#southkoreanculture — Public Fediverse posts
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Evading the socialist lifestyle crackdown
Kim Jong Un addresses delegates at the Ninth Workers’ Party of Korea Congress on Feb. 19, 2026. The…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #clothing #crackdowns #foreigncontent #humanrights #ideology #Korean #Mobilephones #northpyonganprovince #punishment #southkoreanculture #southpyonganprovince #surveillance #youth
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/58160/ Evading the socialist lifestyle crackdown #AsiaPacific #clothing #crackdowns #ForeignContent #HumanRights #Ideology #MobilePhones #NorthPyonganProvince #punishment #SouthKoreanCulture #SouthPyonganProvince #surveillance #youth
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South Korean makeup trend hits youth
FILE PHOTO: South Korean cosmetics being sold in secret in North Korea. (Daily NK) Young North Koreans in…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #China #chongjin #crackdowns #Culture #foreigncontent #hyesan #northhamgyongprovince #Ryanggangprovince #southkoreanculture #students #women #youth
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/19701/ South Korean makeup trend hits youth #AsiaPacific #China #chongjin #crackdowns #culture #ForeignContent #hyesan #NorthHamgyongProvince #RyanggangProvince #SouthKoreanCulture #Students #women #youth
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https://www.europesays.com/3294147/ South Korean makeup trend hits youth #China #chongjin #crackdowns #Culture #ForeignContent #hyesan #NorthHamgyongProvince #RyanggangProvince #SouthKorea #SouthKoreanCulture #Students #women #youth
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South Korean makeup trend hits youth https://www.byteseu.com/2429192/ #China #Chongjin #crackdowns #culture #ForeignContent #Hyesan #NorthHamgyongProvince #RyanggangProvince #SouthKorea #SouthKoreanCulture #students #women #youth
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Pyongyang youth league officials arrested
Delegates applaud as Kim Jong Un is re-elected general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea at the…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Pyongyang #centralcommittee #crackdowns #foreigncontent #ideology #investigation #punishment #southkoreanculture #surveillance #workers'partyofkorea #youth
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https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/9636/ Pyongyang youth league officials arrested #AsiaPacific #CentralCommittee #crackdowns #ForeignContent #Ideology #investigation #punishment #pyongyang #SouthKoreanCulture #surveillance #Workers'PartyOfKorea #youth
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Pyongyang youth league officials arrested https://www.byteseu.com/2418039/ #CentralCommittee #Conflicts #crackdowns #ForeignContent #ideology #investigation #NorthKorea #Punishment #Pyongyang #SouthKoreanCulture #surveillance #Workers'PartyOfKorea #youth
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Nine youths criticized for foreign videos https://www.byteseu.com/2354548/ #Chongjin #Conflicts #crackdowns #ForeignContent #MinistryOfSocialSecurity #NorthHamgyongProvince #NorthKorea #Punishment #SouthKoreanCulture #surveillance #youth
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Nine youths criticized for foreign videos
FILE PHOTO: A scene from Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province. (Daily NK) North Korean authorities in Chongjin, North Hamgyong…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #chongjin #crackdowns #foreigncontent #ministryofsocialsecurity #northhamgyongprovince #punishment #southkoreanculture #surveillance #youth
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N. Korea targets teens’ finger hearts
Image: ChatGPT North Korean authorities have spent 2026 tightening control over how people speak and behave, part of…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #crackdowns #Culture #ideology #propaganda #southkoreanculture #students #youth
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N. Korea targets teens’ finger hearts
Image: ChatGPT North Korean authorities have spent 2026 tightening control over how people speak and behave, part of…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #crackdowns #Culture #Ideology #northkorea #propaganda #southkoreanculture #Students #youth
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https://www.europesays.com/3232667/ N. Korea targets teens’ finger hearts #Conflicts #crackdowns #Culture #Ideology #NorthKorea #propaganda #SouthKoreanCulture #Students #youth
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North Korean teens embrace ‘dance tutoring’ craze
Rodong Sinmun, the newspaper of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, reported that the 2026 New Year Celebratory Performance…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #Culture #education #Entertainment #northpyonganprovince #sinuiju #southkoreanculture #youth
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North Korean teens embrace ‘dance tutoring’ craze https://www.byteseu.com/2313267/ #Conflicts #culture #EDUCATION #Entertainment #NorthKorea #NorthPyonganProvince #Sinuiju #SouthKoreanCulture #youth
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North Korea cracks down on universities over K-drama arrests
A computer center at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang. Photo: Uri Tours (CC BY 2.0) North Korean…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Pyongyang #crackdowns #ministryofstatesecurity #southkoreanculture #students #surveillance #universities #youth
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North Korea cracks down on saying ‘appa’
Image: ChatGPT (AI-generated) Authorities in Chongjin, North Hamgyong province, summoned three young people to a provincial youth league…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #chongjin #crackdowns #ideology #Mobilephones #northhamgyongprovince #propaganda #southkoreanculture #youth
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North Koreans use old gear to hide dramas
FILE PHOTO: Popular devices for consuming media in North Korea (portable media player, radio, and mp4 player.) (©Daily…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #Chineseyuan #crackdowns #Entertainment #foreigncontent #Mobilephones #northhamgyongprovince #northkorea #southkoreanculture #youth
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https://www.europesays.com/3145047/ North Koreans use old gear to hide dramas #ChineseYuan #Conflicts #crackdowns #Entertainment #ForeignContent #MobilePhones #NorthHamgyongProvince #NorthKorea #SouthKoreanCulture #youth
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N. Koreans arrested for watching K-drama https://www.byteseu.com/2204570/ #Conflicts #crackdowns #NorthKorea #Propaganda #pyongsong #SouthKoreanCulture #SouthPyonganProvince #surveillance #Television #youth
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N. Koreans arrested for watching K-drama
Pyongsong’s city center. (Bjørn Christian Tørrissen) North Korean authorities arrested two young men in Pyongsong, South Pyongan province,…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #crackdowns #northkorea #propaganda #pyongsong #southkoreanculture #southpyonganprovince #surveillance #television #youth
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https://www.europesays.com/3136673/ N. Koreans arrested for watching K-drama #Conflicts #crackdowns #NorthKorea #propaganda #pyongsong #SouthKoreanCulture #SouthPyonganProvince #surveillance #television #youth
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N. Koreans arrested for watching K-drama
Pyongsong’s city center. (Bjørn Christian Tørrissen) North Korean authorities arrested two young men in Pyongsong, South Pyongan province,…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #crackdowns #propaganda #pyongsong #southkoreanculture #southpyonganprovince #surveillance #Television #youth
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North Korea arrests youths over K-drama
FILE PHOTO: Popular media players for watching foreign content in North Korea (left, notel; right, mp4 player). (Daily…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #NorthKorea #crackdowns #foreigncontent #ministryofsocialsecurity #southkoreanculture #Television #youth
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North Korea arrests youths over K-drama https://www.byteseu.com/2201382/ #Conflicts #crackdowns #ForeignContent #MinistryOfSocialSecurity #NorthKorea #SouthKoreanCulture #Television #youth
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Pyongyang teens caught with banned books
A ministry building on Kim Il Sun Square as seen from the Grand People’s Study House in Pyongyang,…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #crackdowns #foreigncontent #Ideology #northkorea #police #propaganda #Pyongyang #southkoreanculture #Students #surveillance #youth
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Pyongyang teens caught with banned books https://www.byteseu.com/2156703/ #Conflicts #crackdowns #ForeignContent #ideology #NorthKorea #police #Propaganda #Pyongyang #SouthKoreanCulture #students #surveillance #youth
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Pyongyang teens caught with banned books
A ministry building on Kim Il Sun Square as seen from the Grand People’s Study House in Pyongyang,…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Pyongyang #crackdowns #foreigncontent #ideology #police #propaganda #southkoreanculture #students #surveillance #youth
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North Korea public execution over banned videos
A statue of Kim Il Sung in North Korea. (Roman Harak, Creative Commons, Flickr) North Korea publicly executed…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #crackdowns #foreigncontent #haeju #northkorea #Punishment #southhwanghaeprovince #southkoreanculture #Students
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North Korea public execution over banned videos https://www.byteseu.com/2098632/ #Conflicts #crackdowns #ForeignContent #haeju #NorthKorea #Punishment #SouthHwanghaeProvince #SouthKoreanCulture #students
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/339351/ ‘Hallyu’ from Seoul: How South Korea’s K-wave swept India – and its darker side #bts #Éire #Entertainment #GhaziabadSisters #hallyu #IE #Ireland #kdrama #KoreanWave #KPOP #Music #SouthKorea #SouthKoreaIndia #SouthKoreanCulture
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...Chris Brown -- Back to Sleep
https://youtu.be/OQLuhelCaDQ?si=xdbJNEJ2rT_Aqbx7The songs do differ, so it's not a case of plagiarism, but it's quite clear that "Crash" draws on the older song.
Three lines of thought came to mind.
In the first place, I wondered - not for the first time - how my feelings about Kpop would change if I listened to more western popular music.
A quick look at the Wikipedia entry on "Back to Sleep" made it clear to me how well known the song had been on its release in 2015. I felt taken aback; am I the only "Crash" listener not to have been aware of the songs' similarities? What would have been my initial reaction to "Crash" had I heard the Chris Brown song first?
Of course Kpop recycles western popular music, just as western popular music in the past (certainly) and in the present (probably) recycles both its own products and music from other sources. Consequently, my feelings are not those of the viewer abashed when the painting one has admired turns out to be a forgery, but rather those of a reader who, on turning from a mass market paperback version of a beloved text to the annotated scholarly edition, discovers all the sources and allusions previously unnoticed.
These thoughts on background knowledge reminded me of a consideration about our responses to music and art in general: just as perception is never simply an impression via the senses on a tabula rasa, so we never look at the visual arts with an "innocent eye" or listen to music without pre-existing concepts, sensibilities, and memories. That tabula full of ideas, far from being an obstacle to our disinterested appreciation, is what what makes our aesthetic experience possible. Without the tabula plena, we would be hard put to recognize the art and the music within our visual and aural experience.
My final thought concerned the lyrics and visuals of the Chris Brown MV. "Crash" was a B side for which no MV was made, but even so one can see from the stage how it differed in feel from the erotically charged American video. In addition, the Korean lyrics have nothing like the explicit sexual language of "Back to Sleep". As such, a comparison reveals a striking difference between South Korea and the USA with regard to the representation of sex in popular culture. Whether one is "better" than the other is a question that interests me less than why these two cultures differ so much in this respect.
#Kpop #RandB #RnB #ChrisBrown #BackToSleep #Crash #Aesthetics #PopularCulture #AmericanCulture #USCulture #SouthKoreanCulture #Korea #Sex
