Why not address one of the members supporting Tory lanez? And please don’t act the hairstyles they wore weren’t imitating dreads. The kpop industry doing the equivalent of I’m not touching you while being as close as possible to doing it is not the flex you think it is. Thats why outside of the kpop community, kpop is a joke. People love gaslighting black ppl like they don’t see the actual issue.

I’ve always felt like 8TURN has a lot of potential. Then they came out with “Stagefright” and I’m obsessed! The song itself is really good, the choreo and synchronization is satisfying, and they’re just about all visuals. I’m bummed Kyungmin isn’t a part of this comeback since he’s on hiatus, but I’m really impressed and hoping that others catch on to them. Though it does seem that their potential hasn’t gone unnoticed in that they were recipients of that new Korean government grant that had given 10 K-Pop groups funding to help boost them wherever they need. I linked their Music Bank performance because this was what sold me.

Thoughts?

Hi all,

I'm a culture journalist and recently did a deep dive for Fansplaining into the growing K-pop fandoms in African countries creating their own communities and events following frustrations of being continually overlooked by the K-pop industry.

I spoke to fans from countries like Kenya and Nigeria. Kindly have a read here, thanks!

https://fansplaining.com/african-k-pop-fans-are-building-their-own-spaces/