After big hit of his previous sensational music video Gangnam Style, the Korean musician Psy released his new music video "Gentlemen" on Youtube yesterday. The music video is still fun and ridiculous as the last one. The music sounds a bit darker and has not much melody, like many musics for club. In the m/v he does many pranks to everyone, and for me, it reminds Nolbu in Korean traditional fable, Heungbu and Nolbu.
The new heroine of the M/V, Ga-In, is well-known singer in South Korea as a member of the k-pop girl group Brown Eyed Girls. She first became famous after the group's album [With L.O.V.E] made a success. At that time the title song L.O.V.E ranked No.1 on the most of the tv and online charts, and Ga-In's became famous for her stocking fashion and the smoky eye-line make-up style, which now widely shared among the Korean girl groups' styling. At that time she changed the color of her stocking every performances, and it gave her a weird nickname: Son-tocking - which is named after her last name Son and stocking. Check here to see it: http://goo.gl/ifcce
Also check the music as well!
As expected from many entertainment magazines(in South Korea), his new m/v was already viewed over 40 million times! Could it break the 1.5 billion views record of Gangnam Style? That would never be easy but this song is the one most possible candidate for the new record.
So what? Check it on your eyes!
I like the scenes at 0:07, 2:02. Like it.
Trivial of the Gentlemen:
- The white thing Psy is eating is Ga-rae-tteok[가래떡] which is a type of so called rice cake.
- The pelvic dance is borrowed from the Brown Eyed Girls' Abracadabra performance. Check the link!
- Many actors in the M/V are the members of the most famous Korean TV show "Infinite Challenge". If you see the scene a bit sudden in the M/V, then it would be them.
- At 2:35, you can see some part of his really wet.. It was from the show Infinite Challenge.
- The part he says "wet Psy" again, might be the parody or homage of the song Passion - Steve Yoo(who was really famous but kicked out from South Korea after his military service problem). You can check 1:35 he says "west side".
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Monday, April 15, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Souvenir from Korea
Are you going to buy presents for your family? Want to use less money but more "Korean" things? Here I suggest REAL Korean stuffs, some of which may sound weird but possibly upgrade your friends' quality of life!
1. Green tea
Like Japanese and Chinese, Koreans also make and consume green tea. If you were from western countries, I swear our green tea is much better & fresher than the green tea in your country. Why? Simply, we drinks more green tea so we make more! If you have time and money more than usual, visit Boseong for the best quality green tea!
Where to purchase? Just visit any grocery store or big mart. You can find a 25 tea bag box for $3, which will give 1 month morning calm to your friend!
2. Nail clipper
One South Korea company is making world best quality nail clipper(yes! which you use meet every week). It is funny to think of giving a nail clipper for a souvenir. However, it can be one of the most useful gift which can stay alive in your aunt's closet for a DECADE!!
Where to purchase? You can purchase one nail clipper for about $2~3 at any convenience store! Also cosmetic shops sell nail clippers set for $6~15.
3. Gim
Gim is a kind of sea weed. Koreans and Japaneses enjoy eating gim in various way. Koreans usually toasted dried gim with rice. Fresh gim is really healthy and tasty(depends on your taste). If it is your taste, you can also eat gim as snack with beer. Other countries never produce this food. Isn't it the perfect precondition for the souvenir?
Where to purchase? visit any grocery store or big mart. 16 pack(1 pack is for one meal with rice) is for about $8
4. Socks
Korean socks quality is, just gorgeous. You can never buy that quality socks for that price in any other country. Just buy it. You will never regret this. Also, If you loves k-pop, you can try Psy, Super Junior, SNSD... any k-pop stars on your feet!! You can do this: "Yoona, I choose you today!"
Where to buy? Any big mart(E-mart, Homeplus...) sells nice socks. However if you are looking for cheaper, more(lots of) character designed socks, try visiting big arcade markets. $1~3 is usual for each pair of socks.
1. Green tea
Like Japanese and Chinese, Koreans also make and consume green tea. If you were from western countries, I swear our green tea is much better & fresher than the green tea in your country. Why? Simply, we drinks more green tea so we make more! If you have time and money more than usual, visit Boseong for the best quality green tea!
Where to purchase? Just visit any grocery store or big mart. You can find a 25 tea bag box for $3, which will give 1 month morning calm to your friend!
2. Nail clipper
One South Korea company is making world best quality nail clipper(yes! which you use meet every week). It is funny to think of giving a nail clipper for a souvenir. However, it can be one of the most useful gift which can stay alive in your aunt's closet for a DECADE!!
Where to purchase? You can purchase one nail clipper for about $2~3 at any convenience store! Also cosmetic shops sell nail clippers set for $6~15.
3. Gim
Gim is a kind of sea weed. Koreans and Japaneses enjoy eating gim in various way. Koreans usually toasted dried gim with rice. Fresh gim is really healthy and tasty(depends on your taste). If it is your taste, you can also eat gim as snack with beer. Other countries never produce this food. Isn't it the perfect precondition for the souvenir?
Where to purchase? visit any grocery store or big mart. 16 pack(1 pack is for one meal with rice) is for about $8
4. Socks
Korean socks quality is, just gorgeous. You can never buy that quality socks for that price in any other country. Just buy it. You will never regret this. Also, If you loves k-pop, you can try Psy, Super Junior, SNSD... any k-pop stars on your feet!! You can do this: "Yoona, I choose you today!"
Where to buy? Any big mart(E-mart, Homeplus...) sells nice socks. However if you are looking for cheaper, more(lots of) character designed socks, try visiting big arcade markets. $1~3 is usual for each pair of socks.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Structure of Korean Names
Today I'd like to post about the shapes of Korean names. Very basic things for me and all Koreans but I am sure it will be interesting to you, who visited here!
Do you know any Korean? Probably PSY will be the best known Korean these days. However, that "PSY" word is definitely not a Korean name. So I would give another world-famous example. Rising star, the man of 2012, Pyongyang style Kim Jong Un(김정은)~!!
First let's check which part is the family name and the given name.
Can you guess what Kim Jong Un's family name is? Usually globally, given name first, family name last so Un is his family name right? Definitely not. If you remember his father's name(also world-famous or infamous) Kim Jong Il, then you will notice that "Un" is the only part changed from his father's name.
Then the answer came out! "Kim Jong" has not been changed so its their family name! No, went too far. Almost every(not all but 99%) Korean family name is consist of one Korean character(which usually is one English syllable). So in this case, Kim(김) is their family name.
Also almost every Korean given name(again, 99%) is consist of two Korean characters, 2 syllables. So "Jong Un" is his given name. We use family name first and given name last every time in Korea. Never use given name first.
But outside Korea, we usually follow westerner's rule, first name first. If you ever heard "Yu Na Kim"(figure skater) or Ji Sung Park(football player), or watched any sports game versus Korean team, they are probably using family name + given name style. Kim Jong Un is very rare case. His whole name has already been used as one specific word following his father's name.
There are one more thing happening by the translation from Korean to English. Koreans do not give spacing between characters of names(for example, "Lee Dong Hae" is written as 이동해, no spacing between first and last name). When somebody converting his/her name, for example 이동해 to English, he should choose which spacing type he will use.
At first, many Koreans used their given name without spacing, like "Donghae". However it confused people who do not know Korean naming. Probably he meant it to be read as "Dong Hae" but someone could think it as "Don Ghae". Someone possibly give a call to speak to Mr. Don Ghae.
So recently many Korean uses hyphen(-) between the 2 given name characters like this: Dong-hae. There is another type I used in this article, giving spacing between every single character of given name. However, as you have seen from the case of Kim Jung Un, it could result more confusing. Someone might find Mr. Un on phone.
I prefer and would suggest inserting hyphen between characters of given name. In this way, people can tell each Korean characters and are not confused as middle name.
Do you know any Korean? Probably PSY will be the best known Korean these days. However, that "PSY" word is definitely not a Korean name. So I would give another world-famous example. Rising star, the man of 2012, Pyongyang style Kim Jong Un(김정은)~!!
First let's check which part is the family name and the given name.
Can you guess what Kim Jong Un's family name is? Usually globally, given name first, family name last so Un is his family name right? Definitely not. If you remember his father's name(also world-famous or infamous) Kim Jong Il, then you will notice that "Un" is the only part changed from his father's name.
Then the answer came out! "Kim Jong" has not been changed so its their family name! No, went too far. Almost every(not all but 99%) Korean family name is consist of one Korean character(which usually is one English syllable). So in this case, Kim(김) is their family name.
Also almost every Korean given name(again, 99%) is consist of two Korean characters, 2 syllables. So "Jong Un" is his given name. We use family name first and given name last every time in Korea. Never use given name first.
But outside Korea, we usually follow westerner's rule, first name first. If you ever heard "Yu Na Kim"(figure skater) or Ji Sung Park(football player), or watched any sports game versus Korean team, they are probably using family name + given name style. Kim Jong Un is very rare case. His whole name has already been used as one specific word following his father's name.
There are one more thing happening by the translation from Korean to English. Koreans do not give spacing between characters of names(for example, "Lee Dong Hae" is written as 이동해, no spacing between first and last name). When somebody converting his/her name, for example 이동해 to English, he should choose which spacing type he will use.
At first, many Koreans used their given name without spacing, like "Donghae". However it confused people who do not know Korean naming. Probably he meant it to be read as "Dong Hae" but someone could think it as "Don Ghae". Someone possibly give a call to speak to Mr. Don Ghae.
So recently many Korean uses hyphen(-) between the 2 given name characters like this: Dong-hae. There is another type I used in this article, giving spacing between every single character of given name. However, as you have seen from the case of Kim Jung Un, it could result more confusing. Someone might find Mr. Un on phone.
I prefer and would suggest inserting hyphen between characters of given name. In this way, people can tell each Korean characters and are not confused as middle name.
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