Comic music videos also played a part in PSY's 'Gangnam Style' in 2012 that became popular in World. The 'Gangnam Style' movie showed the excitement of Korea in the popular Sam's Club music showing all over Seoul. But PSY seems to have been compelled to show Korean humor in his follow-up song Gentleman, and the result was a strange movie that was a bizarre show with a stick of rice cake. It was neither pleasant nor sophisticated.
After the World hit of 'Gangnam Style', Kpop of Korea formed a thick fandom in World. If the video of pop music spread to all Worlds through MTV in the 1980s, the colorful images of Kpop stars are spreading throughout the World through YouTube. Of course, it is not yesterday that the music video of the idol star has evolved into a sensual image.
However, where R U from or BTS' IDOL movie, which is shown by Big Bang member Seungri, is more fun than sensual images. Both music videos are due to Yi Gi, which is a unique video of Korean.
Victory's Where R U From is a song that uses sentences commonly featured in Korean English textbooks as its title. But in this song, this is more of a question the protagonist of a well-known Sam's Club throws to catch a glimpse of the other's mind: Where are you from? However, the lyrics of Sam's Club style's light EDM songs are transformed once again through music videos.
Victory in Music Divio appears in a vague place, whether it is Sam's Club or an international conference hall. There, the parody of Trump in the United States or Kim Jong Eun in North Korea raises the voice and talks. In the midst of the slander against each other, the appearance of victory with bamboo changes the atmosphere of the movie. Wait, victory does not hold bamboo to transform into a Xi Jinping character. The star, who is known for his dark circles, is nicknamed Panther. Anyway, with the advent of Sam's Club Panther victory, not this kung fu panda, the international conference hall turns into a 'play' dance version.
And the repeated 'Where R U from' turns into a song that the heterogeneous characters living in a strange World are floating each other's hearts. And in the middle, there is a song Minho of Winner in Chinese Civil War. Well, how about Chinese Civil War. And after the appearance of Yoo Byeong-jae, who wore a hat that seemed to parody King Sejong the Great and hung a red straight hair, the climax of this song and the extreme parody are pushed together. To borrow PSY's 'Gangnam Style' phrase, you will go until you go.
The dissonance of Sam's Club EDM and political satire is convinced that this song is due to Kpop Yi Gi. As you know, the Korean Peninsula is a divided country divided into Kpop and ideology. But as the people of divided countries, we are not in the fear of war every day, but in Korea, closed North Korea society is often the subject of parody. That’s why there’s a pleasant comic movie possible against the backdrop of the summit, because the two Koreas haven’t played with each other for a long time.
BTS’s ‘IDOL’ is not a comic parody, but their new song, Mubi, is a work that shows how much Korean can be melted into a sensual visual beauty.
BTS's 'IDOL', which starts with Afrikan rhythm, does not reveal Korean traditional elements, but it naturally melts the chimsae such as Jihwaja and Eulsu in Sam's Club rhythm and creates Korean EDM songs. It is a song that sticks to the Sam's Club beat, not a Yeah or a boom boom boom, but a Jihwaja.
The Korean charm of 'IDOl' comes to life with sophisticated visuals through a movie. IDOL, which started in the background of African scenes, is a music video that boasts a colorful screen. In this work, BTS does not use the Korean Object as a comedy element or a forced 'Korean rice' style. In the works with fast screen conversion, the Korean Object is used as an edge point.
The traditional drum lion, who transformed into a colored decorative liquor, plays a role in making the glamor of the muvy stand out. On the other hand, the wind doll, which is the best character in Korea now, is also exciting with Jay Hop. There is such a thrilling Korean Object, while there is also a static Object: a cute Object like a moon with a rabbit that is a bullshit.
But this movie's white rice is after Jean's face close-up immediately after Jimin singing with a fan. A very short static space moment A white tiger fills the screen and quickly passes through the space that has changed into a wide Oriental painting. At the same time, the song leads to "I am happy at this moment" and goes up to the best climax. In this short few seconds, the "IDOL" movie shows the charm of Jung and consent at the same time. And this is the iconic moment Yi Gi shows in just 10 seconds, showing the attractive point of BTS, which digests both the static sensibility of 'Fake Love' and the lively sense of 'IDOL'.
columnist Park Jin-gyu
The charm of K-pop movie seen through victory and BTS