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[REUTERS] South Korean children navigate rocky road to K-pop stardom

January 22, 2015
(Yonhap)

‘Little Psy’ Hwang Min-woo. (Yonhap)

[REUTERS] — Nine-year-old Kim Si-yoon has no time to throw tantrums.

She wakes up at half-past seven for school, followed by hours of voice training, dance lessons and cram school before crashing into bed at midnight. Kim is a wannabe K-pop star.

Thousands of Korean children dream of becoming household names like rapper Psy, whose 2012 “Gangnam Style” video was a global YouTube hit, often putting up with punishing schedules in the hope of one day making it big in the music industry. [READ MORE]