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[Discussion] Is Hallyu wave continuously growing or slowly dying?


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Year by year I hear people saying that Kpop is going to die but since now there is no clear sign of the down fall.

Anywise, I think that loosing Japan's support, Hallyu wave is affected big time. Kpop seems to expands to the Western world, more and more non-Asians start to listen to Kpop but the number of this people is still not significant enough not to mention that they don't buy music legally most of the time. 

 

So..what do you think about Hallyu's popularity right now? But in the future? Do you think that once the big 2nd generation bands disband Kpop will go down?

 

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When the big names disappear, there will be nothing. There are no big rookies or trends to keep masses of people interested.

 

+ Everything in kpop is very repetitive... Even controversies, k-netz comments and fanwars. And this is boring and tiring aspect of the thing. I started to like kpop in 2010/2011 and now I experienced facepalm much more often than wow. The exciting aspect of kpop is slowly dying.

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It's still growing in Asia and is getting more exposure in The US. It's even growing in Australia, not sure about Europe though. As for Japan, it's obviously dying with the whole Japan vs. Korea issue.

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It's dying slowly. The old groups' popularity are close to enough now, the new groups/singers who debut in the past 2 yrs are boring (seems like the agencies/label can't find a unique/innovative concept/image)... If they can't make something new, I guess hallyu wave will totally shut down at least in the next 2 yrs...

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It's basically dead in Japan. That was the main source of Hallyu's revenue so that's pretty much that. They can try all they want in China but it will not match the revenues Japan brought in. Why do people bring up The West as if The West is actually a factor?

 

Once SuJu/SNSD/Big Bang are gone, Hallyu will be done too. EXO is not enough to sustain it.

 

I guess it will slowly die, but maybe it'll die within the next 10 years? I think that Kpop needs to come up with new things to keep people's interest and attention.

 

KPop needs to diversify, as in flesh out the other genres. Make them viable and interesting. Give KPop fans something to grow into once they outgrow idols.

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I think it's growing, especially when looking at EXO. People keep saying that when the older gen groups disband, it'll die off, but I think SM and YG's latest and upcoming groups will keep the hype going. 

 

EXO is the only one that's proven its worth. Why go on about groups that haven't even debuted yet?

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Most of my friends who were kpop fans have already left and are not interested anymore. My friend was a crazy Sone before, she's Russian and she managed to make a lot of people into casual listeners lol but now she doesn't care about anyone but her bias Yoona and is very disinterested, so its kind of going down, I guess. 

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slowly dying in japan, but still increasing (or maybe stagnate) in asia/the americas

the current wave will eventually die with the disbandment and inactivity of the 2nd gen, but like other trends, i think there'll be a resurgence in the future. not with the 3rd gen, more likely with the upcoming 4th gen

 

also let's not forget that the original hallyu wave dates back to over a decade ago

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downloading music illegally is not a thing just western fans do, it's a thing that happens everywhere. when you want to support a group you buy the album and if you just like the song and clearly don't give a shit otherwise, you download, it's as simple as that. majority of the western fans I'm friends with on facebook have collections of albums probably bigger than the average k-fan, lol.

 

that being said - I don't think it's really dying, but it's changing; and it feels different. it's peak was in 2009-2011 and that was just the same in europe. I wouldn't say it was big, but it was a hype. that hype died down. the people only being a 'fan' for this hype left. some others lost interest because kpop was getting repetitive.

 

those who stayed, now mostly follow the groups they used to, but don't keep up with the new gen. the only one right now really sucking in new fans from what I have seen is EXO. other than that, the other groups of their generation, aren't really a hype with non-fans. perhaps it will skip over one generation and it will be the next one that continues the wave... just because the second gen might disband, doesn't mean it will bring the wave down. to be honest, there's still a lot of young, new fans. you just don't see all of them in the same places (onehallyu, for example, is more popular with older fans it seems).

 

I still think it's growing in certain parts of this world. that it died in Japan doesn't mean it did the same everywhere else. thing is, you can't expect it to stay the same as it always used to be.

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People have been saying it's dying since I got into kpop, but so far I see more and more acts doing concerts in countries where it was only a dream before...

 

and it's alaways been about those few relevant groups, so we just have to wait and see how the next generation from the Big 3 will do

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because they're SM and YG groups. This isn't 2003-2006 where people could have doubts over the success of an SM idol group.  

 

Umm, it's not as if f(x) became a challenge for SNSD...

 

I just don't get anticipating something before they even debut.

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