Good Current Korean Pop music? Haha, I know, I know..

[djrajio]

So, growing up in middle school/highschool, almost all my friends were Korean. (weird huh?) And I'd listen to H.O.T., GOD, Shinwha, Wheesung, etc., til my ears bled. Now, I'm all grown up, working in Japan, my music tastes are a bit more diversified but I wanna know what good in Korean pop music nowadays (perhaps an oxymoron I suppose)...does Wheesung still sing? Do school girls still wear those fuzzy mittins that H.O.T. used to rock back in middle school? Whats good superfuture?!

P.S. Is CB Mass still around?

[DJ2xTech]

CB Mass? I don't think so.

HOT broke up, GOD broke up, Baby Vox, SES, Shinhwa...a ton of groups broke up.

BoA, Fly to the Sky, Jinusean, Hyori, Taebin, Dong Bang Shin Ki, YG Family, Bi (Rain), Se7en, 1Tym, Chae Yeon...off the top of my head that are popular from another forum I go to (soompi).

as for me im into ballads ( yea mad pussy i know ) kim bum so, jo sung mo, lee soo young.

[zehero]

lol. sometimes asian pop is a welcome change. guilty pleasures. .

boa's pretty hot and pretty good. seven's not bad. I don't think i've heard anything from wheesung in a while.

yea, i hang out with alot of korean girls. whatever

[mono14]

Haha. Things haven't changed all too much. Shinhwa and Wheesung are still around, but Superjunior and other new groups are more popular with the younger generation now. K-pop groups are now sort of emulating the Japanese ones with 10+ members... like Morning Musume. But as far as music is concerned, K-pop still isn't very good.

Now, the Korean hip-hop scene regularly comes up with some quality music. CB Mass is long gone, but two of the three members formed another group called Dynamic Duo a couple of years back. I recommend, if you can get access to it somehow, that you listen to music by Dynamic Duo, Def Conn, TBNY, and MC Meta.

Where did you go for high school?

[mono14]

^ I agree.

Shes supposedly got something going with her boss though.... nasty.

[DJ2xTech]

My years of living in Asia taught me something: It's very nice to oogle at BoA

Werd.

I think BoA is better looking than Hyori. haha

Then again they're plastic...but who cares!

[djrajio]

Where did you go for high school?

West High, Torrance, CA...

[nimo112]

although pretty old already, i always liked these songs.

brown eyes - already one year

1 tym - one love

kiss - because im a girl (when i was in college all these girls cried after watching the music video. the girl in it was so damn hot it made me cry.)

yuki hsu & yoo seung jun - can't wait

as one - someday

5tion - (i forget the name of the song)

and some good ol' drunken tiger

heres that music video just in case you havent seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc11JCub3EM

haha lame i know...

[ddong88]

I recommend Dynamic Duo and Drunken Tiger.

i donno about pop but "SG wannabe" is a good ballad group.

Epik High is like a weird mix between hiphop and pop, they are worth checking out.

[djrajio]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc11JCub3EM

AAH. This video is so classic. This video single handedly set the stage for hundreds of copy cat melo-drama videos around Asia by various pop groups.

[YoungPunch]

Drunken Tiger 4 LIFE!!! Hip hop legendary.

LIQOUR SHOTZZZZZ!!!!

Ahhh, don't know about the pop music though, S.E.S. girls were kinda cute, and park ji yoon was a hottie.

[drapygo]

I like "Fly to the Sky." and Yiruma and Lee Soo Young. and thats about it.

[dizzhizz]

Asides from the mainstream stuff, Korea hip hop and b-boys have really developed out here. Stuff like Dynamic Duo, Epic High, Baechigi, Sniper, Defcom, Buggaz Kingz and a whole mess of stuff is out along with the old school DJ DOC, Drunken Tiger, etc.

I'm not a fan of K-pop but since living here you do hear it a lot. As a side note, Jay-Z will be performing here for the first time in Korea so it should be interesting to see the heads coming out.

And don't forget Bi (Rain).

[masuerte]

I feel so old, I still listen to G.O.D.'s song gil.

[Swych]

i like Roller Coaster= korean deep house

[sushijerk]

Korean music artists strike me as fake as hell. A lot of girls are cute but I've never been into one single male artist. Maybe because so much of it is hip-hop, which asians just cannot pull off.

[dismalfuture]

Korean deep house?!?! Holy shit, I live here and used to club daily, Monday through Sunday, and korean deep house never really registered with me... me and an English friend had gotten to the point where we'd be able to forecast local Seoul club playlists a month in advance....

I was actually sitting in some bar last week here and heard Nude Dimensions 3, took me way back....

This thread was a surprise, never expected djrajio to post a k-pop thread, hahaha. I teach Korean middle school kids who are up on this shit obviously but I know absolutely fuck all. There's actually a book I teach most semesters, with a lesson on the roots of rock and roll starting from Bill Haley and Comets and I use that to go off on a tangent to discount K-pop and try to inspire to kids here to listen to real music, actually. Really gets the local kids scratching their heads and thinking....

[madeinkorea23]

Roller Coaster songs are good especially soom gil so gah upsuh.

im really into just ballad songs these days and Moseh has good songs from his 101st Proposal OST.

another really good song right now is Sunmin and Hyesung's duet for Keep Holding You. this song is a MUST!!!

[djrajio]

Korean music artists strike me as fake as hell. A lot of girls are cute but I've never been into one single male artist. Maybe because so much of it is hip-hop, which asians just cannot pull off.

Uh duh. Thats why I like it. Sometimes you just want some good korean gangsta music to pick u up in the morning, u kno?

[djrajio]

This is a really good article on the Korean Pop scandal done by TIME magazine a while back: http://205.188.238.109/time/asia/covers/1101020729/story.html. I find it amazing how Korea had so much influence on the pop scene just a couple years back...

[DJ2xTech]

^^ There was another scandal by this singer name Baek Ji Young .. i think thats her name.

She has a sex tape out if you wanna download it lol

[mono14]

Korean music artists strike me as fake as hell. A lot of girls are cute but I've never been into one single male artist. Maybe because so much of it is hip-hop, which asians just cannot pull off.

Uh, what the fuck are you talking about? All that Teriyaki Boyz shit must have you thinking like that. Asians can pull of hip-hop- just not that tedious gangsta shit thats going on in the states. I doubt that you've actually listened to some asian hiphop, excluding the superficial layer of worthless BAPExSTAR TRAK trash.

However, if youre talking about hip-hop emulation by boy bands and such, you would be right. Then again- pop is not hip hop, and no one from a boy band can truly do hip-hop.

[Demronick]

- Brown Eyes / Brown eyed soul

- Vibe

- Wheesung

- new Bi isnt that bad actually haha

- tei

- JTL

um thats about it i guess, i havent followed kpop for ages

[Demronick]

^^ There was another scandal by this singer name Baek Ji Young .. i think thats her name.

She has a sex tape out if you wanna download it lol

yeah her sex tape is out there on the net

not much you can see tho, and its kinda boring =/