‘Rocket rocket~’ Kim Jong-un and Kim Yo-jong’s ‘APT’ parody… “Let’s play it on loudspeakers against North Korea.”[이슈세개]

‘Rocket rocket~’ Kim Jong-un and Kim Yo-jong‘s ‘APT’ parody… “Let’s play it on loudspeakers against North Korea.”

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While the song ‘APT.’, released in collaboration with BLACKPINK’s Rosé and pop star Bruno Mars, is gaining great popularity, North Korea’s Chairman of the State Affairs Commission Kim Jong-un and Vice Minister of the Workers’ Party of Korea Kim Yo-jong sing the song ‘Apartment’. A video composited as if singing became a hot topic.

On the 31st of last month, a video titled ‘APT.🇰🇵’ was uploaded to the YouTube channel ‘Martian Lil Doji’.

The video follows the composition of the apartment music video and contains a composite of the characters as North Korea’s Lee Chun-hee, Kim Yo-jong, and Kim Jong-un.

The video begins with North Korea’s famous announcer Lee Chun-hee singing “Parent’s Favorite Provocation Plan” to the tune of the original song, followed by Kim Yo-jong’s “I’ll spread the fighting down there” and Kim Jong-un’s “Putin, I won’t trade my coin, our military.” It consists of lyrics that contain international issues currently being created by North Korea, such as “I sent you, so it’s already on my side.”

The original song’s repeated lyrics of “apartment, apartment,” famous for its highly addictive refrain, were replaced with the lyrics of “rocket, rocket,” as if to satirize North Korea’s continuous missile provocations.

The video, which naturally edited completely unrelated lyrics into the song by taking advantage of the original song’s rhyme, recorded nearly 250,000 views within 6 hours of being uploaded.

The ‘Martian Lildoji’ channel, which uploaded the video, is a channel that mainly operates music arrangements and composite videos.

Previously, several parody videos were uploaded, including ‘Oppa Ganna Style’, which parodied Kim Jong-un with singer Psy’s ‘Gangnam Style’, and ‘Black and White Chef’, which was a composite of Kim Jong-un and Kim Yo-jong as if they appeared in the Netflix ‘Black and White Chef’ program.

Netizens who watched the video responded with comments such as, ‘Seeing as the channel is still alive, Kim Jong-un is also a fan (of this channel),’ and ‘It would be nice to install a large screen next to the North Korean loudspeaker and play this.’

Thai woman, former Korean idol, arrested while fleeing overseas on suspicion of fraud worth 80 billion won

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A Thai woman who was a member of a girl group in Korea was caught in Indonesia while on the run on fraud charges.

According to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post on the 31st of last month (local time), Thailand’s Natamon Kongchak, who is suspected of foreign exchange investment fraud, was arrested after being reported by an Indonesian immigration officer.

Kongchak debuted in Korea under the label ‘Dream Cinema’ and participated in girl group activities, but was not successful and returned to Thailand to work as a YouTuber covering K-pop content. Kongchak, who gained popularity through K-pop dance and singing, later grew into a large YouTuber with 800,000 followers.

Congchak, who turned into a successful foreign exchange investor thanks to his popularity, carried out a foreign exchange investment fraud in 2022. It is known that the victims invested with guaranteed returns of 25% in 3 months, 30% in 6 months, and 35% in 1 year.

Victims who did not receive the promised profits asked Congchak to return their investment money, but Congchak made the excuse that “there was a transaction mistake” and threatened the victims by saying, “If you report it to the police, you will be sentenced to prison and you will not be able to return the money.”

This foreign exchange investment scam resulted in 6,000 victims and a loss of 2 billion baht (about KRW 81.4 billion).

Kongchak, who committed fraud and fled abroad with his mother and secretary, entered Indonesia via Malaysia and lived as a fugitive for about two years.

Eventually, Kongchak and his mother were caught by the police while trying to obtain a passport in Riau Province, western Indonesia.

The immigration officer, suspicious of Kongchak’s accent and pronunciation, asked him to recite the Indonesian national anthem and Article 1 of the Constitution, but he could not answer properly and was reported to the police.

Thai police said they had confiscated assets worth 16 million baht (about 800 million won) from the arrested Kongchak and were investigating the flow of funds to recover more.

Meanwhile, her assistant Nichapat Ratanukrom, who fled abroad with Kongchak, has not yet been located.

The deputy driver who filmed the video from behind after asking, “Please pull the car back just a little bit.”

The story of a man who asked the owner to pull out the car, saying, “I can’t pull the car out because it’s too stuck,” and was fined by a substitute driver who took a video from behind and reported it, is causing public outrage.

On the 31st of last month, an article titled “I was caught setting up a driver’s drunk driving report” was posted on an online community.

The author said that after drinking with an acquaintance, he called the driver, and the driver asked him to move the car back a little, so he put it in reverse for a short time by 3 meters and changed the driver’s seat.

Upon arriving home, the writer refused to pay the surrogate driver who demanded an excessive fee and called the agency, but the surrogate driver reportedly reported it to the police, saying, “I will report you for drunk driving.”

The writer, who thought, “How could he be drunk driving when he was driving the car?” later became embarrassed, saying, “They secretly filmed a video of the car pulling out of the car in reverse by 3 meters from behind.”

The author said that even after the police arrived, the substitute driver secretly persuaded him, saying, “I will send the police. Let’s come to an agreement,” but the police reprimanded the substitute driver and conducted a breathalyzer test without even hearing an explanation of the situation.

The author, whose blood alcohol level was found to be 0.133%, said that after being sent to the prosecution, he was eventually fined 6 million won and had his license revoked for one year.

The writer, who said, “I wrote this because I felt unfair, frustrated, and angry,” confessed, “I want to take issue with such irrational judgments and live in a world where unfair situations like this do not occur in the future by making accurate judgments.”

Netizens said, “Asking to remove a car, filming it and asking for more money is a set-up crime no matter who sees it. This kind of ruling is like neglecting set-up crimes by substitute drivers in the future,” and “When I asked to remove my car, I should have called another driver.” There was a reaction like this.