P’Abl did you know that Opp Weerapong who played Touch in SCOY debuted in a kpop group called THE7? Because I didn’t until I spotted him in a tiktok. No one in the comments section recognized him from the drama though. Maybe that’s for the best…
I did not know this.
I did wonder where he'd gone, there is no way Thailand would just let that boy fade out of the industry. I was expecting him to lead a new pulp of some kind.
I saw THE7 bouncing around my Kpop YouTube but I'm exhausted by 4th Gen these days so I didn't bother to watch (not that I would have recognized him).
Now, of course, I will go investigate.
Given what happened with Boys Planet I don't think there is that much of a stigma anymore (in Korean production houses) on having done BL. I mean Mnet was GUNNING for Kim Ji Woong and he'd done 2 BLs and sort of even cobranded.
He pretty, but he not that pretty (if cultural taboo was still set firmly against him).
Like all things in Hallyu I think we can blame the wave of 2nd & 3rd gens doing BL and paving the way to production house acceptance tolerance.
I'm happy for Opp, he has the right look and I hope he has the talent to carry the group. 4th Gen Kpop needs all the outside blood it can get, Korea seems to have throughly tapped their own base if recent survival shows are anything to go by.
Ohh, I haven't had my coffee yet. I am very salty.
I suppose I should add Opp to the Kpop idol tracking roster.
More about my love for Opp's character in SCOY, and me losing my ever-loving mind over Touch & Daisy here:
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No more dream sequences. No more day dreaming.
Give me the real thing now Saint!
Stop tempting and teasing us like this. There's only so much my heart can bear.
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Hello ABL,
With the influx of new KBLs, would you be updating your 'Kpop idols in BL' list soon?
Do you think the likelihood of idols doing Bala increased or is this just the reaction wave after Semantic Error?
I think that more and more 2nd and 3rd gens will be willing to do a BL after their contracts are up. Especially those that don't solely rely on clout in the Korean market.
It's up to date!
Current final entry is Happy Merry Ending (which just started) generally if you follow the "source" click at the bottom of any of my posts it will take you to the most updated version of the post because... tumblr, it's all about the work arounds.
I don't put the idol on the list until their show is actually airing, so while we have new ones announced they don't count IMhO until they actually happen.
As to your question... I think the likelihood has increased, still the bigger better known idols will want to go for "real" film work, but others will see it as a valuable entry. There def are a few houses that are sticking with pro actors though, which I like. I think the pros turn in better shows over all (Our Dating Sim, To My Star, etc...)
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okay thame po looks really cute
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I’ll never understand the appeal of fanservice.
Like, am I alone in absolutely not caring about celebrities real lives at all? I love the things they make (like the characters they play or the music they make) but I usually know next to nothing about who the actor/musician/artist etc. is behind it and I don’t want to. Those are real people, not content for me to consume. I want them to have privacy and I regard them as completely separate entities from the things they make.
Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one with this hard line separating fiction and reality.
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i have fall break coming up and i want to try and make lil refs for my idol oc/au i have for them. I have to decide if im cutting some of Kei's group or finally making designs for like 3-4 of the members. I've also thought of a rival/just another girl group or two... One would also have a cute concept and the other would have a more mature/darker concept. I feel like the boys should also have a rival/other boy group to interact with, but im so bad at making male characters lmao
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Lowkey expecting for some visual kei guys to appear in BLs some day. I mean I wouldn't be surprised.
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