South Korea's entertainment industry has produced many high-quality idol artists, but behind this surface glamorous is frightening!
According to incomplete statistics, from 1995 to 2021, nearly 100 female stars in the Korean entertainment industry chose to commit suicide, more than 69% of female artists were required by chaebols to spend the night, and more than 83% of stars could not afford to buy a house.
There are also companies, such as SM, which have a lot of very unreasonable regulations, such as the weight of the artist.
They will let their artists sign an "artist image contract", and if one person gains weight and damages his image due to personal reasons, he will face high compensation.
Jin Zhenxi, a former member of the women's group, chose to lose 15 pounds in one month because of the sky-high compensation!
Because every artist knows that this may be money that they can't afford to lose in their lives, and they can only sacrifice their health.
In addition to physical health, the artists' income is also squeezed very tightly.
Take the Korean boy band Super Junior, which was once popular all over the country. Han Geng had previously revealed that after selling 1 million points of albums, according to a commission of 0.15%, he could get 270,000 restorations, but it was converted into only 1500 yuan...
This is still the income of the boy band members who are popular all over Asia, which makes people can't help but sigh, it is better to find a factory to work.
Liu Zaishi, a member of the Korean version of "Run", once revealed that the program that has been recorded for two years is not as good as Deng Chao's income in the first period.
But despite the physical devastation and meager income of artists, it has not stopped many young people from having illusions about becoming stars.
According to statistics, the total population of South Korea is 50 million people, but there are as many as 2 million trainees!
Despite this, up to 100,000 trainees still join the ranks every year, mostly from poor families and working class, hoping to change their fate through fame, but this road is too difficult...
In the case of Quan Zhilong, after 11 years of suffering, he finally became a top star, but in many years after becoming famous, he was still paying off debts, and he was not at all as beautiful as on the surface.
Because all the expenses during the period of no fame, food, accommodation, etc. are paid by the company, and the artist does not pay for it.
In 2009, South Korean actress Zhang Ziyan committed suicide at home, which detonated the Internet for a time.
In Zhang Ziyan's more than two hundred pages of art, she accuses the chaebols of their various actions against her.
Since the day of her debut, she has been asked to "sleep with" hundreds of times, and even disagreed with being beaten by the boss's wine bottle, not only that, in order not to affect the company's income, the company forced Zhang Ziyan to ligature, resulting in her lifelong infertility.
When he was dying, he still had a large bruise on his body.
There are many female stars like Zhang Ziyan, but most of them dare not say it for personal safety and reputation, and can only choose to resist by ending their lives.
Cui Shirley is also one of them, because she rejected the company's personification of him, gave up the sweet and cute image, and disappointed the fans, which made the company lose the ability to make money with her.
Under the internet storm of fans, the company not only did not deal with it, but also added fuel to the fire, resulting in Sydney's aggravation of depression and suicide.
The force behind all this is the Chaebol of South Korea, who has an absolute right to speak in South Korea, making them unhappy and making them suffer losses.