New Zealand version of 20/20 does a thing about kpop

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

source: me @ youtube & 20/20 New Zealand (video is IP locked to NZ)

alternate title: 'western journalist who doesn't know shit about kpop does a story on it, edition 548'
not really anything new here, it has an interview with a girl that debuted in 'mascot' (nugu^1000, couldn't find ANYTHING about them) then had to quit because of puking all the time and is now producing some other girl group that looks like it uses traditional instruments called supersound or supersonic or something (even more nugu) that's kind of interesting though. And lol @ her calling 'wonder boyz' "justin bieber and one direction at the same time"

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[deaaan.livejournal.com]

embarrassed to be from this country tbh

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

at least our news presenters made half an effort to pronounce gangnam properly most of the time though, instead of 'gengnim style'

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

YIKES! Horrible research here.

[achan123.livejournal.com]

lol, those instruments seemed interesting though...

[eternityras.livejournal.com]

takes talent to find so many nugus >_>;;

[jeit91.livejournal.com]

who are all these people?

[9thday.livejournal.com]

lmao

[torontok.livejournal.com]

Has a Western journalist ever done a feature on kpop that wasnt condescending "lol look at the funny asians singing witht heir funny haircuts, super kawaii~" shit? I liekd Psy's interview with Alina Cho but she's Korean so obviously she'd treat him with mroe respect

[achan123.livejournal.com]

this was really interesting... thanks :D

[kukamine.livejournal.com]

mte

[noodroid.livejournal.com]

okay so like, she thinks they're two artists that do the same exact style of music? er... all right.

also why the hell don't these people get anyone relevant, or like, talk about interesting things? i know the article was linked here, but why can't they be like the guy that did the interview with GLAM where Miso admitted to a nose job? that was a good one... these are all just boring and they suck.

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

because major companies/acts gain pretty much nothing from doing this and risk damaging their image

[noodroid.livejournal.com]

lmao SM took a risk with the hottest of hot mess songs The Boys (in english, of course) but they can't offer up like f(x) or something like that... ah, well. ty for answering the question!

[kukamine.livejournal.com]

mte

[hushpuppet.livejournal.com]

lol nz media

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

oh ok thanks

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

It wasn't too bad, really. If you didn't know anything about Kpop it'd be a nice introduction (minus all that stuff about Wonderboyz being a top group, Supersonic being a big thing, etc). I mean, when the program says there's intense competition between groups, trainees go through hell, groups practice constantly, tons of people get plastic surgery, all for the goal of being perfect, etc, it's not wrong. And they got MIB and Jay Park, who're at least somewhat successful, to come on and talk for a bit.