— Overview
Foreign cultures should also flow into Korea, the writer says, so that exchange becomes two-way and a sympathy is formed that is not confined to one country. Works made about the countries where Hallyu has spread should be handled with care, and the Wave itself should be built through works that do not provoke a strong refusal. Three proposals follow. First, the treatment of the writers, popular singers, and actors who have developed Hallyu culture should be guaranteed, so that they can keep making content in a stable setting. Second, national policy and a legal framework are needed, so that Hallyu does not stay in a limited field but can spread more steadily around the world. Third, a planned policy is needed to publicize the essential value of the culture, and to let it settle in a way that can be systematized beside the local culture and daily habits of the people who receive it. Talent agencies, the writer thinks, will keep growing into corporate, comprehensive entertainment firms, with organizations that subdivide and swell.
Investment then grows too, and a failed bet becomes a large one, so the opportunity cost rises. Distinctive idol concepts become harder to raise, and, looked at broadly, similar trainees are cultivated instead. An organization for managing entertainers, in the account, is made up of five teams. Because a producer’s and a manager’s quality weighs so heavily on an artist’s work, the firms — recognizing that they need able specialists in order to find and keep talented people — also put effort into training them. Diversification appears in both related and unrelated fields, including new businesses. The companies join both the production market and the distribution market in a vertical integration, and they also pursue horizontal diversification overseas through the foreign activities of their artists. The training system is set out in six stages: planning, casting, education, production, marketing, and profit. At the planning stage, the firm keeps investing, reads the market, and studies and develops the kind of star the market needs. The same Korean report, at fuller length, is on CampusDown.
— Contents and key concepts
Three ways to keep the Wave going
Foreign cultures should also flow into Korea, the writer says, so that exchange becomes two-way and a sympathy is formed that is not confined to one country. Works made about the countries where Hallyu has spread should be handled with care, and the Wave itself should be built through works that do not provoke a strong refusal.
Three proposals follow. First, the treatment of the writers, popular singers, and actors who have developed Hallyu culture should be guaranteed, so that they can keep making content in a stable setting. Second, national policy and a legal framework are needed, so that Hallyu does not stay in a limited field but can spread more steadily around the world. Third, a planned policy is needed to publicize the essential value of the culture, and to let it settle in a way that can be systematized beside the local culture and daily habits of the people who receive it.
Five teams, and six stages
Talent agencies, the writer thinks, will keep growing into corporate, comprehensive entertainment firms, with organizations that subdivide and swell. Investment then grows too, and a failed bet becomes a large one, so the opportunity cost rises. Distinctive idol concepts become harder to raise, and, looked at broadly, similar trainees are cultivated instead. An organization for managing entertainers, in the account, is made up of five teams. Because a producer’s and a manager’s quality weighs so heavily on an artist’s work, the firms also put effort into training able specialists.
Diversification appears in both related and unrelated fields, including new businesses. The companies join both the production market and the distribution market in a vertical integration, and they also pursue horizontal diversification overseas through the foreign activities of their artists. The training system is set out in six stages: planning, casting, education, production, marketing, and profit. At the planning stage, the firm keeps investing, reads the market, and studies and develops the kind of star the market needs. The same Korean report, at fuller length, is on CampusDown.
Source
- An account of three proposals for sustaining Hallyu, the growth of talent agencies into comprehensive entertainment firms, and a six-stage star-training system from planning to profit.
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