#ledapplication

[niwolah]

The last four days, I fell asleep with LedApple in my head...

... to wake up in the middle of the night with Fei.

Because why not.

But during the day, my brain gives me a mixtape consisting of old songs like

and

and

Because, again, why not.

It's never dull being in my head...

[renm1nt]

List of kpop idols in korean BL (updated as of May 2025)

2015: The Lover (role:Takuya) - Terada Takuya (Cross gene)

2017: Tropical Night (role: Kim MinKi)- Khan (ZPZG)

2020: Mr Heart (role: JinWon)- Cheon SeungHo (The man BLK)

2020: Wish you (role: Yoon SangYi) - Lee Sang (Imfact)

2020: Wish You (role:Kang InSoo) - Kang InSoo (MYNAME)

2021: Color Rush (role: Ko YuHan) - Hur HyunJun / Hwall (ex the Boyz)

2021: Color Rush (role: Jung JuHeang) - Baek SeoHoo (ex TOO)

2021: The Tasty Florida (role: Baek EunKyu) - Kim YooHwan (ex SPEED)

2021: The Tasty Florida (role: HaJin) - ZeZe (ex LEDAPPLE/LEDT)

2021: The Tasty Florida (role: Yoo SeungHyeok) - Yoo SeungJun (ex MR.MR)

2021: Light on me (role: Shin DaOn) - Choe ChanYi (ex The Man BLK)

2021: Tinted with you (role: Jung EunHo) - Park JunHee (A.C.E)

2021: Tinted with you (role: Lee Heon) - Yoo HyunWoo

2021: Behind Cut (role: Yeongu) - Eom SeUng (The Man BLK)

2021: Behind Cut (role: Kim GiJin) - Bum Jun (2Z)

2021/2022: To my Star (role: Kang SeoJoon) - Son WooHyun (ex 3CHONGSA / ex X-5)

2022: Oh! My Assistant (role: SeonHo) - Song SeungHyun ( ex FT ISLAND)

2022: Choco Milk Shake (role: Jeongu) / 2024: Blue Complex (role:Lim PaRang)

2022: Kissable lips (role: Kim JunHo) / Roommates of Poongduck 304 (role: Ji HoJun) - Kim JiWoong (ZeroBaseOne / ex INX)

2022: Kissable lips/ (role: Choi MinHyun) Roommates of Poongduck 304 (role: Seo JaeYun) - Yoon SeoBin (solo)

2022: Semantic Error (role: Jang JaeYeong)- Park SeoHam (ex KNK)

2022: Semantic Error (role: Cha SangU) - Park JaeChan (DKZ)

2022: Happy Ending Romance (role: Kim JungHyun)- Leo (Vixx)

2022: Happy Ending Romance (role: Cha JungWoo)- Karam (ASC2NT, ex The Boss, ex XING)

2022: Cherry Blossom after winter (role: Seo HaeBom) - Ok JinUk (Superfive)

2022: Ocean Loves Me (role: Tommy) / 2024: Taming the Bad Boy (role: Ko Tae Seop) - Holland (solo)

2023: A Shoulder to Cry On (role: Lee DaYeol)- Kim JaeHan (OmegaX, ex SPECTRUM, ex ONEVOICES)

2023: A Shoulder to Cry On (role: Cho TaeHyeon) - Shin YeChan (OmegaX, ex 1THE9)

2023: Individual circumstance (role: Seong UJae) - JunQ (MYNAME)

2023: Unintentional Love Story (role:Ji WonJeong) - Gong Chan (B1A4)

2023: Happy Merry Ending (role: Lee SeungJun -Lee DongWon (KNK)

2023: Happy Merry Ending (role: Kim JuWon) - Kim KyuJong

2023: Bump Up Business (role: Jay) - Yoo Jung (OnlyOneOf)

2023: Bump Up Business (role: Kang Eden) - Mill (OnlyOneOf)

2023: Bump Up Business (role: Gong JiHoon) - Nine (OnlyOneOf)

2023: Bump Up Business (role: HyunBin) - KB (OnlyOneOf)

2023: Bump Up Business (role: WooSung) - Junji (OnlyOneOf)

2023: Bump Up Business (role: DongGueun) - Rie (OnlyOneOf)

2024: My Idol (role: Song JaeMin) / Two Some Boys (role: Kang Min) - Kim Bit (ex the Bigdipper)

2023: Star Struck (role: Jo YooJae) - Zuho (SF9)

2024: Eccentric Love (role: SeungJu) / Love is like a cat (role: Gi Min) - Lee Geonu (JustB)

2024: Jazz for Two (role: Yun SeHeon) - Kim JinKwon (NEWKIDD)

2024: Jazz for Two (role: Seo DoYun) - Song HanGyeom (OmegaX, ex Seven o’clock)

2024: Cityboy_log/ 2025: FC Soldout (role:Kay) - Lee JaeJun/Marcus (JT&Marcus, ex C-Clown, ex TREI, ex TAN)

2024: Love for Loves sake (role: Ahn KyungHoon) - Cha WoongKi (ex TOO/TO1)

2024: Love for Loves sake/ Episode 9. Nineteen, Eighteen (role: Tae MyungHa) - Lee TaeVin (ex MYTEEN)

2025: Secret Relationships (role: Jung DaOn)- Kim JunSeo (WEi/ex 1THE9)

2025: FC Soldout (role:Han DonHui) - Im JungGyu (ex SEVEN O’CLOCK)

2025: Heart Stain (role: Park Doha) - Hamin (BXB , ex TRCNG)

! Japanese ! Not yet released: SoulMate (role: Hwang JoHan ) - Ok TaeCyeon (2PM)

Total: 50

[dreamcatcher-roulette]

Can I admit to something? Is this a K-pop safe space? It's not drama it's just deeply personally embarrassing.

So there’s two halves to this. The relevance of both might become apparent some time before I finish rambling and get to the point but bear with me. I'm desperately trying to justify my situation.

Firstly. I'm a girl group fan. Dreamcatcher are easily and effortlessly in a tier of their own but I do enjoy and even keep up some other girl groups rather attentively. The obvious follow up question here is well, what about boy groups? Here is a collection of excuses I have previously attempted to offer up in my own defence:

Musically, I like bass and I like high notes. This kind of lends itself to prefering female vocalists, but, as I may have mentioned before, I'm not actually into K-pop that much for the music (Dreamcatcher just happen to also make the music that fits my taste perfectly on top of having the best aesthetics).

Boy group fashion kind of blows. I mean, I have high and somewhat unrealistic expectations for any stage outfits due to the standard Dreamcatcher set, but Jesus Christ the baggy pants epidemic amongst boy groups is something else. Mens fashion can be fun. I think it frequently isn't for the stages I have seen though.

The boy group hair meta also kinda blows. I'm perfectly capable of realising when something just isn't catered to me (and may well have cultural context that's flying directly over my head) and the bowl cut adjacent curtains look that's almost a default hairstyle is one of those things. Just cannot get behind it. Sorry to all the enjoyers.

And now, even though there is truth in all of those excuses, here's the actual reason why I'm making such broad, sweeping statements about an extremely diverse subgroup of artists:

K-pop is an industry that loves to feed on parasocial relationships, and I am gay in the direction that makes me immune to girlfriend fanservice but really fucking succeptible to the right boyfriend fanservice. So long as I keep pretending every boy group sucks I am safe. If I get sucked into one of them it will probably just straight up ruin my life.

Okay. Secondly. Many years ago when I was still in high school my neighbour got really into K-pop. She was a big fan of EXO, and then, this new up and coming group called BTS (anyone heard of them?) She tried, unsuccessfully, to get me to share her passion multiple times. Of the videos she showed me, these are the ones that made an impact:

LEDApple - Time is up

SHINee - Ring Ding Dong

BIGBANG - Fantastic Baby

I liked them enough to watch them on my own a few times, but that was the end of it, until in 2020 I got recommended Scream on YouTube and the rest is history. However, one of the things that amused me getting into K-pop myself was realising 2/3 of those songs reached somewhat legendary status in the time since. Even being a GG fan news from the "other side" certainly still flies across the river, sometimes with recognition, e.g. G-Dragon's semi recent drug "scandal". I remember seeing those articles and thinking huh. Wild. That's what he looks like now. It is at this point I would like you to imagine a bullet narrowly missing my head as I'm looking the other way.

On to the present. I watched MAMA 2024 live nearly 2 months ago. I like the end of year shows. My only complaint is they should invite Dreamcatcher lmao (thank you AAA 2023 that performance still lives rent free in my head) but overall, great fun. Now I must confess, for the aforementioned reasons, I always* mute boy group performances when watching shows live. Happy to critique the fashion, don't want the songs stuck in my head, which is an inevitable outcome of listening to music whether you like it or not (and I'm well aware some of it is probably good).

*Technically I have one exception in either direction, but both are irrelevant to the point.

As you may be aware, G-Dragon performed at MAMA. Everyone seemed pretty hyped. Normally this would have been a mute for me but well, momentous occasion isn't it. The king of K-pop is back. Might as well get the full experience. And it was good! I'm not exactly a fan but I did have enough nostalgia for fantastic baby to appreciate the bigbang stage, and watching all the idols freak out was so adorable. I want you to imagine three more bullets narrowly missing me while I'm looking at the aespa reaction shot.

Like, you're probably aware of where this is heading, right? But it wasn't even the stage. AFTER the stage they still had to give him the award they made up for him being there. And man. Okay. All the actual real life crushes I've had on men that I knew started out having very little if anything to do with their appearance. I'm ace so maybe that changes it but also I don't think that's exclusively it because I'm not the only person I've ever heard say that people you are attracted to become more attractive in some kind of self enforcing feedback loop. Thats why the K-pop content vortex is so brutal because as soon as you're in the variety content rabbit hole suddenly you don't just have some guy who is pretty you have some guy who is funny or thoughtful or he likes all of your favourite movies and you start feeling like you know him, even though you don't. I know that the force of that connection if you let it happen easily overpowers the baggy clothes and the shitty haircut and every other flimsy excuse but given only a muted performance stream or occasional acceptance speech there is not enough room for that personality to break through. I can watch Dreamcatcher accept an award and I see them because I've watched hundreds of hours of vlogs at this point but groups I don't know are just that. Groups I don't know.

Yeah. So about that music visionary of the year.

Holy shit man. I've never seen anyone get up and accept an award with such fucking weird and awkward vibes. I think I was gone from the moment he reached the podium. I said to the friend I was watching the stream with hey. I think maybe I should turn this one off actually. And she said no :) Because she is evil. You know how sometimes a single event can recontextualise over a decade of vaguely knowing about someone's existence? Head in my hands. Of all people. G-Dragon is really fucking attractive. Which is like. In twenty twenty four? Really? Profoundly humiliating discovery. What am I even supposed to do with this one? It's literally G-Dragon. I know there are discourse minefields the likes of which I cannot even fathom wading into this and what am I anyway? A fan? I don't think so. I saw one singular awards show and went holy shit why is G-Dragon the hottest K-pop man by actually one hundred thousand miles and then I just had to go to work again the next morning and be normal. And the thing is that I was not even remotely normal because I then decided to dye my hair bright red the following week which to be fair I have always wanted to do but well it's not UNrelated to the current crisis is it. I'm just. Existing. Really thought maybe it would wear off by now but WELL. It has not.

[haveyouheardthiskpopgroup]

Song you might know: Time Is Up

[maiavonsneeper]

Am bored so heres my headcanon on what kpop artists Yakuza characters would listen to.

Disclaimer: I'm not that familiar with anything recent in the kpop. The most recent you would see here is around mid-2010s.

Kiryu

Of course his no. 1 idol is Haruka. But for kpop it would have to be Girls Generation.

Its all because while playing Y5 where hes a taxi driver and takes place in 2012. I concluded that he has to have listened to Mr Taxi and was like "thats me :)" and i guess from then on he considered himself a SONE (or just a fan idk if he would know about fandom names lol)

Majima

A girl group/solo artists stan.

Definitely a huge inspiration for Goromi and her performances lol

And his collection of albums played for all the Majima Construction crew while they work.

I made a Goromi playlist (priv atm) which I just put in a bunch of female kpop artists in.

This includes artists like Kara, 9Muses, EXID, Miss A, Sunmi, Hyuna, AOA, Sistar, T-ara, Brown Eyed Girls, Lee Hyori, After School...and yeah alot of artists i put in lol

Akiyama

This was all based on a meme I saw on twitter where Akiyama is a Blackjack on stan twitter lol

So I can see Akiyama being a fan of 2NE1. Started listening to them when he saw it was popular with the hostesses and staff of club Elise and they shared it with him.

Tanimura

He would listen to a general amount of artists but would have a lot of interest in artists that have an international appeal...Wonder Girls "nobody" anyone?

(...OK that is the thing with kpop lol especially since it has a presence in Japan for awhile)

I mean like a multicultural image or just have non-Korean members. I can see Tanimura immediately taking interest in those types.

And of course anything that's popular with the Little Asia community lol

Artists: Miss A, Super Junior-M, f(x), Twice, U-Kiss, Wonder Girls, Momoland, 2NE1, Blackpink, 2PM, Big Bang

Shinada

Definitely into girl groups. Particularly ones that would have sexy dance moves which become popular and iconic later on.

And look Shinada has certain assets...

So he really likes to try out popular dances that usually involve using his tush in some way lmao.

Ex. Girls Day "Expectation" "Female President", Sistar "So Cool" "Touch my Body", AoA "Miniskirt", Kara "Mister"

Mine

This is probably very biased of me XD giving my favorite character my ultimate bias group.

Ahh yes Infinite the "Idols of Obsession" ...hmmm..

I imagine he isn't the type to follow celebrities nor have the time or interest to.

BUT BUT one day he listened to one of their songs and couldn't help but think of...a certain someone...

He doesn't considers himself a inspirit but he did walk into a music shop and bought a few albums, went home and spent his break listening to their discography while having AMVs take place in his brain.

Daigo

I'm aware of his emo taste so I tried here ^_^*

I decided to go with that Daigo listens to kpop bands. From my head it'd be CN Blue, FT island, LEDapple.

A non-band it HAS to be Dreamcatcher, another one maybe Vixx'; their dark concept songs mainly.

Haruka

I can see the idol herself listening to some idols for inspo lol

Few artists I thought of were Orange Caramel, Crayon Pop, Twice, f(x), Wonder Girls, Blackpink..

I can see her getting into some boy groups especially when it's what her friends and peers are into.

[boyz2baekhyun]

i know they're not a band but for some reason this is giving me ledapple vibes

[kpopfan861]

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[seventeevee]

i would run to you

[roseband]

Jang Hanbyul + "Used to This" stages

[emeraldbabygirl]

If Korea had a version of Odd Squad putting the Canada, Aussie and American line of all kpop idols would be an opportunity missed because that is accurate. But Hongjoong has to be Miss O I make no exceptions

[curlykytta]

[greycity]

decade in a year: [77/366] LET THE WIND BLOW (2012) by LEDAPPLE — “Where is my love? Let the wind blow, so that she can find me with my scent.”