CUBE Entertainment making Miyeon participate in sensitive drama
Besides the hectic promotion with (G)-IDLE, Miyeon has also been super active with many
personal activities like being MC of M Countdown, radio DJ for Blue Light and featuring as the
the main characters for two web drama Replay: The Moment and Delivery. Of course fans were
super happy to see Miyeon shine like that.
However, such a happiness also didn’t seem to last long because recently, Cube’s made
an extremely disturbing decision where people couldn’t help asking whether the company
were trying too hard in pushing (G)-IDLE’s popularity after Soojin’s scandals that
they even dared to put Miyeon’s image at risk.
As reported, Miyeon would play the role of Yura, in a high-school web drama called Adult
Trainee. Though the series was produced by two well-known companies CJ ENM and DK E&M,
fans have still been increasingly furious after finding out that the content would be
quite sensitive, and probably vulgar to some extent.
Based on the released synopsis, Adult Trainee is a drama that depicts “pink comedies”
of teenagers, especially those of genZ, who are undergoing hormonal changes. All characters
in the series were introduced as eight-teen-year-olds who were experiencing huge physiological changes
and tons of worries about love-life.
Not stopping there, the posters of Adult Trainee were all about provocative references featuring
a huge banana, c*ndom, and some tissues papers.
The pink-theme poster was even hotter because besides all the things mentioned and some
more stimulative items like birth-control pills, a pomelo cut in half and some red peppers,
there was even a flaming hot quote saying “Our class is always on fire.”
Apparently this is no longer a new or too-controversial thing for an entertainment product considering
how WAP and other fun songs were embraced by lots of people, most fans still find it
unacceptable for Cube to let Miyeon take the project.
Since she is an idol, especially an idol introduced by Cube Entertainment as a pure and naive
persona, people are worrying that her image will be put at risk and down the road, probably
she must also cross the lines for some scenes in the drama.
In fact, not only fans but netizens were also engraved at the decisions of Cube because
considering how the South Korean society was still quite conservative, making a female
idol like Miyeon participating in such a provocative highschool drama didn’t seem to make sense
at all. Even when some tried to look at the series in a more open way, they still found
the script disturbing because while the same educational purpose could have been done in
the context of college, the producers still chose to put in the characters of highschool
students with a distorted mindset about private things.
Plus, people also noticed the drama was kinda trying to be the Korean version of Netflix’s
Sex Education, and of course, it was still not a good thing considering how the producers
didn’t even change a thing to suit with the South Korean context and how they chose
Miyeon to portray such a sensitive story.
However, there were also some opposing thoughts and according to them, people were just overreacting
since the producers already said how the drama was for educational purposes and it’s not
like they would have a s*x scene so Miyeon’s was totally okay. Plus, probably Miyeon herself
made up her mind to choose to be in the drama, it was quite nonsense to blame the company
for this.
Marbling Entertainment & JTG Entertainment trying to s*xualize underage idols
Debuting in 2017 with a line-up of all members whose age only ranged from 14 to 18 as of
2019, BUSTERS was really the youngest Kpop group back in the day. However, for the sake
of popularity, their management company used to do a bunch of questionable things that
even until now, not a single soul could justify for the company even when taking into consideration
how Busters would also benefit if they had enough public attention.
Back in 2019 after Busters had their broadcast on Vlive, people started to throw hands at
Marbling Entertainment literally right off the bat because they made the girls wear not
only short clothes but also sit in a position prompting the exposure of some private parts.
Busters were later seen to share some desserts with two male Youtubers collaborating on the
show as “hosts” but while things could have just proceeded in a happy atmosphere
like all other livestreams, they were arranged to sit in between the two men exactly like
hostesses at clubs.
What’s even more annoying according to one netizen was that, while such disturbing incidents
had happened a lot to female idols of small companies, she still couldn’t understand
how the company could present their idols that way and arrange their seating as 8th
Grader – Adult Male – 8th Grader – 9th Grader – Adult Male.
When netizens found the condition alarming and started to go back for Busters’ previous
broadcasts and even promotional photos, they were all shook to find out the “s*xualized
minors” were almost the main concept of the group.
The hard cold truth is that good people do not always have good things happen to them
and it can clearly be seen through the latest incident of an underaged member.
Recently, JTC Entertainment was under fire again for making Jisoo, a six-teen-year-old
girl at the time, appear in the ads of a plastic surgery clinic and created false impressions
that she had gone through multiple procedures to get where she was.
As some netizens tried to dig deeper, they also found out that Jisoo was actually made
to model for this clinic in 2018 and back then, she was still only in middle school.
Of course the agency was nonstop thrown hands at by netizens but as I’ve said, since being
controversial is their strategy to make Busters popular, nothing was done to reverse the consequences,
JTC Entertainment still kept silent and the ads continued to be there on the clinic’s
website.
Vine Entertainment punishing Secret Number’s Denise for raising voice about social issues
While fighting for a better world has always been a good thing, not every management agency
in KPOP holds the same view and in the case of Secret Number’s Denise, she was even
punished for making attempts to spread positivity.
Because Denise was born in Texas and speaks fluent English, she easily attracts the attention
of international fans so Vine Entertainment decided to let Denise have her own Instagram
to interact with fans.
However, her own Instagram was actually not really “her own” because after Denise
used her account to support the #BlackLivesMatter movement, posting three stories in a row to
raise people’s awareness about the problem and raise funds for relevant organizations,
the company immediately shut down all of her social media.
First, fans discovered that her Instagram was deleted all of a sudden and then, her
public Soundcloud channel was also gone.
After more fans got to know about that, they all took their frustration to Twitter and
asked Vine Entertainment for an explanation. Since the company continued to keep silent,
some even agreed to stop streaming and buying Secret Number’s music until proper statements
were released and as if that wasn’t bad enough, some noticed Vine even took down the
latest selfies of Denise as another punishment for her balls to talk about social issues.
JYP Entertainment ignoring Jamie
After the collaboration with Doja Cat in Bestfriend, Jamie is gradually gaining back the attention
she deserves and after an appearance on Video Star, she had opened up about the time where
JYP Entertainment literally abandoned her talents.
While that might sound weird because it was the company that offered to sign with nJamie
when she won the very first season of KPOP Star in 2011, they somehow changed their mind
and not allowed her to produce music for several years straight.
In fact, they did give her some space to raise reputation in the early years by debuting
Jamie in 15& and then let her have a solo career with successful collaborations with
Eric Nam, UNIQ’s Seungyeon and rapper Nathan. In 2016, she even got to release her first
EP but probably because her reputation compared to others artists debuting in the same year
like EXO and Ailee was kinda off, JYP decided to ignore her for all the time after that.
Things were so bad that in 2018 when Jamie was MCing for Arirang After School Club, she
even called out JYP for not allowing her to sing and produce music. [editor: chèn clip
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When Kevin and Jae tried to calm her down and wrapped up the conversation quickly, Jamie
was still not having it and continued to point out how ridiculous it was when she had to
go MCing for four years instead of performing on stage.
JYP Entertainment making Day6’s Jae do everything on his own
Besides Jamie, DAY6’s Jae was in no better condition because though JYP Entertainment
themselves decided to debut him as a member of a band-concept, they later abandoned the
whole group and made him do all the promotional activities alone.
Recently on August 31, Jae revealed through a Twitter Spaces session that for his upcoming
Los Angeles music and arts festival in November, his head had been buried in work with deciding
his setlist, preparing a live band for his accompaniment, hiring staff for the event
like lighting technician, teleprompter operator and a general technician.
Typically, these tasks are often taken on by the agency’s staff but as Jae explained,
he had to handle everything and what’s even sadder was that he admitted to having never
gotten any help with anything.
The treatment of JYP toward Jae was even odder considering how they shut down his YouTube
channel, jaesix, after he begged for permission to do it, handled all the work alone, and
of course, if things went well then the popularity of DAY6 would also benefit.
So, what do you think is the reason behind these questionable treatments of the companies
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