Fucking USA
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A still from the Fucking USA music video |
Fuck'n USA, often called
Fucking USA, is a protest song written by
South Korean singer and activist
Yoon Min-suk. Strongly anti-American, 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 by a U.S. Army vehicle, anti-American sentiment in South Korea reached peak levels. The song became a hit and was played at numerous protests and marches including one in front of the United States embassy; people also wore stickers bearing its name.
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 the
Rob Pongi show and subsequently rebroadcast on the show's website along with Japanese and English subtitles, enabling it to spread worldwide. 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 "λΆμμ
" ("Pushi Ak" or "Bush Evil") echo in the background. As the music plays, 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. It details a litany of Korean grievances against America, beginning from the most recent and going back to the
Korean War and the
Nogun-ri massacre.
The video has developed a minor cult status in the West, where it is percieved as ridiculous, has been shown on comedy shows such as
Tarrant on TV.
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