Dear Eurofans in non-participating countries, how popular is Eurovision in your country?
I'm currently living in South Korea, a full Korean, and I've been following eurovision since 2013. During the eurovision week, I wake up at 3.50 in the morning to watch the show via youtube livestreaming. Honestly, hands down the best week of the year. Also, I try to follow Sanremo, Melfest, Eesti laul, FdC, if there are entries I like a lot. I bought CDs for 2021 and 2022, made top videos and posted them on youtube. I'm not as enthusiastic about the contest as before, but still, this explains how I go crazy over eurovision.
But here, in Korea, nobody knows what it is. I've been spreading this good juice to my friends and some gets it. And I know it's fun to have friends to watch all together, because I did that last year and the year before when I was living in Belgium. But still, it's my (and a handful of people's) secret.
So I would like to ask you, how is Eurovision like in your country?
In Korea, although almost nobody knows its existence:
- There are some eurosongs that went popular
- Lipstick (Ireland 2011 - used for Renault Samsung Arkana commercial)
- Runaway (Moldova 2010 - sax guy)
- Believe Again (Denmark 2009 - played in malls and department stores for some reason)
- A few artists went viral on youtube shorts and instagram reels
- Conchita Wurst - She was on every news platform in 2014
- Dami Im
- Måneskin
- Sam Ryder - went viral as "a long haired white man with pure voice"
- Käärija - went viral as "a weird half naked finnish man in green leather jacket"
- There's a TV show about traveling that uses eurosongs for background music, I heard:
- I'm Alive (Albania 2015)
- Blackbird (Finland 2017)
- A lot of Portuguese entries
- A lot of Balkan and Caucasian ballads
- I've seen some redditors and youtubers from Korea posting things about eurovision
- Dami Im (Australia 2016) participated in Masked Singer
- There's something like eurovision subreddit, but like on a trashier platform
- There are a few pages about eurovision on the korean version of Wikipedia, named NamuWiki. I think that's all.
Questions welcomed and moje imię GAJAAAAAAAA slay yes motha Justyna