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The Dark Side of K-Pop: Assault, Prostitution, Suicide, and Spycams
A wave of scandals has brought unwanted attention to South Korea’s squeaky-clean music industry.
07 Nov 2019, 10:28 AM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- If K-pop has a spiritual home, it’s probably SMTown. Operated by SM Entertainment Co., the six-story complex in Seoul’s wealthy Gangnam district is a high-tech shrine to South Korea’s most successful cultural export. The lobby walls are covered with framed black-and-white headshots of SM’s “idols,” as K-pop stars are known. By the elevators are hundreds of Polaroid-style portraits of the same artists in a ...
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