Is the Korean domestic markets for KPop a stand-in for China?

Again IU is not a good indicator for these things.

Soloists rarely do well in physical sales. (True Soloists, not SolUnits - Subunits of 1 from active groups)

But otherwise, it is a good theory.

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I am not allowed to talk about Korea because the mods don't like it. I don't know why but that;s what they think.

That aside, I think if China reopens its markets to Korean acts, the 'domestic' share for KPop acts will significantly decline.

The following idols had concerts in significant venues of Korea since the Chinese Prohibition of Korean acts to perform took place on early 2017:

Exo

H.O.T. reunion

BTS

BlackPink at Gochuck

Seventeen

NCT 127

NCT Dream

IU

Some fans for BTS probably came from China.

Some fans for BlackPink probably came from China.

H.O.T. fans were probably older Korean fans plus older Chinese fans.

Exo, Seventeen and the NCTs probably had Chinese majorities. Seventeen had a concert at Incheon soccer stadium, a place close to the Incheon International Airport, so the Chinese fans could do a quick turnaround without staying in Korea; no one kept any stats but I suspect more than half of the attendees were Chinese, since SVT is not that big in Korea. Same for its concert at the Seoul soccer stadium.

Only IU's concert would have been more than 90% Korean since at that time she had few foreign fans. Don't know about the upcoming one.

A lot of the massive sales of idol albums came from China, and as the Chinese trends had changed and mass buying declined there, the sales of KPop albums declined significantly all around except for Gidle and aespa whose declines were less severe, because they had Chinese members.

In other words, if the Chinese did not prohibit Kpop acts from operating in China, the Korean domestic market would have collapsed by now.

More than anything else, that skewed the figures for the Korean domestic market which is now mostly irrelevant.Again, IU's figures , which has few foreign buyers, is a good one - she sold about 380k copies, and assuming 1/3 of them were sold during her foreign concerts, since her first week sales was only 220k, and she had 2 versions, she actually sold to about 110k Korean fans.

That was the norm before the album explosion took place in late 2019.

As late as 2019 Twice's Feel Special sold 230,000 first week, and 420,000 for the year (More were sold in subsequent concerts so the total after 5 years is about 580,000, but).

So a lot of 'domestic' market is actually a stand in for Chinese market, and the Korean domestic market is much, much smaller than companies think.

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Have to say it’s fascinating how after 4 years of being reported for thinly veiled racism xenophobia (apprently) you still completely lack insight why it’s wrong.

That you now try to make a victim out of yourself for not being allowed to puke out xenophobic bullshit is just some sort of black comedy

Again since you never answered the last time - have you ever asked yourself WHY you spend so much time on something you obviously hate so much?