Problematic Korean Video Friday: T-ara YA YA YA

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Hi folks. It's Friday, which means it's Problematic Korean Video Day here at poptimists. Our latest episode features T-ara, pronounced like the bejeweled crown one wears atop one's head (if one is the sort to wear bejeweled crowns atop one's head), except that our story here finds the young women opting for feathers instead.

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Now, the depiction of Native Americans in Korean media, and the treatment or mistreatment of Native Americans in Korea, have not hitherto been subjects to excite much commentary at poptimists, and I suspect they will continue not to excite much, as one assumes there is little or no treatment of Native Americans to speak of in Korea (at least Native Americans as such, as opposed to Native Americans as U.S. soldiers who happen to be Native American, who are probably treated as American soldiers).

So what we've got is untrammeled silliness, a handsome young pilot crash landing on a tropical island paradise where the natives, dressed as if from mainland America, bind him and "torture" him, each according to her wont, or want. Cecil B. DeMille has called this the most erotic scene ever filmed. Actually, he was referring to Jean Arthur and Gary Cooper when they're trussed-up and ready to be roasted alive in The Plainsman, but you get my point.

The tune is excellently catchy, as are a couple more on T-ara's brief EP Temptastic.

A fat person is made fun of at the end of "Ya Ya Ya," and the question of girth is bound to reappear in this series, the Piggy Dolls having just released their first video.

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