TW: Mentions of suicide & abuse I lose so much faith in humanity knowing that companies have gotten away with so much horrific stuff including this. SM Entertainment is especially guilty of pushing their idols to the point where they end up taking their own lives, not once acknowledging their blatant cries for help. What happened to Jonghyun & Sulli should’ve been enough to have the company put under criminal investigation. They deliberately mistreated their idols & completely neglected their wellbeing, which is 100% exploitation & neglect. Hell, Sulli's death in particular sparked changes in the Korean law system yet the country seems to have learned absolutely nothing. It’d be foolish to ignore the very obvious worsening pattern of behaviour. Must we remind ourselves of the abuse of Media Line & especially Open World Entertainment? The latter one was even investigated by police & was forced to shut down. Serious question: what makes companies like SM any better than ones like Open World & Media Line? The established idols & groups? The money they’ve managed to accumulate over the years? Them being able to find ways to distract the public? Who's to say they've not engaged in situations where they've covered up awful acts like violence & SA & forced idols to sign NDAs, so they wouldn't be able to speak out? Some may call that a reach, but based on all that's been exposed of them, is it really a stretch? Imo, I don't think so. Regardless, it blows my mind how SM especially hasn’t issued any apology or paid any sort of compensation to the families of those whose lives they’ve taken. Yes, I say they’ve because to this day, they’ve yet to take full responsibility for what they’ve done. To me, what they did was a form of murder without actually committing the act. submitted by /u/GenoveveSimmons15 [link] [comments]
Companies should be held legally responsible for the suicides of their idols
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