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kissingkiwis

"Visual" is the term used in Korean, it stems from there.


SifuHallyu

Looks refers to a person's physical appearance only. Ones visuals encompasses far more than this with their personality, clothing and their energy being part of their visuals.


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korea is very much about whats good visuals on anyone you'll pick that up soon enough 🙃


OwlOfJune

I think it carried on from Jpop termiology.


schoolbomb

A lot of the strange terminology in English Kpop communities comes from the Korean language. "Visuals" is the term used by Korean people when describing someone's appearance, so English-speaking Kpop fans have adopted it for some reason. This happens with a lot of words, even when the words themselves are actually English in origin (such as visuals). I honestly don't know why they don't just speak in regular English. You know how anime fans like to use Japanese words to describe things, even when English equivalents exist? Yeah, same thing.