Japan and Korea will have bumpy and rocky moments sometimes, but mostly will be fine, at least on the surface level, just like now. Both countries’ anti-sentiment has settled for now after the No Japan movement (and as the last administration was favorable to Japan). Despite all the historical

I feel like the way K-POP earns money has changed a lot, expanding their stage from domestic to abroad. Back then most part of K-POP earning came from selling physical album. To sell lots of copies, you need a huge fandom-vast majority was female- but the girl groups didn’t have a large enough

It is important for me to be sure that I'm supporing someone who believes in at least similar values to mine. When it comes to K-POP, it is hard to point mysogyny in public speech because they are very consious to make speech around those subjects and their company encourage them

I agree that the term "soft masculinity" is first used in an attempt to deny the masculinity of male idol, however, it could be reinterpreted in a new context. Although it stemed from an attempt to explain -and even to demasculinize- the male idols' looking, which didn't fit into the western

According to the article, the reason K-POP uses English lyrics is mainly twofold. First, to appeal to foreign audiences. Second, it’s not easy to use Korean lyrics for simple chorus and melody lines. The first factor seems to have even intensified in recent years, considering K-pop groups are

The idea that K-pop is government-led accords to the stereotype that Asian countries are “second world” nations where people’s freedoms lacked by censorship. While this is an outdated and racist assumption, South Korea was considered a second world country until 80s and under heavy censorship.

Aespa, the girl group of 4 members debuted from SM has gotten immense popularity domestically. Everybody knows their names-even my parents. They have recieved a lot of advertisement offers from several well-known products/brands, such as mise en scène(hair prodcut brand), Krush(brand new beer),

The history of YG entertainment goes back to 1996, the time when SeoTaiji and Boys disbanded. After their disbandment he started his career as a music producer debuting Keep Six, Jinusean and Onetime. At first YG entertainment was not a big lable, however, after the member of 1TYM Teddy became

Yang Hee-eun has had a great position as a female singer-songwriter from 1970s. What's astounding is her career was started because of her unfortunate childhood, started with her father's affair and death followed by her mother's shop burnt down. I was wondering if she had a important position

<해뜰날>, one of the most famous songs in Korean music history, was released right after the marihwana scandals in 1975. The lyric is very simple. It says the hardships of now but also emphasizes the importance of effort that will everything better. It aligns with the president Park Chunghee's

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The fan that said "these unhinged fans thinking male and female idols like sex toys for fans to fantasize about" is very much pointing the toxic fan culture of kpop. Usaully female idols are mostly the main victims for this in korea, their undies are taken photos and sometimes

Kimchi Kats is the group should be mentioned in korean girl group history.
They were the second group that went Las Vegas to perform and had good popurality. They are a female duo started their career in Mipalgun stage and later with songwriter Bak Chunseok,

Yi Nanyeong is one of the most important singers in Korean modern music history. She became the symbol of pop music at that time with her most famous songs <목포의 눈물> <목포는 항구다> <다방의 푸른 꿈>. She was married to 김해송, who was a famous artist as well, but later when he got sent back to the North

It's because Korean nationalist think K pop idols as a representative of South Korea. And nationalism is highly encouraged even for young children in the early age in Korea, I don't know how it's closely related to Korean politics and history but it's often used in a lot of ways..

In this video, 범내려온다 by 이날치 with 앰비규어스 댄스컴퍼니, the mixture of modern instruments and traditional Korean music components are beautifully shown. 이날치 themselves are very successful Korean fusion band for the tourism promoting video.

I think the reason why many people consider idol as not a real artist and call them factory-made is because part of them is true. There are definitely some points that can be seemed in that way --most of them don't make their music themselves, they are made by their agencies essentially.