美国国家公共电台 NPR Parade Floats And Altered K-Pop Songs Mark South Korea's Coming Election
时间：2019-02-13 作者：英语课 分类：2017年NPR美国国家公共电台5月
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
Tensions may be rising over North Korea's nuclear program, but South Korea remains 1 outwardly calm. A presidential election comes next week, and the scene in the capital, Seoul, includes parade floats and K-pop. NPR's Lauren Frayer is there.
LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE 2: Presidential election season in South Korea is when Korean pop songs like this one, "Cheer Up" by the girl band Twice...
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "CHEER UP")
TWICE: (Singing in Korean).
FRAYER: ...Get turned into this.
UNIDENTIFIED MOON SUPPORTERS: (Singing in Korean).
FRAYER: Moon Jae-in, the name of the frontrunner in next week's election. Freelance film producer Lee Eun-ji, a volunteer on Moon's campaign...
LEE EUN-JI: (Speaking Korean).
FRAYER: ...Explains how they've changed the words to insert their candidate's name. Each campaign has its own set of songs drawn 3 from what the world knows as K-pop.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG)
UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing in Korean).
FRAYER: For weeks, dancers have been riding around the South Korean capital, Seoul, on huge parade floats, belting out K-pop in favor of one candidate or another. They wear their candidate's signature color with matching hats, umbrellas, even clown wigs 4 and fake animal ears.
UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing in Korean).
FRAYER: So just in case you thought South Korean youth were cowering 5 under their desks Cold-War style because of the nuclear threat from North Korea, meet volunteer K-pop dancer and lyricist Jeong Min-hong, fresh from the South Korean army, a people's soldier, he says.
JEONG MIN-HONG: I am a people's soldier. Army - army, yeah Korean army, and now no job.
FRAYER: No job.
JEONG: (Speaking Korean).
FRAYER: "Never mind North Korea's provocations," he says. Youth unemployment is his generation's issue in this election. And he wrote it into the Moon campaign's alternate K-pop lyrics 6, along with care for the elderly.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG)
UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing in Korean).
FRAYER: Morning commutes 7 during election season here mean ducking past rival campaign floats blasting K-pop at one another.
HONG YOUNG-RAE: (Speaking Korean).
FRAYER: It's part of Korean culture and community spirit, says 60-year-old Hong Young-rae. Even he knows most of these teen beat songs, though he says he's able to tune 8 them out when he needs to - easy for him to say.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG)
UNIDENTIFIED SINGERS: (Singing in Korean).
FRAYER: Covering an election in South Korea has given this visitor a pretty acute case of ear worm. Come Wednesday, this country will have a new president, and the streets of Seoul may seem eerily 9 quiet.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GANGNAM STYLE")
PSY: (Singing in Korean).
FRAYER: Lauren Frayer, NPR News, Seoul.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "GANGNAM STYLE")
PSY: (Singing in Korean).
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