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I Don't Know Korean, But I Know What I Like
This came to me in a bizarre way. Testing lip sync on long videos at work, sometimes I watch Thai TV shows. I speak Thai well enough to tell if the audio is in sync, and it's also a way to practice. This week's favorite show is Thailand Mask Singer, where celebrities are dressed in elaborate costumes and head-covering masks which totally hide who they are. Call it "The Voice" taken to its logical conclusion. Two contestants sing a solo, a panel & viewers vote, the winner continues to the next round, still anonymous, but the loser has to unmask.
This week was season 2, week 2, and the winner of the first round (there are two rounds a week) was wearing a "salapow" outfit. You probably know it as steamed pork bun. They usually sing in English or Thai, but this time I couldn't understand the lyrics. It wasn't in a language I recognized. They do flash the name of the song and the singer who made it famous, so I copied that and looked it up.
The original singer was Kim Bum-soo, so we're talking Korean. The title which they gave in Roman characters is Bogoshipda, which means "I Miss You". There are several dozen Youtube renditions, the music video from the soap olpera it was the theme of, by KBS in concert, and even a cover by an African-American man singing it straight in Korean while a pair of Korean rappers inserting rap crap.
But there is a duet KBS does with a young woman which totally blew me away. I share it with you here:
This week was season 2, week 2, and the winner of the first round (there are two rounds a week) was wearing a "salapow" outfit. You probably know it as steamed pork bun. They usually sing in English or Thai, but this time I couldn't understand the lyrics. It wasn't in a language I recognized. They do flash the name of the song and the singer who made it famous, so I copied that and looked it up.
The original singer was Kim Bum-soo, so we're talking Korean. The title which they gave in Roman characters is Bogoshipda, which means "I Miss You". There are several dozen Youtube renditions, the music video from the soap olpera it was the theme of, by KBS in concert, and even a cover by an African-American man singing it straight in Korean while a pair of Korean rappers inserting rap crap.
But there is a duet KBS does with a young woman which totally blew me away. I share it with you here: