5 Pictures

Above photo is Yuna Kim's appearance from behind at world championship held in Japan. 

Her back is filled with minced muscle and she salute the national flag.

I could feel Yuna Kim's efforts and patience in this photo.

This photo always encourages me when I fall into idleness and help me having passion.

This photo shows friendship between dog and baby. 

Dog and baby are the most adorable thing I think. 

Since I always love to see baby and dog, I can find smile in my face when I see this type of photos.

So whenever I see baby photo with dog, I feel happy and pleasure.

Niagara falls is so magnificent to human. Cruise ship is so small in front of Niagara falls.

This photo says to me that Human is tenuous in the face of Nature.

When I see this photo, I feel grandiosity and even fear toward Nature.

And I am struck with awe because I feel like being caught in a falls.

Fall looks like a big monster.

This photo is foggy forest. Foggy forest arouse me curiosity.

Because I believe existence of undefined creatures or legendary creatures like centaurs and vampires, this foggy picture stimulate my curiosity.

It give full play to my imagination.

This is photo of shocking incident 'the Five Oceans incident'. 

Company workers committed mass suicide at their company. 

The reason of mass suicide is undisclosed.

 Because I had not been for contacting any mass suicide, this picture gave me a big shock.

And this was first time that I saw dead body in the press, this photo gave me a jolt in various way.

images from :
1. http://koreatakraw.com/1511
2. http://hihat.tistory.com/401
3. http://www.overvacation.com/niagara-falls-charm-canada/wonderful-niagara-falls/
4. http://blog.chosun.com/blog.log.view.screen?blogId=12499&menuId=184725&listType=2&from=&to=&curPage=1&logId=5354663
5. everyoung.ne.kr

Are they really shining stars?

 Do you know Girls' Generation?

Girls Generation is one of the most popular K-POP star in Korea. They debut as a singer in their teenage and take top position in their early-twenties. They sing and dance in fancy stages. And their hair, nails, clothes are always decorated by expensive accessories. They look like really shining 'stars'. 

Other K-POP girl groups seem as Girls' Generation. On this account, many young girls are dreaming K-POP star and make an effort to be K-POP star.

 K-POP girls shine Korea, not only shine themselves. They have so many fans in various countries. The fans love their K-POP girls and mostly love Korea, too. Fans have good images of Korea which their adorable girls live in. And more active fans visit Korea, see performances and consume their money in Korea

Actually, we can easily observe many foreign visitors who buy some star-advertising-products at Myeongdong or Gangnam.

However, these stars do not shining at all times. Below video shows a dark side of star.

Krystal in F(x) was fainted on the stage in 2010. Her age was only 17. She was got the gaff from heavy schedule, and finally fainted on the stage. She was fainted in other TV program 'Yuna Kim's Kiss & Cry' in 2011 again. Not only for Krystal, Koo Hara in KARA, Hyeri in Girls Day and Subin in Dalshabet also fainted on the stage. According to the entertainment news, they were exploited by their cruel schedules and underwent insufficient nutrition resulting from excessive diet.  

Besides fainting on the stage, K-POP girl groups are criticized by their loud performances.

Above video is an example of loud performance. They sweep and touch their own body with gaudy clothes. These days many K-POP girl groups have so-called ‘Sexy concept’, because they catch and attract men’s interest. For this reason competition of them is overheated and girls’ performances are more and more provocative.

 When they dreamed about star, they did not image faints or loud performances. They are manipulated by their agency. Agency pushes them to heavy schedules and provocative performances, perhaps. I think regulations toward entertainment agencies need for these K-POP star girls. Because heavy schedules nibble their health and cause girls' faint, viewers feel worry about their health and pity for them.

Currently, there are no regulations toward entertainment agencies in government level. Government should restrict amount of schedules even if K-POP girls’ have a positive effect on Korean economy (especially tourism). For example, K-POP girls also are subjected to limited time of business hours like ordinary officers.

 And government and broadcasting stations also make a greater effort by limiting level of performances sternly. They monitor performances strictly and grasp for public opinion immediately. Because majority viewers of music programs are teenagers, these loud performances can have a bad influence to teenagers. In other words, girls imitate erotic dance or gaudy clothes. It can cause serious social problems.

For a good example of the effort, 3 Korean public broadcasting stations suggested regulations of performance lately. Here's related news link.

http://www.unionpress.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=241318

I hope that this approach would be first step for healthy K-POP girls' performances.

Even though K-POP girls do not expose their body or performs loud shows, they can be pretty and attractive.

Like above picture, I hope that K-POP girls can find their purity and their agencies encourage their stars to find suitable concepts. In agencies view, their stars are a means for their profit. For this reason, they force their stars to be loud and to assign heavy schedules. To remove the dark side of K-POP girls, agencies should consider performers and viewers before they make a concept.

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