'K-pop Idols' documentary looks at how K-pop industry is embracing diversity

Nothing more than a profit driven exploitative venture.

You are confusing K-pop idols with Japanese idols who are indeed being exploited.

If you are successful, you leave the industry with at least $20 million in earnings, and upto $100 million for top tiers. This is why there are so many non-Koreans in K-pop industry pursuing their dreams including hundreds of Japanese.

Remember Miyawaki Sakura makes 20 times in Korea what she made in Japan according to court documents released from the infamous NewJeans lawsuits...

Cravity member Wonjin shared that he was given two weeks to lose weight to join the label. “I would eat like one egg a day (...) I lost about 7kg,” he said in the documentary.

Sounds like they are not embracing "body positivity for non-skinny people"-type diversity.

Music has given me lots of joy over the years, so it disappoints me for it to have ended up in a place where all the spoils go to very samey manufactured artists with effectively the same look and the same sound.

Another scam that the blind follow and admire, dang it. It’s all a Johnnies type factory assembly line of generic tosh designed for pure profit. The love and interest for being creative is not there, it’s the same as marketing a bar of chocolate, it’s incredibly sad and as shallow as a worms grave.

Garbage is garbage whether "diverse" or not.

Garbage is garbage whether "diverse" or not

HEY!!! I like that band... Shirley voice and how she sing!!! hohoho

So what in the article is even diverse. If not diverse, what is it embracing?

I’m not sure that the K-pop industry is embracing ‘diversity’ using an example of having one band with a foreigner in its lineup.

Korean society has seen foreigners from all over starting to participate in mainly menial jobs but their acceptance into society is another matter.

For what it is, Kpop is much better and more bearable to listen to than J-POP and you don’t need to cringe when they sing in English.

The singers all sing Kpop.

Where is the diversity?

There are currently no Korean members in Blackswan after member changes.

“In a K-pop group, if there are no Korean members, I feel like it’s just a K-pop cover group, isn’t it?” Blackswan’s former Korean member Youngheun said in the documentary.

If they get a good singer/performer who just happens to be from another country, whatever, sign them up.

If they actively look for non-Korean members, just to say they're being diverse, even if said member doesn't have talent, that's a waste of time.

As far as a K-Pop group having no Korean members in it, well.........ultimately it will be up to the fans to see if they embrace such a group or completely ignore (crap on) it.