A.C.E Junhee - Too Bad (15:00) + Umbrella (10:00) @ Arirang Radio K-Poppin' (250922)

Hi there, I’m watching a survival show for the first time while it’s airing and I was shocked when I learned about fan organized Giveaways to get korean people (K votes have more impact than global votes) to vote for their fave and secure their spot in the final line up. Knowing this kind of ruined the show for me and I got downvoted into oblivion in the shows subreddit for saying so, which is maybe not suprising in a post where people got updated on the current status of the events, but got me thinking how kpop fans in general feel about stuff like that going on? What kind of rubbed me the wrong way, was people in the subreddit always complain about the networks editing influencing the votes by not giving screentime to some people and pushing some trainees with positive storylines and how unfair this is, meanwhile fans collect tons of money to give away goldbars, diamonds, cashprices , holidays or apple products for a vote for their fave. According to the sub, one event collected over 200k $ from fans to buy prices for k-voters and the group where people can submit their voting certif has like 45k people in it. Am I the only one who thinks this is insane? Not only that people donate money to get a stranger into a group but the amount of time and work that people are willing to put into organizing those type of events must be huge. I can’t imagine how much time it will take to go through submitted proof of vote, organizing and shipping prices to people etc. I know I was very naive thinking that this is just an entertaining show, where people will feel fond enough for some trainees to go the extramile of downloading an app and vote for their faves and maybe some teenager take it serious enough to bother their parents to download the app too on their devices so their fave gets more votes. But the level of dedication an money involved kind of shocks me, especially since most people watching seem to agree on unfair favouring of some trainees through the network but in the mean time the same people donate money so random koreans could get a goldbar if they vote. I watched boys planet earlier this year and found it really sweet when Zhang Hao didn’t even realize that he got first place as Hanbin never left the top spot, only to find out now that an organized fan giveaway for votes might have something to do with it. So it wasn’t the pure miracle it seemed for me watching. Am I the only one weirded out by this? submitted by /u/Independent-Dirt7009 [link] [comments]

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So this has probably been addressed before due to how often this happens, but I was just watching an unboxing YouTube video and got a little annoyed again. I know for us non-Koreans it may be hard to pronounce some sounds and that romanisation of Hangul can be misleading sometimes, leading to newer fans mispronouncing names (and that’s totally ok) I’m talking about when sometimes I’ll hear people online say they’re a huge stan of a group and then pronounce it wrong -The yt vid I was watching pronounced her bias, whom she been watching since their survival show like 정 (juhng) instead of 준 (joon) -another case ive seen a lot is pronouncing names that start with 우 (romanised woo but pronounced oo) like its romanisation Again, I get that it’s difficult for new fans and non-Koreans, and some of us older fans still have difficulty getting names completely right. But if you’re pronouncing your ult group’s names thatt wrong, uhh yeah idk. Have you not heard them introduce themselves or heard their members refer to them?? Idk I just don’t get it and I probably sound very rude right now so im just going to shut up 😃 thank you for listening to my rant. TLDR: Some people pronounce the names of their bias like they’ve never heard them introduce themselves. submitted by /u/NoMembership2503 [link] [comments]

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Prob jus me but when Giselle says 'My mom told me to find someone who could give me everything.And I said, mom, but I already have everything.I am a rich man' in their song Rich Man jus makes that feel good feeling you know. submitted by /u/Particular-Rain116 [link] [comments]

Since majority of the members are japanese i tought they supposed to be a japanese unit of NCT that exclusive for japan market and japanese audience like hybe's &team and JYP's NiziU but since their debut they spend more time performing and promoting in Korea than in japan. So what's the purpose of this unit? submitted by /u/Party-Confection417 [link] [comments]

If English gives you “haha,” Korean gives you a whole laugh palette—ㅎㅎㅎ, ㅋㅋㅋ, 푸하하, 키득키득. If English writes “knock knock,” Korean choreographs your knuckles. And if a children’s song about a mountain rabbit needs to feel tender instead of athletic, Korean doesn’t reach for an adjective; it swaps a single vowel color and suddenly the rabbit hops kkangchong-kkangchong, not kkeongchung-kkeongchung. This is the secret engine of K-culture’s emotional bite: an everyday toolkit of onomatopoeia (의성어) and mimetic words (의태어) supercharged by Hangul’s design. I wrote an article explaining Onomatopoeic and Mimetic Words (의성어-의태어) and how they are used in Korean. I hope you enjoy! https://kpopnews.world/insight-articles/Korean-onomatopoeia20250826.html submitted by /u/Nicklee0345 [link] [comments]

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As a Black person, I've forgiven them, but I just can't go on Spotify and search for their songs, and if I do, I won't listen to them with as much emotion as before. I can say that really discouraged me, and that's... sad because they were the only girl group I was starting to follow closely. submitted by /u/VFLOWERAL-MININDay [link] [comments]

I don't think many people must have heard this song but please give it a listen i too just mistakenly heard this in my gym... In my opinion it's such a cool song please let me know what are your thoughts. I think this just went under the rug it really deserved so much more... (I think it's even better than their title track TILT) submitted by /u/ish8n [link] [comments]