ACCOUNT HAS PERMANENTLY BEEN DELETED FOR WRONG THINK Sincerely the Ministry of Truth , 1984 <| sep |> This article just amuses me because Western media usually derides the kpop industry for churning out trainees like a nonstop factory line . And now they ' re praisingwanting to emulate the whole training process instead ? LOL . And honestly , isn ' t the article a bit oversimplifying ? Because BTS is actually a counterexample to a lot of the points they were bringing up . Bangtan was formed SPECIFICALLY around people who were already talented in the first place . Bang PDnim got the idea to form a group around Rap Monster , precisely because of his talent for rapping . He deliberately held auditions to recruit other talented underground rappers cue Suga . He brought in JHope , already famous for his street dancing even back then . Yes , they were still amateurs , and they did have to go through a huge amount of training to become the polished group that they are now , but it ' s much more of a hybrid approach than what the article describes take people with raw talent and then polish them to fit a particular conceptbusiness model .