• Battles Between Talent and Management Rising on The K-Pop Scene: Girls Generation, Block B and BAP Cases Cited

    Not everything is as pretty in the Korean music industry as we might be led to believe. As K-Pop continues to grow in the United States it's easy to forget that the consumer trends in South Korea are similar to those in the United States: record sales have started to dwindle. As entertainment promoters and labels try to find the next way to draw profit, relationships between those organizations and the artists representing them have started to fray, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The story focuses on Jessica Jung's departure from Girls Generation during September but also examines a litany of other established K-Pop acts.
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