How Foreign Kpop Idols Learn Korean. Whilst foreign K-pop idols are numerous most of them tend to be of Asian origin or at least half-Korean. So if you have a Chinese name you can translate it to a Korean pronunciation and to Hangeul한글.
Hangeng was Chinese and I believe the initial reason why Korea has a strong prejudice against Chinese kpop idols. Korean is a hard language to learn but that hasnt stopped these foreign K-pop idols from successfully mastering how to read write and speak it. The so-called Big 3 Entertainment companies SM JYP and YG all have their own strategies to train their idol stars in foreign languages.
To be able to debut as a K-pop idol you need to be fluent in Korean.
Well they had an explanation for that too. The origin of K-Pop케이팝keipap-an abbreviation of Korean popular music or Korean Pop actually goes back to the early 1990s when the trio 서태지와 아이들seotaejiwa aideul changed the music scene with their experimental music which combined traditional and foreign music elements and started to flourish in 1996 when the five member boy band HOT. Not every K-pop group is actually made up of Korean singers and foreign K-pop artists who arent Korean are becoming increasingly commonplace. Well they had an explanation for that too.