Junhyung admitted that he viewed the footage shared by Jung. Choi Jong-hoon of the rock band FT Island and Junhyung of boy band Highlight have also announced that they will quit the business. The scandal continues to ensnare more artists. Both singers have announced their retirement and are cooperating with police investigations. These incidents have sparked an uproar, with outraged fans demanding that those who took part quit the entertainment industry. Another singer, Jung Joon-young, was arrested on March 21 for shooting videos of women he had sex with without their permission and sharing them online with a chat group that included Seungri. Seungri, a former member of popular boy band BigBang, has been accused of procuring prostitutes for customers at a club he owns. (Photo by Tetsuo Oshiro)īut South Korea's pop music world has been rocked by scandal of late. Namie Amuro's pop-up shop in Tokyo attracted many fans after the singer announced her retirement. 'In particular, YouTube plays a key role in globalizing K-pop,' she said. Lee Hwa-jeong, an analyst at NH Research Center, noted that K-pop idols are 'hitting the U.S. The agency estimates revenue for the full year reached 6.2 trillion won in 2018, up 7.2% from the previous year and equal to 5.3% of South Korea's content industry sales. South Korea's pop music exports rose 0.9% to $204.2 million during the same period. K-pop revenue reached 2.9 trillion won ($2.6 billion) in the first half of 2018, up 9.2% from a year earlier, according to Korea Creative Content Agency. Until recently, many in the industry predicted K-pop would displace J-pop. Coming on the heels of the retirement of female pop sensation Namie Amuro in 2018, who outsold Arashi that year, the mega-idols' pause is a blow to the J-pop scene, not only in Japan but across Asia.īut the J-pop boom appears to be waning. Record companies are struggling to gin up sales online and off, and entertainers from South Korea and China are eager to fill the void. That includes foregone revenues from hotels, restaurants, merchandise and TV commercial fees. 'The total loss from Arashi's hiatus will exceed 100 billion yen,' said Toshihiro Nagahama, executive chief economist at Tokyo-based Dai-ichi Life Research Institute. A Singaporean woman, a big fan of Arashi, has visited Japan often to see the boy band live, building up a significant collection of CDs and other merchandise.

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