I also think Kpop's influence is also exaggerated but I won't argue against it's popularity amongst the young female/some male crowd. It's like when a Kpop/Kdr

I also think Kpop's influence is also exaggerated but I won't argue against it's popularity amongst the young female/some male crowd. It's like when a Kpop/Kdrama fan approaches me expecting me to know all of the pop culture when in my experience most Koreans simply consider BTS to be like Justin Bieber. Imagine if people from Japan starts asking you if you watch Justin Bieber sing and then getting offended when you speak the truth. This is exactly what people in Korea and Japan are going through but you will almost never see them express it but its getting extreme in some situations like below: https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/gxa6qr/this_girl_makes_tiktok_videos_of_her_forcibly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/gxa6qr/this_girl_mak... Here you can see her physically harassing Korean men by hugging them or trying to kiss them. It's getting to the point where Western women are fetishizing Korean men similar to how Asian women are often fetishized by foreigners (not through popular culture but mainly through pornography).