Would it have been better if Korea became the "Minor Leagues" of KPop?

    The whole BTS military service issue would have been moot if Korea became a minor league of KPop and few successful acts ever returned Korea, preferring to stay in the bigger markets like Japan, China and elsewhere.


    Famous soccer players hail from Brazil, Argentine and Africa, but few of them stay in their home leagues. They prefer to go to leagues in Europe, most favorably in the Premier League of England.


    There are many famous baseball players hailing from Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Mexico, etc but few people pay attention to the Dominican league, Puertorican league, and Mexican leagues. Their star players , once in the Major Leagues, stay in there as long as possible and few of them return until their career have almost ended and they need the pocket changes from these leagues.


    Korea is a net loss as far as concerts are involved . In the recent 10 years, only 2 acts , BTS and EXO, had concerts in the only major venue in Korea, the Olympic Stadium , and other than them only IU, a domestic singer who NEVER even filled an arena outside of K-O-R-E-A, attempted to have a concert there.


    As seen by the opposition of K-O-R-E-A-N men about granting BTS the military exemption, generally the K-O-R-E-A-N-S do not like KPop.


    I personally think it would have been better for the companies to shun the K-O-R-E-A-N market, which is actually quite tiny and getting smaller as the birthrates decline, and concentrate on foreign markets, leaving K-O-R-E-A for the rookies, trottists and balladists, and that way foreign fans would have paid little attention to the K-O-R-E-A-N music market like few people paying attention to the Brazilian, Argentinian or African soccer leagues.



    I personally have thought that KPop does NOT deserve K-O-R-E-A, whose people have a long way to go before appreciating Kpop.


    Making Korea irrelevant for KPop would have been a major move which would have benefitted Kpope in the long run, since which means Kpop would have made it immune to whatever comings and goings in K-O-R-E-A where they did not expect to earn too much money.

    kpop is heavily linked with south korean soft power and tourism, if you can't understand the political and economic implications then go back to your nonsensical napoleon essays.

  • AllKill VIP

    What a disgusting narrative of cultural appropriation?


    Then Hindus don't deserve yoga, because the West has streamlined-commercialized it better.

    Italians don't deserve Pizza because the US has achieved far better restaurants. So on..


    You can keep going with such idiotic narratives.


    Thankfully your judgment of who deserves, is utterly irrelevant.


    Sure market size matters, but it is not for companies to decide which market deserve their "products", but for the markets to decide which product deserves their custom.

    Otherwise, it would be a Colonial Monopoly.


    Korea might indeed prefer other music genres than Kpop, but so can other markets, tastes are continuously changing, that's no reason to peddle culturally offensive nonsense.


    Do you think any Winemaker will refuse to be recognised in France?

    Any Western Classical musician ignore an opportunity to perform at Salzberg - claiming they are "tiny" markets.


    Cultural products are driven more than just money.


    Your lunatic obsession with internationizing is getting more delusional by the day.

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    In the recent 10 years, only 2 acts , BTS and EXO, had concerts in the only major venue in Korea, the Olympic Stadium , and other than them only IU, a domestic singer who NEVER even filled an arena outside of K-O-R-E-A, attempted to have a concert there.

    Just a correction two 1st gen groups (H.O.T and god) have had reunion concerts there also JYJ had a concert there in 2014 but i am not sure if they all sold out the venue.

    Even for you, this is such a weird take that's not only offensive, but doesn't make sense.


    I don't even want to point out that no one has been able to tour in Korea for the last two years, but you're basing a big chunk of your logic on how many acts have sold out stadiums, but even in the US, very few acts sell out or even play stadiums. Most big artists play arenas, so there's no difference between here and Korea in that respect. I've seen many huge acts in arenas so it's weird to see that just dismissed. (And tbf, even the ones who have sold out stadiums in the past often choose to scale down to arena tours.)


    It's also a gross simplification of the cultural mores and the role military service plays for men in Korea (i.e. the impacts it has on their life choices and steps) to boil it down to "Korean men don't like kpop so that's why they're mad about BTS' service." People are so concerned about other men in the public eye during their service that people had to reveal their health issues to the press to get people from attacking them about "shirking their duty," so this is a thing much larger than kpop.


    Kpop is inherently Korean pop - it can spread to the rest of the world and take on different looks, but the core audience remains in Korea (hence, why the majority of the music is in Korean and so are the people making it). This is particularly nonsensical since the bulk of kpop acts remain a niche in most musical markets. Niches can be very successful and lucrative certainly. Country is a very successful and lucrative niche in America that also has a few artists that can sell out stadiums, but still Kpop has not declined so much in Korea that it must totally depend on international markets to sustain it.

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    Even commercial product makers like Samsung, whose predominant market share if from outside Korea, aren't stupid enough to exit Korea and Whyknock wants a cultural product industry to cut off its roots, for no reason whatsoever.


    Well I definitely won't invest in any company which follows such idiotic strategy.

    Korea, instead of becoming a root for the KPop acts, is now acting like a harsh landowner who is now charging a huge rent for the Kpop outfits without really contributing anything.


    Korea's municipalities are not too hot building KPop arenas and other performing halls, charge high to foreign fans and are hell bent sending the top idols to the military, while promoting domesticists who won't really be relevant outside of it and treating them in the same league as the internationally relevant acts.


    If Korea doesn't want KPop then KPop should leave and seek greener pastures, and let Lim Youngwoong and his trottists roam around its aging population.

    This is like that meme video where the guy is talking nonstop and initially it seems like he's saying something sensible until you listen closely and none of it makes sense. 😅

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