Our colleague Akira recently went to Seoul with her best friend and returned to Korea three years later, and her feeling was that "it's not fun to buy, even nightclubs are not good", but she quietly told us that "the macho show on the last day of the trip is worth the plane ticket".
Yes, the macho show is slowly becoming the hottest project in Korean travel in addition to plastic surgery and concerts. When you were still touched by the pure love in Korean dramas, they stopped pretending and decided to go directly to the flesh:
360-degree 4D immersive feeling macho
Sitting with Akira in the theater was about 200 spectators, all adult women over the age of 19.
At the beginning of the performance, the first actor appeared in a bathrobe, and on the side of the stage, there was an area designed as a bathroom, and he walked over to "take a bath", his figure looming behind a hazy curtain.
Then, the handsome guy wrapped a bath towel around his lower body and came out of the bath.
Immediately afterwards, eight macho men of about one meter eight, naked upper body, only lower body wrapped around bath towels, they had a standard Korean "double-door refrigerator" body, and danced together.
It was the scene of the Korean macho show Wild Wild Dream, a "musical" that can only be viewed by women over the age of 19, with the tagline, "Built for adult women, watch Oppa's youthful flesh."
Of course, compared with the large-scale 18 bans in Southeast Asia, Korean macho shows focus on "macho men", not "salty wet".
During the 75-minute performance, eight Korean macho men took turns, ranging from solo to group dance, in the style of sitcoms, modern dance, K-pop, pole dancing and even some stunts. Macho men who dress thin and undress will also change different costumes: suits, school uniforms, military uniforms, jeans, white shirts, etc., to satisfy the audience's imagination of role-playing.
Since it is a macho show, during the performance, there are naturally some interactions that make people's faces blush:
Some people run off the stage to compare hearts and high-fives with the audience, some people suddenly "seat bang" the audience and lean over them, and some actors will hold the audience's hands and experience the feel of chest muscles and eight-pack abs.
Stella, who was selected to interact on stage, said that in the 5 minutes of the whole interaction, she was so close to the muscular handsome guy for the first time, which was both nervous and curious. "The most exciting thing was to carry me to the carpet and gaze at me affectionately. After the end, the actor also sent me back to my seat, and when I sat down, I kept comparing my heart. A whole set down, the fawn rammed! ”
The most important thing is that the above happiness is not expensive.
At its cheapest, you can buy a ticket for 280 yuan. Akira, who accidentally walked to the macho show because Seoul nightclubs were not fun, couldn't help but lament, "Not a minute of 75 minutes is wasted."
A two-door macho show with a variety of styles
How happy is it??
Wild Wild Dream was only staged in Korea in October 2021, and it attracted a lot of attention as soon as it debuted, and the popularity of the performance was rising.
Audience @ Fish ball-loving Xiong said that he and his friends discovered this performance when they were doing Korean travel guides, and since "they are coming", they must check in.
The more than a dozen actors who starred in the show are almost all like "idols reserves", with strong dance skills and high body flexibility, posing different poses in promotional photos.
The actors have their own merits, including long-haired literary men, handsome inches, sunny little dogs, exotic macho men, or sexy, or masculine, or beautiful, or sweet. In short, there is always one that is ideal for you.
One of the actors, Kim Sun, also participated in the first love variety show of Disney+ in South Korea, won a large number of fans, and promoted his show by the way. Each actor has their own fan base, and some viewers have obviously watched the macho show more than a dozen times.
Since the stage aisle position is the only passage for actors to interact with each other off the stage, many multi-brush audiences will grab the position here to interact with the actors, and the audience can also buy peripherals before the performance, take photos with the actors, and some people specially squat after the end of the performance to keep the actors off work.
The audience's evaluation after watching the show vividly expressed how good this show is:
@Akira: Many of the details of the interaction are unexpected. He would suddenly get very close to me and sit on the lap of the girl next to me, frightening my heart fluttering, nervous and a little expectant. The scale of the actor's performance is just right. This happiness feels too pale in words to see for yourself.
@Stella: After watching this show, I was stunned, the 75-minute performance felt so fast, the live interaction was one after another, the handsome guys were one after another, and I couldn't watch enough. Come out and make an appointment with your friends for the next viewing time. Women really want to experience this atmosphere.
@爱吃鱼丸的熊: My girlfriends and I were so excited after watching it, we discussed the show all night, and everyone was still unsatisfied, regretting that we didn't buy tickets for the aisle. All the girls at the scene felt that their voices were almost hoarse, and their mouths were grinning until the back of their heads could not come back, even the most introverted girls would be very excited when they saw it. There were also many aunts in their 50s who went to see it at the scene.
@Prayers: Happiness, contentment, joy! During the performance, I was clapping my hands and screaming, feeling that my money was really worth it, the actors were generously showing their figures, interacting with the female audience, not greasy at all, hoping that the sisters who traveled to Seoul could experience this happiness.
In addition to the sexy performance, the actors' sense of faith, control of scale, and attention to the audience's emotions have received a lot of praise.
With such word-of-mouth praise, the macho show has become the sales champion on the Korean performance list and has become the most anticipated entertainment project for many people.
Macho show, the next pillar industry of Korean tourism?
In fact, before Wild Wild Dream became popular, there were already many local macho shows in South Korea, focusing on a subtle and unrestrained, idol's head with a macho body, who is not confused when watching it.
Different macho shows also have different selling points, some featuring dance, while others prefer drama-oriented musicals.
Narsha, a member of the Korean girl group Brown Eyed Girls, who is directed by Wild Wild Dream, mentioned in an interview with South Korean media Insight that macho shows like Wild Wild Dream are not just symbols of entertainment in Europe and the United States, but a culture that allows women to enjoy happiness:
"When I saw the Chippendales Show or the Magic Mike Show in the United States, I had a longing for this performance culture. I hope that adult women can enjoy the performances specially prepared for them, and I hope that this can become a unique presence in Korea. ”
Chippendales show official website
Another popular Mr Show, produced by Park Kolleen, a well-known Korean musical theater director, has performed in Japan on the international stage, and choreographed powerful dances with themes such as uniforms and military uniforms.
In The Man Alive, another macho show experienced by the audience @ Bear who loves fish balls, the actors will pick the audience to come on stage for wedding interaction, from marriage proposal to marriage, all kinds of difficult actions are not a problem.
Although the overall look is very exciting, the actors are very good at grasping the scale and do not have too much contact. Many viewers went to see it many times, just to have the opportunity to be drawn on stage to interact.
South Korea's well-developed entertainment industry is not limited to Kpop and TV dramas that have swept the world, but also stage plays and performances.
As early as 1995, Samsung Entertainment moved the Broadway musicals "42nd Street" and "West Side Story" to the Korean stage, and the stage play entered the stage of industrialization. In December 2001, the Korean version of "Phantom of the Theater" was launched, and sales reached 19 billion won in seven months of performance, far exceeding the market size of 10 billion to 14 billion won in musicals at that time.
In the following two decades, South Korea's total population grew by 4 million, GDP per capita tripled, and the musical theater market soared 30 to 40 times, reaching 350 billion to 400 billion won in 2022, accounting for more than 75% of the entire performance industry (excluding concerts). Theater culture has become an indispensable part of Korean cultural life.
In addition, in South Korea, where national fitness + idols per capita, it is not difficult to find actors with excellent figures, we once wrote an article in order to train into a "double-door refrigerator", Korean men fight. Compared with last year, the self-management of the body by Korean boys can only be said to be more than enough.
Needless to say, watching a macho show has already been listed on the life list. After all, eight high-quality macho men twist and make you happy for an hour, which is not a rarity.
Written by: DD interviewees who want to watch macho shows are pseudonyms
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