Frank Kogan

For what it's worth, there was a post up at askakorean - which of course I can't find right now - about conformism in South Korea. From what I remember, the argument was that because SKorea was a war-torn, agrarian, rural country made up mostly of villages as recently as 60 years ago, there's a lot of pressure to conform to expectations and it's hard to break away from convention. I don't have personal experience with this, of course.

In general, people complain that pop stars live in their pop star would, and have problems that aren't relatable to normal people, right? Of course, Kpop has become pretty decadent lately - and I don't just mean more-openly-focused-on-sex-drugs-and-status decadent, but more self-referential and self-obsessed, which is a sign of artistic decadence.