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
"[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/
"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
"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/
From 2011:

"Some of K-Pop'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
"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
"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's final words http://a.msn.com/07/en-my/BB15kq3k
April 2018:

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

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South Korea's K-pop stars surprised by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's appearance at performance - ABC News - https://abcn.ws/2GrgYl2 
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