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Blackswan: The K-pop girl group with no Korean members (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/entertainment

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[–] Lexam@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I imagine there are girls around the world who have started k-pop bands so I doubt they are the first non Korean k-pop. And its pretty simple if you think a band has be to only Koreans to be K-pop then you are racist. Go fix yourself.

[–] Rekhyt 8 points 1 year ago

"They are affiliated with a Korean entertainment company, debuted in South Korea, and sing in Korean," said one commenter, suggesting they should be defined as K-pop.

I think this is a pretty reasonable list of criteria to be considered K-pop. I might even replace "singing in Korean" and "debuted in South Korea" with "target the same market/charts" (I'm sure there are K-pop groups that have at least something in English).

It's the same reasoning I give for why Avatar TLA isn't anime: it's certainly anime inspired, but it's an American animation company and not a Japanese one. This group seems obviously K-pop to me.