I
didn’t hear much about the rock scene in Korea until I watched the show ‘Rock
on Korea’ on Arirang. Initially all I thought was that there is no rock, no
metal in Korea. But there is rock in Korea!
It’s
not that only K-Pop exists in Korea, in fact the evolution of K-Kop was
triggered by the Korean rock bands of 1950’s. After the World War II, the rock
music in Korea started.
The
band members are old now, they hardly sing, but they listen to the modern rock
music though. They were the talented guys, they learned themselves, they played
for the 8th US Army, they were the starters and they were the
legends of rock and K-pop in Korea.
In 1950’s they were so famous in Korea just
like the Big Bang is now. They loved to play
the music by Santana and The Beatles. They are the ‘4 Add’, 'Shin Jung-hyoen'
and the other band members.
 |
| Shin Jung-hyoen (Photo Courtesy: Guardian.co.uk) |
The
8th US Army in Korea was the main audience to the rock music played
by the Koreans. Those armies encouraged the rock music players, where they
released various albums. The albums would mostly certainly contain blend of
Korean traditional and western rock music.
The
bands were so perfect that even if those band members play together with Elvis Presley,
they would make no mistake. That was the
standard of rock scenario in 1950’s.
The
younger generations tend to sing those old rock hits to the taste of modern rock
music. They maintain their ancestry and try to reach those songs to the modern
Korea. There are now many rock and metal bands, they rock the Koreans as K-Pop
does globally.
The
rock music in Korea has come a long way now and it gave birth to different
genres like K-Pop. It all started with the US in Korea and now the Koreans rock
US and the world with the Gangnam Style.
PS: No Proof Read.
