1) What is religion in a wide and narrow sense of the word? Is it possible, in your opinion, ...
Korean, Japanese, Hong Kong, Chinese and Taiwanese pop music is becoming increasingly popular on the world arena. Japan, which is the second largest musical market in the world, is known for its "eccentric" entertainment music clips. Korean K-POP, which appeared initially as a musical genre (with elements of Western Electropopa, Hip-hop, dance music and modern rhythm-n-blues), eventually turned into a large-scale subculture having millions of fans in Asia and beyond. Nevertheless, behind the cute faces of beautiful young people and girls singing and dancing under sophisticated pop music (as a rule, written by the Scandinavians, which is very surprising), actually hides something dark and terrible ...
1. Sashen
The Korean word "Sasan" (Sasaeng) is the neologism, meaning the fanatical fans of K-Pop-performers.
K-Pop performers have millions of fans, both in South Korea and outside. The fanatical of them are "sassen fans", which for the sake of their idols are ready for everything. These, as a rule, include girls aged from thirteen to twenty-two years, whose obsession with pop idols reached an unhealthy level. One yaraya fan of the artist Ok Tek Yong from the popular Korean group "2pm" sent him a letter in which his own menstrual blood wrote: "To you, Tek Yong, I dedicate this letter written by my menstrual blood. Well, Tekr Yong, now you can not live without me. In the envelope you will also find a bunch of hair from my pubis. "
Pak Yuchon from the K-Pop group "Jyj", to put it mildly, was shocked when I learned that the sassen fans set (or hacked) the camera at the parking lot near his house and laid out a photo of the photo when he left and came home .
The personal life of the participants in the Korean pop group "TVXQ", apparently, is of particular interest in their fans. Report that the fans made a copy of the key from the apartment of one of the participants of the group "TVXQ", hacked his mobile phone to check who he calls, took advantage of his personal seal to register documents about marriage, put him in the bags of female underwear and ordered food delivery To the house for which, naturally, I had to pay him. Another members of the group were faced with the fact that at night the fans got into the hotel rooms where they slept, and began to kiss them. In addition, relatives of the participants "TVXQ" often receive calls from abnormal fans.
Sasan fans always fiercely defend their "territory", attacking those who dare to approach or touch their pop idol. According to reports, some sassen fans are poured by urine and deceive by the doors of the hotel rooms, in which K-Pop stars stop to "mark their territory".
Sometimes Sasan fans for the opportunity to constantly chase their idols break their lives; They throw school and become prostitutes to earn money to pay for services of special taxis. These taxis go at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour to keep up for buses, on which pop idols toured around the country.
2. Anti-fans
They say that hatred is not the opposite of love; Most likely, they are two sides of the same medal. This is especially true in the case of anti-fans that hate some pop stars and try to annoy them in every way, as well as their fans.
In 1999, the Kan Mi Yong from the popular Korean group "Baby V.O.x" received dozens of envelopes filled with razor blades, and an angry letter written by blood, along with her photographs, in which she had painted eyes.
In 2000, the participant of the group "G.O.D" Yun Ko San got a drink mixed with a bleach and detergent. He was drinking his mother, who later turned out to be in the hospital.
In 2006, Yunho, the participant of the group "TVXQ", it took washing the stomach after he drank a drink mixed with glue.
In 2008, during the "Dream Concert" concert, the girls from the South Korean group "Girls' Generation" became victims of the incident, subsequently called the "Black Ocean". There were rumors that the participants of the group "Girls' Generation" many were unbelievable because of their excessive arrogance. Fans of such Bands such as "TVXQ", "SS501" and "Super Junior" hated girls from "Girls' Generation" for the fact that they allegedly raised on "their boys", so we decided to organize a boycott during a concert "Dream Concert ". When the participants of the group "Girls' Generation" came to the stage, they, instead of the joyful screams of their fans, faced darkness and complete silence in the stands.
3. Diploma Raper Tablo
Anger and rage anti-fans are not limited to physical attacks and prosperous insults. Attacks on a reputation, even if unreasonable, can cause huge damage to popular Korean performers. The most striking example is the story of Tablo rapper, also known as Daniel Son Woon Lee. It is considered one of the most famous hip-hop performers on the Korean musical scene. After Daniel Son Voon Lee announced his engagement with the actress Kan Hyu Jong, he began to be mad attacks from anti-fans.
In the latter case, the South Korean Internet Community of Anti-Fanat called "Tajinyo" (Korean Acronym, meaning "We demand truth from Tablo") accused Daniel Son Wing Whether in the fact that his diploma of Stanford University (California, USA) is Lipov. When Tablo unveiled a copy of his credit book, and the University of Stanford University was publicly instructed for him, Thomas Black, anti-fans appealed to the theory of conspiracy. They began to argue that Tablo stole the identity of another Korean graduate of Stanford University named Dan Lee, an engineer living in Wisconsin.
After the anti-fans, turned their anger against the Tablo family, accusing his mother in the fact that she did not win, but I bought a gold medal at the international competition of hairdresser's art in 1968. Brother Tablo, David, began to receive phone calls with threats, because of what he lost its work in a broadcast company.
Tablo was forced to break the contract with Woolim Entertainment, when its representatives stated that "they have nothing to say about the charges charged with regard to the authenticity of his diploma about education."
Ultimately, it came to the point that Tablo began to receive messages with threats in Twitter, to be attacked by anti-fans on the street and fear for the safety of his newborn baby.
Only after the journalistic investigation conducted by the MUNHWA Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) television channel, and the publication of the results of the official test of Daniel Son Vun Li was able to regain his former reputation. The court issued a warrant on the arrest of the leader of the Internet community "Tajinyo", which was a fifty-alert-year-old Korean businessman living in Chicago. In his excuse, he stated that the slander is not an international crime.
4. Forced to sexual relationships
Almost all girls in Korea dream of the popularity of K-Pop-idols and a pile of fans. But as soon as they sign a contract with any company, they have to do something more than just hard and persistently work. To succeed, future stars (even minor age) are forced to enter into sex with customers, whom they are looking for those who deal with "promotion". According to one of these girls, customers paid from 220 to 900 dollars for the "meeting" (depending on the fame of the company, who forced their wards to engage in prostitution).
In 2010, the Taiwanese singer Estrell Lin said that when she was a participant "3EP beauties", the company involved in the promotion of the group forced her to sexual relations with potential investors. According to her, it's no secret that Korean actresses and singers voluntarily or forced to provide sexual services to advance through the career ladder.
In 2002, Yana Syuk-Wu, General Director of Open World Entertainment, was arrested on charges of coercion of young girls and guys (among them even minors) to sexual relations.
5. Johnny Kitagawa
Johnny Kitagawa, the former American Marine Fight from Los Angeles, after traveling to Japan decided to move to this country to a permanent place of residence. In 1962, he founded the company "Johnny & Associates" (Idol agency specializing in fight bands). Such groups like "Kinki Kids", "V6", "Hey! Say! Jump" and "SMAP" may not achieve international recognition, but became extremely popular in Japan. Everyone who decides to start cooperation with Johnny & Associates, first undergo a strict check, and after they are waiting for work in her rigid conditions, poor privileges and fees and full control over activities.
Johnny Kitagawa supports the illusion of diversity, financing artists and releasing albums under various sublablaces in order to disguise the monopoly "Johnny & Associates". His company is considered the most powerful force in the Japanese Island Music Industry, the second largest in the world. Kitagawa has tremendous power over advertisers, television stations and magazine publishers. He wakes up, not allowing to cooperate with competing agencies or forcing the scandals associated with "Johnny & Associates".
Johnny Kitagawa always prefers to promote those artists who, according to him, "easier to manage." In fact, he means those who are ready to provide him with an intimate nature. In 1988, China Keji, a former participant of the battle-band "Four Seasons" accused Kitagawa in sexual harassment and rape. It did not affect his reputation, because he filed a claim for slander and called the Japanese public ignorant.
6. No meetings
In 2013, Mini Mines from the J-Pop group "AKB48" shaved naked and posted on Youtube a video in which, all in tears, begged for forgiveness. What did she do criminal? Began to meet with a young man. As a rule, the owners of Japanese idol agencies make young executors sign contracts that say that they are not entitled to meet anyone during the contract. Shukan Bunshun magazine published photographs on which Minekashi mining near the house of Alan Shiraham, a member of the popular Band "Exile", in a baseball cap and a surgical mask hiding face. The agency that was engaged in the promotion of Minek, made it a reprimand and made to bring public apologies. Such moral standards, in principle, can be considered acceptable, if not to take into account the fact that the group "AKB48", which is a member of which Mintsechi has become thirteen years old, is known for the performance of songs with sexual overtones like "my school uniform interferes with me." The subject of creativity of the group "AKB48" is based on the concept of "Forbidden Love" between people with a decent difference in age. The former soloist "AKB48", Tomomius, once found himself in the center of a loud scandal after the media got a picture where she was depicted with a boy who covered her bare chest with her hands. Given all this, the ban on the fact that the performer maintains any relationship with the opposite sex, the introduced allegedly from moral considerations seems just ridiculous.
In turn, men-performers, apparently, do not adhere to any rules and standards. They meet with whom they want, get drunk, take off, shout on policemen in parks, in general, do everything to attract the attention of the media and not lose popularity. Meanwhile, in 2015, the participants of the group "Aoyama St. Hacha Mecha High School", Mikho, Yukha and the Sayna Miura, were forced to leave the team after it became known that they met with their fans. Moreover, the "Moving Factory" agency, which occupied their promotion, filed to the girls, their legitimate guardians and even the young people with whom they met. This caused an extremely negative response of the public.
7. Contracts with slave conditions
For many years, Korea is famous for its "slave contracts", which concludes large labels and young performers. According to these contracts, the Contractor has no right to terminate cooperation with the Agency of the previously established period (in some cases it can reach thirteen years). The agency fully assumes all the costs associated with the training of future stars, including the costs of vocals and choreography lessons, stylists and makeware services, housing, food, and so on. Terms of contracts also provide for extremely exhaustive and intensive work for hours (unlike flexible, measured graphics of Western pop stars). This is justified by the fact that, if you really want to become popular and famous, it means, must overcome all the difficulties found in the way to the goal.
"SM Entertainment", one of the largest Korean musical labels, has come across several times with claims and lawsuits in their address due to the rigid contract conditions. In 2009, Khan Gene, a former member of the Super Junior group, said that the owners of the company "SM Entertainment" forced him to do what he did not want, under the threat of big fines, and did not allow him to go to the hospital when he had revealed Gastritis and kidney problems.
In 2009, the participants in the music group "Jyj" told the press that the Thirteen-year-old contracts with the company "SM Entertainment" actually concluded indefinitely, the profit from the speeches was unevenly, and to sleep for no more than four hours per night.
These disputes were settled, however, in 2012, the leader of the "EXO" group, Chris filed a lawsuit in court to cancel his contract with the company SM Entertainment due to the fact that they neglected his opinion and health. In 2009, the Korean Fair Trade Commission (English. Korea Fair Trade Commission) introduced "standardized contracts", that is, the deadline for which they are concluded should not exceed seven years. Nevertheless, other problems were not solved. Artists are still forced to pay exorbitant fines for termination of contracts with unscrupulous agencies that seek to focus in the hands of Prince all profits.
8. Racism
Despite the artistic and stylistic influence that African American culture has provided for the pop music of Korea and Japan, racist sentiment is still traced in the work of the performers of these countries. Korean and Japanese pop singers and pop artists often protrude on stage in the image of blacks.
In 2012, the American boxer-professional Floyd Mayweather wrote on his page on Twitter: "Undoubtedly, Jeremy Lin [approx. American professional basketball player who comes to the team of the National Basketball Association "Los Angeles Lakers"] is a good player, but everyone considers it cool only because he is Asian. Black Basketball players do the same thing as Lin, but not so popular as he. " The Korean-American K-Pop-composer Jenny Hyn inadequately responded to this tweet, calling the black "non-priests, ungrateful monkeys" and the "cancer tumor of the planet" and calling for the eradication of the Black Race.
Racism against other Asians also has a place to be. In 2010, three participants of the Japanese J-Pop group "Morning Musum" posted a network of photographs where they are depicted with her eyes, and wrote: "Who is it? Koreans".
Participants of another popular Japanese group, "° C-UTE", on the air of the evening show, broadcast on one of the largest Tokyo TV channels, said that Adolf Hitler was the "great man in world history." They called him "Uncle Hitler" and brought with them a cute caricature of the bloody dictator.
9. How become stars
Some K-Pop-idols start their starry path in childhood. Book agencies help them in this, whose work is to find talented and attractive children. Others become stars after participating in special castings, which are conducted both in Korea and abroad, or television programs like a superstar k talent show. "Superstar K" - a television music project, an application for participation in which in 2012 4 percent of the population of South Korea filed.
After the young artist, for example, passes the casting, is waiting for his hard learning program, first developed by Johnny Kitagawa in the 1980s and subsequently improved by time. This is an extremely grueling period that can last for several years. During it, young talents honed various skills and desperately wait for their debut.
In the period of study, future stars operate at 14 o'clock per day; They are engaged in the simulator hall, dance, swim and sing. Their breakfast is limited to dietary cookies, bananas and greens. For dinner, they eat chicken breast and a simple salad. After seven in the evening they are not allowed to drink water so that they look fresh and cheerful. Toilet and bathroom Future stars are visited only under someone's supervision. They are also forced always and everywhere wearing sunglasses. If the producer does not arrange anything in the appearance of the future pop idol, he will suggest it to make a plastic surgery.
10. Edison Chen.
Sex scandals are quite a frequent phenomenon in the world of Asian pop music.
In 2008, Hong Kong pop idol Edison Chen broke up a laptop. The master who repaired him discovered the intimate photos of the Chen on the hard disk, where he is amused with famous actresses and pop stars. Later, they all gradually began to appear on bulletin boards in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China. On suspicion of information leakage, the Hong Kong police arrested eight people.
After the publication of the pictures, a real scandal broke out, destroying the reputation of many girls who were captured in photographs from a laptop Chen. Bobo Chan lost favorable contracts and a young man with whom he was already engaged. Later, she flew into the United States of America, where he was left for permanent residence, leaving the entertainment industry forever. Actress Gillian Chun wanted to end the life of suicide. Edison Chen himself publicly apologized to everyone and, having decided to temporarily leave the show business, went to North America. This, apparently, was the right step on his part, as the leader of one of the Chinese triads promised to pay 91 thousand dollars to someone who cut off both hands. He returned to Hong Kong only to give testimony in court. Upon arrival, the police provided him with round-the-clock protection and protection against the attacks of the press. In 2009, Chen spent several performances in Singapore, after which the Hong Kong Station "Cable TV" received a gold bullet and a letter that said that after the fourth of April, Chen should not appear in public: "We hope that Edison Chen seriously It will perceive this warning, otherwise its personal safety will be at risk. "
Ultimately, Chen returned to the scene, but the lesson from the past mistakes is never extracted. In 2011, he was again in the center of the sex scandal. This time the photos were leaked to the network, in which the thirty-year chen hugs and kisses the naked sixteen-year-old model of Kamie. Kamie Jie admitted that she really slept with Chen, who, by the way, threw her right at the conference held after the leak of intimate photos.
Many consider the Japanese Buddhists. In the country of the rising sun truly a lot of Buddhists. But the traditional religion of Japan is shintoism. It is very ancient and completely open for all faith interested. However, it is known about it outside the islands is amazingly little.
In Russian, the Japanese concept of "Shito" can be translated as "the path of the gods". This is the name of the traditional religion of this nation. The Japanese believe that gods, like the souls of the dead, live everywhere. Only a material shell dies, and the souls remain and get the refuge in natural objects or objects created by the hands of people.
The Japanese call these eternal souls of the world "Kami". Kami can live in stones and trees, to hold a whole grove or mountain, a waterfall or a river, a sword, a mirror, a precious ring, a plank with a sacred text ... This is a world filled with "empty items" for us, all objects in the surrounding The world is someone's souls.
Kami-Kiri, also called the Kamieric "Hair Thief."
Dispute between gods
According to traditional Japanese beliefs, our world was created as follows. At first, everything was in a state of chaos, and there was no harmony anywhere or beauty. But one day, all elements of the world began to gather in the divine couples.
Suddenly, suddenly the sky and the earth -Takamano Hara and the islands of Akitsumima (plain of the high sky and the island of dragonfly) were formed among chaos. And then the first gods appeared. One such divine couple created the island of Onnogoro (Malnal Pillars of the Earth), and many other islands and other kami were born from their marriage.
Hyakkyagyou - "Parade of a Stream of Demons" ancient legend reads - Every year, Japanese supernatural creatures go outside during summer nights.
But nothing is forever, even the gods. Giving God the fire of Katsoguti, the goddess Izanami died and went to the country of Mraka. Her husband idzanagi was hardly worried about the death of her beloved and decided to take it away from death: he went to the underworld and found her elapsed body. But the appearance of this body so it frightened that, sobbing, he returned to the ground, and the entrance to the dungeon fell as stones.
He himself went to perform ablution - so he was disgusting the type of decomposed flesh. Werewing, he shakeped the drops, and so the gods began to be born. From the drop, washed his left eye, Amateras was born, the goddess of the sun. From the drop, washing the nose, - her brother Susano, the God of the Wind. And many other.
The World of the Dead Goddess Izanami was angry and promised to retaliate her husband for the cowardice to kill people created by him, and her husband promised her to build new and new huts and populate them. So they became each other to compete: Izanami kills people, and idzanagi puts new ones. It was not without enmity and between Amateras and Susano. Brother once broke into Amateras and so frightened that her sister was hidden in the cave.
On Earth it became dark, the eternal night came. Only the universal efforts of the gods persuaded Amateras to look out of shelter. And then a clear sunny day returned. And Susano's rafter was driven away from the eyes, so as not to scare the sister. The Japanese believe that Amateras has become the degree of the imperial genus.
The grandson of the goddess whom Ninigi's name was descended to the Japanese Islands to rule in people. And the descendant of ninigi by name Dzyma became the first emperor of Japan. According to tradition, it is believed that Dzimm founded the state in 660 BC.
From generation to generation, the Japanese transferred the sacred subject: the mirror of the goddess Amateras, which is considered a symbol of the imperial power. As they believe in the islands, the sacred mirror is still stored in one of the three imperial temples. After all, in Japanese beliefs, the emperor is not a governor of God on earth, as the Europeans believed, and himself there is a deity. Only after World War II, the Japanese emperors agreed to no longer name themselves by the gods.
Life without suffering
If Christians have an established symbol of faith, the Japanese do not have hard dogmas. They simply know that initially the world of goods, and evil comes to it, when people lose their purity and stop listening to their own soul. Good and evil as disconnected concepts do not exist at all. Evil, by and large, just a "disease", and a person who is Alchesta or cruel is sick. If he can return the original purity of the soul, he recovers. There are many myths and legends on this topic.
Sometimes the insight occurs under the influence of sleep. Sometimes a person suddenly hears the voice of Kami, who instructs the right path. And sometimes he understands his mistakes himself and gives them to fix them. No punishment after death, like Christians, the Japanese do not know. But evil souls after death of their owners can become evil spirits and scare good people, even to be a ghost.
The disease and death of the Japanese consider them out of them with an objectionable Kami: no wonder idzanagi fled from the decisive body of the wife. The temples are forbidden to enter with bleeding wounds or if a person has lost physicality and purity due to illness. Inside the draft temples, you will not see the graves of the righteous and heroes, as accepted in Christian culture. To bury inside the temple is the same as making the temple of the gaze. Temples should give peace and spiritual peace, and not remind of suffering and death.
To live virtuously and honor gods and ancestors, the Japanese are building a Cinto temples, which consist of two parts. The first part is Hondan, where the altar is located and the sacred object is stored in which the Spirit of Kami. Second - Haiden, the room for believers. Sometimes both halls are connected to one. Sometimes Honden is right in the open sky, and the altar serves a stone or mountain. The temple may look like a rectangular platform with two columns - gates without doors called thorium.
Services leads cannasi, dressed in white kimono, the same pants and a black hat. Sometimes his helpers take part in them - Miko. In the temples, the Japanese make four canto ritual - symbolic cleansing (harai), offering the gods (synsan), ritual prayers (norito), ritual feast (spikes). Harasa is the dance of the mouth, the hands and face of temple water. Any gifts of gods can be used as a synsan - food, dear heart objects, sacred texts, money.
Prayers are usually readable by clergy and are accompanied by other rituals, and all the parishioners are collected on the ritual feast. They eat and drink a piece of offerings with their kami, separating with spirits ritual meal. Some prefer to pray for kami alone. For the uninitiated, it looks strange-man. It is in full silence, sometimes widespread hands and clapped in your hands. The Japanese believe that with the help of cotton they attract the attention of kami to their prayer.
In addition to temples, the Japanese pray at home altars, which often look like a simple shelf on which the sacred items are put. A couple of times a year in the Shinto temples celebrate the main holidays that are related either with the history of a particular temple, or are devoted to the Deity, which is a patronage.
Kami named Christ
Shintism originated in the distant past of Japan and soak all the Japanese culture. At the same time, this religion is very tolerant of other beliefs, so I absiled, for example, the features of Buddhism. Often in the Shinto temples you can see the images of Buddha. There can even be read by Buddhist sutra and be used by Buddhist symbolism.
At one time, the Japanese Sintoism was so closely walked with Buddhism that even the Shinto Buddhist temples appeared. And only a special decree of the emperor, this battle stopped. In some localities, Sintoism was intertwined with Confucianism.
The only "imported" religion, which was not able to intertwine with syntoism, is Christianity. And not at all because the syntoists were not ready to introduce the European Christ in their pantheon. Jesus appeared to the Japanese excellent kami, and they were ready to worship him. But indignant Christians. They demanded that the Japanese recognize the exception of Christ, and their kami - harmful spirits. The Japanese did not go for it.
The funny thing is that the Japanese themselves consider Xintoism not a religious doctrine, but the cultural characteristics of their homeland. Even the name of Japan is the country of the rising sun - is associated with the Shinto goddess Amateras. Religious and cultural layers in the consciousness of the Japanese are so closely related that they cannot be divided. This is an amazing unity and gave rise to a special Japanese image of thought and life, which foreigners seem completely incomprehensible and very attractive.
Nikolay Kotomkin
Kami-Kiri, or as it is also called Kamiik ("Hair Cutter"), this is mystical demons similar to arthropods with hands and a beak in the form of scissors, sharp as a razor. Despite the fact that in the limits of Japan, few people have heard of them, in the country of the rising sun Kami-Kiri itself, is mentioned quite often.
There were cases when this strange demon demon even got to the pages of newspapers. In addition, the police issued an order, in case they will see the dismantling Kami-Kiri, to pacify him the same hour.
Kami-Kiri appearance
Initially, Kami-Kiri was described by huge as a bear, the creature that had a completely black body and burning eyes. He suddenly pounced on any suspects of people from behind with the screams of "Mogaaaa!", After which he dug his scissor teeth into the hair victims. Most often he attacked people right on the street.
However, over time, it began to describe it quite differently. Now he became a very dodgy demon with a rather hidden and skinny body. His hands have become long and skinny or scissors, as well as the head, looking like a raven on which the beak appeared.
Evolving Kami-Kiri became more persistent and vertine. Thanks to its small sizes, he could imperceptibly penetrate the house through windows or doors. Then he made his way into the bathroom and there was imperceptibly arranged forced haircut her "client". After this procedure, he grabbed the maiden hair and retraced.
Habits kami-kiri
Kami-Kiri act very secretly. Their goal is to carefully paint the victim and suddenly cut the hair block, and if it turns out, then more. They can hide on the roofs under the tiles and, when someone passes under it, cut hair. And they are absolutely anyway, to whom to attack, whether women or men, poor or rich.
The habitat of these demons is cities, in particular the alleys, and favorite places are bathrooms. Quite often, Kami-Kiri are not noticed until they see the sliced \u200b\u200bcurl on earth or while the sacrifice does not say another person about the cut bug of hair. There were no rare cases when Kami-Kiri was engaged in his business at the time when a man sleeps on the bed.
Especially terrible monster Kami-Kiri was in those days when the Japanese had long hair. He was afraid of him in the aristocratic quarters. Nowadays, Kami-Kiri is already afraid not as much as before.
In rare cases, the attack of Kami-Kiri per person may mean that the victim is going to marry in ignorance with a ghost or Yka. The thing is that, according to legends, sometimes bushing or kitsune can deceive a person and enter into marriage with him. However, such marriages, as a rule, end with disasters, and Kami-Kiri try to prevent them from being held.
How to get rid of Kami-Kiri
Make it is very not easy. However, at a minimum one way is known. To do this, you will need a spell to write on the room door or on the subject that you wear in the hair (the hairpin, for example). If you do the utmost, then this demon will not harm you.
Spell text: "異国 より 悪魔 の の 風 の 吹き くる に そこ 吹き 伊勢 の 神風 神風" that translated into Russian means: "When the devilish wind comes from foreign lands, let the gods send him the oncoming wind from ISE." ISE is considered to be a sacred place of Shito, very revered by monks.
Trail Kami-Kiri in culture and history
At the end of the 17th century, reports were repeatedly received from people that they had a unknown creature during night walks. And people did not notice this until they spoken about it. Then they returned the same route and their hair returned to the previous place.
Later, on April 2, 1810, the incident occurred with Tomigo Codisim's servant in EDOOBOMOT. In the morning, she, as usual, went outside, but opening the door, suddenly felt that something fell from her head. Having looked down, she saw her own hair on the floor.
And one of the cases was even printed in the newspaper. It happened in the vicinity of Tokyo on May 20, 1874, at about 9 pm. The young maid, who called the Gin, went from the master's house to an extension. Entering it, she felt an unpleasant chill, and after a moment her hair fell to the girl on her face (her long tail was completely cut off). The girl succumbed to panic and ran to the house to the neighbors, and ran into it, fainted. Then the neighbors went to this extension and examined it, finding the gin scattered hair on the floor. Since the ill-fated case, this extension has never been used again.
In modern culture, the image of Kami-Kiri can be found in various manga and anime. The most famous character can be called Kami-Kiri from the famous TV series "Naruto." True, there is not a demon, but a person. In particular merit, this gloomy type in this anime has not been noted by the series, but I remembered many viewers.
Korean, Japanese, Hong Kong, Chinese and Taiwanese pop music is becoming increasingly popular on the world arena. Japan, which is the second largest musical market in the world, is known for its "eccentric" entertainment music clips. Korean K-POP, which appeared initially as a musical genre (with elements of Western Electropopa, Hip-hop, dance music and modern rhythm-n-blues), eventually turned into a large-scale subculture having millions of fans in Asia and beyond. Nevertheless, behind the cute faces of beautiful young people and girls singing and dancing under sophisticated pop music (as a rule, written by the Scandinavians, which is very surprising), actually hides something dark and terrible ...
1. Sashen
The Korean word "Sasan" (Sasaeng) is the neologism, meaning the fanatical fans of K-Pop-performers.
K-Pop performers have millions of fans, both in South Korea and outside. The fanatical of them are "sassen fans", which for the sake of their idols are ready for everything. These, as a rule, include girls aged from thirteen to twenty-two years, whose obsession with pop idols reached an unhealthy level. One yaraya fan of the artist Ok Tek Yong from the popular Korean group "2pm" sent him a letter in which his own menstrual blood wrote: "You, Tek Yong, I dedicate this letter written by my menstrual blood. Well, Tekr Yong, now you can not live without me. In the envelope you will also find a bunch of hair from my pubis. "
PAK YUCHON from the K-Pop group "Jyj", to put it mildly, was shocked when I learned that the Sasan fans set (or hacked) the camera in the parking lot near his house and laid out a photo of the photo when he left and came home .
The personal life of the participants of the Korean pop group "TVXQ", apparently, is of particular interest from their fans. They report that the fans made a copy of the key from the apartment of one of the participants of the TVXQ group, hacked his mobile phone to check who he calls, took advantage of his personal seal for registration of marriage documents, put it in the bags of female underwear and ordered food delivery To the house for which, naturally, I had to pay him. Another members of the group were faced with the fact that at night the fans got into the hotel rooms where they slept, and began to kiss them. In addition, the relatives of the participants "TVXQ" often receive calls from abnormal fans.
Sasan fans always fiercely defend their "territory", attacking those who dare to approach or touch their pop idol. According to reports, some sassen fans are poured by urine and deceive by the doors of the hotel rooms, in which K-Pop stars stop to "mark their territory".
Sometimes Sasan fans for the opportunity to constantly chase their idols break their lives; They throw school and become prostitutes to earn money to pay for services of special taxis. These taxis go at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour to keep up for buses, on which pop idols toured around the country.
2. Anti-fans
They say that hatred is not the opposite of love; Most likely, they are two sides of the same medal. This is especially true in the case of anti-fans that hate some pop stars and try to annoy them in every way, as well as their fans.
In 1999, the Kan Miun from the popular Korean group "Baby V.O.x" received tens of envelopes filled with razor blades by mail, and an angry letter written by blood, along with her photographs, in which she had eye painted.
In 2000, the participant of the group "G.O.D" Yun Ko San got a drink mixed with a bleach and detergent. He was drinking his mother, who later turned out to be in the hospital.
In 2006, Yunho, the participant of the group "TVXQ", it took washing the stomach after he drank a drink mixed with glue.
In 2008, during the "Dream Concert" concert, girls from the South Korean group "Girls' Generation" became the victims of the incident, subsequently called the "Black Ocean". There were rumors that the participants of the group "Girls' Generation" Many were unbelievable because of their excessive arrogance. Fans of such Bands such as "TVXQ", "SS501" and "Super Junior" hated girls from "Girls' Generation" for the fact that they allegedly raised on "their boys", so they decided to organize a boycott during the concert "Dream Concert " When the participants of the Girls' Generation group went on the stage, they, instead of the joyful shouts of their fans, faced darkness and complete silence in the stands.
3. Diploma Raper Tablo
Anger and rage anti-fans are not limited to physical attacks and promial insults. Attacks on a reputation, even if unreasonable, can cause huge damage to popular Korean performers. The most striking example is the story of Tablo rapper, also known as Daniel Son Woon Lee. It is considered one of the most famous hip-hop performers on the Korean musical scene. After Daniel Son Voon Lee announced his engagement with the actress Kan Hyu Jong, he began to be mad attacks from anti-fans.
In the latter case, the South Korean Internet Community of Anti-Fanates called "Tajinyo" (Korean Acronym, meaning "We demand truth from Tablo") accused Daniel Son Voon whether his diploma of Stanford University (California, USA) is Lipov. When Tablo unveiled a copy of his credit book, and the University of Stanford University was publicly instructed for him, Thomas Black, anti-fans appealed to the theory of conspiracy. They began to argue that Tablo stole the identity of another Korean graduate of Stanford University named Dan Lee, an engineer living in Wisconsin.
After, anti-fans turned their anger against the Tablo family, accusing his mother in the fact that she did not win, but I bought a gold medal at the international competition of hairdressers in 1968. Brother Tablo, David, began to receive phone calls with threats, because of what he lost its work in a broadcast company.
Tablo was forced to break the contract with Woolim Entertainment, when its representatives stated that "they have nothing to say about the charges against the Repeer regarding the authenticity of his diploma about education."
Ultimately, it came to the point that Tablo began to receive messages with threats in Twitter, to be attacked by anti-fans on the street and fear for the safety of his newborn baby.
Only after the journalistic investigation conducted by the MUNHWA Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) television channel, and the publication of the results of the official test of Daniel Son Vun Li was able to regain his former reputation. The court issued an order for the arrest of the leader of the Internet community "Tajinyo", which turned out to be a fifty-alerted Korean businessman living in Chicago. In his excuse, he stated that the slander is not an international crime.
4. Forced to sexual relationships
Almost all girls in Korea dream of the popularity of K-Pop-idols and a pile of fans. But as soon as they sign a contract with any company, they have to do something more than just hard and persistently work. To succeed, future stars (even minor age) are forced to enter into sex with customers, whom they are looking for those who deal with "promotion". According to one of these girls, customers paid from 220 to 900 dollars for the "meeting" (depending on the fame of the company, who forced their wards to engage in prostitution).
In 2010, the Taiwanese singer Estrell Lin stated that when she was a participant "3EP beauties", the company's promotion company forced her to sexual relations with potential investors. According to her, it's no secret that Korean actresses and singers voluntarily or forced to provide sexual services to advance through the career ladder.
In 2002, Yana Syuk-Wu, General Director of Open World Entertainment, was arrested on charges of coercion of young girls and guys (among them even minors) to sexual relations.
5. Johnny Kitagawa
Johnny Kitagawa, the former American Marine Fight from Los Angeles, after traveling to Japan decided to move to this country to a permanent place of residence. In 1962, he founded the Johnny & Associates company here (Idol agency specializing in fight bands). Such groups like "Kinki Kids", "V6", "Hey! Say! Jump "and" SMAP "may not have achieved international recognition, but became extremely popular in Japan. Everyone who decides to start cooperation with Johnny & Associates, first undergo a rigorous check, and after they are waiting for work in hard conditions, poor privileges and fees and full control over activities.
Johnny Kitagawa supports the illusion of diversity, financing artists and releasing albums under various sublablaces in order to disguise the monopoly "Johnny & Associates". His company is considered the most powerful force in the Japanese Island Music Industry, the second largest in the world. Kitagawa has tremendous power over advertisers, television stations and magazine publishers. He wakes up, not allowing to cooperate with competing agencies or forcing the scandals associated with Johnny & Associates.
Johnny Kitagawa always prefers to promote those artists who, according to him, "easier to manage." In fact, he means those who are ready to provide him with an intimate nature. In 1988, China Keji, a former participant of the battle-band "Four Seasons" accused Kitagawa in sexual harassment and rape. It did not affect his reputation, because he filed a claim for slander and called the Japanese public ignorant.
6. Contracts with slave conditions
For many years, Korea is famous for its "slave contracts", which concludes large labels and young performers. According to these contracts, the Contractor has no right to terminate cooperation with the Agency of the previously established period (in some cases it can reach thirteen years). The agency fully assumes all the costs associated with the training of future stars, including the costs of vocals and choreography lessons, stylists and makeware services, housing, food, and so on. Terms of contracts also provide for extremely exhaustive and intensive work for hours (unlike flexible, measured graphics of Western pop stars). This is justified by the fact that, if you really want to become popular and famous, it means, must overcome all the difficulties found in the way to the goal.
"SM Entertainment", one of the largest Korean music labels, came across several times with claims and lawsuits in their address due to the rigid contract conditions. In 2009, Khan Gene, a former participant of the Super Junior group, said that the owners of the company "SM Entertainment" made him do what he did not want, under the threat of big fines, and did not allow him to go to the hospital when he had revealed Gastritis and kidney problems.
In 2009, the participants in the Jyj musical group told the press that the Thirteen-year-old contracts with SM Entertainment were actually indefinitely, the profits from speeches were unevenly distributed, and they allowed them to sleep for no more than four hours per night.
These disputes were settled, however, in 2012, the leader of the "EXO" group, Chris filed a lawsuit to court in order to cancel his contract with SM Entertainment due to the fact that they were neglected by his opinion and health. In 2009, the Korean Fair Trade Commission (English. Korea Fair Trade Commission) introduced "standardized contracts", that is, the deadline for which they are concluded should not exceed seven years. Nevertheless, other problems were not solved. Artists are still forced to pay exorbitant fines for termination of contracts with unscrupulous agencies that seek to focus in the hands of Prince all profits.
7. Racism
Despite the artistic and stylistic influence that African American culture has provided for the pop music of Korea and Japan, racist sentiment is still traced in the work of the performers of these countries. Korean and Japanese pop singers and pop artists often protrude on the scene in the image of black.
In 2012, the American boxer-professional Floyd Mayweather wrote on his page on Twitter: "Undoubtedly, Jeremy Lin [approx. American professional basketball player who comes to the team of the National Basketball Association "Los Angeles Lakers"] is a good player, but everyone considers it cool only because he is Asian. Black Basketball players do the same thing as Lin, but not so popular as he. " The Korean-American K-Pop-composer Jenny Hyn inadequately responded to this tweet, calling the black "non-priests, ungrateful monkeys" and the "cancer tumor of the planet" and calling for the eradication of the Black Race.
Racism against other Asians also has a place to be. In 2010, the three participants of the Japanese J-Pop group "Morning Musum" posted a network of photographs where they are depicted with pretty eyes, and wrote: "Who is it? Koreans".
Participants of another popular Japanese group, "° C-UTE", on the air of the evening show broadcast on one of the largest Tokyo TV channels, said that Adolf Hitler was the "greatest person in world history." They called him "Uncle Hitler" and brought with them a cute caricature of the bloody dictator.
8. How become stars
Some K-Pop Aiyiyola begin their starry path in childhood. Book agencies help them in this, whose work is to find talented and attractive children. Others become stars after participating in special castings, which are conducted both in Korea and abroad, or television programs like the SUPERSTAR K talent show. "Superstar K" - a television music project, applications for participation in which in 2012 4 percent of the population of South Korea filed.
After the young artist, for example, passes the casting, is waiting for his hard learning program, first developed by Johnny Kitagawa in the 1980s and subsequently improved by time. This is an extremely grueling period that can last for several years. During it, young talents honed various skills and desperately wait for their debut.
In the period of study, future stars operate at 14 o'clock per day; They are engaged in the simulator hall, dance, swim and sing. Their breakfast is limited to dietary cookies, bananas and greens. For dinner, they eat chicken breast and a simple salad. After seven in the evening they are not allowed to drink water so that they look fresh and cheerful. Toilet and bathroom Future stars are visited only under someone's supervision. They are also forced always and everywhere wearing sunglasses. If the producer does not arrange anything in the appearance of the future pop idol, he will suggest it to make a plastic surgery.
9. Edison Chen.
Sex scandals are quite a frequent phenomenon in the world of Asian pop music.
In 2008, Hong Kong pop idol Edison Chen broke up a laptop. The master who repaired him discovered the intimate photos of the Chen on the hard disk, where he is amused with famous actresses and pop stars. Later, they all gradually began to appear on bulletin boards in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China. On suspicion of information leakage, the Hong Kong police arrested eight people.
After the publication of the pictures, a real scandal broke out, destroying the reputation of many girls who were captured in photographs from a laptop Chen. Bobo Chan lost favorable contracts and a young man with whom he was already engaged. Later, she flew into the United States of America, where he was left for permanent residence, leaving the entertainment industry forever. Actress Gillian Chun wanted to end the life of suicide. Edison Chen himself publicly apologized to everyone and, having decided to temporarily leave the show business, went to North America. This, apparently, was the right step on his part, as the leader of one of the Chinese triads promised to pay 91 thousand dollars to someone who cut off both hands. He returned to Hong Kong only to give testimony in court. Upon arrival, the police provided him with round-the-clock protection and protection against the attacks of the press. In 2009, Chen spent several performances in Singapore, after which the Hong Kong station "Cable TV" received a gold bullet and a letter in which it was said that after the fourth of April, Chen should not appear in public: "We hope Edison Chen seriously It will perceive this warning, otherwise its personal safety will be at risk. "
Ultimately, Chen returned to the scene, but the lesson from the past mistakes is never extracted. In 2011, he was again in the center of the sex scandal. This time the photos were leaked to the network, in which the thirty-year chen hugs and kisses the naked sixteen-year-old model of Kamie. Kamie Jie admitted that she really slept with Chen, who, by the way, threw her right at the conference held after the leak of intimate photos.
