Kang Daniel is kicked out from his company for the second time, which seems to be a record.
Now he is a has been , so few people follow him, but in 2017 his meteoric rise was very remarkable.
He was a nobody on Jan 1, 2017, but on the idol poll held later in that year,
he rose above everyone who was in a group.
He topped these people
Dahyun-Twice
Suzy-MissA
Chanyeol-Exo
Eunji-Apink
Suga-BTS
Jungyeon-Twice
Taeyeon-SNSD
Tzuyu - Twice
Zico-BlockB
Jimin-BTS
Nayeon-Twice
Irene-RedVelvet
GDragon-Big Bang.
At that time BlackPink was still relatively unknown.
So, Kang Daniel had beat everyone in the field.
In a classic movie, whose name I forgot, in a game of billiards or something like that, there is a young darling, called "The Kid", who beats everyone.
However, in the final sequence, The Kid finally gets to fight the head honcho of the field, called "The Man". Long story short, The Man cheats his way to victory, and as The Kid, who is being taken away by The Man's minions who will crush The Kid's shoulders so the latter will never challenge The Man again, is being dragged The Man says "Now you know who is the boss".
Kang Daniel met The Man, although in this case it was The Woman, who was 24 at that time as her true age was not revealed back then.
Kang Daniel was born on Dec 1996, essentially 20 at that time, and new to the industry.
The Woman was born on May 1993 (officially), 24 at that time, but she was a 10 year veteran of the industry.
IU, who had broken the dreams of acts which are too many to list here, was voted to be more popular than Kang Daniel!
If her drama in 2016 had been more successful she would have done more acting and Kang Daniel would have topped the idol poll,
and personally, if that had happened I think his fate would have been very different from where he is now.
A Kang Daniel which got to lord over EXO, BTS, Twice , Red Velvet and you name it, against a Kang Daniel who could not defeat a 10 year veteran did a ton of difference.
And KPop would have evolved to a very different direction from there.
IU's defeat of Kang Daniel in 2017 probably proved to be the decisive event in his career, whose story is worth a movie since few KPop figures suffered a rise and fall this dramatic without doing kinky things such as Seungri, and Kang Daniel was a contender for the championship.
