I imagine even without that, the imported western social and industry standards make the competition psychotically cutthroat; and anyone not supermodel-attractive, light-skinned enough, and coming out of a corporate lifestyle-control-industry pipeline to ensure maintenance of “visible perfection” is made to leave audition in tears and blacklisted from the industry. Also when they turn 35 most of them are cut loose.
This is a totally uneducated assumption however, based on some of the detached tidbits I’ve heard over the years about the k-pop industry. None of it is really my bag.
I believe more than half of Korean women have some sort of cosmetic surgery before college, and they report better chances of employment when adhering to the beauty standards. In India it’s a lot worse imo because the changes from skin whitening is so extreme and noticeable
I kind of despise south korea for exporting its cookie cutter youth aesthetics onto neighboring Asian countries lol
Well it’s one Korea’s most profitable industries. But even then it’s a bit silly because a lot of the more conventional looking actors tend to be older, and they’re eventually gonna die. And soon we’ll have a grandpa character who looks like he’s a 22 year old pop star lol
They are all insanely hot. It’s probably all the plastic surgery in korea
I imagine even without that, the imported western social and industry standards make the competition psychotically cutthroat; and anyone not supermodel-attractive, light-skinned enough, and coming out of a corporate lifestyle-control-industry pipeline to ensure maintenance of “visible perfection” is made to leave audition in tears and blacklisted from the industry. Also when they turn 35 most of them are cut loose.
This is a totally uneducated assumption however, based on some of the detached tidbits I’ve heard over the years about the k-pop industry. None of it is really my bag.
I believe more than half of Korean women have some sort of cosmetic surgery before college, and they report better chances of employment when adhering to the beauty standards. In India it’s a lot worse imo because the changes from skin whitening is so extreme and noticeable
I kind of despise south korea for exporting its cookie cutter youth aesthetics onto neighboring Asian countries lol
Well it’s one Korea’s most profitable industries. But even then it’s a bit silly because a lot of the more conventional looking actors tend to be older, and they’re eventually gonna die. And soon we’ll have a grandpa character who looks like he’s a 22 year old pop star lol