PERSUASIVE SPEECH

“What I Love About Korean Music”

Angelo Aguda

In the genre of South Korean music there are various team up

groups and individuals that conveyed music with their own unique
ways. K-pop music has been all around the world as it was always
on top leaderboard in music genres, despite of its foreign language a
lot of people still love to listen to their music. Many people
throwing their comments about this topic; others saying ‘why do
you all tend to listen to this kind of music?’, ‘You cannot even
understand that language, is in it embarrassing to love their
language/music than your own?’. I know it is a human nature to give
comments or judge someone or something based on their own
perspective, we, people, tend to listen on what we believe is right,
we never listen to other people, we never consider someone’s
feelings and we never respect someone’s taste on something. Same
as what I was saying, in terms of music, we could all have
somethings in common and somethings in different, yet some
people did not understand what other people love, they make
judgements that are inappropriate and inconsiderable.

Here now I am standing in front of you all, brave and strong to

prove you all wrong about what a Korean music is. Let me start with
some basic information, “What really is K-Pop?” K-pop is a short
term for ‘Korean Music’ which all composed of various team up
groups and individuals that conveyed music with their own unique
talents. K-pop starts ages ago but early this 20 th century, K-pop
became more influenced all around the world, some of the non-
Korean music have the influence of Korean genre. In our country,
the Philippines, also have its influences. We now have P-pop (Pinoy
Pop) as we all call them. Personally, I did consider myself as one of
the people who really love music especially this K-pop genre. We,
people who loved K-pop, called ourselves a ‘fan’, who loved not
only our favorite artists’ music but also their own personalities. We
may not understand their language but that does not stop us loving
them and their music. One of the reasons why I really love Korean
music was because of the deep message and emotions it depicts, the
artists shows their experiences in life through their music which
sometimes I can see myself in that particular song.

In this speech I would also like to share my own experience in this

path that I have chosen. In terms of my choice of Korean group to
Stan for, I usually focus on one particular group that I would love
listening to. And I really hope that after sharing this experience I
would love to know if I did able to persuade and somehow
convinced you to love K-pop.

Year 2016, I clearly have remembered myself saying that I would

never Stan or even listen to this kind of music, I cannot even
understand it so why waste time? I would rather listen to some
Pilipino songs. But this thought of mine literally changed after only
a year, early 2017 my sister introduced a lot of K-pop groups to me,
she told me every single thing about what does she love about them,
I was in awe after listening to it and still could not believe what their
music have helped her through her life. I tried listening to their
music and obviously I do not understand any bit of it as it was in a
foreign language, so I did google the song lyrics and finally I found
myself loving them. This continued until now, the first group I
really Stan was BTS but I also used to listen to other group.
There are many different Korean groups like BTS, EXO, Big Bang,
Got7, Red Velvet, Twice, Blackpink and many other Korean groups
that you can think of. And as for me, these days I really love
listening to one group that is famously known as En-hypen, they are
composed of seven members in total, debuted last year of November
30th under a company named Belift Entertainment. Enhypen was
formed through a survival show called ‘i-Land’ under a
collaboration between M-net (a company) and Hybe Labels (a
company). I truly loved them all as I loved myself, they are one of
the reasons why I never give up despite of everything that I have
faced, they are one of the reasons why I kept on fighting and still
standing strong as I struggle a lot. I have known En-hypen since
their pre-debut era, I been there since the start I have seen them
struggled through the weekly tasks, I saw how they improved, I saw
them laughing, getting mad and crying. They have been through a
lot, and still not giving up and look what they are now, they have
become the most influential group as of 2020. En-hypen made me
realized about something in real life and that is ‘no matter how hard
your life is, never think of giving up instead look up, stand strong
and face it’. Everything happens for a reason so is in reality, every
events we have faced, will face and facing have a better result at the
end. I also experienced buying an album which is a good concept, it
provides me sense of belongings as I sing my heart out. To all non-
fans out there might find this nonsense but for me En-Hypen gave
me a huge source of encouragement, from the way they give their
best in whatever they do made me wanting to do the same.
I can say that En-Hypen is really worth stanning for because they
have visuals, vocals and their music emanates happiness and
positivity around the world. Another reason is because of their
humidity, the way they treated their own fans as if they are just a
group of friends hanging out and to disregard their social status,
they freely and happily interact with their fans while maintaining
things in order. They will remind you to who you are and to not be
afraid of showing the real you.
Over all, En-Hypen will give you the confidence you might need,
they will give you inspirations to step out of your comfort zone in
order to show your true selves.
And to end my speech I would like to remind you all that ‘to
connect makes us special’, connection makes things work together.
We may all have different personalities; but we can work it out
together through connecting these differences to make a new one.