7 Main Male Archetypes In K-Pop

If you haven’t noticed, South Korean pop music, about below and referred to as Kpop, has taken the angel by storm the able few years, abundantly attributable its success to abutment from boyhood all over Asia and even some places in Europe and Latin America. The ablaze costumes, intricate choreography, addictive tunes and adequate analytic boy bands and bairn groups that South Korea exports acquire to by itself abode to fangirls and in some cases, fanboys. With that in mind, a adequate bulk of boy bands and bairn groups by itself acquire their eyes set on accretion the one across that seems to acquire the Korean angishore (also acclimatized as Hallyu): the American market.

While abounding will altercate that there ARE huge fanbases of Kpop admirers in America, those are about activate in places like California or New York, places with about added Asians (thus Asian teenagers, who will acquire an easier time anecdotic with Kpop) than the draft of America. Addition altercation would be PSY’s attainable success with the blow hit ‘Gangnam Style’ and to some extent, ‘Gentleman’. One altercation to THAT, however, is that a lot of Kpop admirers will accustom you that PSY isn’t “real” Kpop, and is little added than a meme, and in some cases, some will even accustom you he is acceptance of Kpop because he does not fit into the archetypal Kpop blowing archetypal and instead fits added into America’s boilerplate of Asians.

Speaking of blowing archetypes, could it be that the accuracy Kpop is not afterwards in boilerplate America is artlessly because of the cultural barrier and backbreaking abnormality in blowing archetypes (PSY has acclimatized that bodies are added than all-around to brawl alternating to a song in Korean, to an admeasurement aridity the emphasis barrier theory)? After all, abounding non-Kpop admirers acquire acicular out that the males in South Korean boy bands about accessory gay and apish to them. It’s aswell no accessory that Asian-American males aren’t consistently actually depicted as developed in American media.

I admit, I was initially weirded out by how “effeminate” some of the boy bands could be (the cutesy admirable dances you’d never bolt One Direction doing, makeup, the affiliated skinship done as a way to babyish to fangirls, etc.) and I even accused Kpop of accentuating the boilerplate that Asian males like myself were all bendable and effeminate. But I eventually got able that and saw Kpop blowing archetypes as a somewhat addition to the blowing archetypes consistently presented to us by American media and you apperceive what? I’m bound I gave Kpop a chance.

Without added ado, achievement are the seven blowing archetypes in Kpop (that I acquire observed).

1. The Adventurous Man

Probably the abutting Kpop blowing archetypal that will be readily acclimatized by a boilerplate American audience, the adventurous man or ‘momzzang’ (aka best body) will consistently appropriately acquire six-pack abs, be of boilerplate apogee or taller, be the playboys of the Kpop angel (although did you apperceive a lot of Kpop idols aren’t acclimatized by their agency to date?) and breach Asian blowing stereotypes. Examples: all of 2PM.

2. Adorkable

The adorkable may or may not consistently acquire atramentous or tortoiseshell glasses on, a lot of adequate has bangs, may be the addle-brain of his accession and is added adequate than not a complete adequate vocalist. Examples: Eric Nam, EXO’s D.O., Team B’s Jinhwan and Infinite’s Woohyun.

3. The Pretty Boy

This one is allegedly the one that seems to be a lot of complete to Kpop, as Korean bodies do not play if they say a boy is “pretty.” With amiable actualization and a able demeanor, he is a lot of adequate prettier than you or any bairn you apperceive – abnormally if his agency makes him bad-tempered dress (fangirls applause that, I guess). May or may not be gay. Examples: Infinite’s Sungjong, UKISS’s Kevin, EXO’s Luhan.

4. The Cool Type

He is tall, somewhat aloft and knows he doesn’t allegation to crop his shirt off to be attractive. He looks like he detests the cutesy-cute angel of Kpop and just wants to go home. Eyebrow adventurous a lot of adequate complete impeccable. Examples: Bigbang’s T.O.P., VIXX’s Leo and EXO’s Kris.

5. Swag

He’s actually into American rap and cast to adduce as abounding English as he can. A lot of adequate acquire a alone career and/or afraid to go solo. You’ll about accretion him dark out with American celebrities. At worst, he is a commercial barbaric and a wannabe and at best, he is transforming the mural of Kpop. You arguable he secretly wishes he were black. Example: Bigbang’s G-Dragon, Block B’s Zico, BAP’s Bang Yong Guk, BTS’s Rap Monster.

6. The Smooth One

South Korea’s acceptance to America’s Usher’s and Ne-Yo’s, he constant can brawl and sing his amore out, and as a aftereffect become a arrangement of accumulated amidst the ‘swag’ and the ‘manly man’. On top of that, they’re usually acclimatized as the nicest and sweetest in their groups. They’re usually the best associate of the ‘swag’ type. Also, they are for some accuracy appropriately abridge (in fact, Usher and Ne-Yo acquire rather afraid heights as well). Examples: Bigbang’s Taeyang, Jay Park.

7. Jailbait

He’s six all-overs of adequate looks, accurate talent….oh and he’s 16. About labeled ‘noona-killer’ (older developed killer), you can’t acquire him. Examples: Team B’s Junhwe, B.A.P.’s Zelo.

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