With more new groups debuting in the scene, it’s interesting to see how K-Pop continues to try and deliver something new. Usually, K-Pop groups tend to remain true to its identity based on a combination of visuals and choreography based performances.While all of this still remains apparent in the newer groups as well, there have been subtle changes in other things such as the process in which idols are selected and the incorporation of avatars, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.For fans who may have been wondering just how K-Pop would steer direction on towards a new horizon, this obviously may have been interesting to observe.However, this time around, 2020 has been a year that has also been filled with a lot of plagiarism accusations as well. You can check them out below and be the judge yourself. CRAVITYStarship Entertainment’s rookie group CRAVITY’s ‘Break All The Rules’ has been a perfect opener for a rookie group. Unfortunately, there have been many fans who have been saying that there were elements that were much too similar to SM Entertainment’s EXO.CRAVITY debuted back on April 14th.Of course, the criticisms were directed more towards the agency, Starship Entertainment, than towards the CRAVITY members themselves.So what kind of similarities did fans notice about CRAVITY’s ‘Break All The Rules’ with previous EXO releases?Some fans pointed out that the logo of EXO and the font and symbol of CRAVITY’s ‘Break All The Rules’ looked too similar. In addition, other fans have said that even the scenes from the MV’s too seemed to be the same, just with minor differences. aespaSM Entertainment’s rookie girl group has had more than one plagiarism accusations surrounding them. For starters, a lot of fans and netizens have raised concern stating that the MV for ‘Black Mamba’ was similar to K/DA’s ‘POP/STARS’, both utilizing scenes inside a subway and also the creepy looking monster face. But it’s not just K/DA that many fans feel have been wronged, but also various different graphic artists.The artwork of Vacades (Timo Helgert) has been brought up numerous times by netizens, and the artist himself has actually noticed the similarities as well. Timo Helgert eventually released a statement after revealing that SM Entertainment got in touch with him to discuss the matter, saying that he has resolved the issue and will respect their creative process. If only things stopped here right? But it didn’t.During aespa’s ‘Inkigayo’ performance, K-Pop fans and netizens alerted artist Blake Kathryn, revealing that the stage design aespa performed on was a lot like the artist’s.Blake Kathryn made it clear that working with the K-Pop industry was always a goal and a dream, but was quite shocked and disappointed upon discovering what was happening. The artist also expressed intentions to take the matter quite seriously.Being a rookie girl group under one of the biggest K-Pop entertainment agencies, it seems that many fans weren’t expecting aespa to be surrounded by such plagiarism accusations. There’s no denying that they are gaining quite a lot of attention at the moment due to their ties with SM. But the reality too is that their debut hasn’t exactly been the smoothest either. STAYCSTAYC has been a girl group that accumulated quite a lot of hype in a relatively short period of time. But like some of the other rookie debuts, the group’s MV for ’So Bad’ received a lot of plagiarism accusations from netizens. Netizens have stated that the MV had a lot of similarities with Miley Cyrus’s ‘Midnight Sky’.Below are some photos for comparisons.STAYC’s production team shortly released a statement of apology. Legend Film, allegedly the agency responsible for producing the MV for ‘So Bad’ stated that they were ashamed and devastated over the issue and that they take full responsibility for it.
