In ep 1 of Infinite Youth! one of the girls is from a band that is sharing a “basement: apartment but the windows they do have are covered with foil, to keep heat out I guess.
If I was running their management agency I would have been embarrassed by that and they’d be getting a new apartment.
Apparently though, yes they have to put in a lot of work to get anywhere. Their celebrities are not nearly as wealthy as the ones in this country. It’s a small country and they have all those people competing for attention.
I read there were 124 production companies and only about 36 slots for prime time shows on Korean television. AND some shows are made by the networks too.
Idol girls learning about life on a farm. I’d never heard about KBS World before, but now I know what I’m going to be spending a few hundred hours watching. They have a lot of stuff on there that can’t be found on Dramafever, viki or soompi. Thanks!