Two of the dancers discovered by SM Scouts were 구준엽 Koo Jun-yup and 강원래 Kang Won Rae, who would later create the legendary duo 클론 CLON. Considering Korea has about 50 million people (versus Japan's 126 million and America's 328 million), selling a million of anything domestically is a big deal.
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Each of 서태지와 아이들 Seo Taiji and Kids' first three albums sold over 1.6 million copies, while DJ DOC would sell 3 million records before the end of the decade. Within three years of 서태지와 아이들 Seo Taiji and Kids' debut, the K-pop industry was flush with investor money from the booming economy and its exponentially growing fan base. Kpop Starts Selling Millions of Records by the Mid-1990s But for the youth of 1990s Korea, who had been forced since elementary school to go to after-school prep academies called 학원 hagwons and do homework until the witching hour, K-pop heralded a dizzying change in South Korean society. When you don't like your hair done in the salon To the conservative older generation, K-pop must have seemed monstrous.
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That would be too.Western.įormer (and recently rediscovered in 2019 when he was 50-years-old) K-pop star 양준일 Yang Joon Il, AKA the ' 90s G-Dragon, recently talked about how MBC, one of the biggest TV stations, made him come for an image "evaluation" and told him to cut his shoulder-length hair. Sure, the military dictatorship was over, and so were Draconian censorship laws, but South Korea wasn't ready for boys with pierced ears. To be banned from the TV music shows was career suicide, so bands had to follow strict rules: no visible tattoos, no dyeing the hair crazy colors, no slang-filled lyrics, nothing that would be a "bad influence" to the Korean youth. Ostensibly, the title was based on record sales, but different shows would sometimes crown different winners during the same week - so who knew what would happen? The point is: Half-assing a performance was not an option. By the way, many of these ' 90s mixed-gender groups had amazing girl members, who were chosen more for dancing ability rather than feminine standards at the time.ġ993년 가요톱10 1위곡 모음Zip (90's K-pop Classic) | KBS 방송 Every week, artists hoped to be invited on a variety of music TV shows, where they vied for the title of "#1 Act" for that week. In the following 50-min compilation of Korean hits from 1993 (a year after Seo Taiji debuted), I'm partial to a mixed-gender duo at 9:57, 철이와 미애 Charlie and Mia. They promoted solo artists, dance groups, Hip-Hop groups, mixed-gender groups, you name it. With the explosion of "Seo Taiji Syndrome," scrappy young record labels (often led by young Korean dudes who loved American music) did the equivalent of throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what would stick.
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You Wanna Be a K-pop Star? Get on TV and Perform Like It's Your Last Night on Earth So many of the early 1990s boy bands I mentioned in Part 1 came from Moon Nightclub and the Hip-Hop scene in 이태원 Itaewon. But 서태지 Seo Taiji was unlike any Korean group before because they were so deep into the club scene in 이태원 Itaewon. Previous Korean acts had imitated Hip-Hop before, often looking like high school talent show rejects.
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Oftentimes, the songs on this char… - bora ? ?) There was something called the “DJ Club Chart” and it was categorized by region. It's considered a "cool" alternative to clubbing in Gangnam or Hongdae, as JYP (founder of the record label of super-girl-group TWICE) and friends cheekily sing about in "Itaewon Freedom." Today, 이태원 Itaewon has hip cafes, stores, and a variety of nightclubs for young Koreans to party all night. Here is a great mix of '90s Korean New Jack Swing songs:ĩ0년대 한국 뉴잭스윙 (90s Korean New Jack Swing)) So let's not get it twisted: Even though K-pop is a melange of sounds and cultures, it is undoubtedly based in American Hip-Hop culture, brought to South Korea by Black and Hispanic American soldiers stationed in the Seoul district of 이태원 Itaewon. 이은하 - 미소를 띄우며 나를 보낸 그 모습처럼 And of course New Jack Swing was very much the flavor of so much this era's K-pop. LL Cool J - I Need Love We can't forget how Seotaiji also pulls in distinct 트로트 trot melodic chord and emotiveness, like those exemplified in this 1987 pop-트로트 trot song by legendary diva 이은하 Lee Eun Ha: