SM Entertainment and SBS’s “Untold Stories” [FAKE?]
EDIT: THIS MAY OR MAY NOT BE FAKE, IF I FIND OUT FOR SURE THAT IT’S FAKE I’LL TAKE IT DOWN. SO DO NOT QUOTE ME AS A SOURCE FOR THIS NEWS.
BoA, Dong Bang Shin Ki, Kangta and Super Junior are featured in SM and SBS’s Untold Stories, a four chapter, twenty episode show.
To me this is kind of unnecessary and gluttonous. It’s like SM Entertainment decided to do an A&E autobiography on it’s artists but none of them, with exception of Kangta, has hit thirty. This is ploy for publicity and ratings and the sheer scale of these “untold stories” makes it seem rather self-important and vainglorious. If it was one group, or one artist it wouldn’t be as bad.
It’s also rather hoaky and campy, like a long Lifetime movie. The DBSK Chapters are:
Episode 1 – Yun Ho: The Country Boy
Episode 2 – Xiah Junsu: The Mountain’s Peak
Episode 3 – Micky Yoochun: The American Dream
Episode 4 – Choi Kang Chang Min: The Priceless Stairs
Episode 5 – Jae Joong: The Street Lights
For twenty of a record companies artists to simultaneously barrage us with stories that are supposed to make us feel sad, or happy or whatever, I find nearly obnoxious. But I know that for the most part these artists are going to speak honestly about where they came from and how they got to where they are so it bothers me even more to think that their memories and their pains or joys are going to exploited for profit.
July 24, 2008 at 5:51 am
It’s definitely a profit-driven scam to say the least. Leave it to SM and LSM to devise “creative” ways to extract more from these overworked entertainers already.
July 24, 2008 at 6:09 pm
I’m not going to lie I really want to watch it. However I know if given a choice most of the people in there would choose not to reveal their past. Some of them have had some really harsh childhoods that would be extremely painful to talk about. Its ridiculous that SM would exploit their artist like this.
July 24, 2008 at 10:02 pm
so are they selling these DVDs? yeah, I think that’s exploiting their artists… although I do want to watch it XD especially Changmin’s…
I agree with Laura, they probably wouldn’t reveal their past to the everyone if given the choice…I hope they don’t sell it on DVD… I think making this into a ‘buy-able’ DVD would be creepy though…
July 25, 2008 at 7:24 pm
People have been saying that the whole thing’s fake. It makes a lot of sense seeing how the media hasn’t published any articles about it. Someone had a lot of time on their hands.
July 25, 2008 at 7:48 pm
people on soompi are saying that this is fake. which would make sense since no korean news has reported anything about it.
July 25, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Haha fake? lol That would be a relief.