Jenn: Music

Ten years ago, there was an idol group in Korea, called “g.o.d.” The group was composed of five attractive young men. Their popularity did not seem to stop increasing. Once they got extremely popular, they revealed their past: when they had nothing. When the five were young and fameless, when they were preparing to be singers yet, they were drastically poor. They had nothing except for their talent in music and a tiny apartment on a rooftop. A music producer made a song out of their past, called To Mom. The lyric goes, “When I was little and my mom worked at the field, we were poor. Once I got sick and tired of ramyun which I ate every meal. So I begged my mom to order jjajangmyun, and she took 2000won from her sock and ordered one bowl of jjajangmyun. When I asked why aren’t you eating, she answered, I hate jjajangmyun…” The song To Mom made every young people in Korea cry. Songs are highly effective that millions of people listen to it for more than fifty times. The group g.o.d. had tremendous number of fans who worshiped them. When the group presented To Mom, the effect the song had on teenagers in Korea was huge. It gave the teenagers a chance to think about poverty, and they thought of ways to help powerless people like g.o.d. members were used to be. All it took was one short song to move teenagers’ hearts to think about poor. It was truly the power of media.