Music

I know that I should post about my weekend in Seoul with Stephanie (I will, I am just getting the pictures ready), but I must blog about the music here.

Everyone knows that I enjoy music, especially live shows (Shannon and Susie: Do you remember all those awesome shows we saw in Ireland?). My first weekend here in Ulsan was spent trying to get over jetlag so all I did was lay in bed and watch T.V. At one point on Saturday there were no English shows on so I starting flipping and found a concert to watch. It was actually a competition, which group could get the most votes, but it had other groups to keep the audience interested. During that time I was introduced to SHINee and FT Island, popular Korean boyband groups.This video is from the show so you can check out what exactly I was watching. You can even see the voting bar at the bottom of the show. SHINee was the winner.


Sidenote: They love, really love their boybands here.

Here is the low down on these groups (the facts are quite funny). SHINee (pronounced shiny like sparkles): This band can be compared to the Jonas Brothers where they are so young. The oldest is 18 and they are all still students in high school. Another fun fact is that each band has a color and SHINee's color is sky blue.
These are not their real names, they either use their last names or just made new ones: Onew aka The Leader, Jonghyun aka Bling Bling, Key aka The Almighty Key, Minho aka Flaming Charisma, Taemin aka The Youngest. Here is their video for Love Like Oxygen. If you can stick it out until the end you will be introduced to Korean rap.


FT Island is a rock ballad band which is a nice way of saying boy band. Their band color is yellow. They don't have nicknames, but one of them is still in middle school. The others have all graduated high school. They also rap, haha. This video is called After Love and has English subtitles.


While I was watching this show another band came on and sang what I call Under My Skin since I don't know the Korean name. I thought they were FT Island (all these boy bands have the same number of people and wear similar clothes), but they are really called DBSK (the students told me today after I sang along to the music video they were watching during breaktime). Their band name means Rising Gods from the East. I think their band color is red and they are all in their early 20s. DBSK are extremely popular, even in Taiwan. I have never heard of them since I was already focused on Jay Chou, Wang Lee hom, and Speshow and didn't have room for others, haha (Steph knows what I am talking about). These guys do have nicknames although they aren't as funny as SHINee's.
Xiah Junsu aka Xiah
Park Yoochun aka Micky (he lived in Fairfax, Virginia for four years, he chose Micky as his English name)
Youngwoog Jaejoong aka Hero
Shim Changmin aka Choikang Changmin aka Max
Jung Yunho aka U-know

This is their video for Under My Skin, my new favorite song.

This is the English translation for the song. I found it randomly in a youtube information bullet. I so thought it was about something else, haha.
At the start, you were sweetly, naturally attracted to me
You stepped up to me and told me it would forever be like that
All the possibilities, opened up Oh~

What is love? What! It's now meant by the Red Ocean
I'm breakin' my rules again, you know it's getting boring
Even if you're hurt a bit, it's okay Oh~

You want me, You've fallen for me, You're crazy over me
You can't escape I got you- Under my skin
You want me, You've fallen for me, You're crazy over me
You're my slave, I got you under my skin

The piercing stare that burrows into your head
It's not me, my still chrome heart
It's the road you chose Oh~

Running through your veins, flowing through you are millions of my crystal
Finally it has started, the end of my metamorphosis
Isn't this also love? Oh~

You want me, You've fallen for me, You're crazy over me
You can't escape I got you- Under my skin
You want me, You've fallen for me, You're crazy over me
You're my slave, I got you under my skin

Together with one time's kiss~ The day is fresh- a strong pull
The second kiss, your heart felt hot and about to explode
Yeah~ I got you! You know you got it!
Yeah~ Come on! Come on! I got you- Under my skin

In your dreams I control you with my magic spells
You're once again yearning .. I got you- Under my skin
My devils ride, there's no more room for breathing, if that happens
How will it be to enjoy it now I got you- Under my skin
You want me, You've fallen for me, You're crazy over me
You can't escape I got you- Under my skin


You want me, You've fallen for me, You're crazy over me
You're my slave, I got you under my skin

So this is what I am listening to and watching right now. When I was in Seoul with Stephanie we went on Youtube to look at something (I don't remember what) and found my favorite Taiwanese song, Julia. We clicked on the live version and Wang Lee hom was fiddling. As Steph put it "He countrified it for you, haha."