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Kpop Bias List
In the fan lingo of Kpop, one's bias is one's favourite member in a group, so a bias list is a listing of groups with the name of one's bias for each group.
In South Korea, fans tend to devote themselves to one group exclusively. In common with many international fans, I follow more than one group, a practice which I understand many Korean fans find odd, perhaps in the same way an English football fan might be puzzled by someone claiming to support more than one team in the Premier League.
My bias list is in the thread that follows. I've limited myself to current groups, although a couple of them are barely functioning. I haven't included "bias wreckers" -- those members who could prompt one to switch one's bias -- because the list would get unmanageable.
I've written a few word of explanation for each bias, but my Kpop biasing is no different from that of other fans in not being bound by strict rationality. I'm sure I'm like other fans too in having frequent changes to my bias list.
Before starting my actual list, I am going to urge all the other Kpop fans in the Fediverse to post their lists too.
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