K-Pop Dreaming - Moon Night
California Love
LAist Studios
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we head to an American military neighborhood in Seoul in the late 1980s. Tucked in an alleyway was a little grimy club that blasted American hip-hop, the place was for African American GIs to cut loose, but it pulled in an unexpected crowd – young Koreans who would become the pioneers of modern K-pop. Itaewon was also the setting for the beginning of another story – it was the place where Vivian’s parents met and fell in love. Features Kang Won Rae, one of K-pop's legends that came out of the Moon Night scene.
(Originally published March 9, 2023)
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| 0:46.3 | they often start with someone named So Teji. |
| 0:49.3 | The American people's icon |
| 0:52.3 | Soteji is a great name of Zhenghechal, |
| 0:59.6 | the lead singer, rapper, and overall mastermind of a group called So Tejee and Boys. |
| 1:05.4 | And it's hard to overstate the impact this group had on Korean music and culture. |
| 1:10.1 | Before Saetaji and Boys, popular Korean music mostly consisted of trot songs or ballads, |
| 1:16.2 | like this song called Like the Love Spread Around the World by Ysenghuan. |
| 1:30.3 | Then in 1992, Sotagin boys exploded onto the scene with this song. |
| 1:34.3 | The song is called,AN Arayao, or I Know, |
| 1:49.0 | and it was completely different from anything in South Korea at the time. |
| 1:53.0 | It combined hip-hop, rock, and pop |
| 1:56.0 | with elements of Korean music in this way that was so unfamiliar and new. |
| 2:00.0 | And this song debuted on national TV as part of a competition show called |
| 2:04.6 | Tukjong TV Yonet, which is roughly translated to Scoop TV Entertainment. |
| 2:15.6 | There are actually clips of this performance online, and you can see Sotajji with the two other members of the group, |
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