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14 year old Maru... Lee Jaejoon. The youngest member of new K-Pop band C-Clown. The K-Pop industry works in mysterious ways it seems. Apparently you can become famous and in demand with social sites dedicated to you even before the public has seen you. But that's how the Korean pop machine works. And about to be released onto the ever hungry Korean pop fans is a new six piece outfit called C-Clown. On July 19th they're making their debut with their mini album 'Not Alone.' The boys ages range from 19 to 14. Although the youngest member Maru (14) certainly looks more mature than his years and is sure to be one of the most popular members of the group. The members are Yoo Ba (Rome) born 1990. Si Woo age 19. Kim Hyun-il age 18. Kang-Jun age 18. Lee-Min woo age 17. Lee Jaejoon (Maru) age 14 born Sept 1997. Below is a short teaser for their up and coming single. |
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MARU... Lee Jaejoon |
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I don't know--all this is kind of lost on me and I view it as a sort of "too much of a changing world" than I can hardly tolerate. But recently, I feel like I had a (sick) victory of sorts. I had been sort of proudly declaring how long it took for me to even be aware of the famous "Psy" video, "Gangnam Style" (yeah, I know, over 1 and a half trillion You Tube views, but by what kind of people?) and when I finally heard the buzz about the video, I could stand to sit through only about two minutes of it. When at one day at the school where I work, I kept hearing about how kids in our school caught a glimpse through the windows of the classrooms of "Psy" touring the campus, and immediately went excitedly streaming out of the classrooms to get his autograph. My first thought was that in no way would I recognize him at all, let alone understand that it was him so out of context, but my second thought was, "Oh yeah, sudden, huge, Korean media star, and what does he do? Move to Los Angeles and go hunting for a private school for his kids (OUR private school)." "Seoul? Where's dat?"
ReplyDeleteSo while things seem to be changing so very rapidly, they really aren't changing much at all. Just different faces coming in and then going back out again, from a wider geographical circle, that's all. "They shoot horses, don't they?" And where the "they" is probably isn't South Korea, when all is said and done.