The trending topic: 기다릴게 박재범 기다릴게 2PM ..here’s what it’s all about

23 Jan
2010


Today on Twitter many noticed the trend­ing topic: 기다릴게 박재범 기다릴게 2PM. Now for those of us who don’t speak or read Korean we were baf­fled. But, here is what it is all about. Translated it means, “We’ll wait for you Park Jaebeom. We’ll wait for 2pm!” Now to some, this may make no sense, but to those who are trend­ing this, it is a very seri­ous sub­ject.

Jae-​beom Park, or Jay Park, is a 22-​year-​old Korean-​American born and raised in Seattle Washington. He was the leader of a wildly pop­u­lar Korean boy band called 2PM. He sud­denly left the group in September and returned to the US after arti­cles sur­faced about neg­a­tive com­ments he made about Korea back in 2005.

Here is news cov­er­age from Seattle about the Korean super­stars return

Much hype has sur­rounded his depar­ture and this is just the lat­est. Fans around the world have banded together in an attempt to get him to come back to the band 2PM. Some say the cur­rent trend is a mar­ket­ing scheme by Jae-​beom sup­port­ers oth­ers say it is just the pas­sion­ate pleas of 2PM’s fan base col­lec­tively referred to as the Hottest, named by JYP Entertainment, the groups record label.

Either way, I did find this story inter­est­ing. I don’t usu­ally cover things that involve boy bands, but the nature of this story points to how the Arts via what­ever medium has a pro­found effect on peo­ple. So, for their sake, I hope you go back Jae-​beom.

Thanks for read­ing,

Literary Nobody

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Toya Bryant aka Literary Nobody is a Freelance Writer/Blogger who promotes positive thinking and actions within the community and the family. She also writes about the positives and negatives of technology, internet security and social media.



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