The formation of most Korean idol groups we see now, including super junior, exo, bigbang and Girls, is inseparable from SM's high-intensity trainee system. Trainees are people who receive professional training to become artists. The average career of students is 2-4 years and the elimination rate is as high as 800: 1. It may take several months, but it took 10 years to debut. For example, the longest career of trainees did not come onto the stage until 2005.
It is not surprising that SM requires students to have high-intensity basic song and dance training every day. In addition, there are various courses, such as posture, etiquette, language, artistic ability, performance skills and so on. It is normal to stay in the training room for more than ten hours every day.
If you don't practice hard, you can't even stand on the stage. After school, I went directly to the No.2 singing practice room in the basement, turned off the lights, locked the door, and practiced for 6 hours before going home. I couldn't even eat well at that time.
Therefore, the suicide rate of Korean stars is very high, and the story is similar. In the past few years, Korean actors have fallen into the trend of suicide. Even so, SM arranges actors to be systematically managed by neuroscientists.
However, "depression" does not blame young people for death. Many tragedies happen because of external reasons. Although South Korea is not big, there are many artists, young people suffer hardships, big people do whatever they want, and the living environment of the entertainment circle has also been criticized.
Sulli, Kim Jonghyun and Kim TaeYeon are not the only depressed actors in SM Company. At first, SM Company's training route for actors was to establish a good image. People who stay on the stage for a long time at all costs in a company will have psychological problems sooner or later, but this mental illness is often invisible and difficult to be detected, and it is often too late to really break out.