noraebang

Any guesses what noraebang means?

In some of the east Asian countries especially in Seoul, South Korea, people are crazy about singing songs in mike with speaker system. They have lot of places like our internet browsing centers which will have separate rooms with speaker system and lyrics book for Korean and English songs. A small group if people can go there and spend their time after paying on hourly basis. They also serve soju and other drinks with snacks and dinner based on the order. People like to spend their time in these rooms happily singing songs throughout the night.
They call this place as Noraebang which in Korean means song room.

When I was in Seoul, I went to a noraebang with my colleagues over there. It was a nice room with a display system to display the lyrics. We can search for a song and select to play the music and display lyrics. Then pick up the mike and sing the song. After couple of songs sung by my colleagues they asked me to sing a song. I told them I do not know English songs. They asked me again. Suddenly I remembered the song sung by vadivelu in a Tamil movie - sing in the rain, I want more in the rain... I told them this song and we searched for it. It was available and we all sang that song

together. Thanks to vadivelu for exposing me to at least that song otherwise I would have known none.