ANOTHER K-pop artist between the age of 25 & 30 died recently.

"Yohan’s death is the latest in a string of K-pop stars to lose their lives in the past year."

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K-pop boyband star Yohan dies aged 28 https://news.yahoo.com/k-pop-yohan-death-094515200.html">https://news.yahoo.com/k-pop-yoh...
"[BTS] held its much-anticipated Bang Bang Con on Sunday, drawing in 756,600 viewers, marking what the band’s label claims to be the largest paying audience ever for a livestreamed concert."

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BTS Just Proved That Paid Livestreaming Is Here to Stay https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/bts-paid-livestream-bang-bang-con-1015696/">https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/...
"In music, sajaegi has a more specific meaning -unethically and/or illegally boosting a chart ranking. For example, entertainment agencies bulk-buying their own CDs; or using bots or computer farms to repeatedly stream songs and hike up chart numbers."

3/ https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/808049441/inside-sajaegi-k-pops-open-secret">https://www.npr.org/2020/02/2...
"The 2nd morning at this year’s NY:LON Connect conference focused on ‘emerging international and influential markets’. 3 territories in particular: South Korea, China, & Russia/Eastern Europe."

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Music’s global evolution: K-Pop, China, and Eastern Europe https://musically.com/2020/01/20/musics-global-evolution-k-pop-china-and-eastern-europe/">https://musically.com/2020/01/2...
"A wave of scandals has brought unwanted attention to South Korea’s squeaky-clean music industry."

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Assault, prostitution, suicide, and spycams: A wave of scandals has brought unwanted attention to the K-pop industry https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-06/k-pop-s-dark-side-assault-prostitution-suicide-and-spycams">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...
From 2011:

"Some of K-Pop& #39;s biggest success stories were built on the back of so-called slave contracts, which tied its trainee-stars into long exclusive deals, with little control or financial reward."

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The dark side of South Korean pop music https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13760064">https://www.bbc.com/news/worl...
"In subsequent days, users took the same tack with the Grand Rapids [MI] police department, which had set up a portal for "picture or video evidence" of violent civil unrest, and with the Kirkland [WA] police, who put out a call Twitter for tips..."

15/ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/k-pop-fans-became-twitter-212637972.html">https://finance.yahoo.com/news/k-po...
"...the & #39;white lives matter& #39; hashtag was consumed with fancams, [music tweets], & tweets about people tweeting about music.

Paradoxically, the virality K-pop fans have gained for this stunt has kept & #39;white lives matter& #39; trending as a topic for days."

17/ https://www.vox.com/2020/6/8/21279262/k-pop-fans-black-lives-matter-fancams-youtubers-protest-support">https://www.vox.com/2020/6/8/...
"Reactions to Kim’s apology have been divided on Twitter, with some accepting it as well-meaning and genuine while others took issue with his statement...as a fetishisation of African American culture."

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K-pop rapper samples George Floyd& #39;s final words http://a.msn.com/07/en-my/BB15kq3k">https://a.msn.com/07/en-my/...
"The rise in K-pop activism has coincided w/ a resurgence of the hacktivist group Anonymous, a group known for launching digital protest campaigns."

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K-Pop fans flood QAnon Twitter hashtags to silence conspiracy theorists https://www.newsweek.com/k-pop-qanon-anonymous-twitter-hashtags-protest-gobaldforblm-opfancam-black-lives-matter-1508909">https://www.newsweek.com/k-pop-qan...
"A TV network in Japan has cancelled an appearance by the popular K-pop band BTS, after a photo emerged of one of its members wearing a T-shirt that appeared to celebrate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima."

21/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/09/japanese-tv-show-axes-bts-performance-atomic-bomb-t-shirt-hiroshima">https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
April 2018:

Members of Red Velvet, one of South Korea& #39;s top K-pop groups, sang their hits "Bad Boy" and "Red Flavor."

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South Korea& #39;s K-pop stars surprised by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un& #39;s appearance at performance - ABC News - https://abcn.ws/2GrgYl2 ">https://abcn.ws/2GrgYl2&q...
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