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Originally Posted by DonQuigleone

I can't say much about Jpop, but for Kpop there are plenty of articles about how bad it is. Like This, This, This, This, or this video documentary.

I'll be blunt: I see nothing fundamentally wrong with those contracts except they might not be socially acceptable and inefficient investing. Furthermore, while we do have the issue of having minors sign contracts, I find that the potential abuse from exploiting those of majority age when they attempt to break into the idol industry to be of greater threat.

Of course, the fact that I run myself pretty harsh might taint my views, but I have to ask this fundamental question: What industry is NOT like this, supposing things are as bad as some of the less sensational news providers say they are? The way I see it is that people are only focusing on the visible targets while ignoring the everyday abuses that happens everywhere else.

Originally Posted by DonQuigleone

For what it's worth, according to this article, AKB48's contract is probably illegal.

Ah yes, the social justification condition. I can't believe that a professor of constitutional and labor law can actually make the mistake of using a personal opinion and attempting to use an irrelevant court ruling to justify that personal opinion.

Originally Posted by erneiz_hyde

Hey, I was merely asking how much truth exist in there, not that I'm asserting it.

Nah, I didn't mean it in a negative sense. Just surprised you would bring that topic up when we're having a small tempest in the thread.

Originally Posted by erneiz_hyde

How serious is serious then? The reason I felt that dating=sex isn't all that far from truth is that the act of dating itself can be considered a somewhat serious relationship there.

You've basically hit the target. Unless both parties know it's supposed to not be serious, a relationship is supposed to be serious.

Originally Posted by erneiz_hyde

As a note, I'm asking this because I just recently read molester man and there the protagonist seems to imply that history of dating=history of sex.

I would need to read it before coming to any conclusions, since I don't know what kind of person the protagonist is.