Couch was formed by two young South Korean musicians, Shin and Oh in Seoul in 2003. They remained relatively unknown to the wider public until they gatecrashed a Korean TV show (Music Camp on MBC), featuring another Korean punk band, Rux in 2005. They dropped their pants on stage, and were promptly arrested for exposing their private parts on national TV.
Their importance was in sparking a national debate about the decline of traditional behaviour among the young, which in many ways mirrored the outcry in the United States about Janet Jackson's accidental exposure of her breast on a live CBS show. In Korea, the incident caused a thorough review of Korean broadcasting output, and calls for punitive action against the broadcaster. The Music Camp show, although already well established, was promptly cancelled by the MBC network as a direct result of the incident.
External links
edit- official website (in Korean)