The #Idol genre or industry actually started in #Japan in the 60s. It was an idea by a Japanese woman during her work. She's still with us today and still active.
In the late 90s, SM Entertainmen's founder brought the #Jpop Idol formula to Korea and adapted it for the Korean market. The rest is history. This was the birth of the #Kpop Idol genre/industry.
Related to this, most K-pop fans inaccurately assume that "K-pop" and "idols" are one and the same labels. This is incorrect.
* K-pop refers to the Korean POPular music, just as K-pop and P-pop refers to the Japanese and Pilipino POPular music respectively.
In other words, K-pop, K-pop, P-pop, and related, are an umbrella terminology that specifically refers to the popular music of their respective music industries.
For example, in Korea, Trot music is considered popular, and thus, K-pop. It is currently making a comeback in the mainstream, which further solidified its position as popular, and thus, K-pop.
Ironically, Trot predates the generally accepted birth of "POPular music". Popular music supposedly started in the early 60s when it became easy to mass distributi music. Similarly, the pop genre (not to be confused with POPular music) was dated in the 60s as well, having originated in the West.
However, Trot music goes all the way back to 50s and 40s, a few decades before the supposed birth of POPular music in the 60s.
This begs the question: Is popular music restricted to mass music distribution?
Well, personally, no. By the name itself, "popular music", if it's popular in its respective origin country, then it is POPular music. What we should define is when a music is "popular", not when it started.
This is the only way to accomodate the Korean definition that Korean POPular music, or K-pop for short, stared decades before any easy and mass distribution of music. Because as far as the Koreans are concerned, Trot is K-pop, a traditional K-pop.
Q: Did not Seotaiji & Boys started K-pop?
A: What they started is what Koreans call "modern K-pop" in 1992.
Q: Are they idols?
A: As far as the industry definition of "Idols" is concerned, no, they were not idols.
Remember, the idol formula was brought in Korea in the late 90s, the first K-pop idol was in 1998 but it didn't gain attention until 1999, when more Korean agencies debuted more idol groups than solo idols. It was also in that year when the difference between idol and non-idol K-pop started to get clearer, thanks to acts like Fin.K.L, S.E.S, H.O.T, T.O.P, to name a few in that year.
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