[GEEKSruletheworld!]

K-pop, or Korean Pop as it's originally called, has recently after these last few years created a whole new trend. I'm seeing things on the internet which show me that a K-POP star may be performing at the London Olympics 2012 opening ceremony. I'm surprised to see it has spread so quickly and that most people each LOVE it or HATE it.
Personally I love some groups/artists in K-Pop. for example. SHINee.
I just wanted to hear your views on it coming to the UK and spreading vastly throughout the world?

[ruby.786]

i recently got into kpop this year and have become a pretty big fan although i know there are way more hardcore fans out there that are bigger fans that i am. i think it's awesome that kpop is becoming so popular as it's very different, and i also find that it's completely different to English/American Pop which i'm not a huge fan of, whereas normally i'd consider myself to be more of an indie/slow rock/punk person myself, which is why i was so surprised that i like k pop. i'm a huge fan of big bang and u kiss, and there's loads more songs that i like from different bands like B2ST, SHINee and MBLAQ. the list goes on really...
oh and i think it'd be amazing if they were to perform at the London 2012 olympics, i voted for Big Bang it'd give them a lot more publicity and be a way to show k pop to the rest of the world.

[Maria_love!!]

I love Kpop!

[zxh800]

Sorry, never heard of it.

[JongKey]

SHINee! Anyone who knows them will know what my name's about MBLAQ, BigBang and others are pretty amazing and how can i forget the king of kings - DBSK.

[lukas1051]

It's truly truly dreadful... Thankfully it's only really popular with select groups of internet weeaboos and not the general public.

[James A]

It's pathetic. That's all i'm saying.

[FunkeyMunkey]

I don't really like it, but one group i do like are 2NE1 ( a few of their songs are ok)

[hali0112]

It's quite an acquired taste. you either love it or hate it, I agree. I have close family in Malaysia and whenever we stay over at theres, my cousins show us what music they listen to and korean pop is quite popular. I think it's quirky and different to our pop which makes it interesting.

[desijut]

It sounds annyoing to me. Some songs are catchy i guess, but not my cup of tea

[worker13]

Annoys me immensely. But the girls are hot hot.

[JongKey]

(Original post by desijut)
It sounds annyoing to me. Some songs are catchy i guess, but not my cup of tea

I have to agree, some parts annoy me a lot, like the cringy cuteness but i really like the talented singers like the new singer Ailee, if anyone knows her, she really is amazing.

[Mrs Huntley]

I think its really great and I love K-Pop but I don't get why they'd open the London Olympics in my opinion. I thought we'd want to showcase British musicians

[shezshez]

This cheers me up.

[internet tough guy]

^ has anyone seen this korean gif yet? ****ing annoying as hell

[JongKey]

(Original post by shezshez)


This cheers me up.

Rofl whenever newbies to kpop see this they completely start to hate kpop. I personally cringe when i see this video lol. I think SNSD are great but i wouldn't introduce anyone to kpop with this video.

[shezshez]

(Original post by JongKey)
Rofl whenever newbies to kpop see this they completely start to hate kpop. I personally cringe when i see this video lol. I think SNSD are great but i wouldn't introduce anyone to kpop with this video.

Haha, honestly I haven't got a clue about K-pop someone sent this to me a while ago, makes me in a better mood every time though. xD

[Presenttime]

I don't think the western world is ready for any asian group to break through. Unfortunately ! Girl's generation had a good go at it .

[LaughingBro]

Big up Girls Generation and 2PM!!!

[Mrkingpenguin]

So wait, they sing part of the song in English and part in Korean, sounds like a great idea to reach hyper large audiences: multilingual songs could be the future?