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At the Root of K-Pop’s Controversies, a Restrictive Business Model

Labels exert extraordinary control over performers because only a few acts turn a profit.

© Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times

NewJeans performing in Hong Kong in 2025. K-pop remains dogged by complaints of physical, emotional and financial abuse.
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New ‘Call of Duty’ Game Draws Criticism for Using Footage of Deadly Seoul Crowd Crush

Par : Max Kim
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 uses actual visuals from a Halloween crowd crush in South Korea, in which over 150 people died in a narrow alleyway.

© Simon Wohlfahrt/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A “Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4” poster in Paris. The game is set in South Korea and depicts an invasion by its northern neighbor, against a backdrop of tensions between the United States and Russia.
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