Korean management of vietnamese groups=Not a good idea.  

@hangmoon37 That's been a repetetive problem ever since LIME and TAS(another korean attempt before LIME). I welcome korean Kpop producers and trainers, if they are sincere in helping develope the non-existent Vpop idol culture. Because koreans do have the expertise Vietnam will need. SGO48 is probably the only real idol group Vietnam currently have at the moment. But they are not a model that should be followed, except for the fanservice. That is something future groups can learn from them. 

@naruto_sun Don't know, but I do smell superiority complex towards vietnamese. Koreans always looked down on Southeast Asia. They think they know everything since they made Kpop. 

@thanggalang

The music video "Anh Ơi Ở Lại" of Chi Pu is based on a Vietnamese fairy tale called "The Story of Tấm and Cám" which is a fairy tale that every Vietnamese people know which is probably why no Vietnamese people compared it to Chinese music videos except foreigners who don't know Vietnam if you watch reaction videos of foreigners to that music video, they thought that it was in China.

When you say Vu, are you talking about Vũ Cát Tường ?

For which companies are Vu and Phùng Khánh Linh working ? What is the nationalities of those companies ?

Posted by: @thanggalang

I agree with the OP. The Vietnamese audience is extra critical of songs that remind them of kpop. Probably why ballad pop songs are the way to go.

What's trending and working today are pop ballads, rap and lofi songs.

Even songs that aren't copycats somehow are accused of being copycats. It's hard to come out with a Vpop song and not have it compared to Kpop. But then there are Chinese inspired songs in Vpop that becomes really popular like Chi Pu's Anh Oi O Lai and no one compares it to other Chinese songs. Strange...

There are Vietnamese kpop fans who just look down on Vpop even if the product is solid. Maybe cause the international Kpop community also likes to talk about how this song is so similar to this kpop song. But maybe that's a good thing to not go the Kpop direction. Also if the Korean companies come in, the artists will get paid peanuts and songs will be much more manufactured. I like American/European companies signing Vpop artists more like what happened to Vu and Phung Khanh Linh.

I agree with what you said and you made a lot of good points. Vpop clearly has found it's sound with ballad pop, rap/hip hop and lofi genres. They should continue with that and develope even more.

As for korean companies trying to debut their own Kpop version of Vpop, they need to stop. I hope the department of culture look into this issue, because I believe like I wrote these companies are using some form of aid money. Because, nobody in the right mind would debut a Kpop viet group in Vietnam, when they know vietnamese are not into album sales and the history of groups are not good. There is a reason why Kpop companies(big ones)only focus on China, Japan and the west, because they know people buy albums in millions there. If they want to debut vietnamese in Kpop, then debut them in Korea and let Vpop grow without the influence of their genre. 

@jaime that's a valid point in my opinion but like vpop isn't popping out like it should be cuz like there's so much potential in all the artists yet still they aren't going up in charts that much. And it's kinda because of the Korean management they have to promote and manage their content.