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koganbotAdded this to my Oral Hygiene post after YouTube yanked the Japanese video I'd embedded for Hara's "Secret Love." (Goo Hara is one of the singers in K-pop band Kara, who are massively popular in Japan as well as Korea and gear some of their material especially for Japan.) Fortunately, I found another full version of the Japanese PV,* and that's up now, though I fear it'll get killed too. The only official Universal Records posting of the vid that I could find on YouTube is a 14-second teaser. And this isn't an isolated incident: the official posting of the video for 2NE1's Japanese single "Scream" only showed the first half.
Japanese music labels keep trying to prevent us from seeing full videos on YouTube. At least I've noticed that some do. DEAR JAPAN - THERE ARE REASONS WHY K-POP IS BREAKING BIG INTERNATIONALLY AND J-POP IS NOT. Well, the Korean market is smaller than the Japanese market, so Korea has to go international if it wants to score big. In any event, Korean labels give us full access to their videos, though some Korean TV networks will put the kibosh on TV performance clips (it being the labels and not the TV stations that benefit from international attention, I suppose). But in general, South Korea has opened itself up to the international eye and ear via YouTube.*Music vids are called PVs in Japan and MVs in Korea.
