Where's the Beat in Korea - Part 2

Ok. Here is an update.

It is official. I have double checked and talked with many other people about it. Korea does clap on 1 and 3. Most of my friends hadn't noticed... but after I mentioned it, they hear it all the time.

When Koreans are listening to music or clapping along to music they stick to that off beat. Well, it seems off. (No matter what the drums are doing they do their own thing.) I'll be listening to a perfectly normal version, musically, of a worldwide Hillsong hit and then they go against everything good and normal and make the song sound rushed. AHAGAHAGHA.

Anyway, if you were wondering about the validity of my privious post. It is true.

Where is the beat in Korea?

Ok, so I just thought you might want to know...

I've been living in Korea for a few months now and I may have discovered something. Most Koreans, or at least the real good Koreans, clap on the 1 and the 3 instead of the 2 and the 4. It may be the older generation, much like a traditional church in America that has mostly hymns. But, I've also seen many younger Koreans doing it too! It seems to be limited to certain styles of music.

They borrow so much from the western culture, exspecially with music. So, alot of the newer stuff is normal. But, still it's those few 'change-ups' to the 1-3... they screw everything up! Oh well, at least the guys at the Jazz concert that I went to knew how to jam.

I'll do more research and fill you in later.