Recently, there is a huge event happened in South Korean. The well-known former member of BigBang, Seungri, stands accused of providing prostitution services, embezzlement, and sharing secretly recorded sex videos. Although Seungri had a huge impact on K-pop as a member of one of its most influential acts, the irrevocable damage to his reputation led him to retire from show business. Seungri is known to be polyglot, speaking Korean, English, Japanese and Mandarin. However, after this scandal, people all said that his language skills help him to be an international pimp, which is so sarcastic. Several other high-profile K-pop celebrities are involved in the growing scandal as well.
With a member from one of its biggest groups entangled in such a scandal, South Korean stocks have already taken a hit. Moreover, the stock price of YG which is Bigbang's company plunged more than 14 percent, the largest drop ever since it was first listed on Korean stock market KOSDAQ.
Personally, I was a big fan of BigBang when I was younger and now I am very disappointed to him. I gain an insight into the k-pop star that they just act as what we want them to be on screen, so I will be a rational fan in the future.
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I am also a big fan of BIGBANG when I was younger and I was shocked when I read about this in the news. I also thought it was really sad that a member of a group as big as BIGBANG, who are idolized by so many young(and old) fans around the world, would be involved in something like this. Believing that they could possibly get away with this is also extremely disgusting to me. I do think that these actions and consequences do show how powerful k-pop is on the rest of the country and even the economy. I could not have imagined and I did not know that this could hurt YG in such a large extent! I can only imagine how much of an influence k-pop plays in other things that I could not originally have thought of. Really interesting post!