Wonder Girls featured on Mexican TV show report about the KPOP phenomenon

Apr 29, 2011 by angelkamille    1 Comment     Posted under: Wonder Girls  ■  465 views

On April 28th, Wonder Girls were featured as one of the few selected groups in a report about KPOP by a Mexican morning TV show “Venga la Alegria”.

More or less like the report by Brazilian news program “Leitura Dinâmica” back in February, the small segment served as an introduction to the KPOP phenomenon that has been spreading through the world thanks to the Internet. Even though there were some mistakes on the report, like including JPOP group KAT-TUN in the small list of the most popular KPOP acts, this is a big step for Mexican fans who have tried to spread the word about KPOP and be noticed.

Throughout the video a lot of footage from Wonder Girls’ music videos is featured and even “So Hot” and “Tell Me” are used as background music.

Check out the clip below followed by a raw translation:

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Since its creation, POP is one of the musical genres with the most number of fans around the planet. Its success is due to a brilliant and contagious formula: popular, marketable and simple. Simple to captivate millions of listeners.

POP doesn’t know boundaries of any kind and is able to create a true phenomenon; phenomenon like KPOP, short form of Korean pop. A musical movement that started in the 90s and has currently become a monster of entertainment known as “Hallyu” or the Korean Wave.

Its popularity grows at great speed and experts of the industry attribute it to its strong similarities to American POP, only with singers more talented that carry in their singing and dancing a rhythm catchier than what we usually listen to.

A fundamental factor for the internationalization of KPOP has been the Internet. Music and videos of the Korean bands have reached places they never imagined with media tools like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

To have an idea of the general impact of the artists from this asian country, some months ago a Korean newspaper took all the visits to POP videos made on YouTube and results were surprising. Take a listen, 923 different videos and around 793 million visits. The countries that generate a larger number of visits are Japan, Thailand and the U.S., but we have to say that the Korean Wave has already reached Mexico and it seems it’s here to stay. There are more than 20 fan clubs and thousands of followers in all the republic.

Like we said already, the diversity of KPOP groups is quite wide, this is just a taste of the most known and supported on the net: 2NE1, Wonder Girls, Drunken Tiger, Big Bang, and we are left short… (short as in, he knows he left out a lot of groups/artists)

No one imagined that KPOP would reach such an explosive musical growth. Musical growth and phenomenon that has also taken millions of eyes to the Korean culture as a whole.

Video: BIGBANGinMEXICO@youtube.com
Written and Translated by: NESSA@wonderfulsworld.com