Sometimes I get really confused about why Americans/Europeans/Latinos would want to debut in Korea and sing in KOREAN when they have their own very established industries to become successful in. Seems kind of unnecessarily difficult, right? It can be viewed differently regarding East/South East Asians, as in many of those countries, Kpop is the most prevalent or widely listened to industry of music (I'm from HK and growing up, a lot of people consumed that a mix of local HK music - although our music industry isn't half as developed as Korea's is and there is VERY little investment into art in HK ). Naturally, a lot of people desiring to be successful musically look to Korea over even their own countries (SPEAKING from my experience, not to degrade every Asian country's music industry). Diversity is always great, but unless you're a foreigner growing up in Korea, what incentive is there to move to Korea and learn the language when you can do it in your country? Someone please explain.

Also, regarding the Black Artist in Korea thing. Plenty of African American rappers are popular in Korea (and the rest of Asia). What incentive is there for a Black artist to try to make it big in Korea first over their own country? As for Korean artists thriving in America, this has ONLY been happening as KPOP has gotten big. I cannot, at the top of my head, think of any Asian-American artist (who is FULLY asian) who have had mainsteam success in America (please correct me if I'm wrong).