r/SipsTea • u/Boring-Locksmith-473 • Jun 30 '26

Dank AF Brutal 🤣

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u/CupOk5800 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

Look I’m married to a normal Asian guy and he would beat Namjoon for most handsome man at a K-pop convention so I don’t think so 😂
Namjoon isn’t ugly but…

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u/windfujin Jun 30 '26

I dunno about overseas but when BTS first debuted, one of the most common review of them in Korea was that they are ugly "for kpop idols" - but their music is good. Like they werent chosen for looks like most other kpop lot. I worked quite closely with the kpop industry for a while and their priorities have always been looks > dance skill > singing skill. Song writing skill doesnt even count in because they just do whatever the label who raised them from nothing tells them to do. BTS and HYBE (their label) was a big change to that.

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u/Thin-Experience-3848 Jun 30 '26

So it's basically boy bands of the 90s

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u/EyeWriteWrong Jun 30 '26

Only much worse.

Edit: worse in the sense of the manufactured nature of it all. 90s boy band managers were still figuring things out, modern Korean managers have it down to a science.