of it plays. 호박 is also slang for ugly. 
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/\/\ Probably one of those Immigration grab and deport vans, they're watching you bro.Jamesman posted:Yeah, I know. I'm just not sure what the van is supposed to be doing, unless the music attracts attention, and then they stop and sell pumpkins out of their van. The first one. If you've been watching your General Korean TV you would know that a lot of produce is sold off the back of the truck as they roll through your neighborhood either playing Uppa Pumpkin Stile or with recordings constantly yelling the name of whatever they're selling. There aren't really any noise pollution laws here, and Election Season is hell if you're trying to sleep in and you're in a populous area as they have trucks yelling campaign slogans too. Edit: Huh, guess I was wrong, but I still have produce trucks and vans roll through my ville all the time.
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That's the thing. It's not the goddamn ajeossi fruit truck. They're not selling pumpkins. They're just driving around blasting that loving song.
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Maybe they're just afraid to stop around a foreigner? Edit: this is starting to turn into something better suited for the Living in Korea thread. BrainDance fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Nov 16, 2012 |
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Nov 16, 2012 06:21
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Blowing down the center of a six lane road in circles around the city. 
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Grand Fromage posted:호박 is also slang for ugly. Hobag is slang for ugly in English too!
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Grand Fromage posted:It's a contraction of 오빠는 and Koreans frequently drop particles. 오빠는, 오빤, 오빠 are all fine spoken. That van sounds bloody hilarious. Have any photos?  And I agree noise pollution sucks. There are laws, but it seems that all the vendors/campaigners ignore them. I know for the vendors (and taxis/buses breaking traffic laws) people go "they're trying to make a living so I should let it slide." I know when I'm driving/others are, we're more likely to yield to a taxi or let him cut a line because we know how hard it is for them to make money. -- Regarding OPPAN GANGNAM STYLE: I have never heard a full/normal Korean sing it without the N. And I've had quite a few spontaneous karoke/singing bursts of that song when it came on the radio/street. Just putting my personal experience out there. BACK TO KOREAN TV: Has IU been on TV yet following that twitter picture leak?
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In all honesty, I wrote 'oppa' because that's what was written on the lyrics sheets I read back when it first dropped, and I didn't want to get into the whole oppa/oppan thing.
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Archer2338 posted:BACK TO KOREAN TV: Has IU been on TV yet following that twitter picture leak? Yeah she went back on air literally the next day. Seemed fine though. She did however, lose her nation's little sister title! http://www.allkpop.com/2012/11/iu-loses-her-title-of-the-nations-little-sister-through-recent-online-survey Shocking.
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From what I can tell, fans aren't really mad that she's humping Eunhyuk or whatever, they're mad that her company thinks everyone is an idiot and that people will swallow whatever lies they feed them. I mean, she was really sick so he took off his clothes and got into bed with her? Really? That's the best they could come up with? Reminds me of Jiyeon's porn scandal back in the day. Even after it was conclusively proven that it was her via multiple pieces of corroborating evidence, CCM still denied it. At that point you might as well just tell the truth, because adding 'lying piece of poo poo' to the list of reasons why people don't like you really isn't doing you any good.
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The most amusing "netizen" response I saw was: "Eunhyuk? Really? IU can do better than that."
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Suzy will be the next one to fall  Out of the Jiyeon-IU-Suzy trio (they are close IRL), she's the only one who managed to avoid being complicated in something.
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Nov 18, 2012 01:06
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HaHa-Suzy affair the next big scandal, you heard it here first!
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Selane posted:Reminds me of Jiyeon's porn scandal back in the day. Even after it was conclusively proven that it was her via multiple pieces of corroborating evidence, CCM still denied it. Was this actually her? Also was there actually porn, and not just "Oh Jiyeon hung out on a porn site." and it got blown out of proportion?
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Jamesman posted:Was this actually her? Also was there actually porn, and not just "Oh Jiyeon hung out on a porn site." and it got blown out of proportion? Well, not really porn. I think the video was her flashing/showing her tits on webcam? Problem is, she was a minor at the time. Whether it was her or not: I guess there still is a chance, but all the evidence they found (her screen name matching up with other videos confirmed of her, and hell, even matching up the location of dots on her arms/face, etc) seems to point to it being her pretty conclusively.
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Best quote from "Panda & Hedgehog"(half way through it): "You do what you need to do in love and war. It's a national common sense!"
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Listening to the new SNSD album, I imagine this is what it must be like to have a religious experience. I have to see them in concert.
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Is it out on itunes? I liked pretty much every single one of the songs when I heard the preview.
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Enjoying the album on first pass, currently on 'Stay Girls' which is my favourite of the bunch so far. Really hoping for a full on huge ballad before the end though... those were the standout tracks on the original Japanese album for me. God I'm such a sucker for those.
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There's only one ballad, the very last track. My favorite is Boomerang, which makes me think of a kind of Japanese Goldfrapp
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I wasn't so keen on Boomerang on first listen, maybe it's a grower. I did like T.O.P. though, I'm guessing it's a reference to the guy from Big Bang? Forgot Oh! was on the tracklisting so that got a laugh when I heard it come over, and 'All My Love Is For You' was a nice track I only heard the once when the video came out, so enjoying that. So far so good, and definitely a few tracks to add to my personal 'Best of...' I think. Better than 'The Boys' imo, not quite up there with the earliest stuff (although the production is gorgeous, and better than the earlier stuff).
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The whole thing is bewildering, since Beep Beep is better than anything that actually did make the album, and it seems more like a throwaway now. That song would also be ridiculously easy to turn into English (and would be much more coherent than The Boys was), but SM doesn't look like he wants to press the issue.
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Nov 27, 2012 21:01
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With a new album out lets never again mention The Boys. Thank you.
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Nov 27, 2012 21:17
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I just finished IRIS: gently caress that ending
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The recent B1A4 album is pretty nice. Besides it and many other songs, my continuing foray into korean pop/indie music also uncovered these 2 gems: UV - Itaewon Freedom (feat. JYP): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N8c1t1QTDI Donghae&Eunhyuk - Oppa Oppa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmBkoy3uDLM And my two recent  moments regarding Korean entertainment: Super Junior's level of fan service. How Kim Kwang-soo discovered the new T-ara girl. 
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I don't know how I missed these, but I really like the solo songs Kara did for their Karasia tour earlier this year. Anyone else seen these? Hara - Secret Love Jiyoung - Wanna Do Seungyeon - Guilty Gyuri - Daydream Nicole - Lost
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Merope posted:
Here's another video that goes along those lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jx3qP9LiqI
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Selane posted:I don't know how I missed these, but I really like the solo songs Kara did for their Karasia tour earlier this year. Anyone else seen these? I just skimmed through these out of curiosity. Personally, I'd rank them from best to worst: Seungyeon Nicole Gyuri Jiyoung Hara
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Charmmi posted:Here's another video that goes along those lines: Nice one! I really like the songs also (not only the video), from the two I mentioned, though I know the OppaOppa lyrics suck. I assume UV's lyrics are better though I couldn't find an english subtitle version no matter how hard I searched. It was interesting to search and read about the Itaewon district and the conflicting views on it. I'm still reserving judgement on the JYP dude, and I don't like how UV isn't mentioned in the video title.
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I've become addicted to watching the practice versions of the music videos. There's something just so satisfying about watching the idols dancing in their daggy old clothing in their tiny studios. Often, if the studio has a clock or windows you can see it's insanely late at night, so you can guess they've been practicing their routine for countless hours (well, for countless hours on that day alone, in one of the Heroes episodes Gahee says that a single minute of dance takes a full week of practice to learn!), but they still look so fresh and full of energy, it's amazing. It used to be almost impossible to find the practice vids, or they'd be really lovely quality, now everyone's doing it. Of course, now that it's becoming a 'thing', the companies are starting to care about how they come out. The one for Jewelry's latest release, Look At Me, has multiple angles and is very professional. Takes all the fun out of it 
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