Listen and watch the music video or the song release live stage performance. Onward to notes:

English language reporting on Red Velvet's North Korean concert. Stan Ontology wants to note here that any event like this is going to be rife with contradiction and tensions - it's not as if there aren't emotional performances going on for the South Korean contingent, either. What we're saying is: it was awkward, ok?
The Chilseok myth.
f(x) - Red Light. This is the track that was supposed to be an explicit criticism of the Sewol Ferry tragedy, per SM Entertainment production team leader Lee Sung Soo.
One of the academic pieces we read on the Sewol Ferry disaster.
The R&B tracks we referenced: Aaliyah - Rock The Boat, SWV - Rain, Kelela - Frontline.
K-Pop Fancams Got Political to Protect Black Lives Matter Protesters From Dallas Police, and another excellent piece also from Teen Vogue On K-Pop Fans, Political Activism, and the Necessity of Nuance. As we say, there's a lot here.

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