K-pop group Wonder Girls will be hitting Japan with their album titled Nobody For Everybody on July 25, Oricon reported on Thursday.
The Japanese version of their hit song Nobody is expected to be highlighted as their debut song.
'In Korea the Wonder Girls are at a stage where they have reached their peak, and now we are ready for a bigger challenge,' Park Jin Young, chief executive officer of the group's label JYP Entertainment, said.
'We are very excited to meet our Japanese fans,' said Sohee, a member of the group.
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With development of K-POP, Japanese TV station that broadcasts K-POP artists are criticized by conservative people who want to protect Japanese artists. But, I wondered why Korean artists' songs whose texts are mostly Japanese language are called "K-POP"
For example, Akiko Wada's songs aren't treated as Korean songs, despite she was of Korean nationality*1.
But, surely, Japanese artists are overwhelmed by Korean artists. In order to reduce labor costs, it would be inevitable for TV stations to let foreign artists perform, which is often the case with industry in Japan.
*1:She has been Japanese since she changed her nationality in 1971.
