Current Events > K-pop performance in north korea

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https://imgur.com/MwuKXsj
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i hate kpop. bluemonk taught me that.
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The audience doesn't look interested at all and lol at the one guy trying to not laugh at how dumb kpop is.

This clip is a classic:

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Why arent the women in skimpy outfits? And why is the audience wearing suits?
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There are people in North Korea who enjoy K-pop from South Korea, but they consume it illegally and mostly in secret. They wouldn't generally be the type of people invited to an event like this by Kim Jong Un and the other leadership. Even if they were, they would not allow themselves to show too much excitement and reveal they had been listening to K-pop already.

As for that audience, aside from what I said above about anyone who may already like K-pop not wanting to advertise that, I suspect it's a mix of genuinely not caring for the music and dance style, it being unfamiliar to them, and intentionally putting on a certain demeanor.
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Imagine if there was an area of America that had just stopped changing culturally in the 1950s. The clothes, the music, the movies, and pretty much everything else stayed the same. And the people who live there have been forbidden to consume any TV, movies, or music from the mainstream USA.

Now imagine if you had a bunch of those people sit down and watch a Beyonce performance.

This is essentially what is happening here.
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Like, i understand they can't show emotion or they might die but that's still extremely awkward....
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action52 posted...

Imagine if there was an area of America that had just stopped changing culturally in the 1950s. The clothes, the music, the movies, and pretty much everything else stayed the same. And the people who live there have been forbidden to consume any TV, movies, or music from the mainstream USA.

Now imagine if you had a bunch of those people sit down and watch a Beyonce performance.

This is essentially what is happening here.

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