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Volume 2 ZX Entertainment Chapter 653 Korean Entertainment ¡°Clear Rules¡± (Part 1)

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    Although the Korean entertainment industry is glamorous on the surface, it is the most chaotic and darkest entertainment industry in the world.  How messy is it?  No one can explain it clearly in detail. Not talking about the various dirty transactions hidden in dark corners, but just talking about the five "clear rules" that are put on the surface, you can get a glimpse of the situation and make people's hair stand on end.  One of the five clear rules in the Korean entertainment industry is to be an artist first and be a trainee. The management is strict and there is almost no freedom.  Most Korean artists are signed by brokerage companies for training when they are in elementary school or high school, and are called "trainees".  The training cycle is usually two to three years, starting from the age of fourteen or fifteen, and debuting at the mature stage of sixteen or seventeen.  This training process is very strict. You have to learn everything from voice, stage, body, appearance, including makeup and styling. There are strict assessments, and those who fail will be eliminated at any time.  And it is normal to be punished, even beaten and scolded during training.  Many trainees need to train for up to twenty hours continuously.  Such high-intensity training often leads to fractures among trainees.  ¡°After a few years of training as a trainee, if he or she fails to debut, he or she will be sent to accompany the trainees, and the ending will be far from their ideal.  What's more, some brokerage companies ostensibly provide food and accommodation, but in fact they use the dormitories as guest houses, letting wealthy businessmen enter for "drafts" every time, and unknowing trainees are taken to the city by the company on the pretext of practicing dancing.  It is a dance studio with mirrors and cameras, and you can do some stretching exercises that can show off your figure for "inspection".  The second of the five "clear rules" in the Korean entertainment industry is to sign a "slave contract."  After a long wait and devilish training, some trainees were finally selected by the agency for packaging.  Sign a contract and debut as an artist.  But this is just the beginning. The life of Korean artists is not as glamorous as imagined.  The main reason why the Korean entertainment industry is "shady" and artists are overwhelmed is the "slave contract".  ¡°Everyone knows that being an artist is a profession that relies on youth.  Once the contract period exceeds 10 years, it is equivalent to the entire singer's singing career, which will severely restrict the singer's personality and economic activities.  S.M Company is one of the largest brokerage companies in South Korea, and the first contracts signed by its singers are almost always for thirteen years.  There are many artists in South Korea, and there are also many brokerage companies. However, large brokerage companies only account for about ten percent of the entire entertainment industry, and the rest are small and medium-sized companies.  If the contract of S.M Company is like this, what will happen to the current situation of idol groups and trainees in small and unknown companies?  Many people can't imagine it.  For those trainees from small and medium-sized brokerage companies.  Signing a contract with a company is equivalent to mortgaging your entire life to the agency.  In addition, in the contracts of all brokerage companies, it is expressly stipulated that "if you want to have a different relationship, you should discuss it with the company in advance and then accept command and supervision." This type of clause clearly infringes on personal rights.  What's even more outrageous is to tell whether any family members are in debt.  Was there ever a scandal.  It is necessary to declare and register before falling in love.  All personal matters must not be hidden.  Individuals traveling abroad must also obtain approval from the brokerage company.  In terms of income, not only small companies, but also large companies take a very high percentage of artists' income.  Generally, it is seventy-three or eighty-two, and even worse, ninety-one.  Many artists can't get any money at all in the first few years after their debut, and some even find it difficult to maintain a basic life.  Buy a car?  Don't think about it, many artists don't even have the money to take the bus. In order to save the bus fare and go to the city during the break, many artists have to save money on food and clothing, and take out the meal money allocated by the company.  With the fame of Lee Hyori and Song Hye Kyo, before they bought shares and switched jobs in ZX Group, they could only afford to drive a modern sports car made in Korea. You know how serious the exploitation of Korean artists must be.  There is also TVXQ, a Japanese group under S.M. It is said that in their contract, regarding the distribution of album income, the original contract stipulated that if the sales volume of a single album reaches more than 500,000 copies, after the release,  When recording the album, each member can receive 10 million Korean won, which is equivalent to more than 50,000 RMB.  If the sales volume is less than 500,000 copies, you won't get a penny.  Later, after TVXQ became famous, although this item was revised, the members' profit distribution from album sales was still only between 0.4% and 1% based on sales volume. The rest was all taken away by S.M.  ¡°Everyone has desires, and artists are also human beings. When they become famous, they will inevitably be dissatisfied with the company¡¯s contract, which will lead to job-hopping and other incidents.  In order to prevent such incidents, brokerage companies have formulated extremely high liquidated damages clauses for their artists.  If an artist wants to change jobs, the liquidated damages will be so high that they cannot repay them.  Not to mention other darker companies, but the relatively "normal" S.M company, the amount of liquidated damages for its artists is three times the total investment amount and twice the total income.  With such a high liquidated damages, if there is no one behind the artist to support him, there will be noThe company is willing to pay in advance, who can provide it?  So if you want to change jobs, you can, just wait until the first 13-year contract expires.  Like Lee Hyori, when she switched jobs to ZX Group, ZX Group paid DSP 2 billion won.  This is because DSP Company knows the details of Xia Hou Zhongying and does not dare to offend him.  At that time, Li Haoying also wanted to sell him a favor so that they could meet each other later.  Two billion won is certainly not a problem for Lee Hyori now, but for her before she met Ha Hou Zhongying, let alone two billion, even two hundred million was difficult to come up with.  The third clear rule in the Korean entertainment industry is to force artists to have plastic surgery, which requires high intensity of work.  Plastic surgery is a compulsory course, not only for ordinary people in Korea, but also for artists.  In the trainee stage, everyone must undergo camera tests regularly, which means having the camera shoot all angles before, after, and after a professional will evaluate them on stage. The test results are the basis for judging whether the artist should undergo plastic surgery before debuting. They will  Undergo partial plastic surgery on a case-by-case basis so that every aspect appears flawless in the camera.  No one can escape from this rule, not even Xiahou Zhongying, who is not interested in plastic surgery. Although he is very critical of plastic surgery in Korea, he does not dare to let his company deviate from this rule and become something purely natural and innocent.  Pollution green artist collective.  There is no way. If our artists are not beautiful or handsome enough to attract fans, they will not be able to compete with others.  So for the sake of your wallet, let them be genetically modified products.  In South Korea, there are not many TV stations, only a few, but there are hundreds of variety shows. The proportion is so high that it is staggering. It can be said that South Korea is called the country of variety shows.  There are so many artists in South Korea, the competition is very fierce, and the life cycle is also very short. If you don¡¯t show up for a long time, no matter how famous you were before, you will still quickly become a passerby.  For example, Xia Hou Zhongying, since he was arrested and returned to China, there has been no news except that when he and Yu Yuerong were engaged, news spread to South Korea and was reported by the media.  If he were to stand on the streets of Seoul now, it is estimated that only a few people would recognize him quickly.  In order not to be forgotten by the public, Korean artists must not only complete their normal work such as recording records and filming movies and TV series, but also accept arrangements from companies to participate in various programs.  Even Lee Hyori is no exception. Even though she is the number one sister in the Korean music industry and the queen of Asia, she still has to frequently appear on shows and create various news and scandals to maintain her fame.  Most artists can only sleep three to four hours a day. The rest of the time is spent either on shows or on the road.  Some media once published a work schedule of the SJ group of S.M Company. Their workload is almost 24 hours.  Such a high-intensity workload is not only unbearable for the artists themselves, but also for the drivers who drive them all over the place. Therefore, traffic accidents involving artists in South Korea are all caused by fatigue.  (To be continued)
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