Frank Kogan

What's wrong is that there are too many people in Korea his age and above, and their percentage is increasing. Although for the audience present during that recording it means they get to decide who wins presidential elections, and get to surprise analysts when a high turnout most importantly means a high turnout of 60+s, not people in their 20s.

I've been going crazy enough trying to put words to what makes, say, typical j-pop melodies sound so different from western pop melodies, with no music theory knowledge at all, that I'm not even trying with trot and trad Korean pop (except to notice that North Korean popular music of the now is very similar).

If someone with a lot of knowledge of both Asian pop and theory could only write the article I'm waiting for! Of course ArbitrayGreay has spent some time pondering the same thing and linked to these probably very fascinating videos that unfortunately are unsubbed in Japanese http://youtu.be/VMW4eyNY_Rk
http://youtu.be/fkhCwNwuMUQ

But those J-pop melodies don't sound like Korean anything either, so..