There's no doubting the talent and creativity of korean kpop stars. Korea is known for being skilled with media arts. They have a knack for things such as choreography, dance, art, etc., and I think they do a better job than the US popstars, BUT that's where all the praise ends.
I'm sick of the superficiality of their appearances and fakeness of the appearance of their beauty and happy life. Whenever I see the little girls at my school using the computers, they are all constantly fixated on looking up pictures of their kpop female stars. They are constantly gazing at and admiring how beautiful so and so is and all I see is a person with a hell of a lot of makeup on and probably double-eyelid surgery, etc. When I see the student's faces, there is a sense of expression of both admiration but also despair. That despair comes from the fact they feel they aren't as beautiful, and will never become a kpop celebrity even if they tried. If somehow they can't look like that, sing like that, dance like that and be all over the flatscreen tvs with their "barbie doll" figures and outfits, then somehow, they are less than worthy and less than valuable. That makes me mad.
It's the same reason why southeast asian girls also look up to the korean kpop celebs because they are just that much more beautiful with their white skin and stick figures, as if to somehow condition their minds that dark skinned asian women from poor countries are not beautiful. Kpop is both brilliant and a ingenious moneymaking machine, but it is also a subliminally destructive pro-hedonistic message pounding regime that is changing trends for both korea and those nations that are engulfed / addicted to kpop.
