I've been feeling bad for so many of these nugu groups that dont have massive company stans to back them. I could probably name literally 30 active groups that need more support and there are probably a 100 more out there. Meanwhile, the very top 5 or 10 groups are literally making tens of millions every year just on album sales alone for their labels and for themselves. SKZ and Seventeen selling 5 MILLION albums, means they're churning out 60 million in one comeback just on album sales. GG leviathans like Blackpink, New Jeans, and Twice are each raking in tens of millions just on CFs and other endorsement deals alone, and i havent even started on BTS group and solo revenues.
So should Korea install a "privilege" tax that would divert just a paltry 5 or 10 percent of these enormous revenue streams and funnel them to the hundred mid tier and lower groups out there from Cherry Bullet/Rocket Punch/Lightsum/Purple Kiss/Wooah all the way on down to the nuguest groups that have just started or ones getting 800 album sales . Like how much would it actually hurt someone like Lisa, who would have to give up a minor 5 mil out of a potential 50 million deal with her solo label, whoever it is. Or the BTS members having to give up a paltry 200k out of the roughly 2 million signing bonus they earned recently. It would be nothing to them, they're already at 8 or 9 figure net worths ffs.
I would divide Kpop into the haves and have nots, transfer 5 to 10 percent from the haves to the havenots, and set up a fund that would go towards living and comeback expenses of the mid tier and nugu groups who are working just as hard, or even harder, to achieve their dreams.