After learning what K-pop is exactly and what the K-pop stars have to go through to not only gain fame but maintain it, it shows the drastic differences between Korea’s music industry and America’s. In the K-pop industry, there is a specific value that production has to hit in order for it to be marketable.  Due to this, there seems to be a certain bar for stars which would be attractive South Korean performers who spend years in the harsh studio industry learning to sing and dance in synchronized perfection. They additionally have to maintain a squeaky clean reputation for the public. The pop stars aren’t allowed to participate in activities such as drinking or smoking snd clubbing. Unlike here in the U.S  where that counts as publicity and isn’t as looked down upon. At a young age the young stars are binded through contracts. Everything they do from there on is “fabricated”. They live together and have a regulated schedule in which they learn dance, music, foreign language and other skills that make them more appealing to a broader audience.

Hallyu  is the increased  popularity of South Korea’s cultural economy and exportation of pop culture, entertainment, music, TV dramas and movies that flow into other countries. Because other countries are consuming the entertainment that Korea was producing at an increasing rate there would of course be an increase in K-pop stars and production of those stars.

I don’t know much about kpop but from what I can tell the sitaution is similar to whats happening in Japan. Due to high demand of anime in other countries many of the artist or animators get groomed to produce highly viewed anime. However i’ve come to learn that alot of animators are underpaid and have to work long hours in order to meet deadlines. If im right the K-pop industry is something like this. Or maybe more like a beauty paegent where it seems robotic.