Make It Pop

A Kpop show without Korean/Asian males is like a Hip hop show without Black males.

How ridiculous would it be if Nickelodeon created a Hip Hop show for kids, and there was 0 black males on it?

I didn't even know how they get away with such a clean and obvious example of discrimination against Asian males. Nobody at any point in the top management decision processes was like

"Hey, this is wrong. Why are we discriminating against Asian males so much? Can we really attribute the absolute invisibility of Asian males in media to lack of talent, or is it institutionalized discrimination?"

or even if racism is intrinsically built into those guys,

"Hey, Thomas, I know you are like 'I will never have an Asian guy on my show', and 'I know we want to perpetuate fetishism on Asian females, permanently typecast the whole race as feminine', but this is getting too obvious. People are going to say something. They are going to point this out."

Hollywood, when can you stop being so bigoted so that we can move on into the 21st century?

50% of ALL K-pop artists are MALE. Why is it that there are no Asian males at all on this show? Let us stop the stereotyping of Asian culture right now. This is another typical Hollywood white-washing of Asian culture- Bad music- bad story- and White Males are the only available love interests for the Asian Females. This needs to stop now.

Look at this http://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/2y6qk6/tv_producer_asian _guys_in_my_show_not_gonna_happen/

The producer of this show said that there will never be a Korean male in this show about Korean music. Just imagine that for any other type of genre of music. This would be equivalent of making a show celebrating Cinco de mayo without any Hispanic actors, like a bollywood movie with no Indian actors, like a British TV series without any Brits. This is wrong and this type of racism needs to stop NOW.

I was originally drawn to the show due to its being advertised as relating to K-Pop. After beginning watching it, I soon realized the only relation it has to K-Pop is the foundation of the show (albeit a very tiny foundation) and the source of around 3 posters in the three girls' bedroom. This I decided to accept with disappointment, and trudged on in giving the show a chance.

I only managed to watch the first season, because I couldn't bear to continue the atrocity.

To begin with, the main character, Sun Hi, is a rude, self-absorbed, absolutely unintelligent girl. I understand this is a tween show, but none of the tween shows I grew up with, such as Zoey 101, iCarly, and Victorious had such terrible role models as their main characters. Corki and Jodi are great, but Sun Hi's treatment of them is fueled by her constant need to shine and be the star of the show. This brings out Sun Hi as a terrible model of a friend. My own mother criticized my admiration of Carly from iCarly thinking she was obnoxious. Carly is an angel compared to Sun Hi's character.

I gave the dialogue and acting some leeway considering it's a tween show following in the footsteps of iCarly and Victorious. I also understand that in one season, character development is not something to be hoping for, but to be fair, iCarly and Victorious were much less disastrous.

I'm all for girl power, it's not a bad thing. But the estrogen and female hierarchy is overpowering in this show. Half of it is the three main girls competing with the senior cheer squad. There are two prominent male characters, but they're both so minor and operate as clowns for laughs. They don't have to be Asian (although that would certainly help the racism prominent in the US), but the male roles should, forgive me for a lack of better words, have a bigger role in the show.

Lastly, I'll admit, the songs are catchy and pretty good. And the choreography is also reasonable and acceptable. This is why I gave the show 4 stars, and not 1 or 2.

In conclusion, although the show has a select few positive attributes, it serves as a horrible model for teenagers, and has more than a few things to be fixed or at least alleviated.

Introducing Kpop to a wider audience on Nick is a great idea. Showing the similarities if people from different cultures is the first step in understanding. My daughter is Autistic and has mixed ethnic heritage. She has no problems with this and I am happy she shows interest.

I have no idea if there will or will not be Korean males in future episodes. To judge this from ONE episode is a bit of an over reaction and will only cause a situation where LESS understanding of people of different ethnic backgrounds will occur.

The first episode shaped up well. Given that a cast can take 5 or more episodes to develop characters and create the synergy between characters this was fairly good from the first episode.It has strong potential for developing an audience that will appreciate it going forward.I hope this is just the beginning of more multi-cultural shows from Nick in the future. So far I am pleased and My Daughter is looking forward to the next episode.

I completely disagree with "Leah Mckenzie" 's review. For a person not into Kpop, "she" sure writes a lot on a completely unknown and unpopular Kpop show, ranting about how racism doesn't exist and how anyone who dare to talk about it is the racist.

Pretty much the worse show I have ever seen. In THE ONE place, a show about Kpop, where they could have Asian males in it without being completely sexless, they manage to do away with it. I am actually very IMPRESSED how they managed to pull this off, without anyone pointing out how ridiculous this is.

Why is white Hollywood so averse to having any Asian males on screen, except in extremely clichéd and stereotyped roles? I have no idea. Why is having a normal sexually functioning Asian male on screen so damn hard for American media?

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Notice how the two reviews saying "there is no racism" or "racism is overblown" or "anyone who complain about racism is racist themselves" are all registered within a week and never have a single review in the past.

While the only guy talking about how this IS an example of racism (the main guy behind this show, Thomas Lynch, literally said in no unclear terms "he will never have an Asian guy on his show") has a 10 year account and tons of past reviews.