Jang Ja-yeon (故 장자연)

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  "The Taste of Money" mentions the late Jang Ja-yeon
  2012/05/15, Source,
  Movie "The Taste of Money" mentioned the late Jang Ja-yeon. "The Taste of Money" was revealed for the first time through an open preview on the 15th at Seoul Lotte Cinema,...More
• Star-wannabes suffer exploitation
  2012/04/19, Source,
  Female aspirants are still easy target of sexual assaults By Kim Rahn Stars can look good and seemingly show that having fame and wealth can mean they have everything they want. It's no wonder that so many teenagers hope to become entertainers. But murkiness awaits the star-wannabes, including unfair contracts with entertainment agencies or other improper demands from those in power in the showbiz industry. For some female aspirants, demands for sex and sexual harassment are other issues they suffer from. Many people in the entertainment industry say such "bad practices" no longer exist, but this is apparently not the case as seen by recent reports from small-sized agencies, which include the rapes of female trainees by an agency head. Also there was the 2009 suicide of actress Jang Ja-yeon who was forced to have sex with bigwigs she "entertained",...More

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  S. Korea's K-pop takes off in the west
  2012/02/11, Source,
  When pop sensation Girls' Generation recently provided the grand finale to the Late Show with David Letterman, a top slot on US television, it signalled that South Korea's entertainment industry had broken out of Asia and is now looking to make it big in the west. Just days after making their first appearance on US network television with their hit single "The Boys", the band of nine telegenic women this week returned to France - where tickets for a 2011 concert sold out in 15 minutes - to sing on prime time television,...More

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  Jang Ja-yeon case, "Police knew but never investigated"
  2012/01/05, Source,
  There has been a statement offered saying that the National Intelligence Service (INS) got involved with the case of actress Jang Ja-yeon, who killed herself in 2009. MBC reporter Lee Sang-ho, who is currently in charge of the program "Lee Sang-ho's News", claimed that the INS got involved with this case via Twitter on January 5th,...More