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Japan manga claims K-Pop girls sell sex for success, sparks outrage

Japan manga claims K-Pop girls sell sex for success, sparks outrage

By Fri, Jan 14, 2011 1:10PM UTC View Comments Japan manga claims K-Pop girls sell sex for success, sparks outrage

A Japanese manga slandering K-pop girl groups who is successful Japan has drawn public outrage in South Korea. The manga shows K-pop girl groups bargaining over sex to survive in the show business world. It is evident from the sexy marine outfit characters wear and posture for the routine known as Kara’s butt-dance, that the cartoon points to the...

‘The Last Godfather’: A movie selling cheap patriotism?

By Thu, Jan 13, 2011 10:17AM UTC View Comments

The comedy movie ‘The Last Godfather’, which was directed and written by Shim Hyung Rae, has drawn heated debate in South Korea for several weeks now. Film critics lambasted on the movie, but nearly 2 million Koreans have watched it in just three weeks after the premiere. A conflict has ignited between snobbish film critics...

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