Do you think we will have black kpop idols from big company?

in the near future, i don’t think so.

SEA idols are still asian which is why companies are willing to debut them. i mean some koreans are still racist as hell; hanni got praised for looking Korean and being pretty for a Vietnamese… like wth.

i don’t think they’ll take an initiative unless that certain idol passes off as Asian. but with the new jyp and bighit girl groups coming out in collaboration with Colombia and greffen… who knows

Why US people are so obsessed with skin color, you're serisously trash people

Well yoon mirae is very well known singer from long time in korea and she is half korean half black. So it is definitely possible.

i think jyp american girl group may have girls from multiple ethnicities not just korean or east asian.

koreans arent even accepting of SEA idols yet, so not in the near future no.

No

maybe for the American groups but if it’s a normal kpop group I don’t think so

do you find yourself asking this question with other countries ?

like, why dont we have popular asian people in American pop although that is supposed to be far more likely?

when will we have japanese people in latin pop?

I think the closest we’ve ever been was Lee Michelle training at YG, she was supposed to debut in a girl group with Lee Hi, I can’t remember which other two girls were supposed to debut with them.

Insooni in the 70s in Hee Sisters…Yoon Mirae has been around since the late 90s. I think they both have done relatively fine because they’re facial features are quite Korean in comparison to Michelle whose features are more black.

But to actually answer your question, I don’t see that happening anytime soon. I do think a mixed Korean/black idol who appears more Korean than black could debut at some point. White/Korean mixed idols still get called halfs and mixed breeds but appearance wise they look more like a a non mixed Korean, and appearance is everything.

One almost debuted under yg but supearls got scrapped bc leehi was such a successful solo

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Of course. I think it's quite common topic among many about how it's hard for asian singers to hit big in America especially after Bts getting their grammy nominations . And I don't listen to latin pop, so no answer to that. But I'm very sure if there's significant interest of Japanese people in latin pop or it's popular among japanese, some will asking the same question. And this question is reasonable in kpop content as we already have Fatou and Alex before in Kpop, not to mention some big company did doing an audition in other countries too not only Korea.

how much of an unfiltered answer do you want me to give?

I dont want to offend anyone or make anyone feel bad but the way i see it, the answer to this is complex and a harsh reality check

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Koreans are also "obsessed with skin color" considering how often colorist comments are made and how prevalent whitewashing skin tones is.

Yes but western people and mostly US people are the only one who want to apply their standard for the whole world. That's the problem. Doesn't mean korea have any problem with skin color or with people of foreign country.

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Also, I don't think op is from the US since they said they are not native English speakers. So, this was a strange comment tbh.

yes it's my mistake