Recently, South Korea has another female star committed suicide, it is reported that Liu Ju'en was born in 1995, debuted in the TV series "Big Forest" in 2018, and then starred in many Korean drama works such as "North Korean Survival", "No Second Time", etc., which are more familiar to the public in South Korea. She should have been in the most beautiful flower season time in her life, only four years after her debut, but suddenly committed suicide, only 27 years old, it is really regrettable, netizens sighed, reincarnated to us!
Liu Zhuen's SNS account published a suicide note, and Liu Zhuen apologized to his family and wrote: "I really want to act. Maybe it's all I have, it's all of my life, but that life is not easy. "I persevered to the end with memories that I could never forget, and I felt that my life was a successful life."
Because the "unspoken rules" of the Korean entertainment industry have indeed caused some female celebrities to commit suicide, but not every female star is related to the chaebol. In itself, the Korean showbiz circle is a very "volume" circle, and the Korean entertainment industry can be so developed, which is itself a high-intensity industrial chain.
With a population of about 52 million, South Korea is slightly lower than Myanmar and Kenya, slightly higher than Colombia and Spain, and is a populous country with 28th largest population in the world and the 13th most populous country in Asia.
Almost 2 out of 100 people are trainees
The Korean entertainment industry is like a huge star processing plant, and the artist is like a part lying on the assembly line, receiving a standardized process, and finally being built into a perfect commodity, put on the market for mass consumption.
According to statistics, as of 2016, the number of trainees in South Korea has exceeded 1 million, that is to say, trainees account for 1.9% of the total population, that is to say, almost 2 out of 100 people are trainees! However, the number of trainees who signed legal agreements was only 1440. You can imagine how fierce the competition is.
Once elected as a trainee, he is trained by the devil
In South Korea, the gap between rich and poor is very large, and ordinary children want to achieve class leaps, and further education is almost the only hope, which has also led to the Korean college entrance examination, which is as cruel as China. Young people leave school, competition is far from gone, and the workplace is another suffocating place – the average person in the workplace works more than 11 hours a day, which can be said to be a well-deserved "social animal".
Therefore, whether it is the entertainment industry or the workplace, there is super pressure; Becoming a trainee has the hope of leaping class, so even if it is very difficult, many people will still choose to walk a tightrope and fight to enter the entertainment circle.
In order for them to be able to cope with any scene, the company not only trains their performances, but also trains them to raise their hands and feet, even accurate to the eyes and expressions. Even if there is a slight inconsistency with the angle of the teammate's raised hand, he will be scolded.
Sm even asked artists in the early years not to go to the bathroom in public. Companies often sign contracts with artists for more than a decade, which is tantamount to tying their entire acting career to a company for idol stars who eat youth. Kim Hyun-kyung, an early member of Girls' Generation, received a 13-year contract as a teenager during which she was barred from accepting jobs at other entertainment companies.
Defaults face sky-high liquidated damages
According to the "2019 Survey on the Status quo of the Mass Culture and Art Industry" published by a South Korean institution, the total number of trainees reached 1672 based on the planning agency with affiliated trainees, which is 231 more than the survey results in 2016 (a 16% growth rate). According to the survey report, the monthly per capita expenditure of trainees is 1.169 million won, an increase of 93,000 won compared to 2016. According to relevant sources, the annual cost of brokerage companies on trainee training reaches tens of millions of won, and the liquidated damages can reach hundreds of millions of won.
Like SM, liquidated damages and damages are even 3-5 times higher than the usual rules. If the artist wants to terminate the contract, he will have to pay a very high price. In 2009, dongfang Shenqi, a male idol group that was popular throughout Asia at the time, proposed to the company to terminate its contract, complaining about various unequal conditions: selling 500,000 albums, each person could only share 10 million won (about 56,000 yuan), but once they proposed to terminate the contract, they had to pay up to hundreds of billions of won in liquidated damages.
Chaebol investment has an absolute right to speak
South Korean entertainment industry is rich in boy bands, women's groups, which is also the chaebol's keen investment object, trainee model for the star to become popular provides a shortcut, but also let countless young boys and girls desperately take risks, from Zhang Ziyan to Cui Shirley, Gu Hola to Wu Renhui, it is reported that in the past 10 years, the Korean entertainment industry has been born more than 30 artists.
For the company, the younger the debut age, the longer it takes to make money for the company, after all, the shelf life of the idol is not long, and once the youth is gone, it will soon be replaced by the newly emerging small fresh meat. Shirley was only 11 years old when she became a trainee at SM and was 15 years old when she debuted. Spending time at work may be longer than spending time with parents. As a result, the company has effectively become another "guardian" besides their parents, and paternalistic authority permeates the daily life of the brokerage company.
High-intensity stress also requires a bit of luck
South Korean columnist Jeff Benjamin says That Korean idols "must be ideal and perfect people and performers at all times, even in their personal lives." ”
It is precisely because the requirements for artists are high enough, but everyone's own conditions are good enough, luck has naturally become one of the conditions for whether actors can be famous, but luck will certainly not fall on everyone, and artists who survive until middle age are everywhere. It is a pity that Liu Zhuen made the choice to give up his life at such a beautiful age because of his career development.
Of course, people's lives will encounter various problems that are difficult to overcome, but as long as they live, there is hope, and as long as they live, they can usher in the light. Life is the premise for us to achieve all our ideals in life and enjoy good happiness, everyone must have a positive attitude, and suffering from depression needs to seek professional treatment immediately. At the same time, I also hope that each of us will have the greatest kindness and treat all of us.