4Minute recently came to the attention of gawker.com- a popular American media site that jumped on board the news between relations between the North and South Korea. It was reported that South Korea has been blasting 4Minute’s latest single “Huh” along the 38th Parallel in retaliation against the North for allegedly sinking the Cheonan warship. Well, Gawker picked up on the story and put in their 2 cents…
The North Korean military has threatened to annihilate the South Korean capital Seoul if they don’t turn the damn music down. The South has been blaring music along the border in response to the North’s alleged sinking of a warship.
The General Staff of the Korean People’s Army said that if the South Koreans don’t cut the shit, “The revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK (North Korea) will launch an all-out military strike to blow up the group’s means for the psychological warfare.” The South has long had loudspeakers placed at 11 locations along the militarized 38th Parallel, but suspended the psyops campaign in 2004 as part of a warming of relations between the two countries. The North Koreans said it would not only target the sound system, but that the South “should bear in mind that the military retaliation of the DPRK is a merciless strike foreseeing even the turn of Seoul, the stronghold of the group of traitors, into a sea of flame.”
Gawker wasn’t too impressed with 4Minute and wrote:
The recent sound assault is a retaliation for the North allegedly sinking the South Korean warship Cheonan in disputed waters in March. The North routinely threatens to totally destroy the South over just about anything. Here is one of the songs the South reportedly plays along the border, HuH (Hit Your Heart), by the K-Pop group 4minute. No wonder they’re so pissed off.
More Kpop negativity continues in the comments: “I thought they were blasting Barney music across the DMZ, but now I see it’s even worse.”
“4MINUTE? Pffft. That’s 3 1/2 minutes more than I need.”
“The mixture of English and Korean lyrics is making my brain incredibly uncomfortable. It keeps thinking, “Hey! I recognize those words!” Then I lose track of the word meanings and it feels like I’ve forgotten how to understand English.”
What do you think? Even though this article portrayed Kpop in a negative light, there is that saying – “Bad press is better than no press.”
