Week 6

INTRODUCTION

 

      

Have you ever been Hongdae? People around there seem to enjoy their own culture. That culture is usually called 'Independent culture'. Then, change the question. Have you every experienced indie culture? You might say 'No' or 'I don't know.'. But I'm sure you have. If you have seen 'Show me the money' or if you have heard music of '10cm', you have experienced Korean indie culture even though you never realized.

 

 

People consider 'Independent culture' as an alternative of recent commercialized culture. Korean indpendent culture has been popular as we know through the success of 워낭소리 or 장기하와 얼굴들 which are an indie film and an indie band in Korea. However, the interest toward those kind of culture does not raise constantly. Only few famous symbols of indie culture are treated fairly and do what they want to do. It is hard to believe that 1,453 indie music albums were released from 1996 to 2007. Most of people know only 2 or 3 famous albums.

      

 

Throught this statistics, we can notice that indie scene system doesn't work well. I found the problem is started with wrong communication toward the public. Thus, I want to talk about 'Does current Korean indie culture communicate with the public well?'. I want to find the specific problems and help resolve matters.