The retrial of Zhang Ziyan's suicide case has pushed the Korean entertainment industry to the cusp of the storm. According to incomplete statistics, more than 30 artists have committed suicide in just over a decade from 2005 to now.
In 2005, Korean actress Lee Eun-joo hanged herself at home at the age of 25.
In 2007, Zheng Duobin, a 27-year-old actress in "That Boy Is Really Handsome", hanged herself at her boyfriend's residence.
In 2007, Korean actress u-nee Chuan committed suicide at home because she could not withstand the huge pressure of the release of a new album.
In 2008, "Korean drama diva" Choi Really committed suicide, sensationalizing the Korean entertainment industry.
In 2008, Han male star Kim Ji-ho committed suicide because he could not bear various evil words on the Internet.
In 2009, Korean actress Zhang Ziyan hanged herself, and her suicide note revealed that she was forced to make hundreds of sexual transactions.
In 2010, Choi Jin-young's younger brother, Choi Jin-young, hanged himself due to long-term depression.
In 2010, Han male star Park Yong-ha, drunk, impulsively committed suicide.
In 2015, Jiang Douli, a 22-year-old woman, committed suicide by burning charcoal at her home.
In 2016, 25-year-old South Korean newcomer actress Jeong Ya-lu committed suicide at her home.
In 2017, Kim Jong-hyun, a member of the South Korean boy band Shine, committed suicide by burning charcoal at home.
Korean actress Kang Doo-ri
What makes these bright-looking and well-paid entertainers choose to commit suicide.
If you want to be famous, you should first be a trainee, and the training content is very cruel
South Korea is known as the "Star-Making" Dream Factory, and every year a large number of young people are pushed to the spotlight and successfully debut. Before that, however, newcomers tended to receive a lot of training as "trainees."
Zhang Bichen, the champion of The Voice of China, also had a "trainee" experience in South Korea. Talking about that experience, Zhang Bichen revealed: Every day from 10 a.m. to the practice room, until 12 p.m. to return to the dormitory.
Han Geng also said in "Lu Yu You Covenant", "When you are a trainee (in South Korea), you must practice for up to 20 consecutive hours a day. The devilish practice made him very hard, and he didn't even know that he had broken his bones for two months.
These are not to know that the elimination rate of new artists in South Korea is as high as 80%. Quan Zhilong, who is now popular in Asia, was a trainee for 11 years before becoming popular. Kim Joon-so, who was once the lead singer of the "Oriental Shenqi" group, was almost retired because of a long voice change period. The cruelty of the "trainee" system is evident. Lee Eun Joo
Korean actress Lee Eun-joo
Income is squeezed and brokerage companies are extremely high
In China, a second-tier actor can easily earn millions of dollars to make a 30-episode TV series, and the remuneration can be directly collected after paying taxes. In South Korea's brokerage companies, the commission is quite high, and the new person and the company sign the contract or three or seven, or two or eight, although this is not low for the newcomer, but if it is a combination, the money that can be divided into everyone's head is very small.
South Korean actress Choi Real
The company is roughly managed, and personal privacy is not protected
In the Korean entertainment industry, the relationship between seniors and juniors is very clear. In economic companies, it is common for trainees to be taught by their predecessors for their poor performance, and if any member of the group disobeys, it is also common for large players to punch and kick as brothers.
South Korean actor Min Woo-hyuk revealed during a variety show that his former agent had used violence against him many times, for which he had been hospitalized for concussion 7 times in 1 year. When asked if he had ever resisted, Min Woo Hyuk said, "I didn't think about resisting at the time, I thought every artist would experience this."
Korean actress Zhang Ziyan and her suicide note
Unspoken rules" flooded, and actresses exposed themselves to sleep with nearly a hundred times
"Unspoken rules" are also very popular in the Korean entertainment industry. It has been reported that Boss Lee, a three-generation chaebol family in South Korea, has slept with more than 50 Korean actresses and women looking forward to entering the show business in half a year. Singer Sara said that some Korean female artists she knows have actively or passively traded through "unspoken rules" to get the roles or performances they want. And some senior management companies, forcing female artists to obey is more common.
South Korean actress Zhang Ziyan, who starred in the Korean drama "Fancy Man", hanged herself in 2009. Zhang Ziyan left a suicide note accusing the brokerage company of forcing her to sleep with her nearly a hundred times, even the death day of her parents could not be avoided, and once she was forced to 5p, if she did not follow, she would be beaten.
Zhang Ziyan said bitterly in her suicide note: "Whenever I put on new clothes, it is a day when I have to sleep with a new man, and I can't escape the nightmare of sex trafficking for a lifetime." And revealed that between 2005 and 2009, he was forced by the agency to be a large company, news media executives, showbiz people and other 31 men, and has "sexual tribute" hundreds of times.
In 2011, there were 107g, 37 series of unspoken rules videos flowing out, including Zhang Ziyan.
Zheng Duobin once starred in "That Boy Is Really Handsome"
Gangsters threaten, and Korean artists are like nightmares
The blackmail and blackmail of the gang organization also make Korean artists feel like nightmares. According to the investigation into Han Seung-hwan's suicide case, Ahn Jae-hwan was threatened with a loan shark of 4 billion won before his death and chose to commit suicide.
Actress Zhang Nala's father and agent Zhu Husheng, once published an article titled "Hallyu and the Melancholy of the Korean Entertainment Industry", mentioned that someone had forced Zhang Nala to sing in a bar, because he could not cope, he finally had to ask the South Korean police for help. And actress Cui Zhenzhen also suffered a kidnapping incident before she died.
It seems that the money in the entertainment industry is not so easy to earn, what do you think?