In fact, the emergence of the domestic Hallyu wave is far earlier than many people remember.
Around 1998, Korean songs and singers began to enter the Taiwanese music scene in a big way.
In the "prehistoric era of the Korean Wave" before this, Jiang Yuheng, Jang Ho-chul and Kim Won-suan have brought some "Korean flavor" to the Taiwanese pop music scene.
South Korean idol group BTS Bulletproof Youth League was recently selected by Time Magazine as the "Artist of the Year 2020".
In addition, not long ago, he won the top spot on the Us Billboard Top 100 Singles Chart with the single "Dynamite", becoming the first Korean singer in history to win the title on the chart.
They pushed the global K-POP boom to a higher peak.
Taiwan is no exception.
Young people are as fascinated as the world by K-POP "K-pop" idols.
Reviewing the history of Taiwan's pop music scene,
In the "K-pop prehistoric era",
And which singers have brought some "Korean flavor"?
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > Kang Yu-heng was the earliest singer associated with "Korea"</h1>
In Taiwan's popular songs of the 1960s and 1970s,
For example, "I am around you" sung by Qingshan, Fei Yuqing and so on,
Or "Lover's Yellow Shirt" sung by Xie Lei and Teresa Teng,
In fact, they are all cover songs from Korean.
But at the time, this was not particularly emphasized.
The public did not associate these songs with South Korea.
If you talk about the first singer in the Taiwanese music scene to leave the impression of being related to "South Korea", it should be Jiang Yuheng.
Jiang Yuheng's parents are both from Shandong and moved to South Korea in his early years.
He was also born in South Korea.
Because of the poor financial situation of the family, the middle school left home to study in other places.
At the same time, he began to work to supplement the family.
From food delivery, restaurant waiters, construction workers, to selling shoe polish and umbrellas.
In high school, he fell in love with music and performed in an orchestra with his classmates.
After graduation, I went to a Western restaurant to sing.
However, because his parents passed away one after another, he left South Korea and came to Taiwan.
He got a job at a nightclub.
When there is a singer singing, he plays the bass as a musician, and when there is no singer, he sings at the same time.
It was also here that he met Miao Xiuli, the planning manager of Guangmei Records, and was signed to make his debut.
In 1984, Jiang Yuheng released his first album "Love Me/Lonely Journey".
Most of the young pop singers at that time were a sunny and joyful image.
Jiang Yuheng's bumpy experience during his growth has made him only 26 years old but he has already looked like he has gone through vicissitudes.
When he held the guitar on TV and sang the title song "Love Me",
The unique voice lonely sings:
"Why should you be sad, why should you shed tears, is it that no one comes to accompany you in the dark night."
That cold and melancholy temperament from the north, different,
Immediately became a hit and won the love of a large number of young people.
Hence the title of "Melancholy Prince".
Volkswagen also left an impression on his status as a Korean overseas Chinese.
Jiang Yuheng has released 4 albums on Guangmei Records.
During this period, there are representative works such as "When", "Stringed up and scattered", "I hope to be drunk for a long time".
In 1987, he jumped ship to ufo records on the condition of "being the producer of his own album".
And co-founded Kaili Creative Portfolio Company with Miao Xiuli, who discovered herself, and Zhang Xiaoyan, a senior host.
Not only did it open the pinnacle of his singing career,
Kaili Creative has created a combination of little tiger team, sad party, red child, girl team and so on.
He became an important driver of the idol trend in the early 90s.
Jiang Yuheng in the Guangmei period still sang about the loneliness and self-compassion of the little self.
When it comes to the flying saucer, it turns into a sigh after the vicissitudes of the mulberry field.
The title song of the eponymous debut album of this period, "Moving Heart", is the work of Liang Hongzhi,
That set the tone.
The following "Cheers to the Past" album is a cover song from a Japanese song,
Soothed many tired and frustrated people.
1989's "Looking Back" is Jiang Yuheng's most widely known best-selling album.
The title song of the same name was originally a Cantonese song sung by Su Rui, and Chen Lerong changed the lyrics Chinese.
Although it was also included in the Suri album,
But it was through Jiang Yuheng's cover singing that it became popular.
A sentence "Once in the dark and dark repeatedly asked, only to know that plain and calm is the truth",
Sing out the state of mind after seeing the gains and losses.
In 1991 he entered the newly opened Chinese mainland.
Sing this song on CCTV Spring Festival Gala,
Let this song be popular all over China.
He has since opened up the Chinese market.
Jiang Yuheng won the "Best Singing Album Award" at the 3rd Golden Melody Awards in 1992 with the album "One Man".
At the 31st Golden Melody Awards ceremony in October this year,
He presented the "Special Contribution Award" to his old friend "Taiwan Drum King" Huang Ruifeng, who has cooperated for many times.
It made him appear in front of the public in Taiwan again.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > Jang Ho-cheol debuted from Taiwan to counterattack the Korean music scene</h1>
Jiang Yuheng is a representative of Korean overseas Chinese in the music scene.
Another singer who was very popular in the 90s, Jang Ho-chul, is an authentic Korean.
Jang Ho-chul was born in Seoul (Seoul).
After finishing high school in Korea,
Because his father admired Chinese culture, he sent him to Taiwan to study,
I hope that after he completes his studies, he will return to Korea to become a professor of Chinese.
He first studied at the Department of Literature at Bunka University, and after graduation, he was admitted to the Institute of Political Science of National Taiwan University.
Originally, everything developed according to his father's expectations, but because he went to Ximending's folk song western restaurant to sing and work, he went out of a different life path.
He was discovered by his college friend and music producer Huang Qingyuan and signed to PolyGram Records.
In January 1988, he released his first solo album "I Really Didn't Mean it".
Became the first Korean to release a Chinese album in Taiwan.
Zhang Haozhe's appearance is burly, with a beard,
The song is very special, hoarse and masculine,
It was the typical appearance of Korean men in the impression of many Taiwanese at that time.
When he sang the title songs "I Really Didn't Mean It" and "Back to the Past",
But it seems gentle and affectionate.
The sense of contrast has attracted more attention for him,
The debut album had a good sales result.
Zhang Haozhe released his second album "Not Me Accidental" the following year, continuing the style of his first album.
The title song "Not Me Accidental", the colloquial chorus lyrics were sung for a while.
It was also adapted into a Cantonese version by Hong Kong singer Li Keqin.
His fourth Chinese album, North Wind Crossing the River, released in April 1990, is his most important masterpiece.
The title song "North Wind" seems to describe his personal experience,
It also reinforces his image of vicissitudes, masculinity, and development from the north to a foreign land.
The song was a huge hit and led to a record for album sales.
"North Wind" was shortlisted for the "Best Song of the Year Award" at the 2nd Golden Melody Awards that year.
Although he later lost to Zhou Huajian's "There Is Love in This City", it still did not reduce the extent to which this song was sung on both sides of the strait and in three places.
What's more special is that
Zhang Hozhe, who is in the multinational record group PolyGram,
Under the impetus of the record company,
Adapted some of the songs from the first two Chinese albums into Korean versions plus new creations,
In 1989, he returned to his hometown of South Korea to release a Korean album "Thirty Years of Mirror Empty Bottles", which was also a new record at that time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > South Korean dynamic diva Kim Won-suan turned to the Taiwanese music scene</h1>
Jang Ho Chul is a Korean song that debuted in Taiwan.
At that time, the development of the Taiwanese music scene attracted a well-known Singer who debuted in South Korea to cross the ocean to release Chinese albums.
This singer is Kim Won-suan, known as "Korean Madana".
Kim Won-hyun debuted in South Korea in 1986 and won the KBS Song Awards Newcomer Award.
With a sexy style and dance in just a few years became a dynamic diva.
It is known as the ancestor of female singers in the Korean music scene.
Later, her popularity gradually declined, and she decided to move to Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Since 1994, Kim has released 3 Chinese albums in Taiwan.
It's just that when she sang on the show, she said that Chinese was not very fluent with a Korean accent.
Plus I don't understand Chinese meaning,
The slow half-beat silly reaction made a lot of laughs,
As a result, her performance on variety shows is more popular with the public than her achievements in the Chinese music scene.
However, as the first Korean female singer to develop in the Chinese pop music market in Hong Kong and Taiwan,
She is still remembered by many people, and together with Zhang Hozhe, she was also named the title of "Yuanzu Korean Wave" in Taiwan and Hong Kong.