South Korea in the 80s in [1080p] | Nostalgic

Korean scenes of daily life in the 80s in 1080p. 35mm restored footage: Some of these clips are from real daily life, some are from documentaries and others are from movies, but they show the reality of the country at that time as our South Korean distributor partners confirm
This licensed project aims to bring back the nostalgia of bygone eras through digital documents restored in high definition. Digital Ethnology for a Global World.
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[@TRNGL]

North Korea in the 80's 👉: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4WmmnmFfbWLjpY

[@Vanilla_Baker44]

Hey could you do East Africa or Africa? Love these vids. Footage of 80's Africa is so rare

[@EggScrambles]

💀💀

[@krntiger81]

I was taken back in time when I visited Korea in 1986 and 1990. Thank you for reigniting the memories.

[@holidaysummer9256]

내가 일본 노스탈직 영상많이보는데 우리껀 잘 안봐짐 익숙하기도 하고 보면 정말로 눈물날꺼같아 못보겠음 다시는 돌아갈수없단 생각때문에 ..그리운 따스했던 그시절 😢

[@森田あつお]

活気が感じられる。 人々の表情が良い。

[@EggScrambles]

일본과 한국 모두 그시절의 80년대를 그리워하네요

[@neozedy]

Corea en los 80 era un país bastante parecido a España en desarrollo social y económico.

[@lvrvel6283]

Nada que ver korea es otra cultura muyy diferente a España

[@jerickcristobal-orola9411]

​@@lvrvel6283well this video isn't for you ill minded imperial Conquistador.......you troll

[@bookerbooker]

40년전.. 지금보다 활력은 더 있던 시절

[@Vibernating]

This is amazing

[@Aaliya_519]

3:48 instanly got caught in 4k 😂😂

[@QR-ko1bi]

Was there in the late 00's- early '10's, would have loved to have gone in the 80's or 90's. There were still some holdovers from that era when I was there, but by the time I left they were mostly gone. Some of the stuff in this video looks familiar to me.

[@Spazlites]

Korea and Japan be fighting for the the throne of nostalgia aesthetics

[@JoeBlo2]

Japan emerges victorious

[@Laura-Yu]

@@JoeBlo2 Nah, they both have their own charms, you’re just too weab to realize that.

[@JoeBlo2]

@@Laura-Yu in a head-to-head battle of 80s and 90s nostalgia aesthetics and pastiche of Western pop culture during that period, Japan reigns supreme. Swathes of neon-lit Tokyo look remarkably unchanged since the 80s. Much of that aesthetic remains today.

[@란-d7b]

저는 한국인이고 고도성장의 한가운데 있던 한국의 80년대가 자랑스럽지만, 또한 동시대 일본의 대단함은 인정할 수 밖에 없습니다. 그 당시 일본에 온 한국인은 마치 미래에 온 듯한 느낌을 받았다고 합니다. 동일 선상에서 비교할 수 없습니다. 비교하기보단 그저 각자 매력이 있었다고 말하는 것이 최선입니다.

[@JoeBlo2]

@David Moore legit neon signage might be fading away into the history books for Tokyo and Hong Kong, but lively city centres like Shinjuku, Shibuya and Ginza still offer postcard worthy nightlights that haven't dimmed much since the 80s.

[@zahara-]

Thank you. Showed this to my mom and she cried of happy nostalgia. 🥰

[@Laura-Yu]

I’m going to try showing this to my mom too, my parents were in their teens/early 20s during the 80s! :)

[@jake9854]

but girls hated this era though

[@andrewkang5962]

@@jake9854 Ok, Jake.... ㅎ

[@카리스마-n8t]

80년생으로 80년대 어릴때 엄마랑 손잡고 놀러갔을 때가 떠오르네요 돗자리피고앉아서 김밥먹을 때 너무 행복했던 나의시절 지금은 부모님이보면 너무 늙은 모습에 마음이 아프네요

[@timmyg831]

I miss Korea of the ‘80s. I also miss America of the ‘80s too. As a Korean American, I was a kid/teen during that time. There was an innocence about that era. And I’m glad I grew up in it.

[@itsthornsfrommyveins]

The 80s were a special time atmosphere of many places in the world. 🤒

[@amansinghrawat1606]

Yes 1980 golden era in all country's

[@zareeftashfique8168]

I always admire Koreans knowing how they overcame a devastating civil war to the country they are even today In this day and age is very inspiring

[@SLeeSG]

Nothing special though. The strange is finding countries that don't.

[@Hello-jb3hp]

@@SLeeSG most countries fail to recover from a fraction of what Kroea recovered from

[@supercal3944]

@@Hello-jb3hp maybe because America helped South Korea to recover?

[@ReGenn]

@@supercal3944 Is there any country that the USA didn't help? It is true that Koreans voluntarily earned foreign currency to the country and submitted gold to the government in order to make it a prosperous country where Koreans could experience the imf and grow.

[@anti_fragile]

It's insane when you really think about how quickly they bounced back. Sure the country isn't without its flaws today but that doesn't take away from how impressive its growth has been, given everything.

[@tomatoya]

찐득한 여름.. 아카시아 향기가 진동하던 골목길.. 그 때 그 색감들.. 아련하네

[@honjonary]

아...... 저시대는 다시 돌아갈 수 없겠지........ 너무 그립고 슬프다

[@y7yk]

😭😭😭😭

[@japangii]

저시절 새건물이었던 주공5층짜리 아파트가 그립다

[@YuriTokki]

이렇게 영상으로나마 즐겨야겠어요..

[@chonulgwiin5051]

@@japangii 남의 집 이사하는데, 엘리베이터 없어 낑낑 거리며 계단으로 옮기는거 보면 이웃끼리 같이 들어도 주고 했다는 거!

[@nohandleforme....]

나도 그리워. 나는 한국에서 보낸 시간을 좋아했다.

[@alaskakim3172]

1:33 저때 딱 저 분위기... 80년대 여름녁의 명동이나 신촌 분위기...! 특히 88 서울 올림픽 앞두던 시절의 이유없는 설레임 & 희망,,, 그런것들이 지금은 안개처럼 완전히 사라졌어. 모든것을 인간손에 의존하던 아날로그 시대라 모든것이 느렸고 또한 인간 대 인간의 끈적거리는 정이 있었던 시절! 러브 레터 한통 보내놓고서 답장 올때까지 몇주동안 가슴 졸이던 시절 ! 세상이 너무나도 단순하여 진짜 밥만 먹고 살면 내가 중산층이얌 했지. 진짜 인터넷은 커녕 휴대폰, 삐삐도 없이 그냥 역전에서 만나자하면 기본 30분은 지각하던 시절 ㅋ 아 특히 저 1:33 딱 분위기 묘 ~ 하네.

[@aaisyarose]

As a 2000s kid i would like to live in this era thinking of how simple 80s people were.

[@garymarkow7005]

I mean they had to protest hard to end the dictatorship in Korea during this time, but afterwards, yeah I guess.

[@nitha225]

Same heee im 00s kid too .

[@flyingknee23]

No, you wouldn’t. Just because of how aesthetically pleasing it may be. You don’t know the tough life they endured. 🤣

[@ramencurry6672]

I remember visiting in 1983. It was more special back then since there was no media exposure. It felt like another world where most people in America never knew about. A lot of the popular Korean foods where unknown in western countries. It felt like you knew a secret especially in the pre internet days

[@kimchi4712]

They hte foreigners

[@keneda-mq3ky]

Your nostalgic short movies are just awesome, please continue! Thanks for the sharing

[@TRNGL]

THX!!

[@andrewkang5962]

@@TRNGL Excellent! Thank you! 감사합니다!

[@andrewkang5962]

@@TRNGL Excellent! Thank you! 감사합니다!

[@ghadatarek5533]

People were so free yet still 100% chic with no effort at all like WOW❤️✨

[@FM-ig3th]

I was stationed in Korea in the early 80s.Best time ever! I met my wife and we have been together 36 years as of this post.

[@許俊書]

Thank you for your service!

[@andrewkang5962]

Thank you for your service! 감사합니다!

[@c-ham6096]

The 70's, 80's and 90's were the good old days for me...Brings back memories...

[@linnkim7553]

all videos from 1980s era looks and what more important FEELS more colorful and bright and warm, much more positive and cozy than a modern world.

[@jamesdakrn]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of prosperity, it was the age of abject poverty, it was the epoch of a fight for the truth, it was the epoch of a brutal oppression, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. It was a time of a brutal oppressive regime murdering thousands in Gwangju and other places, and it was a time where the citizens fought against the dictatorship. All in the midst of the great Korean economic miracle.

[@TRNGL]

Exactly, partner. There are not just good or bad times because reality is multidimensional. Prosperity and happiness always flourish at the same time as hardship and pain. This ethnographic fiction project aims to bring back the good times past through a meticulous selection of aesthetic visual material, but I am beginning to worry as I observe how people simply long for the past time considering the current one as trash, without being able to take into account the multiple layers of this prism.

[@jamesdakrn]

@@TRNGL tbh as a Korean i think this vid does suffer from a bit of rose colored glasses when the 80s in Korean cultural memory was that of brutal oppression under the brutal Chun regime that murdered thousands and gwangju and tortured dissidents left and right

[@TRNGL]

@@jamesdakrn Yes, I know about that. I was living in Korea before and I travelled there in 5 different occasions. However, the objective of these projects is not and will never be a realistic documentary, what we create here is something else. What can I do if people are not able to think rationally and intelligently and see beyond the images? I have future projects that will balance the balance and make people at least be surprised.

[@MarkyTeriyaki]

I love your channel man, brings back memories that never existed:)

[@twelve9442]

Во-во, yeah🗿

[@user-ka3qui8lo7e]

80년대 여자들 스타일이 꽤 괜찮네요...

[@waterboy7356]

당연히 영화배우들이니까요...ㅎㅎ 일본영상도 영화장면이 대부분이었죠.

[@DonJuanMarco1994]

Look at that, South Korea looked prosperous in the 80s. Meanwhile here in the Philippines, the 80s was a turbulent decade. The last years of the Marcoses, Economic and political crisis, People Power revolution, Coups.

[@nohandleforme....]

I was over there in the 1980s. I had a Korean girlfriend, and she was great. I wish I would have married her. All the Korean people were friendly and treated me well. I love the Korean people.

[@1213mashTA]

I was there from 1985 to 1987...

[@loveaintfree1409]

US army?

[@rescune4021]

This is actually really sweet

[@takeshishibu]

ハン・ソッキュやアン・ソンギをこの映像の中で見つけたよ…!!

[@TomsonPRD]

I was born to watch this kind of videos. They are so good

[@DianApriyantiAkari01]

I see young Goo Jun Pyo's Mother (in Boys Before Flower Korean drama) at 3:46 .

[@whitefeathers310]

Hahaha

[@Star-wh9lc]

Her father is light skin That Why she is light she is only The one korean actor have that

[@ケインコスギ-p8r]

日本に住んでるけどなんか懐かしく感じるな

[@tobywong4320]

色々似てますね

[@VolksWagenFan]

지리적으로 가까워서 그런가봐요 ㅎㅎ

[@streetcat3411]

道路などのインフラ整備は日本を真似してますからね…

[@Laura-Yu]

Sorta surreal seeing my parents’ era!

[@bentancourtsantiago]

This is very precious material for drawing references. Thank you. Much love from Uruguay.

[@압-d2b]

At that time Korea's per capita income was $4,000, which is about $13,000 in dollar value today. In the 1980s, Korea was four times richer than today India.

[@abhilashmehera3813]

I think this was a very sad phase for koreans due to the military dictatorship period

[@sbyun9739]

Yes it was. But at least people at that era had hopes in their minds. Today there's only downfall left for Korea.

[@piotrmalewski8178]

@@sbyun9739 What's going on?

[@moonlxghtdazess2430]

@@piotrmalewski8178 i know this comment is 2 months old but like the birth rates in South Korea are so low this is causing South Korea population to decrease and if decrease the country will be left with no South Korean

[@piotrmalewski8178]

@@moonlxghtdazess2430 So like any modern country

[@Xshejfube61662]

Era of riot againt governmrnt with communist ideaology. They are remembered as spies .

[@diligentone-six2688]

South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines are the only three Asia-Pacific Countries that drives on the Right side of the road.

[@전술토의실]

china too

[@slevingarganera8375]

Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar (who drove on the left in the past)

[@Rei_Studio-MM]

I love your contents please do some more in different countries

[@kk-qt2vn]

한국인인데 이시대가 왠지 더 따뜻하고 정겨워 보이는건 뭔지..

[@ranger_hben8657]

인정

[@whicorina]

원래 모든 사람이 자기 젊을 때를 그리워함. 저는 97년생인데 2010년대가 그립긴 함ㅋㅋ 지금도 좋지만

[@shethimanshu7289]

My mother would be in her early 10's during the 80s and now I'm in my 20's.

[@oSkullKydo]

3:11 At first it looks like the woman is playing with her chopsticks in rhythm with the music ^^

[@369-v5j]

この頃の韓国は大らかで優しさがあって良いね。

[@불루재이]

I agree

[@Syugyo_suruzo]

国が豊かになると心が貧しくなる… これはどの国にも当てはまる

[@kfx3907]

그건 일본도 마찬가지😅

[@justmythoughts_5107]

I visited Korea as a kid and live in Korea as an adult now. This reminds me happy memories :)

[@shun81mhz]

Until just before the 1988 Olympics, South Korea maintained a somewhat isolationist policy towards foreigners, albeit not as stringent as North Korea. In 1980s, while the economy was experiencing explosive growth and more South Koreans were traveling overseas, there were still something barriers for foreigners looking to visit South Korea.

[@vanelucasryu8121]

Muito massa. I am brazil. Very good the vídeo!

[@varleirenato9117]

불행히도 인생의 모든 것은 아름다운 비디오 포옹에 의해 진행됩니다. 브라질, 브라질은 그 당시 여기 Google 번역기를 사용하여 많이 변경되었습니다.

[@RazorEdge2006]

Should've used '80s music, preferably '80s Korean music. This sounds more like '90s music.

[@fanvanessa]

80年代的韓國另我想起周潤發的電影英雄本色~ 80年代韓國和香港同樣美麗

[@Fujiwara_No_Sai]

Thank u so much for post this video, I love your channel, keep it up

[@manabukun]

Now I know why I like Jackie Chan Hong Kong movies from 80's even though I've never lived those times and places. East Asia in 80's is just vibes. Rich. Wholesome. Vibes.

[@LS-yu3or]

As a kid I would watch his movies dubbed in Spanish so it gives me nostalgia as well hehe

[@thefrustratedneetaspirant7777]

I agree, these kind of videos make me wanna re-watch rush hour again and again. 80s to early 2000s was such a darling period.

[@yoonsuckchoe6964]

00:00:18 Wow, my father's clinic appears in this shot!

[@おおもりH]

0:53 와! 해운대 해수욕!! 그리워요.....

[@oktayalpkabac]

These footages are indeed relaxing but 80's for South Korea was not as chill as you think.

[@SeoWoojin55]

The late 80s were happy and chill, but the early 80s were different.

[@mibukdesjarlais534]

I mean nobody was even claiming that 80s Korea was all the way chill genius. 😊

[@jerickcristobal-orola9411]

In the 80s nothing is entirely chill until the late 80s not the early 80s

[@Kampfgruppe9260]

It was the golden age of S.Korea in the 1980s, and the only people who felt uncomfortable with the dictatorship were regular spies, gangsters, and communists.

[@hyperparkour7714]

Old Relaxing and Warm Love from India

[@TRNGL]

Here you have it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYDCg5eZoNR0l6s

[@stephenmason3900]

Absolutely beautiful!! Thank you !

[@Frank-qs3pe]

What a time to be alive, even in America. 😊

[@밀덕후의희망]

지금보다 북한의 도발수위가 높았던 시기... 냉전이 격화되었다가 평화 무드로 들어간 지 얼마 안된 시기... 정치와 데모가 어우러져 전국이 어수선했던 시기...서울 말고 인프라도 잘 갖춰지지 않았던 시기... 통금도 아직 존속하던 시기...하지만 그 어느때보다도 미래를 향한 희망에 가득 차 온힘다해 뛰었던 시기... 저 때로 가서 저 열렬한 분위기를 느껴보고 싶다...

[@efronlian5214]

Still better than today's India...

[@TRNGL]

Here you have it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYDCg5eZoNR0l6s

[@theobserver9849]

Love it

[@abcegf8856]

Unfortunately I’ll never be able to go back in time and live these captured moments! Truly golden days

[@Thoughtsoutloud2]

I feel like with the evolution if technology people find it more hard to stay in the present. I just wish we could turn back time.

[@EggScrambles]

As a Korean, in the 1980s, Korea was a country that had just become a developed country. But Japan was already the best country in the world with USA in the 80s. I like our 80s nostalgia mood, but The atmosphere of Japan is so fascinating.

[@marcogarcia4197]

Excelente video y saludos desde Lima Perú

[@proofofmyexistence2352]

The clip of man driving the car at night looks from a movie/drama. Does anyone know it? I wanna watch Korean movies set in the 80s.

[@시진핑딸]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXWvf3qdm8eLnNE

[@namdorichannel]

1980 was the year of X kpop generation that has been started.

[@kenchino0161]

Love the type of background music you use on your videos. New subscriber!!

[@jasonng0211]

So, where’s the North Korea’s 80s clips? It’s maybe more and more existing and interesting.

[@user-ka3qui8lo7e]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYjOhmZ8Z9dmoM0

[@grimr34p]

It's so wild seeing 1980s korea while living in korea in the 20s

[@matthewchoi6320]

좋은 영상이다 일부 몇몇 장면은 90년대 같긴 하다 그래도 훌륭하다

[@cambodianriverpig7613]

What strikes me about these old videos is the low population. I'm now convinced. Low population = higher quality of life.

[@joeld.k.7652]

Eh? The population in the 80's was 40 million people. Average Pop density was about 400 persons/km. It was high then and is higher today.

[@arnoldstallone8835]

When korean mens use to be manly

[@드러머장민희]

80년대는 한국도 살만했었구만

[@ClockwizLee]

We were living under a military dictatorship back then, but life was still quite vibrant.

[@zinebelalaoui4711]

Beautiful ❤️.

[@moon_light1113]

색감 너무 예쁘다...

[@quantumeseboy]

People and cars look different, cities, streets, shops, signs look exactly the same as now.

[@sleuthentertainment5872]

And while in South Korea people lived a wonderful life, the situation was already pretty different in the north

[@60dlau]

Good old days, why do we have to move so fast?

[@illfaptothis333]

id like to show this to my dad but he left korea in the 70s to america... i dont know if he wants to see this

[@BushidoIslander8689]

You will never know if you won't try :)

[@ryhd323]

2:18 집 멋지네

[@babyvaso3855]

As much as I adore these videos what the *#%k is going on with the drivers?

[@leedhsee]

저때가 아마도 행복지수는 가장높았던 시기 아닐까 생각합니다.

[@Alex_Gordon]

wasn't south korea really poor in the 1980's? I remember many south korean children were adopted to Sweden (my country) and other countries at that time. at the time they were called "the korea children". now they have all grown up and reached their middle age.

[@regi7943]

There is another documentary about that in this channel. But I guess it is the aesthetic side of south korea

[@realAlexChoi]

Rich for an Asian country but far poorer than western nations. My parents were born in 1972 and according to them korea was pretty poor until 1986, with things really improving from the 88 Olympics onward. I didn’t know there were Korean adoptees in Sweden though, most of the ones I’ve heard about went to the US and Canada!

[@coladod2530]

First, explain what Sweden is

[@Alex_Gordon]

@@realAlexChoi oh they adopted many here! I think pretty much everyone in Sweden growing up in the 70's and 80's knows at least one korean adoptee, or has had one in their class or knows one that knows one etc.they are fully integrated here and are now in their 40's and 50's

[@realAlexChoi]

@@Alex_Gordon I didn’t know that! That’s very interesting, most of the overseas Korean communities I know of are in the US and Canada so it’s always cool to hear about Koreans elsewhere

[@koreanangellol]

every year 10% developed economy during 80~90

[@mercuryasmr333]

I would love to know where some of these clips are from

[@kancionsinziztema23]

So cool now méxico or other latín country please its so very gorgeous jeje very cool

[@ลําเงินสุวรรณวงค์]

At that time, South Korean people probably weren't very popular with plastic surgery.

[@익명-o6q]

영상에도 성형외과 나왔는데? 성형하면 안된다는 동남아식 논리를 강요하지 마세요

[@loveaintfree1409]

Man I was born in the 80s

[@n3mo146]

I saw this with japan, with korea, with the usa. What happened after the 80s???? Why got the world so sad now?

[@ignaciopazgarcia5370]

Whay are you tslking about. The world is awesome

[@tulip811]

Soon I will say goodbye to smartphones, I hope my life will change to resemble those times

[@Skeler.]

feel so lucky knowing your channel. tk y so much.

[@orang223]

Korean is Beautiful before 2000

[@adorenu1338]

It looks like North Korea with freedom and democracy

[@cappuccinopapi3038]

Would have preferred living with this rather than with Instagram

[@hughcollin6991]

I know it's not really asia but could you do one for Australia or New Zealand?

[@simmi5493]

any person who have memory with this nostalgia is luckiest

[@backpackingvillager1480]

02:29, 02:35 guy looks like legend actor Lee Byung Hun, that kind of face is Real Korean face unlike today's Kpop idols.

[@bizfree]

전두환군사정권의 탄생으로 사회가 정치적으로 안정되어 경제가 최대호황으로 나라가 가장 발전을 구가했는 시기였다 ❤

[@thracian]

at the same timeline north korea was having a famine.the difference smh.

[@시진핑딸]

The famine in North Korea began in the mid-90s