VCHA's KG sues JYP for abuse
article: JYP girl group VCHA KG “Leaves the group and files lawsuit due to abusive language by staff”
source: Sports Chosun, via Nate
[+111, -11] I haven't seen you in a while and I think this is how it ends. This is what I said. K-Pop's training style will never work for kids with a western mindset. JYP is not the first producing group, and it is questionable whether this level of abusive language actually occurred, but suspicions are suspicions, and there is not much JYP can do other than allow the contract to be terminated. To preserve their image. Localization can never be the future of K-Pop. K-Pop companies can collaborate with foreign entertainment companies all they want, but it always ends up with the idols suing and wanting everything for themselves. The specialty of Korean agencies is that they will change you from head to toe and basically rebirth you through their training. Foreigners turn around and abuse the culture by criticizing it because it doesn't suit them. K-Pop agencies can tolerate this and try to localize it. Otherwise, you're wasting your time and resources on people who will never honor that investment.
– [+27, -3] Wow, I agree.. JYP has been in this game for a long time and is considered one of the biggest agencies. I doubt they committed the abuses alleged here. Foreigners seem to think that reprimands during dieting or training are swear words (but I admit that Koreans use offensive language that can offend Westerners)… I think swearing is just an excuse for idols to leave a team they know as a failure. thing
– [+27, -1] The Korean education system is exactly like that. We nag, criticize and push you to your limits. If you're not Asian or familiar with it, I can see how it could be seen as an insult.
– [+31, -1] In the Western mind, anyone controlling their diet is considered abusive. Well, I can agree… Still, I think JYP is one of the more lenient agencies when it comes to dieting. I wonder if this group would have filed a lawsuit like this if they had done their best. ..but the group is failing, and she's under a ton of micromanagement and pressure, so it's better to just blow it off than let it affect her mentally.
[+53, -26] If it's true, I'm disappointed in JYP
[+32, -11] I'm really disappointed in JYP
[+27, -1] It would be difficult for foreigners to follow the harsh training regimen of Korean idols.
[+16, -2] I think this is all well-known information about the life of a Korean idol trainee. Why are you willing to go in there and realize it's all true and only then get angry? What if we just quietly leave? Are Westerners like this? If they aren't as strict as Korean companies, their skills will never improve, and even idols won't be able to manage themselves. This is the secret of the Korean training system. Why do foreigners think they can have a say in how we do things here? Now I'm worried about how Katseye will end up.
[+10, -1] Let’s just leave these idol groups to Koreans only. We were fine the whole time. go for it.
[+7, -0] Foreigners can't even train as K-idols… I completely understand why people think it's abuse.
[+3, -0] I have no sympathy… It's like a foreigner willingly taking the Korean medical school exam despite knowing how cruel it is, only to act horrified when he realizes how cruel it actually is.
[+2, -0] Putting foreigners in Korean-style training was wrong from the beginning. Only children raised in Asian homes would obey such strict standards, so why would Western children obey such standards lol?
[+1, -0] Weight management and lifestyle restrictions only work for Korean children. Elsewhere it would be considered abuse. I don't know the details of the complaint, but JYP was quite famous for being strict about diet, yelling at trainees a lot during recording practice, and giving them a lot of choreography training.
[+1, -0] I don't know how easy it will be for Westerners to adapt to the K-pop system.
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