Re: [IRCA] 819-KCBS North Korean Girl Group (Pt. 2 of 3)

[Chris Kadlec <beaglebass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Part 2 of my reply to Gary that has been blocked by the list for multiple days:

As for your 819 clips: your first clip is the song "Sahoejuui jikise". I'd type it in Korean, but this list will absolutely just give it to you with a long line of question marks, so why bother (plus, you can see it in the link below)? It means "Let's Defend Socialism" and is originally performed by the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble in 1991. North Korean pop is heavy on the synthesizers, which are heard in just about every song even today. I once counted the number of songs including that on my local 92.5 (Pyongyang FM until recently) and was up to 10 in a row using synthesizers.

You can see the KCTV clip associated with the song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIoOPH7kpCs

or else you can follow along with the lyrics in this video, Romanized with the South Korean system that I use (North Korea uses the pre-2000 system still, which it also uses in its city names): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlrYHuyTJmc

Your second 819 clip is playing the song "Geu pumi jeil joha" by the most popular girl group in North Korea, the Moranbong Band, which is more of a modern day girl group that started 5 years ago, though a far cry from the K-Pop girl groups to the south. An interesting fact about this song: it's the song played during the sign-on of the Echo of Unification network (on FM and SW, former 1080 on MW) in the background as they announce of the daily schedule of programming. I no doubt have recordings of that from before 1080 turned off.

You can watch the video for this song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-t2YRP-iJE

[Continued in Part 3 of 3]

-Chris Kadlec
Seoul AM Radio Listening Guide
www.beaglebass.com/dx/seoul/
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