Korean Pop Music Today

Today, Korean pop music occupies many countries in the world. Korean pop, which is known is Kpop has a number of Korean singers with good lookings and perfect dancing skills. In Vietnam, Kpop is very popular to teenagers and young people. However, a lot of “crazy fans” of Kpop are too reverend there idols, and that influence strongly to teenagers’ thoughts. They think Kpop is all their lives, and nobody can prevent them from loving their idols even their parents. This is absolutely wrong!

In Vietnam, there has been many news about teenagers who leave homes just because their parents do not give them money to go to a show of their idols. Another situation, few days ago, a student complained on her facebook page about their parents that did not allow her to attend to her idol band concept from Korea. Her dad destroyed all her idols’ posters, CDs because she did bad in school. She gave her parent a lot of bad meaning words. She said, “ Who do you think you are? You never can compare to my Suju (a Korean pop band).” She kept saying, “You only born me. Let see what you can do for me like what Suju has done for my life”. This post was public, and many people were so angry about how she acted and what she did.

As this problem was going worse, the students who attended university entrance exams in Vietnam received an attractive question: “Admiring idols is a cultural beauty, but going mad on idols is a tragedy.” A lot of students felt happy with the question, saying that they have “a lot of materials” to write about the topic. They though it was the time to warn about the phenomenon of “going mad on idols” which had been spread out among teenagers. Meanwhile, some students, who call themselves as the “authentic fans” of South Korean actors and singers, used discourteous words to criticize the Ministry of Education and Training for giving such an exam question. An association of the students, who protest