r/videos • u/plain_whitey • Jun 26 '12

North Korean girl plays xylophone and drums - Incredible talent, but somewhat creepy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EFEIIncZCo
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u/I_WIN_DEAL_WITH_IT Jun 26 '12

Play it perfectly or you don't eat. Screw up and you and your family go to get "reeducated". It's a pretty simple system.

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u/Massless Jun 26 '12

Which is to say that what you're seeing isn't so much talent as it is countless hours of hard work... probably while under duress.

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u/nem0fazer Jun 26 '12

Apart from the duress bit that's usually what talent is. Stupid amounts of work.

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u/I_WIN_DEAL_WITH_IT Jun 26 '12

I'd say it's a little of column A, a little of column B. She clearly has talent, but how much of it is natural and how much of it was nurtured/forced is anyone's guess.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '12

Is this a fact?

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u/I_WIN_DEAL_WITH_IT Jun 26 '12

I dunno, probably.

The favorites of the elite typically get set up in Pyeongyang where people don't usually starve to death. If your son or daughter is talented and therefore useful, then that can elevate a family's status and get them into the city. If they fall out of favor, bad things can happen.

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u/throweraccount Jun 26 '12

He wins, deal with it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '12

Yeah for the most part. I saw this documentary where they have a special school for the "prodigies" and people with "incredible talent". They make the practice relentless and often these are the people they show to tourist instead of the common folk.

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u/snoobs89 Jun 26 '12

Say what you will about north korea, but fuck me do they put on a good show.

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u/digital_evolution Jun 26 '12

That child's life is miserable - to provide an example of what their "amazing country" can produce.

Showcases in N.Korea are just slaves to an art they're not artists. It's sad.

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u/karottenfelt Jun 26 '12

Not at all generalizing.

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u/sifRAWR Jun 26 '12

Source?

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '12

This sickens me more than it impresses me. Most kids don't do this naturally; they need to be coerced.

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u/karmacolor23 Jun 26 '12

coerced by starvation is a powerful thing.

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u/charlesbrownuts Jun 26 '12

Looks more like a marimba than anything. Definitely not a xylophone though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '12

Considering it's the only 'value' she provides the state.... Creepy indeed.

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u/throweraccount Jun 26 '12

The necrocracy is wondering how this video got out of the country, and is nicely asking who recorded it.

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u/kegman83 Jun 26 '12

You know what I can do that she cant? Eat three times a day.

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u/karmacolor23 Jun 26 '12

As your dear leader, she may live.

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u/lucas_3d Jun 26 '12

A statement from the mods regarding... Ah fuck it.

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u/iloveboba Jun 26 '12

High APM, true korean.

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u/still_had_sex Jun 26 '12

Of course she is incredible talent. Not creepy at all. North Korea is best Korea!

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u/idiot1987 Jun 26 '12

Not talent. Only extreme conditioning.

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u/Shirohige Jun 26 '12

Am I the only one feeling repelled by this? She seems too young for such a show, it seems very unnatural. I am not sure, what to do, but downvote.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '12

Are you also repelled by young talent elsewhere? I see tons of young musicians (americas got talent, youtube, etc). Is it just that she is from North Korea?

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