[영어/회화] The Rise of “Newtro”: Explaining global retro fever
Vocabulary
Anthology
a collection of artistic works that have a similar form or subject, often those considered to be the best:
This Bob Dylan anthology includes some rare recordings of his best songs.
Bygone
belonging to or happening in a past time:
a bygone era
Q2
How and why did trot, a favorite of senior citizens, become a hot genre loved by all age groups in Korea?
Request
There were trot contests recently to select highly talented singers, which are called Ms. trot and Mr. trot. Needless to say senior citizens, many young people also watched the program as the winners are young like K-pop stars. Furthermore, the shows were eye-catching with a variety of stage effects and the theme of songs. Overall, the way to promote trot focuses on diverse generation now while it targeted for only seniors in the past.
Correction
Recently, there were trot contests to select highly talented singers called Ms. trot and Mr. trot. Senior citizens and many young people watched the program even though the winners are young like K-pop stars. Furthermore, the shows were eye-catching with a variety of stage effects and the theme of songs. Trot promotions focus on diverse generations now while it targeted for only seniors in the past.
Paraphrase
There were trot contests to select highly talented singers called Ms. trot and Mr. trot. From young to old, people of all ages watch the program that selects young K-pop stars as winners. People are attracted to the eye-catching show, as it has a variety of stage effects and the theme of songs. Today, trot targets diverse age groups and promotions focus on diverse generations, as opposed to it's senior-centric marketing in the past.
Additional Notes
- Student’s response → Tutor’s suggestion
- Coherence and Fluency
- Vocabulary and Resources
- “Bygone” → very formal, from older English
- “The bygone contents get popular thorough new media like Youtube, Instagram in Korea” → Older media content becomes popular through new media…” / Old-fashioned
- “Apparently getting popular”
- Newtro has grown in the restaurant industry through interior design -- there is now a fusion between vintage and modern design
- “So apparently this is one of the reasons for why people are going crazy over Newtro”
- “To go crazy over” → To be obsessed with
- “….people are obsessed with Newtro” → people are obsessing over Newtro
- “What I felt like when I saw the contest...” → When I saw the contest, I felt like…./ I was feeling like….
- Subject + action and then your feelings
- “Big capital” → They invested a lot of money into the show, making it with very eye-catching stage designs
- “They are trying to make a trend targeting the younger generations too” → They are trying to make it trendy by targeting younger generations too
- Tastemaker = a trendsetter / they make things popular
- “The younger generations are tastemakers for pop culture
- Popular culture = pop culture
- From young to old, people of all ages watch the program that selects young K-pop stars as winners.
- In the past the promotions have been senior-centric marketing
- “The music disappears as quickly as it appears” → Popular changes very quickly / The tastemakers of today quickly change their music preferences.
- “Sick and tired of the quickly evolving trends” → People tend to get tired of the quickly evolving music industry
- “The algorithm make the mood for them” → The algorithm sets the mood by providing recommendations / The algorithm popularizes the older music as more and more people listen to it on the platform
- “Newtro has evolved over the past years” → Newtro has evolved over the past few years” / Newtro has recently evolved / been evolving
- “The older ages content” → The older content / Media from the past / The nostalgic media
- “They want to approach something new” → They want be exposed to new content/something / They want something new!
- I have been watching a TV series → continuous and you have not finished yet. It is implied that you are still doing in your free time
- I have watched a TV series → complete. You finished watching it
- Vocabulary focus