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  1. When he was still in charge was when Cube did the best. Mr Hong had to step down from his CEO position because he was ill, and that's how the bad things started - 4Minute disbanding, BEAST leaving the agency to create their own, HyunA being thrown out - those happened because he wasn't the one making the decisions anymore and the new people in charge didn't care about the artists like he did.
  2. Cube changed primary shareholders a little more than a month ago, VT Cosmetics became the primary shareholder by buying stocks from the previous primary shareholder and it didn't look like it was tied to the pandemic (which hadn't been labeled a pandemic yet).
  3. Singapore is still a dictatorship so it's very far from advanced from a societal standpoint.
  4. Hey you know what, it's great for Dreamcatcher, maybe Daniel's fans are going to check them out thanks to this lol. Daniel is cute, but we been knew
  5. The fact that Hong speaks like this about the new CEO, after the number of fuck ups the previous two did, is very concerning. The previous CEOs probably made some decisions Hong didn't like, but he never felt the need to make this kind of statement so I'd assume they did everything lawfully. Calling the new one a thug... yeah, they're probably doing some illegal shit. I'm honestly very concerned about their idols.
  6. The cult the father-in-law founded stopped existing when Psy and his wife weren't even born. The articles mention that he fell for fraud in 1975, and both Psy and his wife were born in 1977.
  7. Hobi is very self-disciplined, he has a healthy personal schedule and Jimin cites it as a reason why he likes to share a room with him.
  8. If I was in a girl group I'd actually be a very vocal about this stuff because I wouldn't want to ever be in the same room as a sick fuck for supports sex slavery.
  9. Mnet is a CJENM channel. CJENM is tied to Samsung. Samsung is the biggest company in Korea. Corruption is rampant in South Korea, if you have money you're basically untouchable. Daniel was banned from every CJENM channel because he managed to have his contract nullified by courts, and his former agency is one of many among CJENM subsidiaries.
  10. Not making sure you are compatible in that department before getting married is a good way to either end up divorced, or never ever have a good sex life.
  11. EP = less than 10 songs. MOTS:7 is a full album even if you exclude the 5 songs that were already on Persona.
  12. The police is working on it and already arrested people. The petition is only asking for the identity of those involved to be made public.
  13. CJENM is a big conglomerate with a lot of subsidiaries, and those subsidiaries are all operated separately by different people. Daniel getting un-banned from CJ channels just means that LM's director just doesn't have any weight within the company at large, and has in fact lost any sort of actual relevance or leverage as soon as Daniel left. It should be noted that CJENM didn't assist LM in their lawsuit against Daniel, and let them ridicule themselves in court. As if they didn't actually support LM's director signing that sub-contract behind Daniel's back... because yeah, it was a stupid move from a business standpoint, keeping Daniel happy would have been the smart thing to do if they wanted long term profit. Also, recently MMO (Daniel's former company, from which LM's director also is, and the one his contract was sold to) let the In2it boys go ; it could indicate that CJ has dropped them entirely and is just letting the company die on its own. And with Jellyfish parting ways with CJ group it looks like there's some kind of strategy to slowly get out of idol business. In the end it's just a business decision to un-ban Daniel from CJ-owned channels. Mnet has a pretty big image deficit atm, they need people to watch the channel again, and they know Daniel is going to bring viewers. Now please give us a new season of It's Dangerous Beyond the Blankets
  14. What I was saying is that getting an 'A' in a Produce-type show just isn't an accurate measure of overall talent ? The initial grading puts people into classes that are supposed to be roughly the same dance level, so trainers don't have too hard a time teaching the choreography to the whole group at the same time. Vocal training is more of an individual thing so it doesn't matter as much to have the same level within the class. You won't have people put in A just for vocal talent because they're just going to be lost during the dance lessons. When BoA heard Jaehwan sing she immediately said "We found our main vocal", but she still put him in B, because everyone she put in A was a great dancer (and unlike other seasons, nobody went down from A class). Then re-evaluation grades are super important to get exposure, since the higher the grade, the more time you'll get to dance in the theme song music video, but they're not supposed to be an accurate measure of a trainee's talent. To get a good re-evaluation grade isn't a matter of being a good singer, it's much more important to know how to sing stably and dance at the same time than to sing well, and even people who are otherwise good can flunk it because of nerves (see : all of Nu'est except JR, Hyeongjun). That grade measures a pretty specific skill (whether you're able to learn a song and its choreography in three days, then perform it alone in from of a camera without any mistake). After the theme song recording, the grades just disappear from the show. What matters at this point is whether you can do well on stage or not - and surprise, since you're here to be in an idol group, dancing well matters more, because if you're a bad singer you'll can just get a few easy lines, but if you're a bad dancer you can ruin the whole performance.
  15. A true power couple I don't share their fashion sense but I love the energy they give off in the photoshoots they do together.
  16. They're the highest selling Korean artists in history, how is it "too soon" to include them ?
  17. IFPI counts worldwide digital and physical sales. So Oricon + any physical sale outside of Japan + digital sales.
  18. It wholly depends on how their company handles it. It's not Produce, the groups aren't in a training center for the show, they prepare stages at their company and only occasionally get a camera crew in their practice room to get some behind the scenes footage. If eric and sunwoo can't dance they can totally plan their stages taking it into account (it happened with Oh My Girl's Yuah during Queendom).
  19. It's nice to be bisexual, you get twice as much eye candy
  20. I.N. was 17 when Stray Kids debuted, just one year younger than 'middle child' Hyunjin (and the three in between are literally all born within the same week lol). Dino was 16 when Seventeen debuted, had Samuel not been cut he would have been 13. Korean age isn't just 'add one year', in Korea you change age at the start of the calendar year, rather than on your birthday. Taemin and Jungkook debuted before their respective birthdays, that's why their Korean age at debut is 2 years older than by international age. Jungkook turned 16 in september 2013, during his first comeback promotions.
  21. I don't get that 'actor-type' thing honestly. You're an actor because you're good at acting, not because you have some type of face. There are plenty of much more ordinary-looking actors, it's just a pity the drama industry is so focused on looks that they can't land a leading role whatever their skill, and will just keep getting supporting roles for their whole career. Not saying it's a Korean only problem, but it's even more prevalent than in the West. I personally liked Ong in At Eighteen, but it has nothing to do with his looks ? He's just a good actor, and he did brilliantly with the challenging role he was given.
  22. Idols are performers first and foremost, which in their case means more than singing - it's a full package between vocals, dancing, and very importantly charisma and expressiveness. In terms of being musicians, having a sense of rhythm and not being tone deaf is enough to do well as an idol, as long as you're given parts that fit your vocal ability, and as I said before in this thread that's the biggest problem in a lot of Kpop songs, they're by default written for sopranos/tenors, so almost everyone with a lower voice struggles with their parts (or is given rap parts). Momo is often cited as someone who can only dance, but she sounds nice in the Move cover Twice does at concerts, because for once she's singing in her natural range. In the Produce series being A or B is only important for the theme song, and they favor dancing skills over vocal ability because in the end only about 20 people will be recorded for the studio version of the track, while they're all going to dance in the performance video. The people who end up on the studio track aren't necessarily highly ranked, the most prominent voice in X1-ma was Lee Hyeop who was in D.
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