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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Health of Kpop industry Health of Kpop industry Kpop may be very happening now, but I don't think that it is a healthy industry. As in the relationship between entertainment company & their artistes. Honestly, I sympathize with the artistes and I am critically disapproving most Korean entertainment companies except for JYP. I get a sense of it from reading online articles about treatment of artistes, and how certain pop groups are engaging in lawsuits against their entertainment company. Very recent example is Super Junior's Han Kyung. I'm speechless...another group also..TVXQ. Both from SM entertainment. Seems to me SM entertainment has ALOT of lawsuits going on against them. These are just the more recent examples. It's very sad that companies SEEMINGLY value talents, but are exploiting talent for MONEY. As I've learnt from church yesterday, it's called second benefit. Alot of entertainment companies have this mindset: Since there are so many young Koreans that want to live the dream, and since they ARE flocking by the dozens for auditions, I don't have a problem getting talents at all. So, I can take advantage of their eagerness to be famous and popular by locking them in my company's contract for 10, 15 years. SLAVERY. JYP entertainment is the ONLY company that abolished slave contracts. That's the reason why Wonder Girls' Sunmi could leave the group indefinitely to focus on her studies. Though I was sad coz of that, at least it shows JYP entertainment's respect towards the rights of the artiste's choice, whether right or wrong. That's more humane, isn't it?? I feel that the industry will only become healthy when the relationship between artiste and entertainment company is like father and son, not capitalist and slaves. It is not right to judge the health of the industry by looking at the quality of music, MV and style. Cos by that standards, yes, Kpop is blooming and VERY impressive, I must say. BUT...what is the source of all these? What is the thing that Kpop industry CANNOT do without? It is the entertainment company, and their artistes! No company, no artistes = no music! We must benchmark the industry's health against the level of treatment the artistes get from their companies. Labels: sociological perspective 4:43 PM
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