I don't watch KPop interviews much but why is it that when a group sings in English they sound natural but when a member or members speak in English they sound like they're speaking it for the first time?

I can sing along to korean songs (or other foreign languages) but i obviously can't actually have a conversation in korean

I think speaking is just harder than singing

for songs the melody and pronounciation gets stuck in your head after few listens (they have guides)

and at least in my case i tend to follow the romanization of the lyrics instead of actually reading them in korean. not sure but i'm guessing some artists could be doing smth similar to that

plus like everyone mentioned they have enough time to rehearse their lines for the song and retake them if they miss the right pronounciation

for interviews, even if they are scripted it takes more time to remember words than melodies so they need little time to think (probably why they sutter or talk slowly sometimes) and you obviously can't refilm an interview over and over again to fix pronouncing mistakes

Because you can practice pronunciation for a song knowing the lyrics, English isn’t everyone’s first language and Korean is extremly different from English

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Thats not only in KPop

I once did a cover of a Adele song and someone dead seriously asked me if I was from the US and I thought to myself "But my English is so bad that people should notice I'm not American"

With songs, they memorize it