Stray Kids 'This & That' M/V Reaction

What happened

Stray Kids watched their completed “This & That” music video together, reacting to editing details, recurring clock and dragonfly imagery, and locations including an actual terminal in Gunsan.

Why Koreans care

The members distinguish the video’s Koreanness from conventional heritage imagery: they describe it as the Korea of the 2000s, visits to a grandmother’s house, and an old regional bus terminal. For Korean viewers, these ordinary provincial settings can evoke recent childhood nostalgia rather than the palaces, hanbok, or folklore often used to signal “Korean culture” internationally.

What the words mean

When the members call the video “담백한데 신박하다,” “담백” does not literally mean bland here; it means restrained, clean, and free of excessive ornament, while “신박하다” means inventively fresh. Likewise, “날것의 느낌” praises a raw, unpolished immediacy rather than suggesting the production is unfinished.