yeah it's weird bc the chinese members seem like pretty good friends w/ the koreans so technically it shouldn't matter, but then if you imagine a chinese-only M it seems... like there'd be a divide...
no exactly, so logically it should be ok but idk whenever i think about chinese-only M there's a feel of more distance? idk if that kind of set-up would've encouraged them to turn more inwards or something
i can kind of see what you mean but now that i think about it, most of chinaline can speak korean anyway and obviously would've been trainees = integrated into korean culture. in the end they are still a "hallyu" group that is based on korea unless sm decides to make groups that are exclusively for china; that said i do think that replacing xiumin/chen with two chinese trainees who went through the same process as the current chinaline wouldn't really change a thing
if that's so it kind of annoys me that sme didn't just put in 2 other chinese trainees (assuming there were ones who could fill the talents gaps of chen/xiumin)
like some anons argue perhaps they're still trying to keep it within the "korean" brand. i mean M is thankfully doing well but entering the chinese market was a gamble for SM; but tbh, even tho i have no problems now with the current line-up for both M & K, i do wonder why they chose these particular trainees. ig we'll never know
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