{"id":232278,"date":"2025-12-14T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/232278\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:32:09","slug":"why-south-koreans-are-falling-out-of-love-with-k-pop-its-all-in-english-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/232278\/","title":{"rendered":"Why South Koreans are falling out of love with K-pop: \u2018it\u2019s all in English now\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

From sold-out stadium tours in the US<\/a>, Europe<\/a> and Asia<\/a> to history-making Grammy nominations, K-pop<\/a> has never stood taller on the global stage.Yet within South Korea<\/a>, many say the music they once called their own now feels made for someone else.<\/p>\n

For fans like 21-year-old university student Lee Ye-jin, that shift hits every time she turns on the radio or scrolls through new releases on her phone.<\/p>\n

Lee has been a member of \u201cLight\u201d \u2013 the official fan club of popular boy band Highlight \u2013 since 2016. Formerly known as Beast, the chart-topping four-member group was part of K-pop\u2019s so-called second generation, sharing the spotlight with icons such as Big Bang, Girls\u2019 Generation and Wonder Girls: all products of the 2000s golden era.<\/p>\n

While countless new acts have debuted since, Lee says she has yet to discover any worthy of her adulation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a bit tricky to still call these groups K-pop,\u201d she told This Week in Asia. \u201cIf you listen to their lyrics or look at their names, it\u2019s all in English now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From sold-out stadium tours in the US, Europe and Asia to history-making Grammy nominations, K-pop has never stood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[13394,123861,22005,8526,7450,5433,47047,123865,18,117,19988,13396,19,17,26189,5403,123862,8927,337,59113,2428,14353,15952,123864,41165,121,123863],"class_list":["post-232278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ador","tag-allday-project","tag-attention","tag-billboard-hot-100","tag-blackpink","tag-bts","tag-coachella","tag-day6","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-grammy","tag-hybe","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jyp-entertainment","tag-k-pop","tag-korean-music-awards","tag-lollapalooza","tag-music","tag-newjeans","tag-south-korea","tag-spotify","tag-stray-kids","tag-wave-to-earth","tag-woodz","tag-youtube","tag-zo-zazz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115717468699920273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}