Two concerts of the Two Big Giants ... Why it is harder to control Korea than the world?

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take your history class!!!!!!!!

That’s why I’m always reading whyknock’s threads! I’m learning history the fun way lol

SK's population is roughly the size of the state of California.

The country next to SK has 3x the population and 3x the GDP.

The country's biggest chart, Melon, only has 5 million users and shrinking.

But I guess it's nice to be a big fish in a little pond.

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She is from a company which owns the digital music genre in Korea, and is like a landowner who collects hefty rents without doing nothing, but the townspeople adore her because she rules the town even though other acts are more popular outside of its boundaries.

It strange that the "Company-landowner" could do nothing for Fiestar, History and even now has strugglers like Weeekly etc.

As to the towns people .. They have taste

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Is the wall of someone who did have the highest number of paying guests in a concert in K-O-R-E-A that hard to break?

Correction:

*Highest number of paying guests in a concert in K-O-R-E-A for a female act.

Overall Local Acts Only:

#1 BTS (2019) - 129,268/129,268 - $12.1M [3 shows]

#2 BTS (2018) - 90,000/90,000 - $8.4M [2 shows]

#3 IU (2022) - 88,000/88,000 - $7.8M [2 shows]

This does not include foreign acts like Coldplay that had 99.8K attendance & $10.1M from 2 shows in 2017. Plus other artist who's box office in unknown and numbers without proper sources; e.g. H.O.T. (2018) - 100,000, if the numbers were cited they would be #2 above.

#9 -,268

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Landowners cull crops which are unlikely to be profitable.

Yet they didn't cull WJSN,

Weeekly as well and who else - Victim, Cravity..

You know that until IVE, huge majority of Kakao's revenues came from one source, yet others weren't culled.

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also have to connect that with some random historical events

I come for the history lesson lol

Wow a lot of history lessons here

Quote from WhyKnock

WJSN is not under Kakao's control . Kakao owns Starship but by some agreement it does not control it. Starship's ex owners do control it. Plus WJSN was also a joint venture with a Chinese company which Kakao could not touch.

Weeekly, Victim and Cravity are simply left alone.

IVE benefits Starship, but Kakao gains little from it. It is now under a lot of fire and it might spin off its entertainment company away , and Starship will cut its ties with Kakao, like Woolim did with SM.

Bunch of twisting statements, which have no substance just to fuel your narrative that somehow Kakao-Melon is being partial to IU on the charts

There is no evidence for that. Besides it isn't as though she isn't killing it on other charts.

Not to mention, how Melon cut "Love Poem" from eligibility for both 2019 and 2020 MMA