THROUGH South Korean television dramas, Myanmar audiences have become quite familiar with South Korean artists and their enormous influence on style and fashion is on plain view among young people in Myanmar.
Last week, Timeout had the opportunity to meet two of South Korea’s top pop groups Super Junior and Girls’ Generation.
Super Junior is a 13 member boy band formed in 2005 who perform pop, dance, trot (the oldest form of South Korean pop music) and R&B. One of their hit songs ‘Happiness’ is covered by the local band Myaypaeyo (Peanut Butter) and also became a hit here.
Girls’ Generation is a nine member girl band that debutted in 2007.
Super Junior, we heard that your band has the largest number of band. members in South Korea. Why do you have such a huge band?
Super Junior: Of course, our group has the largest number of members although I don’t think the number is too large. Each of us has different talents and are individually good at singing, DJ-ing, dancing, composing and other different skills.
Your song ‘Sorry Sorry’ has been top of the charts since its release in March. As we don’t understand the lyrics, what was the idea behind its making and what makes the song special?
SG: The lyrics are ‘Sorry that I love you but I love you more and more’. Mostly, we composed [the song] about ourselves and I think almost everyone has some experience with love like that. So when we recorded these experiences we made a special song that chimes with a lot of people.
How did the bands choose their names?
Girls’ Generation: The reason we chose the band name Girls’ Generation is that we wanted there to be a girl’s generation. It’s simple.
SG: We’ve been trained for a long time by SM Entertainment. At the training, we were called juniors and people would say we were all talented. So we added ‘Super’ in front of ‘Junior’.
How do you manage to keep the band together?
GG: We have nine members and we knew each other before the band was formed. We are very friendly with each other and we always work together. We’re grown up so we don’t have any fights.
SG: As we have many band members, sometimes we have problems and disag-reements. But whenever we have trouble we talk it out.
What does the Asian market mean to you and how do you intend to reach out to so many countries with so many different languages?
SG: Emotion is universal. Even though you come from different countries and speak different languages, I think you can feel that. Even in Super Junior, one of our members Han Geng is Chinese. We don’t compose just for South Korean people but also aim for other Asian people. It’s impossible to overcome the language barrier but whenever we have concerts out of the country we try to learn their language first to communicate with the audience there. Our first concert abroad was in Thailand. We were surprised to find that they loved our show so much. We believe that nationality is not a big problem between the performers and audiences.
GG: As we are promoting ourselves to international audiences, communication is really important. But I think it’ll be ok as long as we are in their heart.
How do you feel about being idolised? And who are your favourite musicians?
GG: Being an idol for young people is great. Even though we are young, we think we can follow our dreams and try to achieve success.
We love Boa. She is popular not only in South Korea but is also well known elsewhere in the world. She’s made a lot of effort to learn how to break into the international market. Almost all the members from Girls’ Generation want to be like Boa.
SJ: For Super Junior, we like Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake. We can learn many things from these great artists.
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