![]() Also imagine that you’re making this decision in South Korea, a nation known for a rough job market for young people, meaning you, for all you know, have put yourself in a pretty non envious position of “up or out”, succeed or fail, and with rough consequences attached to failure… (Hey, I’m part Japanese, I intimately know the wonders of depressed self worth and impossible expectations). And not only have you convinced your parents, you’ve convinced your asian parents which, generalising heavily, means you’ve subjected yourself to quite a lot of skepticism and derision just based on the normal Confucianistic non-encouraging coaching style employed by Asian Parents. A business built and thriving on a never ending stream of incredibly dedicated and talented hopefuls that will put their regular lives on pause for many years, missing out on the regular teen and young adult stuff like normal relations and an education, just to be able to endlessly train singing and dancing with the goal to maybe, just maybe, be able to debut as idols in some vague future. IMAGINE being in school and convincing your parents that you’re going to drop out to join a meat grinder of a business where a minuscule part of aspiring individuals actually go on to any success. I’m really reluctant to start any sentence with “imagine” but you know…
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