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Kpopalypse explains good vs bad production in k-pop

Hi everyone, it's that time again - time for one of those technical posts that you all love.  Recently people have been asking me variations of the following question: Yes I am!  If you've ever wondered what constitutes a decent production, Kpopalypse is here to help!  Read on for all the trufax about good production vs bad production! Let's start off by defining a few concepts - what is sound production anyway?  In the most general sense, sound production is the conceptual process of getting the "sound idea" from the brain of the composer onto some kind of recorded format.  The musical process is "performance" and the physical process is "audio engineering" - but production is the realm of conceptually translating sound ideas.  Of course a producer may be an audio engineer as well - in k-pop this is common.  They may also in some cases be the songwriter and/or the performer, as k-pop tends to use the words "producer" a...