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1996.04.04 TV Times Magazine - Kang Wonrae, Koo Junyup (≈CLON) article

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Kang Wonrae & Koo Junyup

We were born with the mission to revitalize dance music

[Tomorrow's star] Tak2Jun2's Koo Junyup and Park Mikyung's partner Kang Wonrae have come together, but their group name hasn't been decided. The two are well-known dance machines who hope to hear the words "you were born to do dance music." Coverage: Lee Gyeong-hui

"I can't say that we're a new group—it'd be more accurate to say we've been apart."

Just as the rumors said, Koo Junyeop and Kang Wonrae, who are so in sync it's like they're one singer, have formed a group and are preparing an album. Koo Junyup, all too known from Tak2Jun2, and Kang Wonrae, who brought fun to Park Mikyung's "Eve's Warning" performances as her partner, are already well-known dance machines. No, now it would be right to call them rappers.

"Solo singers can adapt easily to stages on TV shows, but it's hard for groups to coordinate. We can say we're sure we've overcome that difficulty. We're especially proud of our skill in improvised performances."

The two, whose goal is to hear that "they were born with the mission to revitalize dance music," are highly confident in their music.

Proud of their skill of improvised performances

Their group name hasn't been set yet. They plan to release their album in early May. The reason they're being revealed to the world so early is to publicize themselves after they've gotten all the fame they can get.

Koo and Kang's team-up can't be ignored. Their characters can't be something the music industry wouldn't worry about. Furthermore, with their album releasing under Line Production, they've become part of the "royal family" alongside Shin Seunghun, Noise, and Park Mikyung. Fans already know that Kang Wonrae was in Line, but Koo Junyup first came in about 1 year ago. An art school alum, Koo also designed the album covers of his peers. The covers he's designed include Park Mikyung's 2nd album, Kim Gunmo's 3rd album, DJ DOC's 2nd album, and Kim Jungmin's 2nd album. These were all hit albums, but they also drew attention for their unique designs. Kang Wonrae choreographed for all of the "Line family", including Kim Gunmo. Their chronicle of star-related stories is never ending.

The two first met in high school, both attending Gyeonggi High. Although they only became classmates in senior year, they both majored art in college.

While Koo Junyup never loses when it comes to dance, Kang Wonrae has a longer history with the art. To borrow Koo Junyup's words, he's "amazing." Kang first decided he would become a dancer in 6th grade. He picked dance up while his older brother researched through watching TV, and made his brother, who now works as an interior designer, quit dance.

Let's tell an interesting story about Kang Wonrae's family. This story also appeared on a TV quiz show last year.

"Kang Wonrae's older brother is named Kang Wondo. What is his younger sister's name?" (Someone answered "Kang Wonsoong"[1] and got suspected of having an IQ lower than 50. It definitely wasn't a TV Times reporter.)

The answer is Kang Wonmi. Kang Wonrae's father, who recently retired from his position as director of a car company, really loved music. Kang Wondo, Kang Wonrae, Kang Wonmi. The answer clears itself up if you take "Won" out from their names. Doremi. But because he couldn't find a Chinese character with the sound "re", he changed it to "rae". Surprisingly, not many get the answer right.

Want to be received as "cool dance music"

The new style that Koo and Kang profess is dance music that incorporates Miami rap. They're thinking of taking a casual approach without too many bells and whistles. As for their outfits, they're planning to go for a free style. Definitely no uniforms. The group's lyrics are close to "wholesome music,"[2] and their music has an exciting, cumbia-style rhythm.

There is a song in their album, though not the title track, that starts with "the frog can't remember when he was a tadpole, the loach muddies the clear water." It was made to show off Kang and Koo's individual colors. Kim Chang-hwan, known as a hit-maker, directed the whole album. Kang Wonrae and Koo Junyup explained their music with one sentence:

"I think rather than just being good songs, it will be received as 'cool dance music'."

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Translator's notes (marked with small-script numbers in the text)

Wonsoong = short for "wonsoongi (원숭이)", the Korean word for "monkey".

"Wholesome music" refers to songs that had to be put on the end of Korean LPs from the 70s to 80s, which Urimalsaem describes as "songs that can be sung by anyone, regardless of age or gender." As the name implies, these songs usually have wholesome lyrics that promote "enlightening" ideals.

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A Bittersweet Life // 달콤한 인생 (2005) Directed by Kim Jee-woon // 김지운

A cool-headed perfectionist, Sun-woo has earned the absolute trust of his boss by adeptly managing an upscale restaurant. When his boss Mr.Kang suspects that his young girlfriend Hee-soo might have a lover, he orders Sun-woo to keep an eye on her, and to kill her if she has betrayed him. After following her for a few days, Sun-woo catches Hee-soo with her boyfriend... but to his own surprise, he lets them go. Now his decision has launched the whole gang into an irreversible war... (Synopsis by KMDb)

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hello do you have any recs for contemporary korean literature? i havent read much but what ive read ive enjoyed so i want to read more nd u seem to have rly good taste!

hello thank u!! i'm not super well read in korean cuz i like to read things side by side with korean and english translation and it takes me an extremely long time to get through things but here's some stuff i like!

-anything han kang has written but especially human acts and the vegetarian. human acts by han kang literally rearranged my brain a little definitely a formative experience. i also have a book of her poems but i haven't finished it. next on my list is the white book and her newest book about jeju i'm so excited.

-kim hyesoon's poetry translated by don mee choi, sooo good. absurd abstract philosophical challenging gorgeous work.

-choi seungja's poetry i read some in an anthology and it floored me she's so bold and gritty and her images are so visceral. one of the most influential feminist poets in skorea for a reason. i don't think translations capture her voice very well but still worth it.

-love in the big city by sang young park! breakthrough mainstream lgbt lit it's making quite a splash. i haven't read it but i liked his short story on similar topics from a while back. heard anton hur did a great job translating!

-please look after mom by kyung sook shin i didn't read it all but i watched a reading she did of a passage from it and it made me cry so i think i can recommend it. no one does grief and yearning and undidactic contemplation of regret like koreans do it!!!

-drifting house by krys lee i think this english short story collection is the book i've read that most thoroughly traverses korean lit vs korean diaspora lit like she's US gyopo but she lives in korea and it shows in her literary voice.

-kim jiyoung, born 1982 by cho namjoo. the single most mainstream controversial piece of korean feminist literature everyone has an opinion about it i haven't read it but if i had a copy i would read it just to see what all the fuss is about. a stark depiction of the life of a typical korean woman under the patriarchy.

highly recommend looking at the work of the small circle of very cool korean literary translators. anton hur and soje are my fave queer translators and i follow jack jung and emily jungmin yoon on twt as well. also check out chogwa magazine! lots of delicious poems and cool translation process notes and details i love that zine.

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Train - Episode 1

So anyone who knows me knows that I am obsessed with one actor and that person would be... the fabulous, the wonderful YOON SI YOON!  So today, my friend just told me that he is starring in a new drama and I’m so hyped and excited. I’ve noticed this gentleman in King of Baking, I even wanted to become a baker because of him and I have watched most of his dramas until 2016, now I have to get up to date on that but oh well.  So here I am, going back to my beloved one. I have no control on my episodes of fangirling, but I will try not to let them be in the reviews too much.

Okay... So I got too excited too fast, the subtitles are not out yet TT But I will be baaack.  And I need to learn Korean.

And there we are a few hours later. I am announcing just now that I will post my recaps one week after the release of the episode to avoid spoilers, since my recaps are pretty detailed. I am trying this, hopefully you like it!

So the episode starts right away with a very creepy atmosphere and then there’s a cat on a track railroad and suddenly... well it is suggested that the cat gets hit by a train.. It’s not even two minutes in and I feel like... I will regret watching this late at night sooooo much. But I already waited all day to watch it. So let’s hope it’s not too scary. My beautiful Si Yoon shall help with that.

A high school girl comes hom at night only to find the house had been broken in, the lights are not working and there a creepy carousel like music. A boy is also running outside in the rain looking for his father. A group of Ajhumma is gathered as it seems there was a hit and run. Okay, not a carousel music, it was coming from a music box and as the girl keeps on walking she ends up stepping in a pool of fresh blood. Her dad is lying dead behind the couch. The hit and run victim was the guy’s dad, he’s sent to ER. Wow, they are starting very rough. So looks it’s too late and the girl’s mom ( I assume) knows the guy too. Okay. Not the mom. She’s like a detective or something. If she was her mom, she wouldn’t be on that case.

And... the train track make me so nervous. Okay, that’s going to be a difficult case to solve. The witness is dead. The dad was strangled with a necklace.

Poor baby guy, he looks so young. And at the funeral house, they give him his dad’s things and in there, he finds the necklace that was used for the murder of the girl’s dad. But you know what, I don’t think the dad did it. It would be too easy. I sense framing here.

I am so scared. There’s a guy walking near the train track and he’s pulling a suitcase drenched in blood, even though it’s pouring rain and now he’s about to turn around and it’s just so scary... Okay, good, we don’t see anything.

It seems we jump forward in time as Si Yoon barges in, as an inspector while the girl is with a woman that looks beaten up. My baby Si Yoon looks pretty upset and doesn’t care that he’s told that he can’t go in, but before he does, the girl comes out to him. So basically he was refused a warrant for a rape case, but that’s because the victim changed her testimony and said they were in a relationship. I guess it’s beaten up girl in the office, as she is crying. He seems to have all the evidence and asks her for a warrant but she says the court won’t grant it. So he accuses her of of not doing it because the culprit is related to her boss. He leaves angry at her. Aw, I missed Si Yoon’s acting so much!

A guy is released from prison and bugs the detectives. Si Yoon isn’t impressed at all by his little game. He’s looking at reports about driving offenses. That same night, he goes undercover to catch Park Taekyung, the rapist guy. I missed Kdramas and the crazy driving. They are car racing hahaha! Go take risks Si Yoon go go go! His partner doesn’t seem to feel too well. Si yoon tells him to get out of the car. Then he makes sure Park Taekyung hit him and he calls for a hit and run. Si Yoon what the hell? Your head is bleeding and you’re still driving? Well at least the manage to catch him but then discover some human bones. It’s on the train track.

Totally, they found four corpses, related to old cases, but it would be hard to find the culprit because there are no CCTV there.

Do Won (Si Yoon) gets scolded for letting a car hit him at full speed. The chief officer is somewhat mad at him with reason. She wants him to take a leave of absence, but he doesn’t want to, he says he’s fine. He says he’s seeking for medical help and that he won’t over do it in the serial murder case. She agrees to let him work but he has to bring in a doctor’s not. All the victims seemed like they were wearing nice jewels. Dowon’s friend guesses they were all woman. So it wasn’t about the money. Then they find the cat from the beginning of the episode and one of the guys notices that it looks like it was ran on by a train. Which is technically impossible because that train station was closed down. Then they suggest to bury it again, but Dowon sees something.

So the case is really similar to the one with the dad at the beginning. That girl from earlier brings the closed case, the culprit wasn’t found and the case was lying for the past twelve years. So Dowon didn’t say anything about finding the necklace in his dad’s stuff. Anyways, because of the corpses only being bones, it’s hard to determine the cause of death and thus make parallels with that previous case.

So it’s SeoKyung’s birthday. Seems she grew up with the chied and Dowon. They are not expecting Dowon to come back though. But he did come. But to ask about Seokyung’s mom’s son or I don’t really get what’s the relationship between them. Step-brother? Anyways, he leaves and she’s pretty upset as it has been three years before he came back, that maybe he has his reasons, but he should explain to her as they have lived so many years together. He says he left because she confessed to him and she says he’s a coward. She tells him to take the stuff he left behind and he says what he left behind was because he didn’t mind her throwing it away. I guess there are things that shared common memories in there since she looks so hurt. He drives away but not long after that, he stops the car. He looks so sad. So my guess right now is that he likes her but won’t tell her before being sure his suspicions about his dad killing her dad are false. I mean would you date the son of your dad’s murderer? Probably not. I am already sad for him.

Then he gets a call. They got finger prints on the bags, but since it’s sides one, they can’t identify the culprit.

Then there’s footage of a guy eating and candy and then seeing the cat and trying to bury it down. The police comes around but he keeps burying the cat. The guy doesn’t look totally sane to me. Oh so he has a disability. That’s what I though and it’s the guy Dowon was asking about.

Oh so Seokyung moved in with Dowon because her stepmom was mean to her and Sungwook (her step brother) tried to abuse her. Back then he wasn’t disabled. So he became like this after getting in an accident while drunk driving. So the stepmom goes crazy when he says Jungwook was at the scene of murder, but Dowon is like I never said he was a suspect and she agrees he talks with him. Dowon gives him a candy and asks him if he saw something, but the only thing he says, while playing with his train miniature is danger, mirror, traffic light and stop. I think this is going to be important. Dowon is about to dismiss it when he notices it’s written all over the walls. Then he goes to the police station to know what Jungwook was doing at the train station : burying the cat.

The stepmom hides something and she seems worried about Jungwook going somewhere again. But mystery. I guess the writers want us to believe the stepmom is the murderer, but that would be too easy. She must have some other secrets.

There’s something strange with the victims’ clothes. It was manufactured a year ago by a company that company that doesn’t exist anymore.

Dowon realizes that all the corpses were located next to the signs Sungwook was referring to. So he goes and check. The stop sign though is missing. Then the finger prints on the bags matches those of Sungwook. Too easy. There’s something else. He finds the stop sign and realizes something with the Beijing tower where there should be the fifth victim.

Seokyung goes to find him and hears about the fifth victim. He thinks Lee Sungwook is the culprit so Seokyung thinks he’s the one who killed her father since he took all the insurance money. But Dowon tells her Sungwook isn’t related to that case. But I’m telling you Dowon, the guy isn’t the culprit. Too easy. Then he wants to leave and arrest him then find the Beijing tower, but then Seokyong spots a sticker saying Beijing tower with a phone number.

In the middle of the night, the alcoholic stepmom wakes up. She literally sleep with her soju bottles. She notices her son isn’t tied to her anymore. And the police comes to get him.

Seokyung and Dowon look for the body. Sungwook is at the station with a shovel and he hits Dowon on the head while he was somehow having some sort of train flashback. Now he’s bleeding pretty bad.

Seokyung finds the last corpse. Sungwook is on his way and she’s trying to call Dowon but he’s stuck on the ground and now the train is coming and Seokyung will be attacked too and there’s like two minutes left. Omg. I am soooo stressed out right now.  I am not going to watch it in the middle of the night EVER AGAIN. So scary. Then she finds a train ticket. Sungwook gets in. Dowon is about to get hit by the train... omg. I am so scared. But so thrilled for next episode. OMG.

This is bomb. Honestly, so good and addicting. I was dragged into the story right away, no dragging on anything. This is amazing.

And the previews... OMG. I don’t like what they are hinting. Not at all. But like... It’s too early for revealing something like that. So I think the writers are going to play with us a little. The script was so good so far.

I highly recommend to watch it so far. Just not at night. Even while typing this a few days later, my heart is still pounding as it scared me real bad.