Every year, more and more people listen to one of the most hit genres, K-Pop, also known as Korean Pop that was originated in South Korea. I was practically forced to listen to K-Pop because my little sister blasts it ‘all day er’ day’. My ears bleed every time when I hear my sister sing, but what’s even worse is knowing the fact that idols, or K-Pop singers, are captive of ‘Slave Contracts’.
Most known artists and groups of K-Pop are perfect, and a plethora amount of K-Pop fans wonder about their personal lives or may have asked, do they even have a personal life? Media and paparazzi and stalkers and fans follow these idols everywhere and these idols most likely never get to be in trouble.
A well known, all-girls K-Pop group called Girls’ Generation or SNSD (“So Nyuh Shi Dae”/”the era of girls”) originally had nine members:
1. Taeyeon
2. Tiffany
3. Sooyoung
4. Jessica
5. Yuri
6. Yoona
7. Sunny
8. Hyoyeon
9. Seohyun
However, one “quits” or got forced out of the group because she broke the contract that each of the idols must follow. Jessica Jung was an original member of SNSD and she was one of the perfect girls of Seoul, South Korea. She is still perfect, but the company (S.M. Entertainment) that basically owns SNSD did not like the fact that Jung was earning money outside of S.M. Entertainment. Jung announced that she was working on a clothing line BLANC and this shocked all of the fan-base of SNSD because Jung’s actions broke the rules of the ‘Slave Contracts’.
Photo of the original nine members of Girls’ Generation. Source.
‘Slave Contracts’ are contracts that idols signed and agreed to “obey” because it is what keeps the idols “idols” and in control. There are many companies and groups to keep up with, but situations like Jessica Jung from SNSD makes it embarrassing for the company, S.M. Entertainment. There are rules such as: no dates, no drugs, no stupid actions, no embarrassment for the company, no anything.
Little by little, members of EXO leave. EXO comprises into two groups, EXO-M (Mandarian-Korean) and EXO-K (Korean) and had a combination of 12 members with six in each group. Now in EXO-M only remains two Chinese members Tao and Lay. EXO rose to fame till their fall of losing members because their negotiations with their company, also S.M. Entertainment is not so great.
Photo of all the original EXO members. Source.
These kind of ‘Slave Contracts’ imply to most idols of South Korea. These idols are mind-controlled by the company that owns them. Do not be fooled by what they are doing and whom they are dating and what not because everything was and is set up. The idols are stuck in a perfect body with a “perfect” life. No fan base understands what they are going through and they will only see the idols break free when they are not singing anymore.
Life is in the fast lane 