'Foreign Hallyu' groups NiziU and WayV face potential political dilemma alongside their rapid growth

Article: '3rd Hallyu wave' NiziU and WayV face an identity dilemma

Source: No Cut News via Naver

Article talks about how 'new wave' groups like NiziU and WayV are growing super fast in their home countries but facing cold sentiment in Korea due to their unclear identities, which is being regarded as a 'ticking time bomb' once histories and societal issues begin to overlap... like controversies over the support of Japanese businesses with war crime history, support of Hong Kong police, etc. "A soft export is the next step but agencies need to be more responsible for the next step in Hallyu".

1. [+143, -12] These groups having personal family matters or private lives is not our business but I think we've crossed the line in letting the descendants of war criminals debut in our country.

2. [+89, -9] I have an uneasy feeling that these decisions will be what makes K-Pop fail in 10 years

3. [+64, -1] I just don't get why Lee Soo Man is always training Chinese groups after all the backstabbing he's suffered from them..

4. [+70, -21] I don't think Park Jin Young is Korean anymore. He's Pro-Japanese.

5. [+33, -1] Park Jin Young-ssi, this is no K-Pop!!! This is as if a Chinese spy came working in Samsung and stole all of the technique to leak to China!! Foreigners will not think of NiziU as K-Pop but J-Pop and we'll no longer be able to differentiate between the two genres anymore because they'll look the same to them. K-Pop will then get boring. I personally find Park Jin Young to be no different than a traitor to this country for this.

6. [+23, -1] Jin Young-ah, can you please just send yourself to Japan instead of bringing your Japanese group over here to make money?

7. [+21, -2] I never in my life imagined I'd see a K-Pop group from a war criminal company

8. [+18, -0] Uh, since when were these groups K-Pop? How are they K-Pop idols at all? ㅋㅋ

9. [+14, -1] What people need to realize is that K-Pop didn't get big because it's special or amazing at anything, it's because our agencies had such low standards. Once China and Japan copy our skills and invest their own money in the industry, K-Pop's market share is going to get a lot smaller.

10. [+13, -0] Why does Park Jin Young keep calling NiziU 'our country's group'? Why are they our country's group? They're a Japanese group that you created to make your own company money.

11. [+11, -1] Seeing as how they included a member who's a descendant of a company with war crimes, it's clear that NiziU has thrown away the Korean market and intend to stay in Japan. I was so surprised to hear that they had such a descendant in the group at all.

12. [+5, -0] I just don't understand NiziU. No one is going to consider that group a part of Hallyu.

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