In many nations, if you become famous in the entertainment industry, you get to enjoy a life of luxury. Nevertheless in South Korea, the reverse is true as popular entertainers must work endless hours at low wages, while a security team traces every step they make, so they never have a leisure moment of privacy, relaxation or happiness. This would explain the high suicide rate amongst K-Pop stars.
The BBC News reports that, “the industry has a less glamorous side: a history of controversy and legal disputes over the way it treats its young artists, which it is still struggling to shake.”
K-Pop industry leaders have become ambitious, Korean stars are tracking a path to Japan, the United States and Europe. This month, SM Entertainment, South Korea’s largest production corporation, hosted its first European concert in Paris, France as part of a year-long world tour.
“But,” according to the BBC, “some of K-pop’s biggest success stories were built on the back of so-called slave contracts, which tied its trainee-stars into long exclusive deals, with little control or financial reward.”
Girl K-pop band, Rainbow, suffers from a seven-year contract with DSP, their management company. They disclosed that for two years they worked long hours for scant paychecks. Their parents felt “heartbroken” at how little they received in pay.
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