With the exception of three villagers, I inadvertently have only kept peppy villagers on my island (I wanted to support their idol dreams!) and it is trying, especially when someone loses something and the description is for a peppy personality 😔

I think this does jive with what I have been observing, where as k-pop has expanded globally, much less attention has been paid to its place in Japan, even though k-pop groups are very active there. I mean, these were the releases just from October

And for that information in England see this Koreaboo article which pulls from that the FNN article:

For more information see:

(Here is the full Lee Soo Man interview I pulled this quote from:)

Final post-trick-or-treat assessment: saw an uptick in Squid Game costumes (more participant costumes than guards), a few more Huntr/x costumes including a Jinu. Also saw a lot of demon hunters from another franchise — hashira from the anime Demon Slayer.

Also, shoutout to the solitary Squid Game costume I saw in the sea of K-pop Demon Hunter costumes

KARA actually incorporated parapa into the choreography for their Japanese single "Go Go Summer" all the way back in 2011

He did! Loved how he made it his own but then the homage to early Lee Jung Hyun in stage visuals and styling. Just a top tier cover.

I also have to hand it to anyone who covers "Bakkwo"

I vaguely remembered there being a whole crypto angle to this project and I was not wrong

Also, mid-summer, Yoon Jong Shin gave us this unsettling example