Considering how much work and art goes into the music, it's depressing how much their media emphasises the superficial aspect
Well, no wonder. They are all mass produced. It's the same in Japan.
How long in average even is an Idol groups career?
In this case, prolly not. The amount of cosmetic surgery they go through is absurd, all to follow an extremely narrow standard of beauty.
Has anyone even been far as decided to even want to go do look more like?
Even J-pop have the novelty of using different, jazz influence chord progressions to get a sound that is somewhat unique compared to modern American R&B music, Kpop is pretty much just American R&B music sung in Korean and neutered.
To add on to this, the Korean cosmetics industry is FUCKING MASSIVE. It's extremely popular all over the world, and Korean beauty and fashion trends are swallowing East and Southeast Asia and are well into the west by now. They give an EXTREMELY unrealistic standard of beauty, and they target VERY YOUNG children:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/lipstick-in-kindergarten-south-koreas-k-beauty-industry-now-aims-for-the-super-young/2019/02/14/af02c6d0-136d-11e9-ab79-30cd4f7926f2_story.html?noredirect=on
Lipstick in kindergarten? South Korea’s K-beauty industry now aims for the super young.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/Q4RdyMbe3urj8wtLskxlb-9U8Iw=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/CJBPEGBL34I6TEDOTVK3MRI6WQ.jpg
Last year in kindergarten, Yang Hye-ji developed her morning routine. Uniform? Check. Homework? Check.
Makeup? Definitely.
“Makeup makes me look pretty,” the 7-year-old said on her second visit to the ShuShu & Sassy beauty spa in Seoul.
She was wrapped in a child-size pink robe and wearing a bunny hairband. Her face was gently touched up with a puff. Her lips got a swipe of pink gloss.
South Korea’s cosmetics industry, known as K-beauty, has become an Asian powerhouse and global phenomenon for its rigorous step-by-step regimens.
But exacting beauty norms also put enormous pressure on South Korean women, making the country one of the world’s centers for plastic surgery. And increasingly, the beauty industry is looking at younger and younger girls.
That is stirring concerns that touch on many core social debates in South Korea: how much a society should value appearance, whether messages about beauty crowd out other aspirations for young girls, and whether it’s right to add even more pressure to an already stress-packed childhood of long school hours and make-or-break exams.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/Hb8OqzKEtunuaRdHdEJNrPL-6yM=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/DHCPVQRL34I6TEDOTVK3MRI6WQ.jpg
Update(?) from the same website
South Korea retracts guidelines on look
Still, you know the industry went too far in rushing the market when the government said to tone down and have some originality but its not like theyre going to stop anytime soon
"hey im thinking of expanding our business"
"yeah who's your target demographic?"
"everyone"
we can worry when people share the exact same life experiences and figure out that the soul itself is being groomed before having a vessel
North Korea (deservedly) gets most of the flak, but honestly, South Korea gives me the creeps, too. It feels like they took modern Japan's worse aspects and cranked them up to eleven.
think i can become a white kpop star in korea guys???
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