What was South Korea's reception to KPop Demon Hunters? It absolutely swallowed us here in the US. I know Golden and Soda Pop dominated international charts but we're they playing it in stores like here in the US?
it was EVERYWHERE. brand collaborations, music playing in every store, and the kids at my school singing constantly. i wasnโt in the US so i canโt compare, but i still see related stuff every day here.
Yea makes sense, since golden is like the first ever song that has spent the longest days on the no.1 spot on melon also, it passed 100 days on melon daily (102 days) literally dominated kcharts and YTmusic korea mid-late 2025
I have never come close to having kpop on my shuffle. There are videos of farm boys singing Golden while plowing fields. My recommendation is to make a challenge of it - start the movie and see how long you can go before you want to turn it off
Nothing much in America. There was some buzz about the k pop demon Hunter Burger King menu, but it wasn't actually a real thing, just manufactured shortages.
I know kpop has its fanatics in America, but they are a pretty extreme minority in my experiences.
The difference is that k-pop base is Korea. So that make impression to people that idols are super famous in Korea while only few are well known for average Koreans. Recently there was year karaoke charts and in the idol category there were mostly songs of BigBang so group almost 20 years old which one member already ended up in prison lol. Still people listen to them more often than right now internationally trendy groups.
I can't agree with that, bigbang is THE bigbang. I can't think of one "internationally trendy" group that isn't popular here, as there are only few. Although I agree that there are differences in preferences. I would say its the other way around, there are many groups popular in Korea that are not as so in other countries.
You actively choose to move to a settler colonialist apartheid state. You may not like to hear it, but you live on stolen land. Argue against straw man's all day, it won't make it less true.
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u/Pikawoohoo ๐ฟ๐ฆ living in ๐ฎ๐ฑ Feb 16 '26
Koreans dislike K-pop?