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K-pop is, presumably, built-in and bred in Korea. Or...is it?

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EXP EDITION aboriginal popped up on the scene two years ago, adopting eyebrows for the actuality that all the associates of the (then-six piece) accumulation hailed from New York City — but not one from South Korea. (Note: they're not to be abashed with EXO.)

The boy bandage additionally has a different agent story; built-in of a apriorism activity by Colombia alum apprentice Bora Kim and her activity ally Karin Kuroda and Samantha Shao, they are, essentially, an bookish experiment, intended to analyze gender, sexuality, business culture, fandom and cultural allotment in Korean pop.

“I capital to see what would appear if I fabricated American boys into K-pop performers, by teaching them how to sing in Korean and act like Korean boys, and complicate this flow/appropriation alike more, back I’m in New York, area so abounding talents are aloof one online application ad away,” Bora Kim explained in an account with Columbia about her I’m Making a Boy Bandage project.

After adopting over $30,000 on Kickstarter to armamentarium an EXP mini-album, the accumulation has back dwindled bottomward to four associates afterwards two years: Frankie, Šime, Hunter and Koki. Together, they confused to South Korea, recorded music, advised Korean, apposite and able for their (re-)debut, which seems to be coming any day now.

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Yesterday (Apr. 13), the bivouac for the group's single, "Feel Like This," accustomed on YouTube — and it's already been met with added bottomward votes than up.

"#borninNYmadeinSEOUL," the description declares.

The comments area is abounding of outrage, abashing and a baby scattering of acting support, with abounding commenters analytical about Western, non-Asian acts bold the role of Korean pop stars, ambiguous about the amount of allotment they're seeing — or whether it's alike allotment to activate with.

"K-pop is declared to be a safe amplitude for Asians to accept a belvedere for ball that they generally times aren't accustomed in the west. Because of the anecdotal that white westerners accept projected assimilate them, Asians are generally portrayed as undesirable, anti-social, and nerdy. They are hardly anytime accustomed arch roles in movies, and are not absolutely taken actively or accustomed opportunities in ball positions...we don’t charge characterless white boys aggravating to be idols in Korea back they are able to become acknowledged in actually any added allotment of the world," heryesareyo wrote.

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"Can POC do article that doesn't charge to be taken/used by white people," adds Yasmin.

Others assume hardly added acceptant to the abstraction of EXP EDITION: "i accept no abstraction what to apprehend but i ambition you guys luck in y'all's debut. i apperceive alot of bodies are giving you abhorrence but i wont be abutting absent like them. so acceptable luck to you guys~," said faithlantisxx.

Many commenters accept acicular to Alex, a non-Asian affiliate of RaNia, as a comparison, including Mity: "Its funny how ya all hatin coz they're white, but at the aforementioned time you were blessed back Alex debuted w/ RaNia. Who's racist now?.. (I don't affliction if you're white, atramentous or blue, kpop is asian, so let it be asian)," one commenter explained.

And the account of non-Korean idols in accepted goes on and on, as K-Pop Shoebox credibility out: "People dissing them for not actuality korean. LOL. f(x) Amber, Super Junior Henry, Cosmic Girls Cheng Xiao, Fiestar Cao Lu, TWICE Momo, Tzuyu, Sana, GOT7 Jackson, Bam Bam, Seventeen The8, f(x) Victoria, EXO Lay, FREAKING ALEX FROM RANIA. You all accept a botheration with them actuality white, not with them actuality non korean, account contrarily you would be adjoin all the bodies I aloof named, too. If you're dissing, at atomic diss right."

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Whether EXP EDITION will accomplish lift-off above "Feel Like This" charcoal to be seen, but so far, it seems the boys are in for a acrid acclivous battle.

Will the Internet acquiesce them to happen? And should they alike happen? Is any of this okay?

Sound off in the comments below.

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