unexpectedly.
Shirley confirmed death
South Korean police confirmed that at about 4:30 pm on October 14th (Korea time), Cui Xueli, an artist under the Korean agency SM, was found by her agent to hang herself in her apartment and suffered severe depression during her lifetime. .
all kinds of silent mourning, have been screened. Although
Sir is not a fan of Shirley, he still feels complicated.
two questions.
Is this really sudden? After the
news broke, Sir saw a comment from netizens:
"We watched her die step by step."
Cui Xueli, Korean female artist, debuted at 15 years old, member of girl group f(x) (captain at that time) It's Song Qian), followed by movies and idol dramas, and the popularity has steadily increased.
In 2014, she was hidden by the company because of her love affair. The following year, she announced her withdrawal from the group and solo.
has since undergone a major transformation.
is a pure and innocent girl next door, who has become a sexy flying girl.
's pajamas, small suspenders, open panties photos, mouth spraying of cream, tongue knotting cherry stems and other behaviors caused controversy.
has few works, but it comes with a hot search physique.
makes people feel weird. It is the "degeneration" of her private life. Frequent horrible photos on
social networks:
△ Barbie’s decapitated photo
live, sometimes unrestrained and sometimes collapsed:
△ The white in front of the camera is Shirley’s cat
"Shirley is crazy."
All kinds of speculations. : Severe depression, company suppression, hidden rules in the entertainment industry...
Even after the news of Shirley's death came out, Sir went to the Korean website to search for "Shirley", and the related words that jumped out were still those scandals.
So, here comes the second question-
, is this really an accident?
no.
In Sir, Shirley's death, is an inevitable "accident" in the era of the crazy expansion of the entertainment industry and the barbaric growth of networking. The tragedy of
needs more than sensationalism.
must face the problem soberly.
As many people mentioned, "No snowflake is innocent."
So, which "snowflakes" are behind the trick? Where is the problem with
?
An old article written by Sir in 17 years has given the answer long ago and it is still fulfilled today.
Shirley is not the first.
If the problem is not solved, she will never be the last one.
In 2017, Chung Hyun, a member of the South Korean boy group SHINee, burned charcoal and committed suicide at the age of 27. The suicide note of
left behind "a little bit of gnawing my depression, and eventually swallowing me." Astonishing sentence.
suicide has always been a stubborn illness in the entertainment industry, from Ruan Lingyu to Leslie Cheung, to Robin Williams, Qiao Renliang, Chester Bennington in recent years...
Korean entertainment circles are even more affected. According to incomplete statistics, as of 17 years, in the past 10 years, more than 30 people in the entertainment industry have committed suicide (today this number has increased to 33).
is shocking.
In Sir's view, this is not a string of expressionless numbers. This string of numbers is just the aftershock of the unmanned "star-making model" in Korea.
If death is a scar of pus in the entertainment industry, then the indecent and dirty people who have been selectively ignored for a long time are the breeding grounds for the virus.
Who promised this group of young people a bright road, and blocked them one by one, forcing them to have nowhere to go? The reason for
is not clear in a few words.
But Sir still wants to talk about it, in South Korea, in China, and even every young person.
A war without gunsmoke
wants to make a debut in Korea, or I am a trainee or an art school.
The formation of most Korean idol groups that we are seeing now, including Super Junior, EXO, BigBang, Girls’ Generation, etc., are inseparable from the trainee system .
trainees are those who receive professional training in order to become an artist.
The average career oftrainees is 2 to 4 years, and the elimination rate is as high as 800:1. The shortest time may be a few months, and the longest time is over 10 years.
For example, BigBang's G-Dragon took 11 years to stand on the stage, and G. Soul, the longest trainee career, "trained" for 15 years before making his official debut. After becoming a trainee,
has basic dance and singing high-intensity training every day. In addition, there are various courses such as manners, etiquette, language, performance, acting skills, etc. It is normal to spend more than ten hours a day in the practice room. .
If you don't practice hard, you don't even have the qualifications to stand on the stage.
After school, I went directly to the No. 2 practice room in the basement, turned off the lights, locked the door, and went home after six hours of practice without a good meal.
△ SHINee Zhong Xuan
under high-intensity exercises, you must also control your diet. The daily calorie intake is required by regulations. There are many people who are punished and eliminated for stealing food.
Oh, don’t forget, those who are not good-looking have to have plastic surgery as required. The
brokerage company will be eliminated and screened on a weekly, monthly, and semi-annual basis, and those with outstanding performance will consider debut.
Note that considers . Under this system,
is dismissed if it fails to meet the standard, and can't afford to give up voluntarily. Even after passing through multiple companies, it is still unable to debut. There are many trainees temporarily replaced before their debut. The same goes for
actors. Almost every comprehensive college in South Korea has a performing arts-related department. Every year, there are thousands of film and drama graduates from each university, but at least half of them change careers.
may not make a debut if he works hard, he may not be popular after he debuted, and he may not be able to make a lasting one.
You should know that there are thousands of brokerage companies in South Korea that take turns to "make stars" every day, just click on a singing variety show or something like "Super Star K", "Producer101", and "Show Me the Money". Most of them are young men dreaming of celebrities. Teenage girl.
Since 2007, Korean idol groups have debuted as high as 436 group, and few can stay.
If you reach the top today, you may be kicked off tomorrow.
In such a fiercely competitive environment, worked hard but did not see the confusion of the road ahead, the gap between dreams and reality, the trembling panic after the summit, the loss of red but falling, all the stars must break through the road. nightmare.
Among the more than 30 South Korean stars who committed suicide, one third of them went to ruin because of these reasons.
endless exploitation
In addition to fierce competition, huge pressure, economic problems are also another important reason. The brokerage company
invests in money, and artists invest in youth. Our idea is to sell a watch that was originally only 20 yuan for 10,000 yuan. A broker of
brokerage company SidusHQ who did not want to be named did not hide the greed of businessmen.
Yes, starmaking is an out-and-out business. Brokerage companies invest a lot of capital to train artists. Of course, they have to recover the cost when they debut. This creates the problem of long-term contracts and contract sharing.
Many agency companies will sign "unequal" contracts with artists before their debut, and one signing can last for ten years or more. The income of
is divided by the company in proportion, generally 7:3 points between the company and the star, and the most stringent one is 9:1, which can be said to be no different from selling. If
breaks the contract, you will need to pay a huge amount of money to break the contract, and even face the possibility of not being able to survive in the circle (because no one dares to sign).
In other words, you have to pay off the company's cultivation of your money before you start earning your own money, so generally speaking, newcomer period is basically equal to no income .
In order to improve this kind of constrained situation, celebrities are often burdened with overtime and excessive work.
Wu Yifan and Lu Han did not hesitate to go to court with the company to return to China. The contradiction is also that they are dissatisfied with the company's restrictions on the personal development of artists, severely unfair income distribution and ignoring the health of the artists. The long-term accumulated exploitation of
has led to frequent complaints:
actors are not much better.
If idol singers will still have companies that provide food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, for actors, no work means no income, and work may not be enough to maintain daily life.
The TV series "Star Companion" that exposes the status quo of the Korean entertainment industry has such a section. The protagonist meets an actor who worked in the theater together before, and he once ambitiously wants to become the next Song Kanghao. He parked at the valet:
This is not impossible. Do you want to eat?
My wife is pregnant, so I have to earn some living expenses
We are in my thirties
If we feel hopeless, giving up is one way to do
, even the "Professor" Kim Soo-hyun, who has been popular in Asia for five years. I still rented a house. I didn't buy my first house until after "You From the Star".
is like this even for celebrities, and the situation for practitioners is even more difficult.
In 2011, a 32-year-old female dramatist starved to death in her own home.
In October last year, the deputy director of the tvN TV series "Drinking Men and Women Alone" had just entered the industry for less than a year and chose to end his life. The postscript of
wrote: "Forced to work for more than 20 hours a day, let people sleep for two or three hours, then return to the photography scene and turn into laborers. In order to produce the final work we want, we urge the exhausted labor. The authors keep working. I can no longer hold on to such a despised life." Of course,
can't give up all the pot to the agency. The
entertainment industry's almost gambling style of fame, so that most of the investment may be lost in vain, and it is hard to get a hit. Of course, we must try our best to drain it.
squeeze dry.
Yes, it is squeezed dry.
There is no standard transaction
First look at a set of data.
In 2010, the Korean National Human Rights Commission investigated the human rights violations of female artists. 45.3% of female artists of
answered that they had been asked to accompany wine
62.8% of female artists answered that they had been asked by program affiliates or socially powerful people to receive sexual receptions. This section of
was actually from the 2010 movie "Plaything". The
movie tells the story of actress Jung Ji-hee committing suicide. The hot-blooded reporters searched for the truth about her death and found that the actress was not only forced to film rape scenes that were not in the script, but also provided long-term sexual reception for high-ranking officials. Due to the wide range of powers involved,
was obstructed by pressure from many parties, making it difficult to conduct a search. In the end, justice was not served and the incident ended.
must admit that the film itself was not very well made. What makes
shocking is that the stories in are all true .
The film’s actress prototype is the actress who committed suicide in 2009, , Zhang Ziyan, and .
Zhang Ziyan left 50 230-page suicide notes when she died. According to the suicide note of
, from 2005 to 2009, under the pressure of a brokerage company, she provided hundreds of sexual reception services to 31 men including large companies, senior figures in financial institutions, heads of performing arts planning companies, and senior news media executives. , One of them was in bed with 4 men.
Whenever you change into new clothes, you must go to bed with a new man. Once
refused, the president of the brokerage company punched and kicked.
was forced to sleep with his father on the death day.
Zhang Ziyan, who went to the celebrity, couldn't accept that she became a sex slave, and finally got rid of the entertainment circle by death. What made
even more irritating was that the court believed that she had passed away and there was insufficient evidence to convict the company president who forced her to sleep with her.
It was not until 5 years later that the court overturned the verdict and fined the company president 24 million won (140,000 yuan).
14 million yuan? Ha ha. After the
incident, the South Korean Congress promoted the " Zhang Ziyan Act " to protect the rights of artists. When a brokerage company signs a work contract with an artist, it must first submit the contract to the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea for approval.
But can legislation be changed?
In 2015, a certain male actor tore off the female actor without an agreement while shooting a movieThe actor put his hands in the actress’s pants and touched the sensitive parts. He was charged with rape and was sentenced this year.
Also this year, the famous director Kim Kidd was accused of beating and forcing the actress to do sex scenes.
Before the Weinstein incident became a global sensation, the topic of film industry_我_Sexual Violence appeared on South Korean Twitter, and the performers who have been sexually assaulted have stood up and complained about the unspoken rules in the circle. The number of
is incredible. The
film magazine "CINE21" produced a special feature, and invited a number of female directors, actors, and production company leaders to talk about human rights violations by female artists in the Korean entertainment industry.
The fact is that in the traditional thinking of patriarchy in South Korea, those who have the "power" to produce film and television works use the opportunity of acting to call actresses and female staff at will, and cases of sexual indecency still occur frequently. .
8 years, the essence has not changed.
Lee Eun-joo, Jung Da-bin, Jung Ya-ryul, Park Hye-sang... Why did they commit suicide?
painful and unsolvable questions.
keyboard without truth
The last reason has become more and more serious in recent years. The murderer is among us.
In October 2008, the Korean drama queen Cui Zhenzhen who had starred in the "Star Dream" hanged himself.
She was plagued by rumors before she died.
-Chuan Jae-hwan committed suicide because she owed her 2.5 billion won in loan sharks. The
rumors continued to ferment and spread, coupled with the influence of divorce, and eventually Cui Zhen was overwhelmed and chose to die.
In fact, when Cui Zhen attended the funeral of Ahn Jae-hwan, he learned that he was in debt. After Choi Jin committed suicide, South Korea once again enacted legislation to enforce the real-name system on the Internet, but it still couldn't stop the team of keyboard men from growing.
is now on the Korean website, just click on a celebrity news, it is not difficult to find malicious attacks on celebrities in the comments.
(not also on our Weibo).
To say that Sir has the most impressive online violence in recent years, there are two cases.
Tablo’s educational background event and "Doug Hwan" Liu Junyeol’s ilbe event .
Tablo is the captain and vocalist of the powerful Korean Hip-Hop group Epik High, known as the bard of the Rap world.
has top-notch music and is still 100% academic.
He graduated from Stanford University in three and a half years, with a bachelor's degree in English literature and a master's degree in creative writing, with a perfect grade point (GPA 4.0).
However, because of the "fake academic scandal" in South Korea at that time, the director of the Seoul Museum of Art forged a doctorate from Yale University, and public opinion was in a state of anger.
See one and doubt one.
Tablo was therefore questioned about the authenticity of academic qualifications.
He and his family and friends showed graduation certificates, graduation photos and transcripts according to the requirements of netizens, and even Stanford University officially came forward to testify.
You cannot convince a group of fanatical thugs.
Some South Korean netizens did not believe it, and even set up a website to attack Tablo. The
incident lasted for three years, during which Tablo was out of work and his daughter Haru was just born. The family would be abused even when they went out to eat. After
's parents' residence was made public, they were constantly attacked and harassed, and his father died due to excessive mental stress.
Because I have made people around me very hard, I have had the idea of "received a curse", and has even produced the idea of "If there is no such person as me, would it be more helpful to those around me".
△ The program "Strong Heart" first talked about the impact of the education incident
. The end of this incident is-
finally the police proved the authenticity of Tablo's education. The court sentenced netizens for spreading rumors, and even the then President Li Mingbo came out to criticize the Internet The problem of violence.
However, who will make up for the damage and torture suffered by Tablo in the past three years? How to make up? The
movie "Social Phobia" once photographed this kind of murderous Korean keyboard man ecology.
With a smile on his face, he bowed his head and slapped, leaving behind a ton of bad words, with a proud face. What's more, the human flesh search, went to the door to live broadcast...
ironically, in the movie, one of the perpetrators, the live DJ role "Doug Huan" Liu Junlie, in reality is also the stigmatized sufferer . After
"Please answer 1988" became popular, the past photos of "Gou Huan" on ins were dug up.
rotated ninety degrees, and this one lying on the ground reads: Helping my mother run errands to buy tofu (엄마 두부 심부름 가는 길).
is obviously just an ordinary joke photo, but netizens grabbed the two words "cliff" and "tofu", questioned that he was satirizing the former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, who died by suicide, and believed that he was from the extreme right-wing website ilbe. member.
Because Roh Moo-hyun’s death was caused by a serious head injury from jumping off a cliff, the Korean head (두부) and tofu (두부) have the same pronunciation, and the two words "cliff" and "tofu" are used by ilbe to satirize Roh Moo-hyun. Words. Some people believe that
is so stupid.
Netizens seeking explanations and insults flooded into major news websites, companies and his ins.
even more netizens used Liu Junlie’s E-mail to join the ilbe website, slandering him as a member of ilbe, with the intention of pushing the incident into a more uncontrollable mess.
eventually both the company and he himself came forward to clarify, and friends in the circle stood up to prove that Liu Junlie was not a member of ilbe and had never thoughts related to ilbe, and the company also took measures to file a lawsuit against rumors.
didn't change the direction of public opinion until he found out that he had given full marks to the film "The Defender" based on Roh Moo-hyun on the movie website.
But today, some people still think that he is an ilbe member.
This is what Hong Suk-jae, the director of the movie "Social Phobia", wrote in support of Liu Junye:
In the world of the Internet, children act powerlessly and fall into conspiracy theories. Everyone does not think about it, as long as everyone agrees.
They are not attacking you because you have a problem, but you are attacked and you have a problem.
We live in an era where everything will be spread quickly. Unfortunately, the bad will spread faster and be remembered for longer. This is the real version of "Social Phobia".
<演员柳俊烈ilbe疑惑，面对非难的澄清文章>
rumors made out of nothing, damage the reputation of the victims, and the mental torture is immeasurable.
When a netizen is hiding behind the screen and spitting blood for no reason, have you ever thought about the expression of the Ta you read? The
movie has been shot.
This is the last face of the victim before committing suicide.
Anger, fear, and despair.
unplugged the network cable and went to death.
returns to Shirley, where was she before her suicide? Reading bad reviews from netizens,
was nervous before the start. The artist who debuted for 15 years stood on stage at a loss and said that he hadn't spoken in front of so many people for a long time.
faced the camera for the last time in his lifetime, letting go of all idols’ burdens, crying in front of the camera and begging for mercy:
, reporter friends, please love me
, audience friends, please love me
Korean star who committed suicide in the past ten years, 80 %About depression . Fans of
"request" stars to become more and more perfect, so that they can become a beacon of hope. The
beacon is also the target of a centralized cyber-violent attack.
While creating gods, while destroying gods.
No one can continue to fire for decades like in the past. The
star has been cut off from talent and personality to some extent, and has become a product that can be mass-produced.
calls for individuality while standardizing individuality.
looks, talents, behaviors, including emotions, can be embedded in a template that can harvest traffic.
Whoever is disabled, who is broken, who is gone, can find a substitute immediately.
is nostalgic while consuming nostalgia.
This is really a grand, irreversible carnival that alienates people into adults.
Sir can't help but think of KafkaThe first sentence of "The Metamorphosis"-
One morning, Gregor Samsa woke up from his restless sleep and found himself lying on the bed and turned into a giant beetle.
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