cant wait to listen

Icon and cruel are 🔥
I’ll have to finish listening after work

The Twice album is so good.. but I wish they and other k pop artists will stop rapping in English. The rap verses being in Korean makes it a lot more easier to ignore how bad their rapping actually is

my girl mina had the best rap in the entire album

she was floating in 132

unbelievable

you went awf. idk much about them yet but I loved the folklore woodsy teasers, the stage def lacked all of that.

Still need to visit the bsides

Chae, Momo ate

1 3 2 might be my fave

They are adorable

I think Tsuki is my bias in Billlie (girl with pink hair) ;)
The whole band is awesome

This PokerKing guy above me got the vision 🤝

New Weki Meki

Luminous a hit

Jisun is so precious, helping her fans to fall asleep

I wish more idols did ASMR

Suyeon joining Billlie

Can someone solve this mystery for me, why the hell Japanese videos are never translated?
Is it some unspoken rule?
For example, Loona has reaction to Hula Hoop uploaded to their main channel and it doesn't have English subtitles even though they speak in Korean.

I don't think companies care too much about j-comebacks reaching an international audience, they're primarily made to grow a fanbase in Japan, a neighboring country that can help generate revenues in more ways than the global audience. That's why those videos only have Japanese subs.

All groups even have separate social media accounts for everything Japan related, they really focus on that particular audience with those comebacks.

Even Izone, which quickly became the most successful group during their short lifetime, had their Japanese comebacks barely promoted and mostly ignored outside of Japan, while their Korean comebacks were breaking records.

Even Korean stans of groups will ignore their Japanese comebacks... Hula Hoop is still very well liked and supported by Orbits outsides of Japan but the companies just don't care, lol

Oh, I see, thank you for explanation:)

Also, I don't know to which extent, but Japanese groups themselves seem to gatekeep most of their stuff.

You can find discographies of Japanese groups on wikis and 3/4 of that stuff will not be on streaming platforms, performances are really hard to find, if you find one it will be 240p, etc.

NiziU is winning all those awards and breaking records in Japan but their performances are nowhere to be found for international stans. We know they exist though, some Japanese stans will upload them in very poor quality on Youtube from time to time, so yeah...

its just a cultural thing for japan, streaming is not as supported there as it is everywhere else, physical media is still king and copyright laws keep it that way

Yeah, this is very strange, like million 8k fancams for korean shows, and one shot on tv recorder 720p video for japanese one.

Hell, it's not like I don't spend enough money on kpop, but I find it frustrating that Kang Hyewon Greeting and Photobook aren't on ktown4u, the site from which I buy finding group orders. Also, if she was on ktown4u, atleast I could maybe be lucky enough to get just cards or just a calendar.

I was amazed to learn that Japan's the second biggest music market in the world with the way they don't care about promoting their own music internationally, but if physicals are king and given the sheer size of their population I can see it probably has diminishing returns to try and promote outside their own market.

it's unique though given how cultural capital can help with it's reputation internationally, I thought it'd be something they'd try to replicate as seen with Korean soft power growing due to the popularity of its music/films/tv.

It's interesting that the Japanese aren't as protective of other forms of media but with music they are.

Bless U 😪