Hyori: 10 Minutes
Hyori’s 10 Minutes was the last article I wrote before I shut down my old website, konton, and in many ways it was a fitting end. Though konton started out as a mish-mash pop culture site, for better or worse, it ended being known for Asian pop. Even though there were signs of it before, 10 Minutes was the final death knell for the golden age of Korean girl groups. SES had split. Baby VOX were pretty much over. Hyori’s star power couldn’t be contained in Fin.K.L. anymore. And there just weren’t any groups around with the charm, wit, and fiyah to replace the old stalwarts. Truly a sad time period… for me at least.
Even though I’ve made fun of a lot of old kpop videos here on popho and on kontona, I gotta admit there’s a part of me that yearns for the days when I would spend hours trolling the #finkses irc chatrooms and the soompi message boards hoping to get my hands on a new SES or Baby VOX video. I realized then and now that it was a pretty sad existence. While I am glad that that phase of my life is over, I fear that I am once again getting sucked into the seedy world of Korean girl groups, and I place the blame entirely on the Wonder Girls.
For obvious reasons, I have never been able to get into Asian boybands. I mean, the main reason I even bother watching Asian pop videos at all is because of all the hot honeys. Occasionally there will be a group that I do enjoy, like HOT or the LA Boyz, but it’s usually because I like to make fun of them in order to feel better about myself. Don’t hate. You’d do the same thing if you were mildly socially retarded and had a pock-marked face.
I’ve been toying around with the look of popho and cleaning up a bunch of unnecessary code that’ll make this place run smoother. I know I’ve been neglecting this site the past year and haven’t done much to it, but hopefully things will change. Hopefully…
