Posts by WhyKnock

    Japan has a few big places to perform, but the Nissan Stadium in Yokohama can field the most number of attendees.


    The Nissan Stadium can house 70,000 concert viewers, but in practice it is never held for one day so one has to draw at least 140,000 in order to do a concert.


    Only DBSK (not TVXQ!) had concerts at there among Kpop acts (five times). Even BTS did not get to perform there; its 2020 schedule had Saitama and Osaka , I believe, but not the Nissan Stadium.


    No female soloist has ever held a concert there, and only Momoiro Clover Z (five times ) ad AKB48 (at its height) held a concert there.


    Tokyo Dome had a less tall barrier; with a capacities of around 50,000 (sometimes a little bit less), the following KPop figures had performed concerts there;

    Rain

    Ryu Shiwon (an actor famous during 2000s and popular in Japan at that time)

    TVXQ

    Big Bang

    JYJ

    DBSK

    Kara

    SNSD

    Shinee

    2PM

    EXO

    G-Dragon (by himself)

    BTS

    Twice

    Blackpink


    Excluding Rain and Ryu Shiwon, and counting TVXQ/JYJ/DBSK and Big Bang/G-Dragon as one act,


    Ten acts played at Tokyo Dome (plus Music Bank 2011 Tokyo, which was an event and not counted above.)


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    In Korea, the Gochuk, and the CJ Mnet Arena which has not even built (who knows when it will be completed), house just 20,000 or so so I am not including them.


    Only these Kpop acts performed at either the Chamshil Olympic Main Stadium, or the Sang'am Main Soccer Stadium.


    JYJ

    Big Bang (Sang'am Soccer Stadium)

    EXO

    BTS


    In Japan,


    One in the Nissan Stadium (plus BTS if the country opens up)

    Nine in the Tokyo Dome


    In Korea,


    One in the Sang'am Soccer stadium (for one day)

    Three in the Olympic Main Stadium.


    It was easier to fill the Japanese stadium and dome than Korean stadiums!



    Plus it is noted that no female soloist in Japanese history tried a concert at the Nissan Stadium.


    In Korea, a certain soloist tried to hold a concert at the Olympic Stadium. She is not included above because she is NOT a KPop singer (although her recent song might finally qualify her as one), but considering no Japanese female soloist ever held a concert at its largest venue, the nerve of the certain soloist to hold a concert at there would have put her ahead of all Japanese female soloists and in the same league with BigBang, EXO and BTS.

    IU international popularity is rising whereas Taeyeon is promoting less and less. She also had a complicated year in 2020. Her releases were also a bit underwhelming last year. Yes, her songs were good but not to the level of Purpose or My voice for example. Happy is not on Four seasons level either.

    Taeyeon seems to be too dependent upon SM to map her journey. Also her father had passed away so it might have affected her.

    While IU's role in OP's post is overblown, there's some truth to it to gist of it; if spotify can't manage to secure a deal with kakao they will probably go the way of apple music, who even tho they got licenses for yg, sm and jyp etc went nowhere in four years.


    Kakao's own artists is not the biggest problem, it is the fact that they are the largest distributor of korean music that is the main headache for spotify...


    The reason for all of this is of course because of Melon, the biggest domestic music service is owned by Kakao. They have nothing to gain by helping the #1 music service in world get a foothold in their home turf.

    The main reason people still stick with Melon is her.

    It was her last hurrah before the Zeze fiasco sank her, which is why she did not release any new songs on 2016

    Spotify Korea was launched, but singers under KakaoM did NOT sign with it.


    So Spotify Korea canNOT play songs from such artists.


    I am sure KakaoM has a lot of fine artists, but it all comes down to a certain J. Lee.


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    Although a certain J. Lee does NOT really promote outside of Korea, because of her control of Korean d-o-m-e-s-t-i-c market, she wields an inordinate amount of power compared to her nonexistence of influence outside of there, and her having sung only two Kpop songs in her entire career (and she did not sing the second one until last week).


    This is a philosophical question -


    Even an Emperor which rules the entire world is powerless against a local powerful, who might be powerless outsideof his (or, in this case, her) turf but is supreme within her sphere of influence. Only a massive intervention involving lots of resources might extract the local notable's power, and even after that the notable still has lots of ties in the turf and usually he (or, in this case, she) returns.


    Because of her stranglehold in Korea, she is often seen in the same league with BTS, even though her international reach is significantly shorter.


    And now Spotify Korea and Apple Music Korea are feeling her power.


    It would be wiser for Spotify and Apple Music to NOT deal with her songs since KakaoM (read: J.Lee) is NOT giving its songs to Spotify Korea and Apple Music Korea, but the management of these companies still allow her songs to be played through their main server in USA.


    So that will only embolden KakaoM and a certain J. Lee even further, which is unfortunate since they contribute significantly to Kpop still remaining domestic.

    exactly, that's one of the things i love of her

    Lee Jieun is her own boss, and she gets to claim all the income she makes, unlike even the most successful acts from major companies whose owners claim a lion's share of their income. (For example, SM as a company is not doing great because all the income flows into a bunch of entities Mr. Sooman Lee set up for himself and his family members.)

    Good Day already has 48M views :siptear:


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    Because at that time her fame was dying and she only did become relevant in the overseas after My Mister in 2018

    Dude, she’s 28, not 65!

    yES but


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    Her entire career was catalogued and inventoried and she was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the age of ...21.


    So she has been a Senior Singer of Kpop since then.

    Her next movie is filmed by a director whose last film grossed 120M$ (2nd biggest gross in history of SK)


    Also she is rumoured to play in Koreeda's new film. His "Shoplifters" won Palme d'Or in Festival de Cannes!


    IU World Domination :pepe-excited:

    Actually, the director Lee Byunghun (no relation to the actor of the same name) had directed a drama which was quietly buried, after his great success


    Koreeda is not known to be a hit director. It might be acclaimed, but it is not going to be a great hit. He can't find backers in Japan anymore so he first tried France with Catherine Deneuve's help, but the result was not too great.


    It is not know whether Lee Jieun will play an unwed mother there, but whyknock thinks at 28 (when the movie will be released), she will be a little bit too old for that role. It appears Bae Doona recommended Lee Jieun for that role , whatever it might be, but if I were the director, I would be using a lesser known face., instead of using a singer who is Senior enough to be a grandmother to most of the 4th gen of KPop.

    Iu really is a marketing genius if you actually track her career. She started out as this indie solo artist making music akin to those arthouse films, then started to get more pop and blew up mainstream, then dabbled into acting to grow her domestic public awareness, then released more diverse music products to grow her artistry and attract listeners from a wider range of demographics, then secured hit dramas to gain a bigger international audience, then collabed with a member from the biggest boy group with the most dedicated fanbase in the world atm and gained even more fans from it.

    Every move she made paid off and there was always something to gain for her benefit and her brand, literally. It’s quite incredible to watch lol

    Lee Jieun knows very well about what people expect from her, although that was not always true (Eunhyuk, Zeze, etc) before.

    If that’s the case then it shows that how koreans think about Nazis are different from the west. I have to admit coming from country that had been occupied by the Japanese (with many horrific acts on our people), I would not have the same knee jerk reaction like the west about this issue. If I went to a museum or somewhere with a Japanese imperial mannequin, I’d probably take pictures too. It’s history, it was horrible and you learn from that. But people moved on.


    Anyway I’m happy that SouMu is trying to understand the situation. Hope they’ll release an apology soon

    Since Korea had very little to do with the Nazis, some Koreans do have some kind of fetish with them, as seen in the little known girl group named Pritz .