the kpop edition

[acchikocchi]

1. So give me the lowdown on SM Entertainment as a corporation. How do they recruit/train/market/etc., especially in comparison to JE? Info on shady business practices and lawsuits and things of that sort also welcome. XD ...How does the Korean music industry and market compare to the Japanese in general, actually? There is no such thing as tldr in comments here.

2. Favorite Korean artists/songs/albums/music videos? I am woefully ignorant. Pop, not pop, what have you - hit me. (Assume I know basically no one except Park Ji-yoon, since that's... true. Oh, and BoA.)

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Re: pardon my capslock

[guiltyschu.livejournal.com]

Siwon's six-pack makes me want to do obscene things. *_* I'm not about to judge for shallowness, lol, I'm in that handbasket with you! Siwon cracks me up because he has this amazing body and face and he looks like he should be out there living a crazy party-life and banging a different hot girl every night, but he's just a total sweet-heart marshmallow that wants his friends to come to church with him, lol.

(This is particularly hilarious because I explicitly said to someone at one point after my initial exposure to Suju, explaining why it wouldn't threaten my JE love, "Yeah, they were super entertaining, but it's not like with Jin, say. They're not hot." OH HOW THE MIGHTY ARE FALLEN.)

BRB, LOL-ING. But really. There's no resisting the Sibrows. XD (sorry, I'll stop spamming you with pictures and shit soon, I promise haha)

Also this -

I keep thinking Hangeng looks like Ohno. (I SWEAR HE DOES. Thinner face.)

I KIND OF SEE IT. Now I want them to be on a program together or something, because Hangeng would just TOWER over Ohno, it'd be like a tiny chipmunk faced Mini-me. :D

General fandom attitude towards pairings in Suju seems to be 'if it's hot and/or crack, it's good with us'. Actually, when I first got into Suju I don't recall fandom being that mature, but the LJ fans these days seem pretty respectable. I tend to be a fringe-lurker in fandom, so perhaps there's a spiraling vortex of wank in the centre that I've not discovered yet, but from where I'm sitting generally all the haters seem to get out all their rage on the hate memes, then go back to being quiet. ^^ I like it.