KPop - Kara
Thanks to Jin for posting this. While I speak, read and write Korean, my current line of work doesn't involve me speaking it at all which is a bit of a shame. My first position as Web Marketing Executive at Nature had me speaking Korean nearly every day. Would travel to Korea often for work too.
My wife watches K Drama from time to time though which is good listening practice although the story always seems to be boring.
Never heard of Kara but do like their sounds - want more!
As with learning Japanese, I listened to a lot of KPop including Clon, Solid, Pak Mi Kyung and Baby Vox/Fin.K.L that Jin mentions below.
One of my fave girl groups was S.E.S - they got good tunes and are also cute.
Need to get myself more Korean keyboard stickers.
한국어를 더 공부하지 않으면 안 된다
Original text from jinstevens below.
Kara is yet another girl band from Korea. Their song, Honey, recently made it to number 1. It's been interesting comparing them to Girl's Generation who I wrote up earlier. Kara seems to go more for the cute concept rather than the sexy / beautiful that Girl's Generation aims for.
If you think I like KPop girl bands, then you probably guessed right. Probably started with Baby Vox back in the day, then Fin.K.L. and a host of others.
Was surprised to learn that one of the Kara's members was only 15 and still in middle school!
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Student
Whoa, that English part in the song sounded perfect. I expected an accent.
Blogger, consultant
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I believe that the English rap part was performed by Nicole Jung who's Korean American.
Student About to Graduate High School
That would explain why it sounded good lol
Student
this isn't the Geegeegee ggg song is it?
Student
this ones better :P nice
beer-cap twister
Re: SES
WOO! Spice Girls meet BeeGees. And then they all go out and get knackered with S Club Seven!
This difference is, unlike any of the abovementioned, no-one in Kara of SES sounds any different from her sisters during a "solo" turn.
Tch.
I enjoy their sound, but homogenation can go too far => boring. This cultural difference will keep them out of the Western market...(why have five girls, when one repeated five times = quintet?)
Student
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한국어를 능숙하게 사용하시네요, 대니 츄씨. 많은 외국어들을 배우셨어도 어려운 한국어를 참 잘 알고계시니 제가 대니씨를 존경할 수 밖에 없답니다. 저보다 문법을 더 잘 알고 계시니 제가 더 열심히 공부를 해야겠네요 ^^;
Hmm... Nowadays, I'm not really into contemporary idol-groups. However, I used to be a huge Fin.K.L and Jo Sungmo fan back when I was living in Korea. That was when I was in elementary school. Currently, I enjoy listening to Lee Moon-sae, Kim Jang-hun, and Yoon Do-hyun's songs. They're very well respected in the Korean music industry, and their live performances are 100% invigorating.
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오래동안 한굴을 공부하지않아서 다 잊어버렸어요
우우우우우우우우 ^^;
CEO MIrai Inc
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하지만 지금 부터는 한글로 Tweet할거야
Student
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오호! 3개국어로 Tweet를 하다니! 제 일본어 공부에 도움이 되겠어요~
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미리씨는 한국에 살고있아요? 나 는 금년 서울에 가고싶어.
Student
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저는 미국에서 거주하고 있답니다.
Just a quick lesson on Korean:
1. 나는 금년 서울에 가고싶어: I want to go to Seoul this year.
This sentence is correct, but <금년> is not often used in everyday Korean phrases. The sentence sounds more scholarly ;)
2. 나는 올해 서울에 가고싶어: I want to go to Seoul this year.
This sentence contains the same meaning, but is used more often than the sentence above.
Sorry if I offended you in any way, Danny. I thought that I could help out a bit ^^;
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Thanks for the correction!
Student, Performer
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Wow...korean classes. ^^
Guess
Watch Coffee Prince.
こうこうせい
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Korea seems to have a lot of idol groups. Must have a large idol culture there :p
I think Kara is ok. They're definitely cute.
Dirty Gentleman
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Ahhh... you got that "geegeegeegee" song rollin in my head again.
So girl bands are a big thing in Korea? Seems like there's a bunch. While some of them are catchy, I can't say I would listen to them regularly.
Was kinda impressed with some of these dance sequences tho. Not particularly with the dancing itself, but how they trained so much they can perform it all without messing up. Like this dance sequence version of 'Gee' with 9 girls dancing continuously:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFt_NILe-TM
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Feel hungry all of a sudden.
Supreme Commander of NERV Co.
Lol, me too, but I'm in a different timezone ^^
Student About to Graduate High School
i just ate ^^
College Freshmen
I don't like watching Korean dramas because I don't want to get hooked on them, which makes almost no sense since I still waste time from watching a lot of anime...
aerospace engineering student
I'm with you on this one =D
フリーター。
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Good golly. I feel old. Groups such as Baby Vox, S.E.S. and Fin.K.L. were groups I weaned on and my mom thought that the Baby Vox girls are beautiful. Hee hee! I have no idea who's hot now.
Kara is flat out cute though.
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한국어 잘하시네요 ^^
한국에 놀러오게 되면 꼭 연락해주세요! 한번 뵙고 싶습니다.
저는 서울에 거주합니다.
CEO MIrai Inc
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나 는 금년 서울에 가고싶어! 서울에 살고있어요?
is the President of Planet Tits; however, he's exploring the Earth by being a high schooler.
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집은 서울에 있지만, 미국에서 학교에 다니고 있어요.
미국에서는 6월에 졸업을 하니 (고등학생입니다^^) 그때 한국에 가요.
용산(한국의 아키하바라 정도?) 에서 트루퍼즈를 한번 하시면 참 재밌을 것 같아요! 여름에 오시면 그때 같이 식사해요!
저도 웹 개발이라던가, 컴퓨터 프로그래밍 쪽에 관심이 많아요. 대학에 가면 컴퓨터 공학을 전공하게 되는데 선배님, 잘 부탁드립니다 _ _)
Nekophilia
Whoaa Korean domination in this post @.@ Can't understand a thing~
While I have lots of interest in learning Japanese writing (katakana, kanji), I have 0 interest in learning Korean. They just look so alike. ^^;
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Korean and Japanese are both derived from Chinese, and that's why some of korean- and japanese kanji vocabularies happen to use same chinese letters, but different pronounciation
Once you master japanese, i'm sure you'll easily learn chinese or korean as well.
I learned fundamental Chinese language when I was in elementary school in Korea and I can recognize simple kanji letters.. ;)
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I learned Korean from Japanese - grammar is very similar.
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Have to agree with that.
Nekophilia
Kanji makes sense to me because I know Chinese.. ^^ A bonus for learning Japanese.
So after Japanese will it be Korean for me? Hmmm...
No more NEET, enineering student now...g
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Go for it! I'm gonna take up Korean if possible after I get a good command of Japanese ^^;
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I'm not so sure about easily learning Chinese once you know Japanese. The hardest part is memorising Hanzi of course and unlike Japanese, you can't just revert to Kana if you forget how to write. Idioms are also used a lot more commonly than in Japanese.
Then again, most people type nowadays and hardly need to write by hand but even then, it's easy to get homonyms mixed up.
Student
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I really really really like them! And I love the girl on the right who looks like Amuro Namie.
Their music is great. :3 'Nuff said.
Video game developer
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Korean?? O_O wow pretty cool, you never stop amazing me ^^
And Chinese? 應該可以念了吧,廣東會講,國語呢?
CEO MIrai Inc
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可以念^^; 不过我说的汉语比中文好.我的中文很难听^^;
Nekophilia
中文和汉语不是一样的吗？ O_O
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对不起，"Korean"怎样说？朝鲜话? ^^;
我的中文真的不行啊ToT
Nekophilia
I usually refer to Korean language as 韩语, short form of 韩国语. I'm not sure about 朝鮮語, well according to wiki its supposed to be more formal. ^^;
不知道"Danny Choo"在华语怎么写呢? XD
Video game developer
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I only hear 朝鲜 when you mean North Korea @_@; 就跟日文一樣,'韓國語'變成韓語.
說得滿厲害,英文,中文,日文,韓語,and the Empire's dialect.すごいじゃん？＾＾
Wow I feel old since I remember Fin.K.L, Baby Vox and SES. I know Lee Hyori went solo afterwards but it just wasn't the same.
Speaking of Kpop I just found out BOA released an Album in the US.
CG Artist wannabe / Figure Collector / Deadman
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Used to be a Kpop/KRock fan aside from Jpop/Jrock back in high school..
Lurve watching Arirang TV's music programs.
I usually like to watch or listen to Fin.K.L.. Chakra, Baby Vox, etc. while for K-rock, I like Moon Hee Jun, Seo Taiji, Click-B, etc. Always enby their hairstyles too..
CG Artist wannabe / Figure Collector / Deadman
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Used to be a Kpop/KRock fan aside from Jpop/Jrock back in high school..
Lurve watching Arirang TV's music programs.
I usually like to watch or listen to Fin.K.L.. Chakra, Baby Vox, etc. while for K-rock, I like Moon Hee Jun, Seo Taiji, Click-B, etc. Always envy their hairstyles too..
Proud Otaku and Part-time NEET
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K-Pop is the second most addictive culture I've found next to J-Pop. K-Dramas, K-Music...Once you've explored it, you can never get away from it! Many songs on my iPod consist of 5 GB of K-Pop over my the 3 Gigs of J-Pop, and I listen to them more than anything else in my library (Solid, Seo Tai-ji, and Rain FTW!). ^^
I'm also leaning Korean! I'm still getting the hang of it, and I've found it easier than Japanese (and makes learning Japanese easier).
Student, Artist, Unemployed but seeking
wonder girls are the most popular group right now in korea, and probably the only thing korean that i know anything about haha
Medical student
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No they're not, Wonder Girls has gone out of style now that SNSD is the hottest group.
Student
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SNSD has a LOT of hate groups
MI Manager, Blogger and Newswriter
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I also like Kpop a lot, Kara of course, but all groups like Wonder Girls, SNSD, After School, Jewelry as well. They are all so cute ^^
Danny, for Kara, check this video, they look very cute
http://ahboo.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/kara-honey-music-core-2009-03-14/
IT
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronaldbayan/
oh I like Koreans, they are very cute... model Hwang Mi Hee and Kpop's Girls' Generation (they sang that Gee song)
a guy who cares (sort of...)
I love some of the Korean movies (My Sassy Girl rocks) but K-Doramas are a bit too hard to swallow for me, sometimes they are waaay more intense than those Brazilian/Argentinian/Mexican/insertothershanishspeakingcountry telenovelas. Let's not forget that Koreans make the best MMO games in the world ^^.
As for learning Korean, I just got cable with Arirang so I might try to learn something from their Korean lessons. From my personal experience typing Korean on a computer is so not intuitive compared to Japanese, but Hangul has got way less signs compared to Kanji/Kana.
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mmmmm.... made me want to have caek...
houkouonchi
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On occasion I watch Korean tv programming here on MBC. They also have KBS on one of their other four channels. I may have seen Kara perform on TV.
As a side note, MBC used to carry Japanese shows from FCI about five hours a week along with one hour of morning news. They no long carry it though. T_T
NEET part-time - Technical Support Officer - Network security engineer
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i only watch k-dramas - didn't get much into their music scene
三年せいとオタク
O.O Can't understand a thing on this page. Time to study Korean >>
Student in Internet-based Systems
South Korea is interesting for a gamer, especially if you're into MMO's because, as Abi-kun said, it's a big business there with some well-known products (Ragnarok Online, Aion). For me to learn Japanese is more important but wouldn't say no to some Korean lessons.^^;
Student
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Not fond into korean music. However there are tons of korean students in my class keep on talking their language which makes me left behind since i'm the only student who can't speak. LOL!
My mum always watch Kdrama and she loves it very much. But as for me I love to watch Jdrama because I love japan very much and also the language.
Student, Otaku, She-Geek(Sheek lol)
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Like Kara. SES seem a bit... 90's british girlband... I would say Spicegirls come to mind... but its more like... Britney or Christina... or a song from the american Pokemon movie soundtracks lol. When I was 12 or so I'm sure I'd love them.
Student, Uncle & hopfully a good husband..
Hmm...i don't mind kpop...but then to stick to what i can find and understand these days...
Multimedia Designer/Developer
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People actually listen to this stuff? It's so... bubbly...
I don't listen to much Japanese music, but Ken Ishii and Fumiya Tanaka are very good.
The only Korean band I've heard of is "Pyongyang Hardcore Resistance" although I think they might be a hoax.
Accounting Technician
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they are nice, good voices, its sugary sweet pop music for sure but good. The one wiith the short hair in yellow very pretty :)
Figure Collecter
http://blog.naver.com/manaroanito
한국도 잘하실 줄이야 (덧글을 한국어로 하니 신기하군요)
저도 한국에 오시면 한번 뵙고 싶습니다.(서울 거주)
DD나 피규어쪽 관심 있는 분들 제 주변에 있으니 같이 뵙는 것도 괜찮을 듯 싶네요
University's Slave
I like the arrangement Kara has, but lately I find myself craving stronger voices--the kind that can actually belt it out, you know? Same goes for the other band. ^^; But hey, de gustibus non est disputandum, right?
Welder
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Hmmm...I just can't seem to get the feel of them like I do with hello! project and AKB48. Kara also sounds a bit too "Americanized" that song had too much English in it.
But tsunku is holding auditions in Korea and I can't remember if its for a Korean member or for a korean group(like what he did when he went to taiwan and formed bing qi lin shao nu zu)but hopefully something good will come out of it.
IT Manager and make believe soldier (Airsofter)
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K-drama is very popular here in the Philippines
Not to mention alot of koreans also moved here to learn English or establish a new life
lol lol. I like them!
Student/Part-timer
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Wow look at you guys go with chinese and korean.... Motivation for me right there, as I could only read a bit of the chinese convo there; I should definately finish learning how to read and write chinese. Heck, while Im at it, I should brush up my french too, Ive lost all knowledge of french due to non-use ><
And what a coincidence, Ive only recently begun venturing into K-pop (currently have an obsession with watching taeyeon videos from youtube). Besides the point, there are sure a lot of these bubbly girl pop groups in korea. And they all seem to have a good share of hate clubs. Scary.
Student
Oh wow, seeing SES again makes me realize how old I am XD
I really liked them back in the day and I still listen to their music from time to time now :P My favorite song by them is Just in Love. It's a great pick me up from days of feeling gloomy :P
Can't really converse in Korean sadly enough, but I'm getting there after I somewhat master Japanese in college right now :D
I really love SES and FINKL, they are the best during their glory days. I love listening to jpop and kpop eventhough i understand a little about their language.
Actor, Moviemaker and Blogger.
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I'm in love with S.E.S's long red hair!!! LoL So kawaii!! ^^
Actor, Moviemaker and Blogger.
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Park Gyuri is beautfiul!!!
Gonna listen to Kara, definetly!
Rock U Body Say~! I love Kara :D
student
http://rinrinne.wordpress.com/
i always wondered on how difficult learning korean would be but it sounds much easier to pronounce. I do listen to some k-pop songs but it's rather limited. the reason it is limited is because i borrowed my friends mix cd of Kpop songs and well i got addicted but never had the motivation to get more songs. any good kpop artists for recommendations that can rekindle my interest?
Student
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SG Wannabe is a bit stretchy and long, but they're a very good ballad trio.
Younha sang the song "Houki Boshi" for Bleach, and has various songs in Korean and Japanese.
Rumble Fish and Crying Nut are some good Korean bands, too.
I haven't listened to Korean songs recently, so maybe someone might be able to support more details~
Hikikomori in the making
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My aunt plays AuditionSea... Yes, my AUNT^^;...
So I really like K-songs cuz of their rap and funky tunes!
Client Services Management
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Girl bands are becoming more popular. They're too young. Wow!
Student/Gakusei
wow they're hot .
office worker
Kara is great but girls generation is way BETTER!! hey people if you like k-pop you should here their song called gee i listen to it like 35 times a day!! ^__^
otaku!
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amen to that brotha!!!! LOL LOL LOL jung LOL LOL
otaku!
http://cafe.daum.net/heavyvehicle
son dam bi is really good too!!! her best songs are in english are called crazy and saturday night. ^___^
otaku!
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omg and sg wanna be, they are the best guy group i like their song called saldaga. its so good.