A career, a Korea—
Who is Scrabbel? This winsome stop-motion video for their song "Emily, I"
led to this one, for "1909"—about the assassination of Japanese foreign minister Ito Hirobumi by Ahn Jung-geun.
Korean history as fodder for pop?! (The footage comes from the film 2009: Lost Memories.)
(My favorite song of theirs so far might be this one, "Chicago New York.")
posted by Ed Park @ 8:22 AM
3 Comments:
Hey, thanks for this link. What a find! It's bizarre to think, though, that Ahn Joong-geun's assassination plot is memorialized decades later as... a music video. Maybe Scrabbel can do a concept album in which each song is dedicated to a Korean suicide bomber/slain independence fighter.
I think it's clever how, aside from the date (1909), a lot of the lyrics can scan both ways — (1) for Korean history buffs, and (2) as vague moody indie pop ("a hero of the underground"....).
Did you see that movie, 2009? (I did not like it so much...)
Haven't seen 2009, but you must watch THE SECRET SUNSHINE! Go to Koryo Video inside the Korean bookstore on the 32nd St. Just rent it for 2 bucks. Most of the films are subtitled in English, but make sure to ask the clerk, just to be sure.
P.S. - I have this eerie sense that this baby is not coming.
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