Comments | koganbot: Problematic Korean Video Friday over at Poptimists: Co-Ed School's BBIRIBBOM BBAERIBOM

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Problematic Korean Video Friday over at Poptimists: Co-Ed School's BBIRIBBOM BBAERIBOM

Mar 04, 2011 01:44

At Maddie's suggestion, I posted Co-Ed School's "삐리뽐 빼리뽐 (Bbiribbom Bbaeribom)" over on poptimists as this week's problematic Korean video:

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This presents the mentally ill as goofy and silly in kiddie-candy colors, so as potential objects of ridicule, I guess, though also as fun. The positive side would be that, in playing crazy, the Co-Ed Schoolers get to ( Read more... )

snsd, iu, t-ara, brown eyed girls

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askbask February 4 2011, 18:44:37 UTC

There are a number of things about this group that I find more offensive than the concept of the video. For one, the way they've been managed, the songs they've been given to debut with, the styling on stage. The CEO of their company (Core Contents Media, whose main [only] cash cow is T-ara) is by all acounts the most singularly business-minded, greedy dirtbag among the bigwigs in the Korean music industry ( ... )

koganbot February 4 2011, 23:44:28 UTC

All of this is new to me, of course.

koganbot February 4 2011, 23:45:07 UTC

E.g., what crazy KARA drama?

askbask February 5 2011, 00:22:56 UTC

The Kara drama has been the biggest k-pop story of the year and more or less trumped anything in 2010 and 2009 as well. And it's interesting because it has let us look behind the scenes at contract negotiations (as the players have been oddly open about their demands and complaints and the progress of the bargaining, to a point ( ... )

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