K-pop fan Davonna Gilpin 27 who lives in Los Angeles has been following Korean music for 12 years and hosts a pop culture podcast called Melanetizens with a fellow Black K-pop fan. Black K-pop fans deserve a place at the table that their community helped build. K-pop fandoms including BTSs ARMY and BLACKPINKs Blink have a history of rising to the occasion in the face of social injustice.
Its very rare for K-pop idols to have a public relationship with a same-sex idol but Seungho and BNish who are both members of the K-pop group DIP admitted that they are dating for years.
Most of the foreign partner that K-Pop Idols date are also from entertainment industries. In an op-ed for Teen Vogue Natasha Mulenga argued that K-pop artists should keep speaking up about Black Lives Matter due to K-pops roots in and reliance on Black culture. Black fans often call for other fans to learn more about black. For some time now however concerns have been raised by the bands black supporters who say theyve been on the receiving end of racism from other fans.