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A friend of mine would beg to differ. He says, both are examples of "cultural imperialism", where a culture from an economically dominant country directly and indirectly influences and subjugates the culture of more backward nations. In simple terms, he views KPop and JRock as the domination of Western music over the cultures of Japan and Korea. 

I do not agree. Though I recognize the "pressures" - direct and indirect - of economic questions (such as Western monopoly bts members profile  over the production, distribution and advertising in the global music industry) on cultural issues between nations, his view concentrates only on the issue of "musical form". 

I believe that if we follow his logic, the only pure and true music (and culture in general) would, then, be "ethnic music" (or the ethnic culture) of different nations. Such opinion, I think, is "narrow puritan-ism.