K-Pop girl are attracting more fervent admirers among their own sex in Japan by young men who have apparently made an appeal. Approximately 80 percent of the public to showcase debut of Girls Generation at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo August 25 were women, from teenagers to women in their 30s. Many of them even sported Girls’ Generation clothes. …Why are Japanese girls go mad for Korean girl band?
Fill in the boy band-shaped hole
provider Oricon, the Japanese equivalent of the charts, recently told Japanese girls in their teens and 20s are taking Korean girl band during a break for Korean boy band.
Bands like TVXQ, Big Bang, SHINee Japanese girls turned to K-pop, with the number of Japanese fans TVXQ estimated at over 300,000. What has prompted the management agencies to focus on Japanese boy band market, according to Shin Sung-hee of Sony Music Entertainment. “They did not have any interest in any girls groups so the current phenomenon of Korean Girl band took the people in both Korea and Japan by surprise”, said
AKB 48 and Morning Musume are the leading Japanese girl band this year. Dressed in frilly princess dresses and very interesting as to smile, sing and dance routines choreographed mainly with delicate movements of hands and feet. But the Korean girl groups have a bolder, more dynamic image. They wear uniforms angular or skinny tight jeans, and dance choreography that uses the whole body. On stage, appear confident and charismatic.
Kim Young-min agency SM Entertainment said: “Japanese girls that I’ve had enough of that Japanese girl bands closely appeal to the instincts of protection of men seem to do any more Korean girls groups as a role model.”
better skills
Thanks to their notoriously grueling training, group Korean girls tend to be better to dance and sing for the Japanese. The Korean girl gang members go through an average of 3-6 years training, while Japanese girls only have six months to one year.
Japanese management agencies have recently shifted from quality to quantity, on the basis that anyone can become an “idol” with the right marketing support. AKB 48, as the name suggests, has 48 members who play every day for a concert for fans in a small theater in Akihabara, Tokyo. Often members are thrown from the street and then learn at work because of these times.
Fill in boy-band-shaped hole
provider Oricon, the Japanese equivalent of the charts, recently said Japanese girls in their teens and 20s are taking a break at a Korean girl band for Korean boy band.
Bands like TVXQ, Big Bang, SHINee Japanese girls turned to K-pop, with the number of Japanese fans TVXQ estimated at over 300,000. What has prompted the management agencies to focus on Japanese boy band market, according to Shin Sung-hee of Sony Music Entertainment. “They had no interest in any girl groups, so the current phenomenon of Korean girl band took the people both in Korea and Japan by surprise,” said
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