Drag Queens in Kpop

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The MV for the new Brown Eyed Girls release Wonder Woman (not a reference to the DC character Wonder Woman), produced in collaboration with LGBTQ+ collective Neon Milk, prominently features drag queens dressed as brides and BEG as grooms. (Turn on closed captioning for English subtitles.)

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Here's a video of Neon Milk discussing how they got involved with the MV, how it was made, and watching and commenting on it. Same deal with the closed captions - this is true for much of the content from South Korea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ApenFRHJek:709

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Drag queens were also featured a couple of months ago in AOA's cover of Mamamoo's song Egotistic for competition show Queendom. (Many of the reaction shots are of Mamamoo, which makes it even more fun.)

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Drag queen and Neon Milk member Nana has also been featured in other kpop MVs, most recently for "Face" by Woosung, lead guitarist and main vocalist of the rock band The Rose.

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And also for Holland's "I'm Not Afraid." (Holland is an openly gay Kpop idol who until recently was producing everything through crowd funding without the help of an agency.)

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Here's the start of a Twitter thread with a few other examples of drag influences. [MEDIA=twitter]1189038797532487681[/MEDIA]

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Related: two years ago, when Jo Kwon was criticized as a drag queen for his cover of Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love," he responded with a cover of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way."

He also made the point that while he's played a drag queen (he starred in a production of Priscilla of the Desert), he can't actually claim to be drag queen; cross dressing for a single performance or role isn't the same as what's required to create a drag persona.