In an effort to keep all of you up-to-date on music I need to talk more about Trot Music. You remember I was introduced to it in Divorce Attorney Shin and have a couple of Trot tunes on my playlist.
Well, I hope you've heard of the Kpop group, BTS.... it's hard to miss them online as they are wildly popular. But, according to Koreaboo.com the idol who competes with BTS is actually a Trot Star...Lim Young Woong also known as Im Hero (Im is a shortening of his last name & apparently Young Woong means Hero in Korean...) At a recent award show he garnered 5 distinct awards; more than any other performer including BTS. And Americans have probably never heard of him. (Unless they follow this blog!)
Trot Music has its fan base in Korean ahjummas - middle aged or married women. These ladies are over the moon for this guy! When recent tickets went on sale of one of his concerts the server crashed. "The server hit 3,700,000 people in traffic, in just a minute of opening the sales" per KoreaBoo. Apparently other Kpop artists try not to schedule their ticket sales at the same time as Lim Young Woong or they'll get overshadowed! I absolutely love that the 'more mature' audience is catapulting his career.
I am a babe in the woods compared to Korean fans but compared to American fans I'm on the cutting edge... and now you know more too!
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