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Toxic Kpop Beauty Standard: Whitewashing
Commonly in kpop, we see idols with pale almost white skin on screen, but many in real life when seeing these idols see their real skin to be tan and melanatef for some. Toxic Korean beauty standards of needing to whitewash these idols and have them be a certain color instills colorism and harms individuality.
More on Lisa’s controversial comeback photos- https://www.koreaboo.com/news/blackpink-lisa-rockstar-concept-accused-blackfishing/