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The Korean entertainment industry is "finished", the crew is suspended and the actors are unemployed, no wonder Lisa is bent on going to Europe and the United States
The news that Lisa, South Korea's top idol, is going to perform on the French Crazy Horse show, has made a fuss on the Chinese Internet.
Many people say that Lisa's performance of the Crazy Horse show is her "letter of submission" to the European and American entertainment industry, and only by passing the test can she jump from Korean entertainment to Europe and the United States.
So why did she have to jump to Europe and the United States? Can the Korean entertainment industry no longer satisfy her ambitions?
That's right, this year's Korean entertainment industry can be described as plummeting, and "escape" has almost become the fate of Korean artists.
In April this year, several crews in South Korea were forced to stop work due to financial problems, although the external saying was "suspension of filming" and would restart later. But now, the so-called restart is far away.
Why is there a situation in South Korea where small crews stop broadcasting and actors are forced to lose their jobs?
Because the current Korean entertainment industry is no longer the former Korean entertainment industry, they have long been monopolized by Netflix in the United States.
Remember the globally popular Korean drama "Squid Game" in 2021? In fact, this is produced by Netflix Investment.
At that time, director Hwang Dong-hyuk took the script to look for investment everywhere, and in the end, only Netflix was willing to shoot, and finally this "Squid Game" used a cost of 21.4 million US dollars, which leveraged 6 times the revenue.
Although the series made a lot of money, director Hwang Dong-hyuk said that he only earned money to fill his stomach.
Under normal circumstances, when a TV series is replayed, directors, screenwriters and other stakeholders can receive dividends, but such a model has been rejected by Netflix.
Starting with "Squid Game", Netflix has entered the Korean drama market aggressively, and with the advantage of not restricting the freedom of creators, many directors and screenwriters are willing to seek investment from Netflix first.
At the same time, the living space of South Korea's local TV stations has been severely compressed, and Netflix's unwillingness to provide a share for creators has led to the reduction of migrant workers in the Korean film and television industry to "cheap labor".
The audience sees that the Korean drama is filmed and broadcast, the effect is very high, but behind it are countless staff who have survived day and night.
There were also TV series producers who committed suicide to express their dissatisfaction with such a serious exploitation of the film and television industry, and then South Korea did legislate that South Korean film and television workers should not work more than 50 hours a week.
However, after Netflix seized the market, it ignored these laws and regulations and squeezed film and television practitioners without a bottom line. In the past, screenwriters and directors worked hard, and there were dividends, but now there are no dividends.
Netflix is pulling the banner of "creative freedom", wantonly harvesting the Korean film and television industry cheaply, leveraging global revenue with extremely low creative costs, and turning a deaf ear to the interests of low-level workers.
Today, a large number of South Korean film and television companies have gone bankrupt, which is the result of Netflix seizing the market.
The collective strike of screenwriters and directors in Hollywood has been going on for more than a year, and the situation is basically the same, that is, the workers do not get paid.
But Netflix is not at all panicked about the Hollywood screenwriters' strike, why? Because Netflix has shot more than 150 works in South Korea in the past two years, there is no need to worry about no drama.
Netflix's exploitation in the Korean film and television industry will continue, for example, although the director of "Squid Game" Hwang Dong-hyuk did not make any money, he will still shoot the second season of "Squid Game" with Netflix's investment.
Why? Because of such a theme, local companies dare not vote, and if they vote, they cannot broadcast it. But Netflix is not afraid, it faces global attention, Netflix does not care about social impact, does not care about political games, it just needs to make money.
But Netflix's exploitation of low-level migrant workers can really pretend that nothing happened?
On the Internet, you will also see some netizens praising Netflix and saying that the entry of Korean dramas into Netflix is a huge progress and leap. In fact, it is not necessary, because Netflix destroyed the entire ecological environment of the Korean entertainment industry.
No matter what kind of industry it is, we must be wary of a single company and a monopoly, otherwise capital will make a lot of money, and it will be the workers who will suffer after all.