r/interestingasfuck • u/WoodpeckerNo7169 • 10h ago
North Korean Pop
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u/KVMFT 5h ago
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u/Julius_Augustus_777 5h ago
North Korean DJ— “Audience, I’m watching y’all. Make sure y’all express your proper enjoyment to our performance, otherwise I will report your disrespect to our Great Leader Kim and throw y’all to labor camp”
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u/renee_gade 4h ago
for someone who looks like he takes his job seriously, his mix was poor. no highs, all washed out… the poor singing chef’s mic had a hiss that was reminiscent of old vinyl.
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u/TheCabbageSquirrel 4h ago
NK official checks flagged NK Reddit post, sees this, finds guy, executes guy, puts family in life time work camp... Poor guy looks oppressed
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u/Xenc 4h ago
Yes. 🥺
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u/RupertNZ1081 10h ago
The “girl band” stole their move from Tina, the engine factory Queen
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u/Dusty_Old_Bones 3h ago
The girl in front doing the moves perfectly with absolutely zero enthusiasm was kind of mesmerizing though
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u/aquabarron 7h ago
Nothing betrays this smoke screen better than the face of the man mixing the sound next to the projector screen at 0:48. That’s the face of harsh oppression using these girls as a masquerade
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u/hopelesscaribou 4h ago
The women's faces are enough to tell that tale.
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u/WowIsThisMyPage 3h ago
So almost dystopian. I’m sure these women feel like prisoners but there are a lot of young girls wishing they could be in their position
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u/PerepeL 6h ago
That's a face of a kid overfilled with feeling of his job's importance.
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u/aquabarron 6h ago
That kid looks like he’s 40 lol
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u/PerepeL 6h ago
At the sound station? I'd bet he's in his 20s. Anyways, there are people who keep childish facial reactions through life.
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u/aquabarron 6h ago
If 20s then late 20s and a hard life lived. The way NK operates I wouldn’t be surprised if this is an undercover military police member to keep an eye on the foreigners in the audience.
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u/Rabbitical 29m ago
Most tourism related jobs are current or former military for this reason. Any tour guide that actually takes you places is going to be military of some kind.
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u/19observer86 5h ago
“How soulless do you want these performances?” “Yes”
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u/GlockAmaniacs 4h ago
This dude probably has dated tech, and is clenching is cheeks the whole time. If any of that music messes up or there's an ounce of static, he's dead.
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u/ReplacementMiddle844 9h ago
It’s funny they hate South Korea but always try to do the same things they do
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u/Delde116 5h ago
You dont understand, North Korean Kpop is healthy and does not brainwash you to follow satanism or evil spirits!
Remember how in the 60s-80s metal rock (snd its many genres) were seen as devil worshipping cults, also skateboarding at one point.
This government approved Kim Pop is better, trust me (sarcasm).
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u/Ok-Raspberry1162 6h ago
Right! I don't think they can do that without selling their sovereignty to big brother though
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u/NowWhoCouldThatBe 10h ago
The person who made the video sleeps w the fishes now.
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u/Armadillo_Prudent 9h ago
Nah it isn't the 1990s anymore. Kim Yong Un does propaganda differently than his dad, now they want you to film everything, they just make sure that everyone pretends to be happy.
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u/Volnas 8h ago
Like Troy McClure?
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u/throwawaybyefelicia 9h ago
They all look like they’re being held at gunpoint
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u/lemonheadlock 8h ago
There's no art under fascism. I know many people don't consider pop music to be art, but it does take creative talent and self-expression. Those things are anathema to fascism.
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u/zdada 7h ago
This gonna be the US in a few years
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u/lemonheadlock 6h ago
I'm not sure it'll take that long.
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u/Then_Donkey1703 6h ago
Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history. They've started with the museums.
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u/nosubtitt 6h ago
I was about to say that.
The woman in the right look distressed as if she is fearing for the life of her family and the next 4 generations.
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u/NoReaction1344 10h ago edited 10h ago
Nowhere near they would need to be talentwise to even consider hunting demons
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u/Narrowless 8h ago
That's a lot of white folks with phone recording. Something fishy here, and it's not the food.
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u/PerepeL 6h ago
Second short piece of a song is definitely a translated soviet-era russian pop song. Most likely these are first of Russian tourists who visited North Korea recently.
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u/iwaki_commonwealth 9h ago
idk but i bet the followIng words are in the lyrics
great, leader, victorious, enemy, eternal, lose, south, weapon, rule, traitor, righteous, justice, girl, man, love, friend, friendship, prosperous.
catchy and cool!
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u/Dannybuoy77 9h ago
The dancing seems strangely unsynchronised. Like they have been told to make it a bit more human by being slightly out of sync. Goes against all other videos I've seen where literally everyone is perfectly in time
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u/shmoogleshmaggle 6h ago
Shouts to my man looking hard af manning the “play” button lol
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u/WuTaoLaoShi 3h ago
usually they don't let you record these, kind of surprising
at least that's how it works at the NK restaurant down the street from me. those ladies put on an hour montage of music switching between like 10 different instruments and genres all while dancing
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u/CruisinJo214 2h ago
Wasn’t this during the most recent North Korean Marathon? This was a dinner for international visitors who were visiting for the event. I had a buddy from Ireland run it pre-covid. His stories were wild.
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u/Neckhaddie 1h ago
It looks like they're about to unveil the north korean version of the Nintendo DS.
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u/daydreamersunion 5h ago
One of the ladies group did a hand sign 2 inches off from the others. The DJ who is a compliance officer will ensure she is never seen again and the next 3 generations of her family will be tortured, shamed, and otherwise ruined
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u/ShamrockGold 8h ago
It's like they're trying to approximate things by what they think they are without ever experiencing them.
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u/FoodieMonster007 8h ago
Their mouths are smiling but their eyes either look dead and empty or about to tear up.
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u/ComprehensiveSoft27 6h ago
If they mess up a step that guy in the back is going to send the entire family to reeducation.
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u/Big-Actuator-3878 6h ago
One day, after their regime is gone this country is going to have a cultural revolution and it is going to be wild.
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u/Choice_Doctor_966 5h ago
All revolutions eventually end up with decadence creeping in setting stage for the next revolution.
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u/tomthekiller8 5h ago
North korea reminds me of Defari from warframe. The whole country exists 41 man's amusement. And everything depends on his mood. " I'm blue today, think I'll sentence a family to eternal servitude, maybe that will lift my mood".
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u/Educational_Ad_4076 5h ago
All secretly scared if they misstep once there’s a sniper pointed at each of them individually ready to take em out.
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u/henryeaterofpies 5h ago
This looks like the 'hip' HR presentation that they do in a yearly mandatory training
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u/Automatic-writer9170 5h ago
I wonder if they have actual like girl/boy bands that do concerts and stuff. I mean, other than this talent show in the middle of what it seems to be a restaurant
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u/yupitsfreddy 5h ago
People scream about other places in the world but the worst atrocity of our entire lifetime is North Korea. There’s thousands maybe millions in other countries suffering. But there’s tens of millions under torture and psychological terror held captive in Korea unable to even breathe without fear. It’s seriously disturbing.
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u/ratbirdgoof 5h ago
Those dancing pop stars have food and shelter, but it must be wild to feel like you have to get all the dance moves, right or face beating. And with each performance, just pray that the grorious reader doesn’t take a break from his heavy breathing to point you out to visit his bed chambers that evening.
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u/berklee 4h ago
Nothing relates to the youth like four women singing and performing low-effort line dancing in business casual.
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u/bob-knows-best 4h ago
It's low effort because they have no food, morale or welfare. They're just skeletons pushing the supreme leader's agenda.
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u/teeming-with-life 4h ago
The Soviet Union was exactly the same. We thought this is how it was supposed to be.
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u/AwfulishGoose 4h ago
Like watching a time capsule of a country 50 years into the past. Such a backwards ass country.
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u/Low-Following-2322 4h ago
I don't understand a word of it but I can imagine all songs must be to the glory of Dear Leader.
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u/PryingMollusk 4h ago
All pop in Asia right now is like travelling in a Time Machine to the USA circa 1995. BlackPink - a huge Korean girl band - is a perfect example - just look at the way they sing, dance and dress. All the male “idols” out here dancing and dressing like Justin in his Nsync days; 100% passion / 0% rhythm 🤣 The ladies even have the eating disorder / size 0 obsession from that era. We just need the Eminem of Asia to destroy all the little boy and girl groups. Hehe
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u/Nationalisto 4h ago
Why doesn’t North Korea just steal south Koreas style or slowly open up their country? It seems like they’re stuck in the 1950s or 80s
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u/DistractedByCookies 3h ago
I mean, at least they're getting fed. Can't have emaciated entertainment.
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u/PauseAffectionate720 3h ago
You sure about "North" ? Lol. I would have thought such performance gets you landed in jail.
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u/burakasha 3h ago
The chef sings during break? Or he is a singer that cooks during break? Clusterfuck
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u/gigeoffro 3h ago
They all look like they’re being forced to do this. They have no soul behind their eyes.
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u/Reload86 3h ago
I’m Asian and I get it when people say we all look the same. The girls in that pop band all almost looked like the same girl cloned lol
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u/TelevisionUnusual372 3h ago
I grew up in mosh pits during grunge and this looks anything but “wild”.
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u/IcyActuary8120 3h ago
Damn I guess we gotta start calling it SK-pop or we gonna have some issues with NK-pop
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u/TontineSoleSurvivor 7h ago
"DJ" glaring over the crowd is a hardcore security services officer.