Since things are a bit slow right now, I hope Richardson will let me indulge in a bit of nostalgia for the bygone K-pop music.

I wrote earlier of a famous song called “That Person of That Time” (”그때 그사람”) by Shim Soo-Bong (심수봉). The link in the original entry disappeared, so I found the song on YouTube. I believe the following is the 1978 performance (one year before the assassination of President Park Chung-Hee) when Shim was a third year student in college:

Yes, I cry when I hear this song.

Below is Shim performing an originally Russian song more recently. Shim and her music were banned during the Chun regime after the Park assassination:

She still has that haunting voice.

And while I am at it, why don’t I link to perhaps the most popular K-Pop tune of all time — “Come Back to Pusan Port” (”돌아와요 부산항에”) by Cho Yong-Pil (조용필), which was discouraged at one point, supposedly because it seemed like the song was beckoning the Japanese to come back to Korea.

Snazzy 70’s Korean fashion, eh? Enjoy!