Hye Jin Lee
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And there's also this line that you played where RM says, this that K gotta get a better pop here.
So even when they're acknowledging that despite all these like, you know, collaboration with Western songwriters and producers, they're still thinking about the Korean culture, right?
This song probably has the most Korean references out of all tracks in this album.
I mean, it is a song that talks about Korean people's lifestyle and traits.
Even in that chorus, it talks about Koreans take off their shoes when they
enter the house, or Koreans known as people who are polite.
Korea's nickname by China a long time ago was λλ°©κ°μμ§κ΅, which translates into the Eastern nation that's known for its courtesy and etiquette.
So that's the reference that we hear in the chorus.
And then also the part about Koreans never sleeping because they're always working hard.
And Koreans always moving faster.
λͺ¨λ λ λΉ λ₯΄κ² is in the lyrics.
So all the stereotypes and traits are
that we can attach to Korean people seems to be in this very short chorus.
If I can just kind of go a little bit further with Kim Gu reference in the lyrics, right before when RM says, pardon, Kim Gu, tell me how you feel.
He says, everybody know now where the K is.
So that message of like, you know, finding that K reappears in Aliens.
And Kim Koo is, again, as Nate said, is the leader of the Korean independence movement.
He was an activist.