Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Management Companies: JYP

So one of my acquaintance today saw Wondergirls's photo which I posted in my yesterday's blog and said, "Ho Ho Ho, they don't look like Koreans... They look like they are from the 60s and sort of resemble dream girls."
-sigh-
Okay. Let's break this down. And this will be what I am going to be talking about today because
NO ONE LEFT COMMENT... (ㅠ.ㅠ)... Please comment. I am begging to your English feet.
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So K pop groups which are gaining popularity in and out of the USA now are ALL in control of some kind of management companies. What does this mean? Well, it's not too complicated, actually. K pop artist are created through a system that is very structured over the past 20 years of K pop history.

Say you want to be a K pop artist. (HerpDerp) Firstly, you'd have to get into a certain management company through auditions at a young age. Then, you have to go through apprenticeship, which takes about 3~4 years in average. By the time you go through that period, you have to compete against other apprentices of that management company to debut as a member in an idol group.

JYP entertainment is one of those company that produces such idol group through strucutred system of apprenticeship. This company is led by Jin Young Park (English name JYP; where the name of this company comes from), who likes to try unprecedented kind of beats, rhythm, and concepts; applying retro music on Wondergirls was one of his many trials to make a creative album to produce something out of the box.
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This retro concept was tried after Wondergirls gained place in South Korean music industry as the most influentical group in K pop. This hopefully made sense and explained why Wondergirls are wearing something that your MOM would have worn when she was attending college (yes she did).

2PM, 2AM, Miss A, and Wondergirls are the best known JYP artist.
You may even know Rain, who was a JYP artist until 2009 (yeah that dude from Ninja Assassin).
Anyways, with a video that completely has nothing to do with K pop, I think I might stop here for now. Hopefull you liked this post on JYP Entertainment, and remember, you can always leave comment down below, and I will answer any question that might come to you with the best of my ability.

If I do not see any other comments, I think I might review the big three K pop entertainment companies and their artist. So I will comeback to you guys with SM Entertainment tomorrow.

To end today's post, let me ask you this question:


Who are dream girls???
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous8 December 2011 at 05:38

    looking good

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  2. Anonymous8 December 2011 at 05:39

    thanks! :)

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  3. Anonymous8 December 2011 at 05:50

    this is interesting, I had no idea that such time consuming prepping went into these artists.
    Also, when I said that they looked like dreamgirls I didn't mean it in a rude way, I love the dreamgirls. They were a beautiful group of 3 women who sang during the 60s. Beyonce was in a movie about them. It's cool.
    Could you link some famous kpop songs at the moment?

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  4. Anonymous8 December 2011 at 05:57

    thank you for answering my question! So Dreamgirls was famous in 60s? Good to know!

    Nah, I didn't think you meant what you said in a rude way, I just took it to use it on my blog because the question is a legit one.

    K pop songs that gained the most response from Europe and the USA are all produced from SM Entertainment, which is what I am going to be posting about tonight. I will post some videos then.

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  5. Anonymous8 December 2011 at 06:06

    i like how you posted various pictures and explain how many singers debut through company structure. I did not know that people need to go through apprenticeship about 3 to 4 years. Because that period is a pretty long time to spend as apprentices. I am pretty sure there are a lot of competition among apprentices in order to debut earlier than other people. I hope a lot of singers can be debut. Wish them luck

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  6. Anonymous8 December 2011 at 06:21

    Yeah... it is quite competitive; as you might know, JYP artist Jo Kwon of 2AM is known for his 8 years of apprenticeship, which is a lot, compared to that of other average apprentices. I feel that too many people are suffering to achieve their goal, as long as being a K pop artist is concerned...

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