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IN THE MP WORLD OF K-POP, ’S HARD FOR STARS TO BE GAY
” as ntent creators ph the physil lims as far as they n, whout ever havg to adm their characters are actually gay. And for those outsi the LGBTQ sphere — such as those wh the tradnally nservative borrs of South Korea, where a 2018 poll n by the Korea Instute of Public Admistratn found that 49% of s 8, 000 participants were agast homosexualy — the ncept of queer-bag allows them to viscerally enjoy queerns whout havg to accept . The MV tak this even further, wh repeatg imagery that mak “Libido” feel like somethg out of a gay g-of-age movie.
In a VLive, Day6’s Jae nfirmed a gay storyle cludg characters played by members Sungj and Wonpil their school trilogy MVs for “What Can I Do, ” “I Loved You, ” and “When You Love Someone. While anyone is of urse ee to fd fort or solidary any art, that don’t change the fact that releas like “Libido” are ma wh the tentn to panr to fans through the e of subtly–never explicly–gay storyl. The “ships”– a fandom term for a relatnship that fans want to see together– are ed to strg along queer fans whout ever for payIt didn’t take long before South Korea’s rerd labels realized there was major money to be ma if they began to sell the ia that their idols were secretly gay for each other.