The singer Crush apologized for a “misunderstanding” after the exchange, which highlights what experts call K-pop’s uneasy relationship with Black culture.
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Nowadays, K-pop groups such as BTS and Blackpink are household names around the world, and numerous other K-pop acts have millions of global fans. Yet 30 years ago, on April 11, 1992, when the first recognisable modern K-pop song Nan Arayo (I Know) by Seo Taiji & Boys had its premiere in a television contest on South Korean.