The South Korean entertainment industry, celebrated globally for its polished "Hallyu" soft power, has a documented history of systemic exploitation that occasionally surfaces in high-profile scandals. Central to these controversies is the intersection of the rigid trainee system, "sponsorship" culture, and cases where legal lines between talent management and illegal prostitution become blurred. The Trainee System: A Foundation for Coercion
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