「Arashi(嵐, 아라시)」 "K-POP's roots are Johnny's"
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On the 2nd (local time), the US media variety released an interview with 「嵐(Arashi, 아라시)」.
In this interview, 「嵐(Arashi, 아라시)」 caught the eye by mentioning K-POP, which is gaining worldwide popularity in honor of the late ジャニー喜多川(Johnny Kitagawa) of Johnny's office.

松本潤(Jun Matsumoto, 마츠모토 쥰) said about Johnny Kitagawa Johnny's office president who died at the age of 87 last year. "Johnny has formed many boy groups for the past 60 years and set global standards while setting the global standard for the Japanese performing arts industry. Not only did he make an immortal achievement in Asian pop culture in general, as well as in the Asian pop generation emerging abroad. "

He added, "The non-Japanese groups we can see now have their roots in the foundations Johnny made in the 1960s."

Jun Matsumoto also emphasized that he has no bad feelings about K-POP's explosive popularity worldwide.
"I don't feel any tribalism about this, as many imagine," he said. "More than that, what Johnny laid down decades ago is now. I'm proud to finally start crossing the border. "

He then said, "Even if it wasn't made by Johnny, the legacy he left behind is still alive and alive." You can do it. "

He also said, "I've listened to『Dynamite』several times," and went up to No. 1 on the "Billboard Hot 100" and wrote a new history, 「BTS(防弾少年団, 방탄 소년단, Bulletproof Boy Scouts)」,『Dynamite』was also mentioned.

In this way, K-POP fans have been criticized all over the world for the remarks of 「嵐(Arashi, 아라시)」 that seems to have roots in J-POP made by Johnny's.

「嵐(Arashi, 아라시)」 debuted in 1999 with 「A・RA・SHI」, and the group activity will enter a period of inactivity on December 31, 2020.


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http://news.kmib.co.kr/article/view.asp?arcid=0015177953&code=61181111
 
 
The remarks of members of a Japanese idol group who claim that the root of the K-pop boom is Japanese culture have been transmitted, and they are buying the public indignation of domestic netizens.

Jun Matsumoto, a member of the Japanese idol group 「嵐(Arashi, 아라시)」, said in an interview with US media variety on the 2nd.
"Johnny Kitagawa, who founded Johnny's (「嵐(Arashi, 아라시)」's agency), worked for 60 years to form many boy groups and raised them to the global standard." It left an indelible mark not only on the world, but on Asian popular culture in general. The pop generation of Asia is emerging now, all rooted in the basics that Johnny's had been doing since the 1960s. Is putting
Said.

It was a word that came out when answering a reporter's question about the heritage left by the founder of Johnny's.

Jun Matsumoto also talks about the popularity of K-pop, which is listed as the most popular content in the world.
"I don't have any bad feelings and I'm not jealous."
It was revealed.

Jun Matsumoto
"I don't feel the jealousy and boundaries that people think of," he said. "Rather, I'm proud that Johnny Kitagawa's architecture, which prepared the foundation decades ago, has finally begun to cross the border (globalization)." However, he reiterated that K-pop has its roots in the Japanese idol industry.

He went on to say, "The Johnny Kitagawa is gone, but the (J-pop) heritage is still alive and well." "The roots planted by Johnny Kitagawa are finally flowers from other cultures and countries. Bloomed "
Said.

Johnny Kitagawa, mentioned by Jun Matsumoto, is one of the big names in the Japanese idol industry.
After the establishment of Johnny & Associates, which built an educational student system with the concept of an American boy group singing and dancing in Japan,「嵐(Arashi, 아라시)」, スマップ(SMAP, 스마프)and カトゥーン(KAT-TUN, 와 카툰)and many other popular idols have been produced.
 
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From 1974 to 2010, the record of Johnny's singer rising to No. 1 on the Japanese Oricon chart has reached 232 times.
He died of cerebral hemorrhage last July.
The content spreads over the Internet and domestic netizens are angry.
This is because there are excellent works such as 防弾少年団 (BTS, 방탄 소년단, Bulletproof Boy Scouts), Black Pink (블랙 핑크, ブラックピンク) that Japan is trying to steal the ball of globalization of K-pop.
Some netizens visited the US variety homepage directly and made counter-comments.

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Further variety homepage capture

One netizen
"Around this time, the Japanese seem to be experiencing an inferiority complex, as 「嵐(Arashi, 아라시)」 shows. They influence K-pop and the success of K-pop is a national project. "Neither of these claims is true," he said, "beginning to manipulate the fact that it is for the sake of it."
Insisted.

Another netizen
"I've never heard of Johnny's, even though I'm a Korean who witnessed the great success of K-pop.
The root of K-POP is 「Children of 서태지와 아이들(Seo Taiji&Boys , ソテジワアイドゥル) 」he argued.


Many other internet users
"It's a ridiculous thing to talk about"
"The roots of K-pop are not J-pop. With dream sesame."
"K-pop is just K-pop"
He has been repulsing by posting sentences that refute Jun Matsumoto's remarks.

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