Rating: 
If you have an ounce of curiosity in you, watch this video. It’s a heart-wrenching melodramatic MV cum short film. It’s a seven minute love story, a quintessential Korean tale with a sequel. If you don’t know what a quintessential Korean music video is—if you haven’t been forced to bear witness to KiSS’ Because I’m a Girl (여자이니까) then you must, in order to expand your cultural horizons, “continue reading this post” and spend less than ten minutes indulging in SeeYa’s “Shoes” (구두 kudu).
On second thought, it’s not that great. There’s something about it that’s annoying and cliché, but if it were original it wouldn’t be quintessential. It would lack some of that overbearing passion and insanity that drives characters in MVs like this (and its sequel). The final line of the chorus, “because I’m your girl, your girl who knows no one besides you,”* wouldn’t hit nearly as hard.
In the end, “Shoes” may seem like just another sad Korean MV. But it isn’t. Despite being saturated with drama, it remains poignant.
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너 하나밖에 모르는 네 여자이니까 The translation isn’t exactly a literal one, but I think that it conveys the idea in English with more clarity than a lit. translation would.
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