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Originally Posted by Queen Bee

It kinda makes me wonder what people here actually think of BoA because after all she was one of the first to come to Japan and really make it big.

BoA is kinda in a league on her own. She didn't ride on any Hallyu wave to get popular. When I knew BoA, she was already very famous so I don't really know how much promotion and marketing she got earlier (even though now its pathetic as hell). As much as people say BoA was the one that started it all, i beg to differ because following BoA, we probably only had SuJu and DBSK but that itself was also years later. Just my two cents.

Originally Posted by RayJason

After School - Because of You

THIS.IS.GOLD

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

The K-pop "wave" has already crashed and peaked, people have lost interest, acts have failed to really go International and the market has been totally over saturated with too many groups.

Actually..what I see is that..the popular groups will continue to grow their fanbase even by a little every year and those that are not so famous..will just dwindle and eventually disappear. That said, eventually, a new era of idol groups have to emerge, and that's what we are seeing now.