“The Korean gas, suddenly arrived…”. They are not in the way of toxic fumes, as anticipated by ‘Los Redondos’ 20 years ago**, but riding in the shadows of digital exchange, the dispersion of tastes and the unprecedented tenacity of their fan club, TVXQ were the surprise we expect their fellow country football players not to be in the first round of the world cup in South Africa when we face them.
This Korean boyband with the initials of Tong Vfang Xien Qi (meaning something like “Rising Gods of the East”), did not just fought and won against monsters like Paramore, U2, 30 Seconds to Mars and Pearl Jam in the International Album Category, with their album The Secret Code, but also almost takes away the throne from AC/DC as International Band.
Where did these cosmic kites*** come from? From a TV casting, that made them debut officially during Christmas of 2003. Since then, their success did not know limits, even when they try to complicate things entitling one of their albums (in Korean) Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis. Their fans are as many as their detractors, who are not afraid of use direct action against them, intoxicating them if necessary, as when a women in 2006 handed an unclosed cola bottled to the charismatic Yunho, which content resulted in a toxic substance that made him throw up blood and ended rushing to the hospital, where he had to go under many stomach-pumping.
Despite these attacks, their fan club (Cassiopeia, as the five star constellation) is registered in the Guinness Records as the one with more members in the world: only in Korea they are more than 800 thousand. Could votes have arrived from the very Seoul? Our system cookies said they did.
Any other record? In 2009 they were claimed as the most photographed group in history (?), with 500 million pictures since their debut by the end of 2003.
Outside the TVXQ tsunami, internationally what took priority were the surprises. –omitted- meanwhile another lady (Lady Gaga) won in Break Through artist in a tight fight against our new korean friends!
Thus, globalization arrived to our traditional and dear Survey. From what planet the next winner will be? We’ll see, we’ll see.
*Mambrú was an Argentinian boyband.
**Los Redondos is an Argentinian rock band, and that is a sentence of one of their songs.
***Talking about football; cosmic kite is the nickname a football player has (Maradona).
Credits:
source: Clarin
translation: Bom-i@My Destiny (TVXQ Argentina)
scans: NakoJunsu@My Destiny (TVXQ Argentina)
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