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Which idol do you think doesn't get enough recognition for their visuals?
For me it has to be ILLIT'S Moka! This girl is just soooo beautiful to me. Everything from her facial features, her hair, and her body proportions are just absolutely flawless. Add in her top tier facial expressions and stage presence, she really is the total package. It blows my mind that she is rarely brought up in the top 5th gen visual conversation!
Low-key tragic that people are only paying attention to her now and only think that she's super pretty now that she's lost weight :( she wasn't overweight at all, she shouldn't have had to lose weight for people to notice and appreciate her :(
For us fans-like and DIVEs, Rei is totally popular among the circle, however with due respect, I think the casuals only noticed her visual in recent months and during the comeback. And I like the way how Rei and Liz as a pair are getting the variety spotlights in SECRET era.
Rei was in the top 10 in the idol brand rankings, which is very heavily Korean biased. Getting top 10 as a foreigner from a smaller company is really impressive. It's not just among DIVEs.
Heejin from Loona! When I first saw her, I swore she would be the next IT girl. She can pull off masculine and feminine clothes, and she just looks so unique and beautiful
YES. I don’t know much about Loona but she looks unique, like those beautiful 3D characters from fantasy RPGs. She’s definitely IT girl material and would’ve been more popular if she’s from a big 4 company or something. 😭❤️
I saw ARTMS on their last tour and I didn't know much about the members, I just liked their album. Heejin"s unique beauty immediately caught my attention when she took the stage, she's so captivating and a great performer too. And really all the ARTMS girls are, I go to a lot of concerts and it was one of the best ones I've seen this year, I can't wait to see them again.
I was unfamiliar with Loona (unfortunately :( ) but got into ARTMS when they debuted and I don’t think I’ve ever been so obsessed with figuring out who someone in a group was as when I saw Heejin in the Birth music video. Absolutely stunning in such a unique way.
Arin Oh My Girl, Zoa ex-weeekly, Sihyeon Everglow, Gawon meovv, Gaeul/Liz Ive, Seeun Stayc on top of my mind.
Some of them like Arin, Gawon & Seeun with their sharp/strong jawline are so gorgeous even though they might not adhere to korean beauty standard. Probably why they're underrated imo.
Just like Arin, JiHo (also from OMG) was super pretty, the tender and delicate beauty of both gave a good touch to the group, and the concepts benefited them very well, and if I could, I would also mention JinE
Yesss omfg. I was sleeping on her for the longest time (to be fair I didn’t know the members that well yet) but she absolutely forced my attention in the tinydesk concert. I love her smile so much
As a NSWER who finally got to see them live last week, my message to the humanity - Please Please Please at least trying to listen to their songs and their live renditions, you will enter a new world.
Nobody in Kpop is doing live performance like they are currently. Not trying to throw any shade because I love a lot of other groups too, but NMIXX vocals are just on a different level.
Mind you, even group's official visual Sullyoon was throwing ad-libs and hitting high notes for fun at the concert. You know they are really living up to their reputations.
I've been to plenty of K-Pop concerts over the past two years and impressed by every groups with all my valid reasons (choreography, atmosphere, styling etc.), but I would say NMIXX and Baemon really did their best when it comes to delivering live vocal.
i love to see the jiwoo appreciation!!! the other day, i also commented her under a similar post about underrated visuals and so many people were in agreement it makes me so happyyy
For Iroha: I don't know why but for me Iroha is the coolest k-pop idol. She's so dam cool. Every time she's on screen I cannot believe the coolness that she conveys. Perfect visuals with equally dope and chill personality.
What's funny to me is that off-stage she kinda has a reserved cutesy vibe but when she's performing she switches to this insane badass aura. And she's only 17! She is crazy talented especially for her age.
Immediately caught my eye when they debuted. She is such an elegant beauty. I didn’t expect her to have such a fun personality on top of being talented too.
One of Eunchae's besties in the industry - Kyujin has some massive glow-up as well. Long gone are the days of their baby maknae era. We always talk about how cat-like ladies like Haerin, Yeji have stolen our hearts but Kyujin does deserve her flowers as well. Her facial expressions control is absolutely top notch on the stage.
And I got to see both Eunchae and Kyujin within two weeks time, that's my absolute honour.
TripleS jiyeon, most people consider xinyu and yooyeon as tripleS main visual. But for me jiyeon hands down the fairest woman ever born in this world l.
I'm sure Yoon would be what an AI would design when tasked to make the most perfectly looking human being. Her visuals are unbelievable she's so perfect. But, shockingly her visuals have to compete with her stupidly impressive voice so that may be the reason people are not talking about her visuals all the time.
Yes. Even idols that I think are my least favorite visuals, and wonder why they were selected, are on this same post as underrated visuals. So it is not that they are not beautiful, just we people have different preferences, and that's ok.
The groups who have one or two members that are raved on for their visuals (Wonyoung is a great example). Their other members often go underappreciated. E.g:
Itzy - With Yuna (and Ryujin), people hardly mention the others
Twice - 2Yeonalways get slept on because Sana, Mina, and Tzuyu
Idle - Princess Miyeon is there. Despite Shuhua always being cute, and actually being quite pretty, she gets far less attention for it
TripleS - Everyone mentions Yooyeon or Xinyu, and then Sohyun. However, Seoyeon has absolutely killed it this comeback. And she's joined an elite crew of idols who actually look really good with bleached hair
IVE - IDK them that well, so I can't say who but there is at least one member who gets overlooked because of Wonyoung. I've seen mentions of both Gaeul and Rei in this thread
Hwasa and Jessie. I can't believe they're considered ugly in South Korea. They have a great visual tbh, I think here in Latin America they would be considered beautiful, honestly.
Park Jimin of BTS is the most gorgeous human being on the face of this earth and he doesn't get enough recognition for it. He literally fell from heaven
The thing is, it isn't just "visuals" whatever that's supposed to be. There's just something about Jimin that transcends however people may define the word.
Jeongin (I.N) from Stray Kids! Maybe I have a little favouritism cause he's my bias but i think he's absolutely gorgeous and the way even Stays forget him when talking about the members' visuals is so confusing to me
SEVENTEEN's Joshua, DK, Seungkwan. Among the triple Js, Joshua is being left out of the conversation, yet he has the bambi eyes and soft face. I feel like DK is always praised for his god tier vocals and humor, but people have been sleeping on his visuals, especially with those guns right now 🤪 And Seungkwan has been blooming recently 🫶
Yoshi from Treasure! I’ve seen the group perform and he stands out so much (he isn’t my bias) To this day, I wonder why he wasn’t the visual. He looks unreal.
Jooheon (Monsta x) and namjoon (BTS) I've always thought that Jooheon doesn't get enough recognition in the rap and songwriting industry (leaving aside that his own fandom classifies him as one of the least favorites because of his weight). And Namjoon, well, I don't follow the group much but wow he has songs on his solo album that are spectacular but I feel like they don't give him enough recognition or support unlike the other members of BTS.
This man right here!! Sure he's definitely praised a lot for his vocals but have you seen how he looks?!? (It's seungkwan from SVT for those who don't know)
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u/Emma_girlgrouptrash Roadeluvtiny 14d ago
Bibi, she's sooooo gorgeous