This kind of people have no chance of succeeding and when they fail they become the most aggressive hater of K pop to justify his failure and blame it all to the bad system of the industry.

I tell you the real reality of k pop industry.

K pop is a very competitive industry.

Out of 100 groups only 1 or 2 can survive and the rest disappear in 1 or 2 years.

There are hundreds of companies and the condition varies widely.

3 major companies(SM YG JYP) have a higher chance because they have good system and staff.

Other companies which have decent systems and staff are about 10 to 20.

The others are mostly small and unprepared companies.

All the problems come from these companies

But this video tells about problems arising from these companies and they put the pictures of well known artists on the background and gives impression that these are the problems of K pop.

1. Slave contract

This was a problem about 15 years ago and became an issue at that time.(At that time, a member of Dong Bang Sin Ki or DBSK raised this issue and went to court)

The government(Fair Trade Committee to be exact) intervened and a law was passed to limit the contract up to 7 years.

It is reasonable because a group needs to have 3 to 4 years to be successful and to reach a break-even point.

That is the reason why some groups disband or some of them leave the group after 7 years from their debut.( You can see Sistar or Girls Generation for examples)

2. Boot camp hell

Korea is a very competitive society and even students have to study more than 15 hours to go to university.

That is a overall phenomenon of Korea and working more than 12 hours is not limited to this industry.

The issue of overwork(Karoshi which means death out of wverwork in Japanese) is wide spread problem of Korean society and the government enacted a new law to limit the working hour up to 52 hours which is still high for western standard.

We can wait and see what this law will bring about to the entertainment industry.

K pop is known for the synchronized dance skills and good looks

These days, the chemistry of members and the characters of each member is getting more important.

They have to learn languages like Japanese, Chinese and English.

The companies recruits trainees and they train them for 2 to 3 years on average.

Some of them go through 6 months, but some of them for 5 to 7 years as a trainee.

From the trainee years, they learn dance, singing, language to prepare for the debut.

After debut, the first year is very important to get on the stardom.

They go to Music Bank and other TV shows.

In Korea, 3 major broadcasting companies have their own TV shows and there are other tv shows of cable music networks.

So if they want to be successful, they have to appear on 5 to 6 programs in a week.

And they start in the early hour to go to hair shop to do the makeup and hair.

You can see the videos of these groups in the early morning when they go to the broadcasting stations.

Even though they only appear just for several minutes, the broadcasting takes up whole day for preparing, dry rehearsal and real broadcasting.

When they are lucky enough to succeed, there will be more TV shows and festivals to ask them to appear.

That is why they live together in a dormitary.

3. Money woes

The successful artists you may know earns a lot of money and after 7 to 10 years of debut, most of them buy a building in Gangnam area which is very expensive.

Most of the other people, they breakup before the group reach break-even point.

The money woes are from the unsuccessful groups and that is the rule of capitalism.

And that is not the problem of Korea, but of capitalist countries.

No one can not guarantee success and money that follows from the success.

4.. Work to exhaustion.

That is the problem I mentioned in earlier comment.

5. Plastic surgery pressure

K pop haters mostly say that Koreans undergo plastic surgery than any other countries in the world and all the k pop stars are the product of plastic surgery.

Korea is famous for fashion, cosmetics, plastic surgery and the foreigners who watch k dramas and k pop programs think the plastic surgery skills of Korea is reliable.

I live in the area where there are a lot of plastic surgery hospitals and I find these days more and more foreigners, most of them are from China, Japan and south east Asian countries come to Korea and stay here for 2 to 3 month to get the surgery and they also do sightseeing with their face banded.

This adds to the numbers of plastic surgery and the statistics does not eliminate these numbers.

I don't blame people who do the plastic surgery and I agree that if that makes them more happy, its up to their choice.

But the video says the companies pressure the trainees into plastic surgery and that is not true.

For example, YG and other companies make a contract which says not to have plastic surgery during the contract period when they make a contract with a group ( for example black pink made a contract with YG and one of the article is to forbid plastic surgery. This comes from the experience of one group which is said to have a problem of plastic surgery addict).

6. Strict diet.

I have to admit it.

Entertainment people say it looks more fat on TV than the real.

Some of the companies have regulations and they control the trainee not to get fat and in other cases the trainee or the artist do diet on their own will.

In Korea diet is an obsession of especially young girls.

6. Suicide problem.

The suicide rate of Korea is very high.

Its not only the problem of k pop but also of Korean society overall.

Because competitiveness of Korean society is high and the entertainment industry is extremely competitive, the suicide rate is high especially among young people who are vulnerable.

7 Dangerous fans

Some of them are dangerous but the real fans have the attitude that if they love an artist, they have to protect them.

That is not the issue of Korea.

It is the issue of real fans and haters who disguise as fans.

8. Discrimination

Mak says he is discriminated but I don't think so.

He blames to the discrimination as an excuse of his failure.

At first, Korean entertainment industry naturally constitute of Koreans.

Later, they needs English speaking people who can do English rapping.

So the Korean-Americans take up that part because they can speak Korean and English.

After some years, k pop market grew up and they targeted Asian markets and they started to recruit people from China Japan, Thailand, Taiwan and other Asian countries.

I think in the future if the k pop market expands to western countries, they will recruit people from western countries.

That trend reflects the needs of the market

That is the rule of the business and that is not the discrimination.

I think Mak is not discriminated and he did not do his best.

That's what I guess.