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Sunday, December 13, 2009

How many people like it because everyone else is liking it?

After reading today's newspaper, I just feel pretty sad.
Korean wave now a tsunami?
But tsunamis are destructive T_T

Come to think of it, it really is like a tsunami, isn't it?
Starting small with the airing of Winter Sonata, building up with the airing of Jewel in the Palace, exploding in 2008 when everyone suddenly found out about DBSK, crashing to the shores in 2009 when Boys Over Flowers aired...
I can only hope it's peaked now and the worst of it is over.
I can only hope all it does from now is ebb away. (Please take the trail of destruction with you too.)

I said this to myself so many times, I would rather go to you than have you come here.
I wouldn't mind even if no one understood what I was talking about.
Didn't matter much then, won't matter much now and in future, right?

This year, I started hesitating when people asked me if I was a K-pop fan.
This year, I groaned when I heard that Korean stars were coming to Singapore.
This year, I had way too many embarrassing / annoying encounters with the K-wave.
(How about fan letters written using direct online translators? How about fanboards misspelling the artists' names when there's the darned Internet for you to copy from?)

You've had your run here, thank you for coming, have a safe trip back home, don't come here again, PLEASE.

*sigh*
(My point isn't about the length of time you've liked it. That is irrelevant.)