I have discussed the issue presuming that K-pop refers to the industry and its music-related production. But K-pop can also be discussed as a phenomenon, form of activism, world, and culture.
If we think of K-pop as a cultural process that entails all of these discourses and activities outside of the Korean industry, it will lead the current conversation to another direction. To me, K-pop is a matrix that enables all of these (mis)communications, (mis)understandings, (mis)translations, and discourses.