https://mlbpark.donga.com/mp/b…RSY-Y6h6RKfX2h4aXGg-Yihlq (In Korean)
(Picture from the sit e above does not copy well into akp)
A Japanese magazine took a poll of people Japan's elementary school pupils look after.
1 Friends
2 Mother
3 Anya , a character in the hit animation Spy Family
4 Suto Puri, a fictional boy group featured in the animation Strawberry Prince
5. Naniwa Danshi, a Johnny's produced boy group
6. Monkey D. Luffy, central character of the comic book One Piece
7. Yor Forger, a character in Spy Family
8. BTS
9. The person I like
10. Toraemon, a character in the classic animation of that name
Since people like "Friends" and "Mother" are not people which can be represented by one single person , and excluding fictional characters, only Naniwa Danshi and BTS were ranked among the people elementary schoolers wanted to look after in Japan, and BtS would have been #1 if Mr Bang did not want to play a tycoon in K-O-R-E-A.
I have been preparing an essay, to be released around the time Seokjin is put into the military, thanks to the K-O-R-E-A-N incels and crazed conservatives who probably supported the #1 person Korean youngster wants to look after, about whether K-O-R-E-A deserved bts.
This is the ranking of who the K-O-R-E-A-N youngsters want to look after
(This ranking does not include vague terms like 'mother' or 'friend', or fictional characters)
5. Doti, a youtube creator, 8%
4. Dr. Oh Eunyoung, a well known children's behavioral coach. 9%
3. Son Heungmin. a soccer player. 10%
2. BTS, world famous boy band, 21%
1. IU, former owner of Edam Entertainment, 26%.
BTS, a foreign act in Japan, made it to #2 there excluding unspecified people or fictional characters, but it is #2 in K-O-R-E-A, after someone who did something which you would not be talking before youngsters at the tender age of 19.
The stubborn K-O-R-E-A-N-S did not kick the habit of supporting someone who did nothing for KPop's expansion, and it is now influencing the youngsters.
Which might be why KPop's longer term future is not too bright since the youngsters look after a nonKPopper before a KPop super hero.
