K-dramas might be featurg more gay characters – jt watch Where Your Ey Lger or To My Star – but South Korea’s showbiz still has a way to go
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Netizens are raisg ncerns about Korea's nservatism and K-Pop's hypocrisy of queerbag followg the homophobic attack agast gay idol HOLLAND. * queerbaiting in kpop *
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