Pop-sical

Okay, so almost every evening when I sit down to write the following day's blog post, I ask my daughter what I should write about. And every time she says, "SHINee!!!" (SHINee, for those of you over the age of 22 is a South Korean pop group. They are a really slicked up version of the Backstreet Boys in Korean.) Then we laugh and I post about something else.
Then, lo and behold, yesterday in the news there was an article about, not SHINee, but k-pop in general. The article talks about the intense popularity of these groups which are groomed to put on a show, but I especially liked this paragraph:

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak ranks the overseas success of "K-pop" among his country's top achievements, and the government operates a "Korean Wave" index to gauge the fever for its cultural exports.

Well, it's an export. They will be playing Madison Square Garden on October 23rd. I can only imagine the shrieks of swooning teen aged girls.