Sharing a Korean song from year 2000, Passion, by pop group Koyote…
One of the reasons I started listening to Korean music was because they offered something different, something distinctive that belongs solely to K-pop.
Unfortunately the uniqueness is fading gradually over the decade imo. In the past few years K-pop is getting rather predictable, with heavy influences from western pop music, and to a certain extent from J-pop too. Ironically this is also the period when K-pop is becoming huge globally, when it’s slowly losing its identity.