A parliamentary forum on K-pop trainees revealed accounts of abuse, depression and harassment, prompting calls for better legal safeguards.

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The entertainment agencies invested in cultivating a market for k-pop in Japan in the early aughts understood that building the brand required a multi-pronged approach. One of these prongs, as I have....

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지난 11월 연예계에서 반복되는 권력 남용으로부터 아이돌의 권익을 보호하기 위한 ‘아이돌노동조합설립준비위원회’가 출범했다. 이는 국내 최초의 아이돌 노동조합 설립 시도로 기대를 모았으나, 우리신문사는 22일 준비위원장이자 아이돌 그룹 ‘틴탑’에서 활동했던 방민수씨와의 인터뷰에서 노조 설립이 무산됐음을 확인했다. 아이돌이 근로자로 인정받는 길은 정말 요원한가...

A former Teen Top member withdrew a proposed idol union after it drew only two listed members, exposing fears over agency power and legal uncertainty.

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Quarterly Debut Reviews are a supplementary series to my annual Periodic Rookie Group Reports, which are published quarterly. Each installment covers three rookie groups that debuted over the past...

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The girl group GPP is a new entry in a burgeoning segment of the k-pop industry: the taxonomically ambiguous group. That is, they straddle multiple labels—k-pop, j-pop, global—while fitting none...

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