Kpop Idols Connecting With Fans Articles Research. Demonstrates the actual significance of celebrity culture at the core of K-Pops influential power. Specifically I suggest that with K-Pop celebrity culture the connection idols actively create with their fandoms is such that for some fans their K-Pop fan identity aligns strongly with their personal identity.
The idol the genres base unit of stardom is gestated from adolescence through years of grueling training. Some of the well-known groups from this generation are Shinhwa SES Sech Kies Turbo GOD Fly to the Sky and HOT. This extends to the image that South Korea portrays as well.
Cultural contact between their local areas and Korea beyond supporting K-pop idols.
Kim Taehyung is the first K-pop Male Idol to get 1 million likes on. Some of the well-known groups from this generation are Shinhwa SES Sech Kies Turbo GOD Fly to the Sky and HOT. Social media technologies such as Kpop fan sites allow international fans to form a deep emotional attachment to K-pop idols. Its very rare for K-pop idols to have a public relationship with a same-sex idol but Seungho and BNish who are both members of the K-pop group DIP admitted that they are dating for years.