Hybe's training and development team spends 120 million won per trainee a year

Article: The woman behind the system that trained BTS, "We spend 120 million won a year per trainee"

Source: The Joongang via Naver

1. [+106, -12] They're all amazing people

2. [+112, -25] And yet there are still more idols who are met with failure than success... What will happen to the time that they have lost..? We should be emphasizing that making such big decisions at a young age requires more deliberation.

3. [+91, -16] Systems like this only sound impressive because of the successful idols they've produced. If their idols had failed, no one would care.

4. [+114, -73] It's basically a system that creates robots for capitalism

5. [+58, -28] We are being inundated with singing competitions and have reached an age where there are over two million people hoping to be trainees - not even actual trainees yet. Systems like this continue to push people into these industries that run rampant with manipulation, that foster their immoral practices straight into the children that they claim to train. I don't think any of this is healthy for our society. Yes, we need K-Pop, but we shouldn't be justifying such poor practices for it.

6. [+14, -0] Now that I'm older, I find that I'm finding it harder to understand or relate to the songs of these younger singers. I miss the days of my generation where singers had longer-lasting careers than a few years of singing before moving on to dramas and movies. 

7. [+9, -1] Let's interview the trainees instead and ask if they feel the millions of won being invested into them

8. [+6, -2] Okay, every other agency invests hundreds of millions of won into each and every trainee.. what makes Hybe's system any more special? ㅋㅋㅋ

9. [+5, -1] The costs are so high because these kids aren't being trained in only singing and dancing but culture, music production, history, character lessons, etc. 

10. [+3, -0] More needs to be invested in character education. We live in a world where your entire career can be lost overnight with one attitude controversy.

11. [+3, -1] It's kind of bittersweet because systems like this don't view trainees as human beings but rather as products to sell

12. [+2, -0] We need more genres than just K-Pop for our music industry to be a major player. K-Pop is fun to listen to and watch but it's not something people come back to over time.

13. [+2, -0] There's one thing money can't buy and it's musicality... with idols these days, I don't know if they're up there to sing or dance...

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