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K-POP Oh K-POP

By M. Robeto

K-pop has brought South Korea to be a well-known country, this country successfully produces many attractive boy bands and girl bands which still show their performance internationally. Those are Super Junior, Girl Generation, KARA, Shine, EXO, 2pm, 2am etc. Every member of each boy bands and girl bands has been trained for years, so that they are able to show good, energetic and fashionable performances in front of the audience and completely immerse thousand people in several countries. K-pop has also added a new style in singing in the list of music style in this world. The combination between singing and dancing can make our bodies healthy and feel spirit. In fact, most of K-pop fans are young people, and Indonesia is included one of Asian countries which has thousand young fans. Unfortunately, young people of Indonesia do not know and realize well that the fame of K-pop itself has already affected negatively many aspects in their lives, such as moral, cultures, and life style.

Korean boy bands and girl bands often come to Indonesia for concerts which are established by some local station channels. Whereas, it gives a crucial problem for many students in Indonesia. In fact, K-pop already breaks their moral gradually. So many students even ignore their lessons at the school and they prefer attending those K-pop concerts. They have to stand in line for very long time, even for hours only for getting the tickets’ of watching boy bands and girl bands performances. It becomes worse because the students prefer saving their money for getting that tickets than buying some very useful books for their studies.

The students also often forget their duties from the school, such as homework, assignment, group works, and even they rarely prepare themselves for getting quiz or test next week. The students try to memorize every lyric of those songs even though the language is completely different from their language and has complicated letters. Yet, they do not try to learn and memorize their lessons from the school. Over-downloading K-pop videos is also a kind of dangerous problem for the students. For instance, their laptop or their computers, and their flash disks are full for those videos, but not full for the materials of their studies.

Beside affecting moral, K-pop also affects the culture in term of dance. Mostly, those boy bands and girl bands combine the song with energetic dance. However, there are also a few soloists in K-pop. Indeed, those energetic dances have already closed Indonesia youth’s eyes, they know those dances even master them, yet they never show how their traditional dances look like. Nowadays, the traditional dances performances are only held on particular events, and only few of Indonesian young people master those dances. As the future consequence, it will happen that the Indonesian young people forget their nationalism which is caused by the existence of K-pop, because many people realize that both traditional or national songs and dances are forgotten and ignored right now.

The moral and the cultures aspects are not the last victims, because the fame of K-pop also changes the life style of Indonesia young people. K-pop does not only bring the songs and dances, but it also presents Korean digital products such as mobile phones, I-tab, head phones, laptops, and fashion products such as shirts, t-shirts, blazers, jackets etc. The boy bands and girl bands promotes those products through their performances and their pictures, so it directly affects their fans to follow what they do and they wear. Another impact of life style in on beauty aspects. Most of the members of Korean boy bands and girl bands do plastic surgery to get more beautiful face and body. It possibly happen in Indonesia when the fans of K-pop desire to have beautiful face like their favorite actresses or singers. However, it is not allowed in this country to do that kind of surgery freely, because most of Indonesian are Muslim, and doing that surgery only for getting enjoyment is absolutely forbidden.

Many important aspects in Indonesian lives have affected by K-pop, positive things are gotten but the negative impacts mostly come and spread. Loving something such as K-pop is a human right, but it does not mean that you also ignore the impacts that you get. Do not be very fanatic fans of something that make you forget to the other things that actually you should do. “The brain is the great gift from God, it is used to know the goodness and the badness surround you” (Mahatma Gandhi). Therefore, the teenagers should realize and consider whether their favorite things give advantages or disadvantages. That favorite thing is not always something useful, because it is possible becoming a poison or a dangerous virus which can break their lives and their futures.

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