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.)

Comments

[thunder]

DOOOOOUUUUUSHITEEEEE kiminisukininatteshimattandarou-- i mean

D: why, mer! why korea?! all they have are groups with people whose names all sound the same and yet you still won't be able to remember them, suicide petitions, and plastic hair and airbrushed faces. WHAT HAPPENED.

it must have been the suicide petitions that got you in, wasn't it. :x

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

I have no excuse. XD It's not even a group of manageable size that hooked me, it's the Clone Army, as I so fondly referred to them in bygone days. Hopeless case desu.

Yeah the fanbase is pretty, uh. Interesting. Or so I am discovering. (o_o)