Dark And Disturbing Things You Never Knew About K Pop

If you re new, Subscribe The foundations of Kpop music as we know it today were laid in the late 80s, when the South Korean government loosened censorship laws in an effort to modernize, but the Korean music wave didn t start making a splash on global shores until the 2010s, thanks in no small part to YouTube. According to a 2017 Bloomberg report, the worldwide Kpop industry is worth almost 5 billion, but this fame comes at a cost. It might be all shiny and happy on the surface, but Kpop has a disturbing dark side that artists are only now starting to expose. Brace yourself as we take a closer look at the underbelly of this entertainment The slave contracts, 0:37 Boot camp hell, 1:31 Money woes, 2:38 Worked to exhaustion, 3:10 Plastic surgery pressures, 3:49 Strict diets, 4:37 The problem, 5:34 Dangerous fans, 6:34 Discrimination , 7:07