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A Look at the K-Pop Industry and Its Global Fandom | Beyond the Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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The Importance of Identity in K-Pop

Almost every K-pop and their fan club fandom, I think that's what they call it these days. All of this fan club has a name, so it has its own identity. So my group, the TBXQ, our balloon colors was Pearl Red. If you go to concerts or if you go to this music programs in Korea, in the broadcast station, you would wear Pearl Red. You know what I mean? So everyone has a very strong identity. That's definitely not American. Right now, we have bleabers for Justin Bieber, like Swifties for Taylor Swift. But you just talked about Boys 2 Men. Did you guys have a name for the fans who

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