Mentioning Park Jae-sang we do not know who he is, but talking about the bird uncle many people are very familiar with. In 2012, he was the one who took the world by storm with his song "Gangnam Style". Gangnam Style is the most popular song in the world, and has surpassed the Guinness Book of Records record of 803 million hits by Justin Bieber. According to the popularity of Gangnam Style at that time, Bird Uncle is very likely to occupy a place in the Korean entertainment circle. But now in the major platforms rarely see the figure of bird uncle.
Bird Uncle is a South Korean, his real name is Park Jae-sang. What people can't imagine is that the reputation of Bird's uncle in the mouth of the South Korean people is so bad that it is considered a shame for South Korea, what did he really do to provoke public anger ? Today, we'll take a look.
Bird uncle is a Korean perhaps some people will find it very strange, because from the Korean circle of entertainment stars, not white beautiful long legs beauty, is tall and handsome Korean Oba. Singer like Bird Uncle, who has a plump body and doesn't look outstanding, it's hard to imagine him coming out of the Korean showbiz industry.
In the absence of Gangnam Style, Bird Uncle is a fat house in the land of kimchi. To be precise, he is a rich fat house. His grandfather was the owner of a semiconductor company that supplied two-thirds of Korea's electronics market. His father was the chairman of a publicly traded company, and he was the only son in the family, and he grew up with a lot of love and affection. But he is like the son of a plutocrat in a Korean idol drama, who doesn't want to inherit his family's fortune, but wants to go it alone.
Bird Uncle has been motivated to enter the entertainment industry since he was a child, but his family did not agree. The key is that in the Korean entertainment industry, Birdie's looks are not advantageous. So the family arranged for Bird to study business at Boston University. But Birdie didn't want to, and he skipped every class, and eventually he was expelled from the school. After the expulsion the family had no choice but to send Bird to Berklee College of Music.
The family thought that since you're not interested in business, you'd like to make a name for yourself in the entertainment industry. At Berklee College of Music, Bird Uncle and Wang Leehom became alumni. But didn't care about his music studies, Farr spent all the tuition money on music equipment, computers, keyboards and other instruments. That's why he didn't graduate from Berklee College of Music.
But with a wealthy family, Birdie eventually went straight to Rome and entered the entertainment industry. Returning from the conservatory in 2001, Bird released his debut album, PSY from the PSYcho World! , which was poorly received.
But the good news is that Bird has managed to enter the Korean entertainment industry. But the fact that his career was hindered because of his looks made Bird Uncle both helpless and ridiculous. But he didn't give up on his entertainment career. But the time has come for him to do his military service in South Korea. In addition, the boy who has been favored since childhood can not stand the training in the army.
So in 2005, Bird spent a lot of money on his family's connections to buy an engineer's certificate, and went on to serve in a network company as a technician. Compared to life in the military, networks companies don't require physical training at all, and are very free, making them more comfortable than the military. In addition, with the strength of Birdie's family, all he needs to do is go to work and punch a clock, and hang on to his name for the next three years.
But Bird Uncle is not the usual way, in the network company during military service, Bird Uncle in order to make money to open fifty concerts, not only earn a lot of money, but also did not put the country's rules in the eyes. So his such a high-profile performance triggered public discontent, and for a long time, Korean nationals spontaneously boycotted his songs, and Bird not only suffered from the accusations of the Korean nationals, but also fell into a low period of his career.
In the end, the relevant departments had to take action to rectify the situation. The public boycott of his songs slowly subsided, and he was sentenced to twenty months of re-service. At the end of his military service in 2010, Bird signed with YG Agency and released the album PSY Five. The song brought him back to the limelight.
The whole atmosphere in Korea was also very low. In this situation, Bird wanted to have a song that would boost everyone's morale and make them happy when they heard it, so Gangnam Style was developed. With its magical song and unprecedented horseback dancing, Gangnam Style, coupled with its tongue-in-cheek music video, quickly gained popularity among the Korean public. Soon the song swept the world like a tornado, and everyone was humming along to Oba's Gangnam Style.
Later, this song not only in South Korea, but also successfully opened up the European and American markets in China, and even thousands of netizens scrambled to imitate. down to three-year-old children, up to dozens of years old square dance grandmothers and grandfathers , even Chow Yun Fat will jump on a section. That year, Uncle Bird simply lived a phenomenal life. The song was just a few days online, and it reached number one on the charts of thirty-five countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.
He has since appeared on the cover of America's most prestigious music magazine, and has received the same level of visa as David Beckham. He danced with 20,000 people under the Eiffel Tower, and he was invited to the White House dinner, where he was loved by dignitaries. At his peak, Uncle Bird was not only popular among the people, but also loved by dignitaries.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon received Birdie at the UN headquarters, and happily learned to dance with him on horseback. King Bhumibol of Thailand invited Bird Uncle to attend his celebration party in Bangkok on his birthday. When the White House held a Christmas party in the U.S., Bird performed in front of President Barack Obama as the Asian guest of honor. He also became the first Korean singer to give a lecture at the University of Oxford, and the following year, he took the podium at Harvard University in the U.S. to speak to the students. And Uncle Bird even went on to rake in a crazy $15 billion in two months with the song.
It's no exaggeration to say that he was the most influential person in the world at that time. But with the honor came a lot of skepticism. Some have pointed out that Bird's Gangnam Style m v is full of vulgar and dirty footage, but no matter how much skepticism there is out there, Bird has really taken the world by storm with a phenomenal momentum.
After reaching the peak, Bird Uncle is naturally not willing to return to mediocrity again. Maybe he's just out of his element, but he's starting to play around with it.
But "Gentleman"'s music video has been questioned as disrespectful to the female population, and Bird has been criticized once again. But Bird uncle does not care, he said he was not a refined person, the song is his creation based on life perception, there is no meaning of insulting women.
However, it didn't take long for South Korea's KBS to make a banning notice on "Gentleman". Because there is a shot in the music video where Bird Uncle kicks the barricade away, it is this shot that KBS TV thought would bring bad influence to the underage. So they notified Bird Uncle to make deletions to the music video of "Gentleman" or else they would ban it.
Once KBS TV's attitude came out, many people who couldn't accept Bird Uncle's style in the past stood up to him, causing his reputation to suffer greatly. He was then embroiled in a Korean nightclub sex reception scandal. According to YG employees, because of the huge wealth brought to the company, YG president Yang Hyun-suk personally organized a banquet to entertain the bird uncle in this banquet, there are two from Southeast Asia big brother.
To show his sincerity, Yang found two dozen women to serve Bird, but this multi-player campaign was quickly caught by Korean paparazzi on the spot, but Bird argued that he just drank some wine and left. He didn't know anything about the more than twenty beautiful girls, however, the military service made the public no longer believe in him. Bird uncle's social image was once again discounted. After these two events, Bird Uncle was quiet for a while.
Originally, he planned to make a comeback when the storm passed, but it was not to be. After the nightclub scandal, Bird Uncle was found to be addicted to contraband. This led to a public boycott of the man in South Korea. Then Bird's refusal to serve in the military, the smoking of contraband, and the nightclub multiplayer campaign were all reported in turn on all major platforms in South Korea, and more and more people spontaneously boycotted Bird, sparking even more serious boycotts and condemnations than the last time.
But what many people didn't expect was that Bird's story didn't end there, and then Bird was exposed as a plagiarist, and it turned out that the original author of the song that he was so proud of, "Gangnam Style", was his friend, Kim Jang-hoon. Kim Jang-hoon, after learning of Bird's plagiarism, tried desperately to defend his work but was unsuccessful. This led to a mental breakdown and a suicide attempt. When something like this comes out, it comes as a shock.
In the eyes of the Korean public, Bird has become a "murderer", and even a disgrace to Korea, so more and more accusations and boycotts, but also let Bird began to rethink their own, looking for a chance to rise. He retired from acting and devoted himself to developing artists, signing up the hotshot Kim Hyun Ah and her boyfriend Kim Hyo Jong.
Nowadays, Birdie is working on his own, but he's a lot more low-key than he was before. He's not only doing behind-the-scenes work, but he's also working as a mentor, casting new people, and working as a trainee. In fact, even if he doesn't do it, he can still go home and be a rich man, and even the money he earns from Gangnam Style is enough for him to enjoy his old age. What do you think about Bird's uncle?