Well... I actually found the article to be pretty good... Don't be too butthurt because you love jpop, it never says kpop is better, or that jpop is better, it just says that Kpop production and marketing are meant to expand while Jpop still is strongly focused on Japan itself, both aesthetic and marketing wise, and this is true.
The Jpop industry still lives on the past, Ayu and Namie never having a proper Asia Tour just shows that. Their videos being in short version on YouTube shows that too, they simply don't get that they could make far more money if they stop treating Asia (and the world) as people who buy their stuff by accident and started seeing them (us) as a possible market. It actually seens they like to make it harder for us to consume their releases, and on an era with internet, an era you can hear music and watch movie from anywhere in the world, and even buy it, the japanese pop industry is being just plain stupid.
About idols... Jpop industry is as idol moved as Kpop industry... Japanese artists has as much a expiring date as Korean artists do. On this past decade we had a handful of "the biggest jpop girl of the moment" that turned into nobody as far as they reached a peak (Mai Kuraki, Ai Otsuka and Mika Nakashima being to mind), the difference is that kpop actually train their idols, jpop just give them beginers singing lessons and throw them on stage... Sound-wise, jpop is more diverse, but talent-wise, kpop performers take the cake IMO (and I don't even like Kpop).
About people bashing kpop over here... Really, k-pop is not something invented by BoA and Rain and whoever crappy kpop idol people liked back in the begining of the 2000s. It's a whole music industry with decades of story and artists that range from the most creative to the biggest puppet... Right now I'm listening to Uhm Jung Hwa a lot, she is known as the "Queen of Kpop" on her homecountry and I tell you she can kick the ass of most jpop (and kpop) idols I ever saw, both music and performance wise.
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Originally Posted by tetsuo69
if kpop was so great why is it that thier singers need to sing in japanese to promote their releases in japan. makes me wonder if kara would still have high sales if they would had stick to korean only. but whatever i really dont care, to me jpop/jrock --> kpop
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For the same reason a lot of talented latin pop stars release english albums... Everyone wants to take over a bigger market, being exposed to a bigger public and make more money. Your post just don't make much sense IMO o.O