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Wanted to relax a little, so I went onto youtube, and found a link to one of the latest concerts held by Super Junior (just last month I think) in Brazil (or somewhere, in the America continent).
I have grown to like their songs (long story), so I didn't mind watching their concert clip.
But less than 10 mins later, I switched it off.
I don't dislike the group. I don't.
But I really dislike the hard-sell tactic used by the K tourism board and the K entertainment industry.
I had heard less than half of their song "Mr Simple" on the clip, and found myself wondering what I was watching. The fan's screams were overwhelming, and every 5 seconds of closeups of the guys will be interrupted with either a) a closeup of some fans singing and screaming along, or b) a long shot showing the entire venue. I had noticed this a while back. K media LOVES to show everyone how popular a particular group is, by showing tons and tons of sequences involving venue size or crazy fans (especially fans who are visually different from Korean/Korean-looking ethnics). All this at the expense of a good performance caught on tape.
I'm not comparing such for-broadcast material with say, concert DVDs. I'm comparing concert footages broadcasted on Japanese widescreen news programs against such K media footages.
Plus, the fact that my mom's new Samsung phone came preinstalled with Bigbang apps, Korean tourism apps and whatnot has made me quite annoyed. Maybe that's why I felt a need to post this up.
Annoyed!
I have grown to like their songs (long story), so I didn't mind watching their concert clip.
But less than 10 mins later, I switched it off.
I don't dislike the group. I don't.
But I really dislike the hard-sell tactic used by the K tourism board and the K entertainment industry.
I had heard less than half of their song "Mr Simple" on the clip, and found myself wondering what I was watching. The fan's screams were overwhelming, and every 5 seconds of closeups of the guys will be interrupted with either a) a closeup of some fans singing and screaming along, or b) a long shot showing the entire venue. I had noticed this a while back. K media LOVES to show everyone how popular a particular group is, by showing tons and tons of sequences involving venue size or crazy fans (especially fans who are visually different from Korean/Korean-looking ethnics). All this at the expense of a good performance caught on tape.
I'm not comparing such for-broadcast material with say, concert DVDs. I'm comparing concert footages broadcasted on Japanese widescreen news programs against such K media footages.
Plus, the fact that my mom's new Samsung phone came preinstalled with Bigbang apps, Korean tourism apps and whatnot has made me quite annoyed. Maybe that's why I felt a need to post this up.
Annoyed!
