Is there a Vulcan in the midst?

If you have been living under a rock for the past year or two, then you won't know who these five lads are. They're Korean Pop Boy band sensation, Big Bang. If you're not sure, and you've been in Korea for a while, you're teenage middle school female students would be all crazy over them, and you would have heard a line from one of their songs "I'm so sorry but I love you, 다거짓말 (it's all lies)" and million and one times. If you're interested, you can check out their latest song, 하루하루, 거짓말, 마지막 인사, and the only Big Bang song I like, Always.

I don't mind the occasional well-produced Korean Pop song, and well, for me, I'll be honest, Big Bang only make a good song occasionally (in my opinion, Always is their occasional good song). But, every time I see them, I always always reminded of this segment from John Safran's Music Jamboree:


Anyway, (as if I was writing for a Korean Children's newspaper), Let's meet the members of BigBang.

Taeyang (태양)
To keep with the N-sync analogy from the Joey Fatone Experiment, Taeyang is the Justin Timberlake of the group, meaning, he's the one with potential that when the whole boy-band thing wears off, and he thinks he's better than all the others, he's the one that will have the best solo career out of the five (which he might be trying already, with the release of his first mini-album). Within the band (and the five different personalities they have), he's the guy with the tough exterior, but is a real softie on the inside. He's also done the very fashionable thing of late in Korea of going to the gym and bulking up a little. It suits him, in my opinion.

G-Dragon (지용 / 지-드레곤)
He's the troublemaker. I mean, just look at him. He's fashionably rebelling. Such a rebel. He even (most likely by not paying attention to what he was told to wear) wore a shirt with some bad English language on it on a recent performance. Anyway, I've heard him sing. He did 나만 바라봐 part two, a sequel to Taeyang's 나말 바라봐. Personally, I don't like his voice. When I first heard 나만 바라봐 part two, I was not a fan at all. I think i said to my Korean friends "그의 목소리가 똥처럼 울려" (my direct from English translation of "His voice sounds like shit."). My Korean friends try to convince me that it's just his style.

Daeseong (대성)
Look at him... Just look at him. If your a Korean mum, and your daughter brought this guy home, she'd pinch the hell out of his cheeks (and would probably have a quick feel of the other cheeks as well) until she ripped off his face. He's the cute guy in the group. You know the friend that you had in high school that was cute, and all the girls liked him, but at the end of the day, he was always single, and was still a virgin until his last year of uni. Yep, that's him.

Seungri (승리)
If you watched the John Safran's Music Jamboree clip above, this guy seems like the Joey Fatone of the group. Enough said.

Then there's one member remaining. He goes by the name of T.O.P. His real name is Seunghyeon (승현). Now, for me. This guy is the anomaly (and also the reason for the title of this blog post) of the band. I'm just trying to figure out which personality of the group he's meant to be, but then it hit me.

He's the vulcan.


It's probably the eyebrows that do it, and how well he does the blank look. But every time I see him, I can't but think "Vulcan".

Here's some other pics of Vulcans.

We'll start with the most famous Vulcan of all - Spock (Leonard Nimoy). In this photo, Spock is sporting the hairstyle that I call the "Formal Vulcan". The rounded fringe/bangs, then the pointy bits on the sides in front of the ears. Now, if you compare Spock's hair to T.O.P's hair, there are similarities. T.O.P has what I like to call the "Casual Vulcan". Let's face it. The Formal Vulcan is outdated. T.O.P is just keeping it real. If you walk around Korea, you'll see so many young guys (and even a few girls) sporting the Casual Vulcan. Next time you check out a busy area with young Korean adults (if you're living in Korea, or a K-town somewhere), you are bound to see a lot of Casual Vulcans.

This is Zachary Quinto... You know, Syler from Heroes. He's playing Spock in the upcoming (yet another) Star Trek movie which is due sometime in 2009. He has a bit of T.O.P about him. Maybe it's the eyebrows again. But, you can see the Formal Vulcan hair style on Zach's head. He sports it well.

You see what I'm getting at. Here's a group of photos that I found when I did a search for T.O.P on nate.com:


I rest my case.

Like I said above, next time you're out, see how many Casual Vulcans you can spot. Would be a nice change from the "dodge the 아저씨's spit and phlegm on the sidewalk" game.