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It just blows my mind that this keeps happening--SM treats its employees like shit, so much so that the employees take legal action to get away from them--and yet the company (and the industry at large) learns absolutely nothing. They didn't learn anything from Shinhwa, they didn't learn anything from Han Geng, they didn't learn anything from JYJ, and they won't learn anything from Kris. Nothing's going to change at SM or industry-wide until the law forces them to change or until they can't make money off of mistreating dreaming young people, and I don't foresee either of those things happening any time soon. I'm glad Kris is getting out while he can. I'm sure he didn't make the decision lightly.

What I really want to know is whether the female idols are treated better or (more likely) they're treated so much worse that they have less leverage (emotional or otherwise) to leave when they want to. Because it's significant to me that only guys have gotten out.

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Frankly, the only response these events elicit is to, like you, wonder about the treatment of female idols and what they put up with.

Amen!

b/c I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would choose to subject themselves to this.
I KNOW. How can people possibly think he made this decision lightly? He didn't get pissy and decide to quit and flounce--for one thing, we don't even know if he's leaving yet, but for another, there's no way he didn't think about this long and hard.

The amount of good faith K-pop fans have in shady companies (especially SME, who have a history of this sort of thing) boggles my damn mind, especially to the extent that they attack idols for speaking out against it.

You said it.