Fucking USA

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“Fucking USA”
“Fucking USA” cover
Single by Yoon Min-suk
Released 2002
Format Download, Video
Genre Rock & Roll
Punk
Parody
Producer Yoon Min-suk
"Park"

"Fucking USA", often called "Fuck'n USA", is a protest song written by South Korean singer and activist Yoon Min-suk. Strongly anti-US Foreign policy and anti-Bush, the song was written in 2002 at a time when, following the Apolo Ohno Olympic controversy and an incident in which two Korean middle school students were killed under the wheels of a U.S. Army vehicle; anti-American sentiment in South Korea reached high levels.[1] Musically it is a parody of "Surfin USA" and though it has a vulgar aspect it is not supposed to be, according to Yoon, just an angsty punk type song but a serious critique of the Bush Admin. and US foreign policy in particular in the Korean peninsula, just conveyed in an ironic and jokingly vitriolic way.[2][3]

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[edit] Video

Later a music video, supposedly created by North Koreans in the South, was broadcast on a South Korean news program, where it was picked up by Rob Pongi[4] and subsequently rebroadcast on the show's website along with Japanese and English subtitles, enabling it to spread worldwide.[5][6][7] The version of the song in the video has been remixed and opens with caricatures of U.S. President George W. Bush taunting Koreans, while chants of "부시악" ("Pushi Ak" or "Bush Evil") echo in the background. It displays a slideshow of Korean political cartoons attacking U.S. foreign policy, ending abruptly on the line "Yankee Go Home!", with an animation of the Statue of Liberty exploding.[8]

The video has developed a minor cult status in the West, where it has been shown on comedy shows such as Tarrant on TV.

[edit] Lyrics

“

Did you see the short-track skating race?
A vulgar country, Fucking USA
Are you so happy over a gold medal?
A nasty country, Fucking USA
Such as you are, can you claim that the USA is a nation of justice?
Why the hell can't we say what we have to?
Are we slaves of a colonial nation?
Now shout it out: "No to the USA"
A wretched thief that stole our Olympic gold medal, Fucking USA
A wicked robber that tries to rob everything by force, Fucking USA

Did you hear Bush's reckless words?
A shameless country, Fucking USA
It makes war threats to the north as well as intervention into the south
A country of gangsters, Fucking USA
Is the USA still a beautiful country?
Is the north still an "enemy" to be killed?
How much more do we have to endure before we realize?
Now shout it out: "Yankee, go home!"
You dirty Yankees, wait and see
We will reunify the country with the independent force of the Korean nation
We will build a dignified country, a reunified country

Remember well our tears of blood
You, author of Korea's division, Fucking USA
Don't forget the Nogun-ri massacre of civilians!
You murderering country, Fucking USA

 ”

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[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Through the East Asian Lens (May 7, 2003)
  2. ^ The Party Pooper: F*cking USA
  3. ^ http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ko&u=http://www.ddanzi.com/articles/article_view.asp%3Finstallment_id%3D59%26article_id%3D1285&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://www.ddanzi.com/articles/article_view.asp%253Finstallment_id%253D59%2526article_id%253D1285%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7ADBR
  4. ^ Fucking USA Fuck George Bush Video
  5. ^ Popular Anti-USFK Song in South Korea
  6. ^ http://www.ultimatememedatabase.com/
  7. ^ The Intercontinental 1/4/07 - on WMBR
  8. ^ The Party Pooper: F*cking USA
  9. ^ MySpace.com - Fucking USA! - KR - Pop / Rock / Hip Hop - www.myspace.com/yoonminsuk
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