Just as Jimmy Kimmel has reporters take to the streets and ask unwitting Americans whether they’ve heard of a nonexistent celebrity—to often humorous result—a team of pranksters in China has dressed up a Korean boy band and walked the streets of a large Chinese city on March 30.
The phony team consisted of security guards, cameramen, a boom operator, an assistant, and the band members. The most prominent had white hair and a flamboyant leopard jacket. Crowds soon swarmed to take photos with their iPhones, rush to hug the band members, claim they had bought non-existent albums, and hum songs that never were.
Korean pop music and dramas have swept China in recent years, drawing a huge fan base. Episodes of the drama “Descendants of the Sun” have been watched a total of 2 billion times on the Chinese video website iQiyi, and it is one of the most searched-for dramas online.
This video follows another successful prank by the same team, Re-Production TV, after members dressed as a Korean star and strode through a shopping mall in the city of Weifang, China.
