For many Korean immigrants, trot songs tug at the feelings they often suppress as they go about their daily routines in their adopted country.
Even Jin, a member of BTS, joined the trend in 2021 with his song “Super Tuna.”
“Amid the rain in a train heading south / outside the shaking windows,” Kim Soo Hee sings in “A Southbound Train,” which came out in 1987 and is one of the most popular trot songs. “Rain is falling / so are my tears and my lost first love / … Although we cannot meet / don’t forget about me.”Then came the “American Idol”-like audition programs that catapulted some singers like Lim to a K-pop-like fame.
“Even if you don’t know the choreography, you can dance,” said Choi, who came to the U.S. about 30 years ago and ran a liquor store in Riverside until retiring about a decade ago. “As I get older, I get nostalgic … Even when I live in the United States, my heart is in Korea.”
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