In honour of an exo comeback that has both stans and casual listeners on their feet, I present a part of my personal best exo track-What is love

Hey folks! Over in r/kpop we just posted a new special Town Hall that is focused only on the Flairs we use to help organize our posts based on content categories. Link to r/kpop's 'All About Flairs' Town Hall We included announcements for new flairs here on r/kpoppers and also on r/kpophelp. The following is the section relevant for this subreddit. NEW FLAIRS! Connect - This flair will be used for anything where fans are trying to socially connect with each other. Announcing new K-Pop subreddits or Discords, looking for mutual fans on social media, wanting to meet up at a concert, seeking fans in a region to form a dance group, networking for a fan project, announcing a K-Pop night at a club, etc. Research - Academic surveys related to K-Pop or fandom topics. We'll keep an eye on these new flairs to see if they create any confusion or need adjustments. Let us know if you have any thoughts, concerns, or questions! submitted by /u/alleybetwixt [link] [comments]

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A reminder that I made for work that I have grown Korean men to financially support and in fact cannot quit my job…😂 submitted by /u/StellarSavy [link] [comments]

Domestically, GO just entered Melon’s Top 100 real-time and hit #117 on the daily chart, the highest any BG debuted 2025 song has charted. On Spotify, 3M monthly listeners, GO with 8M streams, and What You Want at 7M. That’s the best streaming performance out of all 2025 BG rookies. Album sales Cortis debut album in one week sold 436K, beating Hearts2Hearts with 408K. At this point Cortis is clearly setting the bar for 2025 BG debuts, leading in every category. submitted by /u/Difficult_Bit_3025 [link] [comments]

This is not a criticism on the idols themselves, I think the company/management is more to blame. But I hate the subscription social media apps that fans pay for in order to get "exclusive" interactions with idols - namely Bubble is the only one that I am aware of. I have nothing against the free apps like Weverse, but I feel like adding the subscription adds so much unnecessary pressure to both the idol and the fans. If you're an idol, so much of your time is dedicated to creating content for your fans. That's fine, because it's their jobs, and usually it's in the form of songs/performances, which is what they're hired to do. But then they're expected to also essentially become influencers and be posting and interacting with fans on their downtime? It feels like way too much stress. Not to mention the pressure of knowing that these fans are paying MONTHLY for virtual interactions. As well they have to keep the content engaging, because otherwise they'll be accused of being boring and not providing fans with their money's worth. Personally I don't think I could enjoy the app because I'd be too aware that it's just adding pressure to the idol's life. I think it's also unfortunate for the fans, because it gives them unrealistic expectations. If I pay a subscription for Netflix or whatever, then I would expect to have 24/7 access to it, or daily updates or something similar. But obviously an idol cannot be on a fan app every single day. I think I would inevitably feel disappointed with the subscription, even if the idol did interact a lot, because expectations will always be high if you are paying for something. I've also seen cases where fans are paying for their bias' bubble, but the bias just isn't online a lot. I don't think that's an idol's fault because 1. They're really busy people and 2. Not everyone likes to be on their phone or text a lot. Not to mention that most Bubble updates seem to be uploaded to other social media as well, so really they're only paying for the slim chance the idol might reply to their message. At the end of the day, if someone is having a positive experience with Bubble then that's great and I'm happy for them. But ultimately I think the whole service is a cash-grab from the companies that just leaves both the idol and the fan at a disadvantage. submitted by /u/Important-Tax-3852 [link] [comments]

i've been wanting to go to a txt concert since it's taking place on my birthday, and i've been waiting for ticket prices to go down... the concert is in like 2 weeks and nosebleeds are still over $90. VERY few tickets are sold and my experience with txt since i was... 14 has been being unable to get tickets because they sell out so fast. how long do yall think it would make sense to wait for the price to decrease further? bc i am NOT paying that much bro submitted by /u/Temporary-Train-5620 [link] [comments]

Personally, I feel like more as more foreign fans take interest in K-Pop, they seem to think that K-Pop should and seem to revolve around them. Over time, this has led to complaints, hate messages, unrealistic expectations that just makes no sense. Firstly, people forget that K-Pop is literally just Korean Pop. It's like how American Rock is American music, and European Rock is European music. Just because K-Pop has some English lyrics does not mean that it was primarily made for the American market. So when people complain about members not being able to speak English, or their English pronunciation sounding wrong, it's incredibly ignorant, as Koreans do not expect American artists touring in Korea to be fluent in Korean. Second, fans that complain about the "corporate" side of K-Pop are absolutely unaware of how competitive & expensive the K-Pop market is. Companies have to spend easily upwards of a million USD in today's market just to be able to train and debut a group. Even groups that are making it into the music ranks in Korea are not profitable unless they have massive advertisement deals. Artists/Groups that perform exclusively in Korea are often operating on a loss, which is why a majority make a fixed rate per performance. Performing internationally is also incredibly expensive because of the international management, travelling fees, staff fees, additional taxes, etc. So unless groups or individual members completely own the rights to their music, they are not self-sustainable outside of Korea without their companies. So please, the next time you think you know better than the "corporate' people, you try putting up your million dollars or stakeholders on the line. Lastly, K-Pop idols should not have to completely cater to international fans. In particular, the Siwon-Charlie Kirk incident, carries much more weight amongst international fans than Korean fans. There were MANY international fans calling for Siwon's head, calling him all sorts of names, making hateful posts about Suju because of his political/religious beliefs. Yes, as a liberal Suju fan, it felt weird seeing a Korean celebrity post about Charlie Kirk, but when you consider that Siwon is a 40 year old, Korean man, raised in a wealthier, Christian household, who has been a part of the conservative Korean broadcast system since the early 2000s, it would seem normal to post about a young man who was murdered and had similar beliefs. When you look at him as an idol, he was a major part in idols starting brand deals with luxury brands, he donates to good causes, he's worked with UNICEF since 2010, and he's a well rounded performer. As a business, there is absolutely no reason to fire an employee for his political/religious beliefs much less posting about the death of a controversial political speaker. At the end of the day, K-Pop is a business, and fans need to realize and accept that. I know fans care and passionate, whether Korean or international, but sometimes they aren't educated enough to be truly passionate. submitted by /u/LooTeRgetLooTeD [link] [comments]

We can always name SO many things that were a thing back in the days that no longer exists today in the industry but Is there anything that exists today that was never a thing back then? submitted by /u/Which_Mammoth9402 [link] [comments]

It's like one in the morning, so one A.M thoughts, but I just went down a rabbit hole that's left me with a great deal of appreciation and respect for the literary-inclined minds of kpop. Now, I'm more of a prose girl than poetry, just as I prefer fiction to non-fiction but a good piece of writing is a good piece of writing. Anyway, I was having a conversation, utterly unrelated to this but that delved heavily into human psychology and philosophy as my mind often tends to do, especially when I'm high on lack of sleep, but one book recommendation at the end of said conversation looked rather familiar, so I enquired further and lo and behold, I'm seeing things I'm familiar with in kpop. The recommended book was "The road less traveled" by M. Scott Peck that looked a helluva lot like a title or two I'd seen around, only to learn that Peck's book might have taken inspiration from Robert Frost's poem—and the metaphor behind it— The road not taken, so I look it up and literally the first line is about some Yellow Wood forest, which was a double shock because I'd been thinking precisely of Stray kids (and &team) when I saw that title, but not only did they name the song after it, whose message rightfully corrolates, but the album too was called Clé 2: Yellow Wood. I was pleasantly surprised. This, in turn, led me to perusing throw more poems, landing me on Jimmy Osborne's "Walk the line", and my mind immediately thought, "Enhypen!" And as expected, this too was an inspired work. For Enha, it's been more of a carried theme, an undertone, throughout their discography and I just think that's really cool. It be the members themselves or the team behind them, kudos for the taste. 🤌 My respect just increased tenfold. As an additional note, part of the excitement came from BTS taking inspiration from Carl Jung. I've always had a thing for psychology but couldn't pursue it formally, so I'm doing it on the side and seeing all these parallels between two areas of my interest is quite cool. submitted by /u/Dark_Night_280 [link] [comments]

The last I heard about this kid was that he was a bully and proof was provided. Sure he apologized but ofc mnet still kept him in the show since they invested money and time into him, and he’s literally under wakeone. It just doesn’t sit right with me how it’s clearly been rigged for him. There has to be something voters can do, such as rally votes for others close to debuting in the final lineup rather than have him debut. If those allegations are true…imagine the damage he’d do to the other members. I do believe in the bullying allegations tbh, people keep saying they got debunked but i have not seen the debunking posts. Feel free to inform me if I’m missing something, or advocate for him if you can. I’m genuinely curious. I did post this on the boys planet community but it got taken down due to it being a post about a single participant (odd rule)… submitted by /u/stxrrysky2 [link] [comments]

Habit will do it for me everytime😭😭😭 and then Kidult 😍😍. Seungkwan on "my baby, my baby"😍. Woozi on the adlibs and that first part-chefs kiss😍😍. The deep part😍😍-I think that's jeonghan😍. The pause before they go into the harmonies 😩😩😩 submitted by /u/Muted_Bodybuilder109 [link] [comments]

a snippet from my recent VERIVERY video Songs: PHOTO and PHOTO (Road to Kingdom version do check out the RTK performance of PHOTO; it's as if the sleep paralysis experience were a performance their sync is so insane and cool to watch🐐🔥 (according to a computer analysis by techie_ray, VERIVERY have a sync of 95.01%, second only to SEVENTEEN(👑)) submitted by /u/fried_chicken03 [link] [comments]

I dont think this is the worst but after someone said it looks like poop i can unsee it submitted by /u/North-Coach6269 [link] [comments]

Names in pic order: Sakura (Le Sserafim), Tzuyu (Twice), Ningning (aespa), Minnie (i-dle) They don't have to necessarily be your biases. Just some foreigner idols that you really like. submitted by /u/beelzebub2099 [link] [comments]

someone in the comments said “it’s like when servers flirt with you to get more tips” IM CRYINGGGGGG submitted by /u/Which_Mammoth9402 [link] [comments]

Name all the songs you know that have a name, there are several but in particular these ones that I normally listen to always made me envious haha submitted by /u/Separate-Comedian-25 [link] [comments]

do you ever hear a song by a GG and think "this BG would eat this song up" or vice versa? I don't think this THAT often especially bc BG tend to make GG covers more masculine but sometimes it happens submitted by /u/Weary_Occasion1287 [link] [comments]

So recently, I’ve been getting videos in my algorithm showcasing fan to idol interactions in my feed with CORTIS at a sign event. What really concerns me is the fans’ ignorance to their boundaries as fans. Like, they’re overstepping the boundary, and I’ve particularly seen Seonghyeon and Keonho implicitly uncomfortable. (e.g. seonghyeon: https://youtu.be/N1oXO9zB3N0?si=Q030vxSW2UbF_3Kl, keonho: https://youtube.com/shorts/6e01zoCAcIc?si=05UWYbZCZmbYIzBc) Maybe it’s just me, but I feel extremely uncomfortable for them and it seems to me they feel that way too 😭😭 They typically ask questions regarding their preferences in girls, or request actions that would make the fan, typically a girl, feel like they’re y/n and that they’re the male lead courting her or some shi and making her flustered. What’s so funny about this is that it’s a one-sided interaction on the fan’s part because you can see how desperate they are to get an exclusive interaction from a good-looking guy that would otherwise not happen irl 💀 So essentially, they kind of view CORTIS mainly as a subject of their delusions in a way, and they’re seizing the opportunity of meeting them at a fan sign to practicing their delusions. You can have your fantasy and delusions of having a y/n moment with them, but at the end of the day, you’re a fan, and they’re an idol. There’s a limit to what you can express in person and vice versa. Unless it is reciprocal and mutually consented and well within the boundary of a fan to idol relationship, I don’t see a problem. Also they are minors, so shouldn’t it be common sense that there is a tighter boundary? I can see that they’re taking advantage of the fact that they’re inexperienced rookie minors just starting out in the entertainment industry of kpop. The purpose of fansigns is to deepen the relationship between the fans and idols to develop a loyal fanbase, but they’re putting them in a tight spot where they’re obliged to fulfil requests and questions regardless of their consent. The fans don’t even ask if it’s appropriate of them to ask or request certain things. Talk about baseless entitlement. I know there are expectations for idols to speak and act according to the fans wishes because a fan to idol relationship is reciprocal, but it’s gone to a point where their wishes are out of bounds and the idol themselves feel violated, and forced to limit their say in the interactions because of expectations from people who pay their rent that are warranted, but are afraid to challenge unwarranted wishes due to this. Nonetheless, they are not obliged to fulfil whatever role they play in your dreamland irl, nor are you entitled to them. Just treat them as you would any other individual normally because they are. I know they’re good looking individuals and that they are rare to see, but to blatantly dismiss their normality is alienating, and it’s just very unattractive to treat them that way. It’s like you have no respect for them as individuals because you view them as objects to practice your delusions about love. It’s okay to admire their facial aesthetics, the problem is objectifying them because of it; whether implicit or explicit. submitted by /u/meowtchatea [link] [comments]