20251013 - Sharing my remix of "M.I.A" by KATSEYE (technically a "global" kpop group,right?)

The subreddit is mostly uncensored as long as people follow the rules. Generalizing statement about Korea, Korean society, etc or most other countries are not acceptable except under the following standards: The only claims that are acceptable when generalizing Korean society in this sub are those that bring up generalizable stastical claims by the standards of the international statistics institute. Not only do the vast majority of stastistics you can find on the internet about Korea not up to this minimum, basic standard but this requirement includes having ample sample size, blocking by relevant demographics and sometimes even double blind tests. So if you make a generalizing claim, your wording must be properly formatted and links to the relevant studies provided. In other words, the standard for making a generalization is very high in this sub. Not to mention the wording for your claim has to be properly made. Anyone who has taken a college level statistics class will know what I am talking about and we may even require you to provide the confidence level interval if it's relevant for your study. If you cannot meet these standards, I would just avoid doing it in general. submitted by /u/Kpop_Love_Forever [link] [comments]

I know about other groups, been knowing about kpop for a decade now but I dont like male groups and I dont care for other groups other than Twice and IVE- because I like to focus on one group only instead of having too many on my plate and not knowing every group as well as i can/ not focusing on them? I find many of the male kpop idols repulsive and childlike to me btw? but girl groups are cool, but as I've said, I only actually like Twice and IVE? I don't care/ I honest dont like the bigger ones like BTS/ EXO/ Blackpink etc??? TXT is also not my taste... submitted by /u/aerona_angel [link] [comments]

honestly I miss "We Got Married" and just idol interactions in general. everything gets blown up into rumors nowadays so theyre too scared to interact 💔 also I love that whenever this clip of minhyuk and nayeon resurfaces all the new fans are like "what was nayeon doing with soobin?" 😭😭 submitted by /u/0x1trinity [link] [comments]

I'm curious and trying to understand better whether she's stronger/as strong as dancers like Julie/Natty (kiof), or such. I haven't been able to find a lot on it and i was wondering if anyone could help, possibly with reasoning. thank you so so much! submitted by /u/my_shroom [link] [comments]

The dancers: Chaeryeong, Yeji, Ryujin (ITZY) Hikaru (Kep1er) Kazuha, Kim Chaewon (LE SSERAFIM) Karina (aespa) Jiwoo, Kyujin (NMIXX) Even if you can only rank 1 or 2, I would really appreciate it! i find it so hard to differentiate and I'm trying to understand better :)). Thank you so much submitted by /u/my_shroom [link] [comments]

I feel like every idol has that comeback where the stylist just doesn't miss, for me that was Yena's comeback "Being a good girl hurts" every performance was just such a look! I also loved the styling during Aespas "Supernova" all the looks were so fun and fresh! What comebacks stick out to you the most in terms of styling? submitted by /u/0x1trinity [link] [comments]

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às vezes eu sinto que o kpop perdeu a alma. antes tinha dor, caos, identidade — cada grupo tinha um universo, uma história, um som que só eles faziam. hoje tudo parece bonito demais, limpo demais, previsível demais. sinto falta dos conceitos sombrios, dos raps pesados, da energia crua que fazia a gente arrepiar vendo um mv. agora todo mundo é “boy next door”, todo mundo sorri igual, canta igual, se veste igual. não tô dizendo que tá ruim… só que tá vazio. eu quero de volta o estranho, o diferente, o intenso. o kpop que fazia a gente sentir, não só assistir. Agora tudo virou “clean boy”: música leve, conceito colegial, sorriso ensaiado, estética de comercial. Não é ruim, mas é tudo igual. Sinto falta daquela sensação de “caramba, isso é diferente”, daquele peso emocional, da ousadia. Parece que o K-pop ficou com medo de ser estranho — e ser estranho era o que o tornava especial. Será que um dia o dark, o alternativo, o experimental vão voltar? Ou será que o K-pop virou de vez um produto de vitrine? submitted by /u/strawberry867m [link] [comments]

bsides and smaller groups encouraged but it can be any song. submitted by /u/SnooOranges829 [link] [comments]

K-pop isn’t the same anymore and I know EVERYONE can feel it, but what people don’t talk about is the fact that I don’t feel like home whenever I interact with K-pop stans. I took a hiatus from posting on my tiktok because I felt like I was going to run the risk of getting harassed, death threats or even doxxed if my videos were to go to the wrong side of tiktok’s algorithm. All I ever did was post fun videos of me enjoying K-pop. Me going to a concert, talking about events I’ve been to, opening albums, talking about members I really like, etc. Just normal K-pop things, but it wouldn’t be normal to the people who find my posts to be weird. All I wanted was a safe space to enjoy my interests, and to have at least one person in every post to comment under my posts but they don’t always happen. People expect me to look this aesthetically pleasing K-pop content creator when I am just a K-pop fan just like everyone else, who has celebrity crushes, likes to read fanfiction and enjoys fandom banter. I fear that those days are forever gone as more and more people choose to stand still at concerts for the “perfect video” rather than a shaky, imperfect video that showed how much fun they had. I’ve seen so many people get harassed for simply being normal K-pop fans with a crush, and they get seen as weird or obsessive which they’re now made to feel uncomfortable coming online all together after a random person makes a twitter thread about them just for not liking them. I’ve seen some of my favourite content creators go through the same thing, and it totally sucks. I feel like I don’t fit in with the K-pop fandom nowadays. I feel like they’re either too stuck up that they like to call K-pop fans who know their faves’ anniversary and birthday dates (or whatever fandom activity that involves any sort of effort other than streaming) “parasocial”, or they’ll be weird, crazy, obsessed stans that harass people on Tiktok or Twitter for the sake of harassing people and I never felt like there’s a middle ground for anyone who feels like me where all they want is to be a normal fan who just wants to partake in fandom culture that isn’t just “dancing” (such as watching official content, learning about the members, fanfiction writing, fanarts and edits appreciation, celebrity crushes, etc) but still be sane enough to know that they can’t have them without anyone telling or reminding everyone since we’re in this big inside joke together. Does that sound like 2014? It sure is. I just want that one K-pop friend to talk to that we are on the same wavelength as… that’s it. I hate feeling like I’m one post from ruining my life. I just want to be a normal K-pop fan in peace. I just want to enjoy my interests in peace. submitted by /u/AsianMoot3317 [link] [comments]

I don't mean conspiracies that you think could be real. I mean takes that are so out there, they make you wonder if that person has any connection to reality. Doesn't matter if it's a weirdly popular one or just a single post that made you go wtf. I want the truly wild stuff you've seen. submitted by /u/azureleaf [link] [comments]

​Me encanta cómo las animaciones están empezando a usar el K-Pop como tema central, ¡pero "Las Guerreras del K-pop" lleva las referencias a otro nivel! ​Estuve investigando a fondo el video, y hay muchos detalles y datos escondidos sobre la moda, la jerarquía de los grupos y las dinámicas de las agencias que solo un fan de la música coreana notaría. Por ejemplo: ​El Diseño de Vestuario: Cada equipo es una referencia directa a las tendencias de segunda o tercera generación del K-Pop (una lleva el estilo hip-hop old-school, otra el concepto girl crush). ​Los Rangos: Los rangos dentro de los grupos son una alegoría a las posiciones (Líder, Maknae, Main Dancer) y cómo estas definen el peso narrativo de cada personaje. ​¡Abrimos el debate! ¿Qué otra referencia de la cultura K-Pop o de idols han encontrado en la animación? ¿Cuál es su bias (personaje favorito) y por qué? ​--- ​Si les interesa una inmersión completa en todos estos datos y el resumen de la trama (en español), pueden verlo aquí: https://youtu.be/wtZadK6aomU?si=FkOiRbKRN-wyUux9 submitted by /u/AffectionateMix9073 [link] [comments]

It's well known that kpop takes a lot from the West, but this time it feels especially shameless. In Soyeon's recently solo song MV, multiple scenes, shot for shot, are copied from Yseult's music video. This isnt her first rodeo either, as she has plagiarized music before, as well. Western artists, but more specifically, black artists need to be given more credit and treated with more respect from the kpop sphere. But that doesnt look to change any time soon, unfortunately, seeing what we have here. submitted by /u/Lost-Investigator266 [link] [comments]

For me I have an inexplicable love of ‘Jump’ by NXD (please check it out you’ll see why). submitted by /u/ARG_obesessed [link] [comments]

Groups like LE SSERAFIM, aespa, BLACKPINK, etc. are performing on American TV shows, doing interviews, late night appearances, even award show stages. But when you look back at 2nd gen legends like SNSD, Wonder Girls, KARA, T-ARA, it feels like they never got that same level of U.S. attention. They were very talented and I would say, pretty much to up to par as the popular groups today. Other than Wonder Girls briefly promoting in the U.S., you never saw 2nd gen idols on big American talk shows or mainstream interviews. No Jennifer Hudson, no Fallon, no GMA. It kind of feels unfair considering how much groundwork they laid for K-pop’s global popularity. Seems to be that the U.S. simply did not care back then, unless there's a better reason that I may not know about. Curious to hear your thoughts, submitted by /u/savingrace0262 [link] [comments]

I’ve been thinking about how often this pattern repeats in K-Pop fandoms: a Black person points out a valid issue, racism, plagiarism, or cultural insensitivity, and somehow they become the villain. Take the recent case with Yseult, a French Black artist. Her work was clearly plagiarized by a Korean artist. Naturally, she tagged the producers and the people involved — including Soyeon, who happened to appear in the MV. Instead of focusing on the plagiarism itself, K-Pop stans (especially Soyeon’s fans) turned against Yseult. She ended up being harassed and flooded with racist DMs, even though she’s literally the victim. We’ve seen this before: ENHYPEN — when fans thought a member said the N-word, Black fans who spoke up got told “unstan then we don’t need Black people in this fandom anyway.” NCT (Jaehyun) — when he allegedly mouthed the N-word, the fans expressing disappointment were bullied and silenced. Crush — he was accused of ignoring Black fans during a concert. Whether or not it was a misunderstanding, the fan who shared her feelings ended up getting mass-reported and told to apologize. It’s such a consistent pattern: whenever anti-Blackness in K-Pop surfaces, the Black victims or fans are punished for speaking up. It’s exhausting. submitted by /u/chrisomi9 [link] [comments]

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Seriously tho, why are people still surprised by how nasty these two fandoms can get every single day? I’ve been seeing a bunch of posts lately sharing small bits from the daily fights between these two fandoms on Twitter/X — and honestly, why are people acting like this is something new? Are we really new to this fact? Because from what I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a lot), this isn’t anything shocking. Both sides have had their fair share of messy moments, and it’s been going on for years. It’s literally an everyday thing across multiple platforms, with Twitter/X being the main battlefield. People there love to hate-farm for likes and retweets — it’s ridiculously easy to get engagement if you say something out of pocket. Even some Korean web media outlets jump in just to ride the wave and boost their numbers. That’s why it’s so hard to tell what’s actually true on X anymore. Unless something’s verified by multiple reliable sources outside of the fandom bubble, you really can’t trust anything that comes out of those fights. submitted by /u/Daddy1007a [link] [comments]