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A Fanfic on KPop's world conquest after a small change


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I recently watched a Turkish film which speculates how miserable Turkey would be if Mustafa Kemal died at a young age.

 

So, in that spirit, I am going to write a short fanfic if a small change in the past had occurred long ago.

 

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2000

 

A 7 years old girl and her younger brother walk an alley.

A drunken truck driver runs to the siblings.

 

The girl throws her brother away and is run over by the 2 tonne truck.

 

Few people but her family notice.

 

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2010

 

KPop is red hot around the world.

 

The old codgers and vocalists choose Choi Joonhee, better known as Juniel, as their protege. However Han Sungho, who owns her and F&C, has other ideas.

 

Han Sungho offers to let Juniel collaborate with 2AM. JYP says get lost - there is no reason to prop up another company's singer. Juniel tries a few other tricks but they are mostly ignored.

 

Super Star K 2 is cancelled after the Yeri Band scandal, and no more seasons are scheduled.

 

At the end of 2010, Big Bang's GD & Top quietly win a couple of weeks.

 

2011

 

Old Codgers' last attempt , I am a Singer, collapses after the Kim Gunmo fiasco. No more such programs are attempted.

 

Meanwhile, KPop's worldwide advance begins in earnest. With Japan's earthquake on March 2011, KPop becomes dominant in Japan, striking the vacuum.

 

around the same time, like the trot genre separated from the mainstream of Korean pop around 1994, the vocalist genre is now separated from KPop once for all into a league of its own.

 

With Sunny hill and other singers going nowhere, Loen Entertainment is dissolved. Sunny Hill is sold to someone else and the rest are released. No one really cares. Loen just retains Melon digital music which makes much more money.

 

KPop is separated between the "Major League", who mostly operate in the overseas, and "Minor League", which mostly operate in Korea only in hopes to get a ML berth. ML acts , like SNSD, Kara, and even Sistar, which has transformed into a hip hop act.

 

Korean scene is mostly for the Minor Leaguers ... their sole reason is to earn enough money to try for a foreign venture. Without anyone stabbing from the back, KPop acts mostly stay in the overseas, with their two-week-once-per-year promotions.

 

Songs now use more and more English and other language. Korean listeners are not amused but they have been relegated to their own league.

 

FNC releases Juniel, Choa and a few others in a group called Ace of Angels, mostly called Ace, later that year, and the genre of soloist is now put into the dustbin of history.

 

Cube's Choi Jinho , after a long deliberation, decides not to put Jung Eunji into his new group Apink, which debuts with 6 members. Jung Eunji ends up as a vocal trainer and is hardly heard again.

 

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2016

 

Rather than going thru the tedious details of KPop's advance in the 5 years, I will just tell KPop's current position.

 

KPop now has four acts, Psy, SNSD, GDragon and 2NE1 who have won Billboard No.1s, and KPop stars are invited in plum events around the world.

 

After conquering Korea, Twice is going to debut in America, with Cecilia, Rina, Sharon and Ennik, but not with Dahyun, Chaeyoung or Tzuyu, who would be reserved for another group in the future. Ennik was selected despite of her age. (I assume these people who left would be staying if KPop were more successful) Twice's showcase will be televised in MTV, not Mnet Korea or some bullshit Asian station.

 

Last year's MAMA, in Singapore, had the world's who's who in Pop, was televised worldwide.

 

No one seems to care where the vocalists have went - they existed long time ago, in some faraway place, and are no longer relevant in Korean pop. Same for the indies.

 

KPop Star, Masked Singer and all the gaggle of singing contests never took place, although they were replaced by various hiphop and rap contests. Jay Park and his men did strike quite a big chunk in KPop and are actually popular in some foreign countries too.

 

All of the big acts hardly ever set foot in Korea itself - they are too busy to compete for peanuts in there, and its scene is taken by smaller acts with enough aspiration to aim for higher.

 

KPop is dominant in most third world countries, with movements anyone can understand, and lyrics mostly in English and in heavy rhyme. Few people have time for ballads relevant only for Koreans.

 

Korea is now the mecca of pop culture in Asia, and its success appears to know no limits.

 

The most anticipate album is the long-awaited GDragon-Beyonce collaboration, following the success of Taylor-Exo collaboration.

 

The year-end shows, instead of being broadcast in Korea, are just an amalgamation of Various KPop stars performing in a host of foreign countries. In fact the main shows in Korea were cancelled, after the 'domestic' acts thought appearing in there would mean they are second-class and was cheapening themselves.

 

Although Koreans rarely get to see their stars any more in the new world, they continue to shell their money to get glimpses of their stars, who only come to Korea once in a while and since they are constantly on move there are less chance of scandals, and in the overseas there are fewer prying eyes so they have their fun outside of Korea.

 

K-O-R-E-A-N listeners and K-O-R-E-A-N fans are no longer relevant, just as Brazilian soccer fans are no longer relevant to the major stars coming out from Brazil.

 

As a result, vocalists do what they can to master their dancing skills, since there is no room for any kind of vocalists in Korean pop, which have gone the way of buggy whip makers.

 

 

We hear a lot about acts which would not exist today, since there would be more acts going around more countries, although we will hardly hear about Akmu, ZionT, Hyukoh (who stays in China), even Ailee, who ignores Wheesung's 'advice' to come to Korea, since there is nothing for a vocalist in Korea. Ironically she gets to ride in the bandwagon when Korean acts jump in, like the US golf industry propping up Michelle Wie against all the Korean female golfers, and enjoys a modest success in USA.

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Which movie?

 

 

Osmanli Cumhuriyeti (The Osmanli Republic).

Tl.dr for the movie - the Turkish Sultan still exists as a puppet of America, and Turkey is no more than a pawn of America, because it failed to get rid of Western influence following World War I.

 

What was the name of movie

 

see the response to daringunicorn.

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I know this movie. I'm Turkish myself :lol: i thought about some serious movie not comedy

 

It's more like a satire on US expansion efforts in the Middle East during the last years of George W Bush, although its premise is sound that if Kemal were not around Turkey would be walked over just like other middle east nations.

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lol Me too, Have expected a serious movie. But still thanks for name :)

 

Such kind movies can't be serious - like Dr. Strangelove, which deals with a very serious matter (nuclear destruction of the known world) but it became a satire.

 

Still it was quite nice to watch.

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