John Oliver talks TVXQ

[kwikimart.livejournal.com]

Can't embed the video but you can see the full short clip at the source: 'John Oliver - Tensions In Korea' via con sumer's youtube channel. What do y'all think?

Gif set sourced from a tumblr called 'Joongis'

Mods, I changed the names on the sources so the credit is clearer, hope this is okay.
This is my first kpop post on Omona!!! Any TVXQ stans in the house? What should I listen to from them? If at all?

TYFYT OMONATHEYDIDN'T!

XOXO

Comments

[hyungmoney.livejournal.com]

he also talked about queen uhm junghwa <3

[senshicalico.livejournal.com]

omg now i have to watch it

[ginaaajae.livejournal.com]

This was hilarious xD

I hope people won't get mad over this...I's all comedy guys. Don't take it to heart.

Jaejoong though <3

[sand-nicky.livejournal.com]

Ikr. It was so random and super funny LOL

[racquelle2005.livejournal.com]

tbh I actually liked tvxq's albums as a whole when it was just changmin and yunho then again that might have something to do with me preferring duos..

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

the kpop part was okay but what was up with the kookamanga joke

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

also just copy-pasting a reddit comment about the purpose of these loudspeakers and why it's not some silly joke sk is using to troll nk
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People usually think all the loudspeakers play are kpop songs and downright propaganda. If you look more into it, the loudspeakers are a carefully crafted psychological warfare.
The initial announcements start with weather reports. Accurate weather reports that the NK neither has the manpower nor the computing power to gather and spread along the DMZ. This naturally convinces the NK soldiers to rely on the loudspeakers, if not for news and entertainment, for the weather. After some time, we can literally announce "DPRK soldiers, heavy rain is expected to fall in the evening, so please gather your laundry from the clotheslines" and they will come out of their little posts and start gathering their laundry. This is good rapport. Then come just vanilla news. Maybe the results of a soccer match or some shit that happened overseas. They might not believe it, but they'll find out in a week or when they read or hear it on some DPRK state media. They then subconsciously establish that the loudspeakers have fast, accurate news. Besides, the general NK population and common soldiers rarely ever get international news, if at all. So any international news is a mindfuck to begin with. Then the loudspeakers broadcast NK news. For example, they'll report that General X, Y, and Z were executed by their glorious leader KJU for whatever petty reason he kills people for. There is good chance many soldiers at this point would write this off as propaganda, but when they eventually hear about it through their own channels, that Gen. X,Y, and Z actually were executed for treason or whatever, you're starting to fuck with their minds. Then we tell them how fucked up and idiotic the Kim family have been and are. Some may argue it's "propaganda", but seriously dudes.... the Kim family is FUCKED UP. They are beyond reason and honestly the absolute cockroaches of this planet.
Another crucial function of these broadcasts is they report news that the DPRK state media censors. And this is absofuckinglutely critical and what bugs NK the most. For example, there was a huge explosion at an NK train station in 2004. Naturally, NK censored the shit out of the event. But the loudspeakers reported on the event, and soldiers at the DMZ wrote home asking if everyone was alright since the explosion was so huge. The loudspeakers nullified NK media censorship just. like. that.
Then they play kpop songs in between the news for entertainment. And this cultural infiltration is so effective, NK soldiers literally sing these kpop songs to congratulate fellow soldiers when they're done with their service. And mind you, singing those kinds of songs in Pyongyang can put you in a concentration camp in a heartbeat.
The loudspeakers reach about 7~8 miles during daytime, which definitely covers the DMZ, and at night can reach up to 15~18 miles, which reaches Kaesong (home to the Kaesong Co-op industrial complex), a pretty large city that has a pretty sizeable civilian population (approx. 200,000).
Hundreds of soldiers and thousands of civilians that have defected have cited the loudspeakers as an crucial role in their decision to come south, and NK absolutely despises the loudspeakers because it is such an effective tool against their soldiers, and naturally disrupts their populace by bypassing their media censorship. It pisses them off so much, they are willing to fire 2 rockets across the DMZ, and are now demanding a complete stop to these loudspeakers in 48 hours or risk total war.

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3hrxg3/kim_jong_un_orders_north_korea_military_to/cuae7ih

[hpn88.livejournal.com]

this was fascinating. thanks

[jrt131n.livejournal.com]

If its any TVXQ first song is Mirotic and then Rising sun. Those two are epic tvxq songs. Thoses were when they still were five members. Afterwards for just the two member group keep ya head down, before u go, spellbound(one of my favorites) and for jyj, I really liked their last song they put out called backseat. For their slow songs bolero, and love in the ice.

[fffireburns.livejournal.com]

I was just typing up a comment, and this was pretty much my exact list as well. (altho I added Viva to the TVXQ list. Justice 4 Viva)

[opd-devil.livejournal.com]

LOL THIS IS AWESOME.

OP, LISTEN TO EVERYTHING. EVERYTHINGGGGGG.

[jrt131n.livejournal.com]

Or do this. Yeah I found giving most of their discololgy a listen really helped me figure out what songs I liked.

[missingmisnomer.livejournal.com]

YES JOHN STAN JAEJOONG LOL HE'S MY FAVE TOO!!!!

And OP great first post! Proud of you! <33

[kwikimart.livejournal.com]

Thank you boo!
I just listened to Mirotic and I'm feeling it, I can tell these vids are all early/mid noughties and I'm dying at the fashion and hair but I love it anyway lol
Rising Sun is EPIC, I'm here for it omg, it's so intense lol and I like the choreo

[rosetta16.livejournal.com]

loling

[lonely-violist.livejournal.com]

LMFAO I A+ agree with john oliver. tvxq isn't the same without all five of them :(

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

that's so random lol
but the last part was actually cute (ahjussi fans can be so cute)
i'm sure tvxq is on their kpop list ... i'm mean they're playing iu 'heart' and bigbang 'bangbangbang'

[errordomain.livejournal.com]

Doushite Kimi Wo Suki Ni Natte Shimattan Darou! That's my ultimate DB5K favorite, I don't know why. Wasurenaide, Bolero, Rising Sun, Mirotic, O-Jung.Ban.Hap. Purple Line, and er... Anything's fine I guess. LOL TwoVXQ aren't that bad as well. I liked Catch Me, but that's like, the only song I've heard after their split. XD

Edit: LISTEN TO EVERYTHAAANG. LOL

[obscureauthor.livejournal.com]

Yup i remember listening to it the first time and i felt so moved. I didnt even know what they were singing about

[yuzuruhanyu.livejournal.com]

listen to the secret code and their japanese singles first op and then mirotic

the amount of tvxq stans in a rage of this and ating john oliver, he probs didn't even write those lines and its just a joke lol calm down

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

I don't like that the loudspeaker thing is supposed to be a joke but okay whatever

I can't tell if he's being serious or mocking DBSK bc honestly their stage names are a self-drag

[beanii.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind listening to John's kpop playlist.

[celyn-jo.livejournal.com]

Fanboy unleashed!

[charlotterhys.livejournal.com]

I am anti-DB5K because Kim Jaejoong literally makes my skin crawl (whoever's responsible for that peace I seriously hope doesn't know about that shit), but 2VXQ is great. Their latest album Rise As God is roughly perfect in all ways and really showcases what they have to offer as musicians.

(Jaejoong apologists, don't even bother.)

[natywentz.livejournal.com]

Mte about jaejoong

Yunho >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Recs for OP

[missingmisnomer.livejournal.com]

OP Listen to Doushite (Why Did I fall in Love With You) because it's beautiful!



Also check out Love In the Ice for the amazing bridge and of course, the best K pop bop of all time, Mirotic but everyone else has mentioned that.

Jaejoong's solo stuff is really good. I like Just Another Girl and Paradise (his live perfs of Paradise are so hot omg)

Also check out Junsu's solo work! Tarantellegra for some awesome dancing in a dark twisted fantasy world! Lol that description also fits Flower mv which is another great video.

[katzsong.livejournal.com]

Since I prefer the vocals of JYJ better, mostly Junsu though, I kinda agree. Again, it's personal preferences. Then again after that whole chaos, I sort of stepped away from Kpop scene almost entirely. Korean cosmetics though, I still dig :P

[kwikimart.livejournal.com]

Omg LOL @ me not seeing my own post had gone through
Anyway, thanks mods! And thank you everyone that posted song recs <3

[mina22.livejournal.com]

I laughed so hard when I saw this, but I am JYJ fan, my friend (Homin fan ) saw this and she was like how dare you, side-eyeing John Oliver, afterward we both just laughed, it was just a joke.

Favorite DBSK(5) songs: just will name a few where you can just hear all the talent : Love in the ice, Proud T___T, One and so many others. Japanese: Sky, Summer Dream, Miss you, Bolero and my favorite Clap (love Jae and Changmin's voices together)

JYJ: In heaven, backseat, get out....
TVXQ: Spellbound
Junsu: Incredible(I am addicted to this song)
Jaejoong: Modern beat, paradise, rotten love, mine ......basically love rocker Jae.

[classicfire.livejournal.com]

Cute first post op! Listen to their Japanese album 9095 if you are into slow jams. I'm usually not but DBSK is one of the few kpop groups with a lot of good ones.

As to the show no lies were said!

lol I kid I kid I think both groups after the split have put out good music, but I am partial to Jaejoong.

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

There is a thread on another site where people are HEATED about this and I"m just like, "Which writer is a kpop fan and what bet did he lose to have to make that joke?"

[pheonixiajj.livejournal.com]

What website is that? Please tell me so I can go lmao about the idiocy of the comments XD (and also the eternal fanwars abt the oldest shit ever). #Excusemylanguage

[natywentz.livejournal.com]

Great first post op.congratulations


Tvxq ot5 was the greatest... But yunho and changmin are flawless Kings of kpop

[obscureauthor.livejournal.com]

This.

[itsjeswee.livejournal.com]

Congratulation for your first post OP!!! And a cute one too!

My all-time favourite is Kiss the Baby Sky. Try listen to it (and all of their other songs. But maybe I'm all too biased)