The songs are catchy, the faces are poreless. But a frightening pop economy lies just underneath the surface.
and found careless comments about his trainee experience, there was a petition encouraging his suicide circulating hours later. Just as one scandal reached a fever pitch, another would ignite. It was exciting to love K-pop because it seemed so tenuous and dramatic and harrowing. But in a way that wouldn’t affect me personally — these young people weren’t actually my friends. This was Shakespearean tragedy you could listen to on your iPod, back when you owned such a thing.
Well, plenty of people actually. Americans often questioned my K-pop obsession. Outsiders would look on at K-pop with derision, pity, confusion. Idols changed their entire style —— at a high frequency. Westerners would tell me they had a hard time keeping up. Faces seemed to change all the time, they said. It must be exhausting, they said.
“As an artist, you know being attractive will get you more attention...and get you the center position [in a group],” explained independent artist Grazy Grace, inon her experience as a trainee in the K-pop industry. “Nobody is putting a gun to your head. It’s honestly the opposite... When [an idol is] doing camera tests and know they’re going to debut in front of so many people, they feel the need to correct, even [just] a little.
This isn’t the case just for idols — they’re simply the most visible people negotiating Korean beauty standards. According to a
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