Wednesday, March 18, 2009
HIPHOP in Korea
In the early 1990s, a number of Korean hiphop groups and rappers debuted in South Korea, and hiphop music and its culture quickly gained popularity amongst the young generations in Korea. Deux and Seo Taiji and Boys were the two groups known to have initiated this hiphop movement in Korean contemporary popular music. The picture on the left is the hiphop duo Deux (pronounced 'Deuce') in the early 90s. Here is one of the music videos of them from 1995 (I apologize for the bad quality of the video):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUfJyX1ejpI
Soon, not only hiphop music but also its fashion as well as that of "Ghetto Culture" became extremely popular in Korea.
Here are some other classic examples that represent the hiphop music of Korea in the 1990s.
*hiphop duo Jinusean's music video (late 1990s):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPChIFTopRY
*hiphop duo Drunken Tiger's song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPMD79xu-CA&feature=PlayList&p=E91964BBC2348B7F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=6
*Group Roo'Ra's Album cover in 1996:
# posted by Hyun-Joo Choi @ 12:02 AM 
