Problematic Men (The Brainiacs / 문제적남자)

Hello.

Hello. - The pleasure of Monday nights.

Hello.

Hello. - Hello.

The pleasure of Monday nights. - The pleasure of Monday nights.

The pleasure of Monday nights. - We'll make it entertaining.

It's gotten bigger.

What's gotten bigger?

What is that?

What is it?

Are these for flags?

Aren't those what architects use?

For measurement? - For measurement.

What is it?

Are these for paintings?

Definitely not. - Definitely not.

You're talking about an easel. - I'm disappointed in you.

What kind of easel looks like that?

I think they're for flags.

For flags? - This looks too short.

I don't have to... - Why are there four of them?

How many guests do we have? - One.

One guest? - Yes.

I don't get it. Why are there four of them?

It's one guest...

who graduated from four prestige schools.

And he's bringing the flags. - High school, university,

graduate school. - The school flags.

If that's true, wouldn't it look like he's showing off?

Elementary school, middle school, high school, and university.

Or... Or it's...

Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

He got into all the schools.

He got into all of them, and he wants us to choose.

When we choose, he goes to that school.

That could be it. - I can't wait.

It's gotten a lot warmer as the spring began.

And our members have a lot of good news.

First off, Lee Jang Won. - Yes?

It's the 15th anniversary of Peppertones.

I've seen the ads in the subway.

How many are there? - There's only one.

It was a gift from the fans? - Yes.

How long is it going to be up?

About a month, maybe? - That's a lot of money.

Did you take a picture there? - I certainly did.

You have to take a picture even if it looks pathetic.

It's only going to be up for a month.

I think we have another good news.

I hoped we had another.

What?

Aren't you supposed to read that?

I can't read everything on there.

I need to let go of some.

That one looks important!

The viewer participation event still continues.

The viewers can also send us texts and solve the problems together.

We will choose by lot among the viewers who got the answer,

and they will be gifted with wireless earphones.

It's all wireless these days. - Right.

It's your time to get it.

You will be charged with 10 cents for every text you send.

Please participate as much as you can.

Can we have some hints for today's guest?

Other than these four objects.

What is that noise?

Is that samulnori?

It's samulnori! - It's samulnori!

Gosh.

Who is it? - Who is it?

We were right!

The flags of the schools? - Yes.

We were right!

It says "academic coordinator". - Academic coordinator?

That was fun. - Thank you!

Thank you. - Thank you.

The gong was fun to listen.

He got into all those schools, and now he's a coordinator.

That's his career. - And he's a celebrity?

We should've heard of someone with that many careers,

but I can't think of any. - You're right.

I wonder who it is.

All right, we're all very curious. Let's find out who it is.

It's going to be a formidable brainiac.

Let's turn it over!

Is he a musician?

He's a musician? I think I know this song.

Hello.

It's good to meet you. - I'm Jun Bum Sun.

It's great to see you. He's wearing straw shoes.

He had the most impressive entrance so far.

He's a hipster.

Take a seat, please. - Sure.

Please formally introduce yourself to the camera.

Hello, I sing at the band called "The Yangbans",

and my name is Jun Bum Sun.

It's great to see you. - It's great to see you.

Ivy league is used to refer to the group of elite colleges.

One of them is Dartmouth College...

with 250 years of history, where our guest graduated.

It's a prestigious school with...

40 percent of the students who were the best or second best.

Former Vice President, former Secretary of Treasury,

they all went here.

He graduated this school early...

with the grades of top five percent.

Then he was accepted to Columbia Law School,

the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford.

He moved on to graduate school of Oxford majoring in History.

He's now an artist of The Yangbans band,

and he never ceases to challenge himself.

The formidable brainiac, it's Jun Bum Sun!

How long has The Yangbans been?

We made the debut in 2004.

I was still studying at that time.

It was like a hobby to me.

And I was discharged from the army last year.

Now I think of making this a career.

I decided to be a professional musician.

And we're preparing our first official album.

The way you said "professional"...

was really a mismatch with the flags behind you.

"Professional"? - "Professional".

What genre does your band play?

We play something called the Joseon rock.

I wonder what it is. - The Joseon rock?

Is it a North Korean rock? What is it exactly?

It's not North Korean.

Is it South Korean? - It's South Korean.

K-pop is pop music played by Koreans.

Joseon rock is rock music played by people of Joseon.

You took the concept of K-pop,

and named it after. - Right.

The rock music of Joseon. - That's right.

Was that your music when you came in?

Yes, that was the title song of our album "Revolution Songs".

It's called "Revolution From Under".

It started out with "Let's turn it over!"

It was very cool. - Yes.

It's an unusual genre for sure.

Will you tell us how your album "Revolution Songs" became popular?

That album was the reason...

I decided to play music professionally.

I wrote the song "Revolution From Under",

and in that same year,

there happened to be a revolution on our peninsula.

The impeachment? - Yes, the impeachment.

And the candlelight protest. - Yes, that too.

It was like I predicted it.

When a million people gathered at Gwanghwamun for the first time,

we took the stage and performed "Revolution From Under".

"Let's turn it over!" - Yes, "let's turn it over."

It even says "turn over". - It does.

I was also surprised...

because some of the lyrics were the words of the president.

And that was just a coincidence?

Yes, I was at Oxford. - My goodness.

I wrote the song in 2015.

And the protests happened in 2016.

It was supposed to be a love song.

A love song? - What was "let's turn it over" for?

I wrote it as a revolutionary love song.

It was not my intent.

It was interpreted differently. - The situations in Korea...

happened to fit my lyrics. - Right.

I'd say the timing was right.

Yang Hee Eun once said that a song is...

up to the listeners.

Whatever the writer's intent was,

it's up to the listeners to interpret the song.

Her song, "Morning Dew" wasn't intended to be for protests.

But as time passed, people reinterpret the song,

and it became a protest song. So it's kind of like that.