Week 9 Blog Post for Media in Japan
Difference in Fandom culture and social standards between Korea and Japan For k-idols, they are considered as the perfect figure and the society has high standards, expectation towards the professionalism criteria whereas Japan it is the flaw and natural aspect that provokes the moe culture and therefore fans are willing to be together on the journey for making improvements in their musical career. Therefore, the kpop idols are required to be involved in long time training period, intensive competition and even if they complete them, there is no guarantee that they will be successful. In korea, the idol members undergo intensive training on average of ~years, polished, they have to be talented at singing and also they have to look good, should go over the average for every field, they have perfect in every field in order to survive in the competition, image of perfect to please the fans, get easily criticized from not caring ab...
