System over bloodline: 'K-incubating' produces blue-eyed idols

Key points in 3 lines

1. Groups developed overseas by HYBE, JYP, SM and others are performing well on Billboard and Oricon charts, broadening the meaning of K-POP.
2. KATSEYE reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200 within a year of its debut, and is accepted as K-POP even without Korean members.
3. Professor Lee Dong-yeon and music critic Kim Jakga said K-POP is becoming a label for a production method rather than nationality.

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