Trot singer Na Hoon-a — who, as you all know, is the shit — says he’s got nothing to explain, all the rumors are bullshit, and the press should learn to do its job.
Which is to say, no, he wasn’t assaulted by a yakuza boss for banging the gangster’s mistress, who — as the rumor mill would have it — was either Kim Hye-soo or Kim Sun-ah (the two actresses have also denied the rumors, and Na demanded the media apologize to both).
And fuck no, he didn’t have his penis cut off by said yakuza boss for banging one of said actresses — and he was even willing to prove it.
Na Hoon-a is the master of all he surveys. This is his world — we just live in it.
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That dude rocks! He should be spearheading the Korean wave instead of dandies like “Rain”.
I’ll second that.
He IS the man.
Damn if he can score premium a$$ like those two. It really makes you wonder what the hell Korean women look for in a guy.
Rain has purtier lips.
He certainly looks a lot tougher than the usual ‘trot’ singer.
Actually, this guy is one of the few Korean musical entertainers about whom my colleagues and I agree — he’s cool.
Inspired stuff…snot-slinging funny, bro’…고맙다
Nice! Let’s see him prove it!
Damn. HE is the Gangster of Love. Period.
Even my mom still was still requesting Na Hoon-a (although she wanted a DVD two Christmases ago, instead of the vinyl she had in her youth). This man is truly the mack – been macking since my mom was a student, and still pulling ass even today?
And he told the media to go fuck itself.
I need to ask Mom to go see if she has any old Na Hoon-a records. He’s my new hero.
In case this wasn’t clear, Na Hoon-a did NOT bang Kim Hye-soo or Kim Sun-ah. Nor are either of said actresses the mistress of some yakuza boss in Busan.
That doesn’t make Na Hoon-a any less cool. Na Hoon is Korea’s Mick Jagger, and only 3 year’s younger. However, someone more knowledgeable on the music legend may want to update his wikipedia biography - wikipedia says he’s a Korean disco singer who lives in the US.
Just out of curiosity—what is a “trot singer”?
He might be cool and he might sign trot well, but he is ugly enough to scare paint off walls.
He might be cool and he might sing trot well, but he is ugly enough to scare paint off walls.
I’m kinda disappointed he didn’t follow through with the five minutes of show time. Not that I HAVE to see it, but I am curious if he’s the new Mr. Frankenpenis or whatever the hell Bobbitt was called.
I can just see the headline: “Mr. N Arrested for Lewd Conduct at a Press Conference”
I love old dudes that are willing to kick your ass.
I haven’t commented here in a long time, and I don’t break my comment silence for any old run-of-the-mill reason, but yes, Na Hoon-a is the master. He has an old-school Country (the good stuff: Cash, Milsap, Haggard, et al.) edge about him, somehow, too—or maybe that’s just my imagination.
As I gather, there was a rivalry between Na fans and Nam Jin fans at one time: Na was the Yeongnam boy, and Nam was the Honam hero. But they’ve done an album together in recent years.
You’re right. He was a great country eastern singer at one point, but not sure how popular he is these days. He was never an outlaw like Merle, Willie or Waylon though. In any case, I believe where there’s smoke, there is fire. I’ll say he and two actresses are guilty as charged and we have no business meddling in their private affair.
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What the hell is a “trot singer”?
What the hell kind of Korean are you that you don’t know what “trot” is?
Tell him, pawi!
Funny thing is, I was going to blog on this a week or so ago because I had a doctor friend tell me that some urologists that he knew up in Seoul were buzzing about it over the past month or so and he seems pretty sure that the rumors are true… About the penis thing as a result of the tryst with ‘the faceless woman.’ But I guess that’s how legends are born.
Ms. Kim’s business is her own and I know I’m going to get lambasted by some feminist out there, but I really have to wonder why a woman of her age is not at the very least involved with someone. In western society, we probably wouldn’t bat an eye about it (though Oprah might disagree) but here in Korea, women get harassed into marriage every day if nothing else but for show… So, why isn’t she married? Anyone got another rumor to start… At least the yakuza rumor sounded feasible.
I’m not pawi, but let me explain:
Trot because: fox trot rhythm plus enka type melodies. Came to Korea during the colonial era and has been big ever since. Heyday reached in 1980s. Also known as bongjak.
this Na Hoon Ah dude looks like a King.
Or a face worthy of a general.
In fact, I think it’s a face befitting a hero in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Maybe that’s why he was rumored truthfully or untruthfully to have been having sex with pretty much any girl he desired, high or low class.
Sonagi doesn’t have good eyes to judge Gwang-Sang, which I admit is an East Asian pseudo-science.
#25,
What’s with the flowery language?
It sounds as if you need to let the New Yorker in you beat up the Korean drama watching part of you a bit.
I just listened to some of his commentary on YTN and he was waxing most eloquently about the bad press.
#27,
I saw almost the whole thing on TV. The picture that was chosen to accompany the article linked above is misleading. He was in fact very calm and smiled the whole time.
I thought he was smiling.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com.....10.jpg?v=0
British readers may be amused to know that this story appeared on BBC Ceefax - see link above.