I've read that Korean business culture is like Japan's where the majority especially the large mafioso types corporations are all owned by the few elites. Expect more suicides by celebrities because that usually happens when you're owned by corporations that make most of your money and you end up just being an employee and not owner of your own self. There was a story recently of an "independent" musician I read that committed suicide. Independent in the K-Pop world...? I bet it was because she was being pressured and threatened to sign a contract to have corporations own her.
I've seen Korean origin YouTube stuff like cat videos. Then I noticed a lot of these channels use the same exact video and sound effects. Are they too just a churned-out product of a corporation? I notice too a lot of videos of Korean parents recording their children lives for all to see and they too use the same video and sounds effects... For some reason I regularly get these Korean short videos on my YouTube home page of what looks like a car show and it's just a Korean girl dressed in skimpy lingerie posing in front of a car like they were car models you see at a car show. Is that how Korean car models are there. Or do Korean women just go to car shows and do this? They all look like they were taken from a smartphone and they're all posted turned in a 45 degree angle for some reason. Is this a corporate concoction too? Entire corporate business models based on making money from YouTube views.
Since K-Pop is new I'm waiting for the day when a lot of these K-Pop stars age out and get too old and are kicked to the curb. That's when you'll see a lot of suicides and arrests of them for something like rape or drug offenses. Or embarrassingly trying to recapture their fame when you see these old men singing on a street corner still thinking they got it.
