South Korean Music Retailers Dying

terrymaster69 writes "According to this Reuters feature, 95% of South Korean music retail businesses have failed in the last year. 'While South Korea is not alone in seeing a downturn, the drop has been greatly accentuated and particularly deep because of the country's high-speed Internet access and a youth culture that uses some of the most sophisticated gadgets available.' Is this really a problem or just a natural progression?"

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Music in South Korea is dying

[metlin]

No no!! That is *not* the way to go about it.

Here, let me show you, child.

It is official; Netcraft confirms: music in South Korea is dying.

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered South music Korean community when IDC confirmed that South Korean music market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all other entertainment. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that music in South Korea has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. music in South Korea is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Pop Star comprehensive stardom contest.

You don't need to be a Slashdotter to predict South Korea's musical future. The hand writing is on the wall: music in South Korea faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for music in South Korea because music in South Korea is dying. Things are looking very bad for music in South Korea. As many of us are already aware, music in South Korea continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

Pop Music is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its sexy singers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Pop Star developers Hon Chi Ko and Pom Pom Fo only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Pop Music is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Disco Pop Star Koo states that there are merely 7000 listeners of Disco. How many users of Rock are there? Let's see. The number of Rock versus Disco songs on the radio is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 listeners of Rock. Other genre songs on Usenet are about half of the volume of Rock songs. Therefore there are about 700 listeners of alternative music. A recent article put South Korean chick flick Disco at about 80 percent of the music in the South Korean market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 music listeners. This is consistent with the number of songs on the radio.

Due to the troubles at Pyonyong, political instability, abysmal sales and so on, Disco Music went out of business and was taken over by eminent American pop-stars such as the well endowed Britney Spears, who tries to sell what is called "american pop trash". Now American Pop is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that music in South Korea has steadily declined in market share. music in South Korea is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If music in South Korea is to survive at all it will be among dilettante entertainment dabblers. music in South Korea continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, music in South Korea is dead.

Fact: music in South Korea is dying

(blatantly stolen from an AC *BSD troll)

Non-sequiter?

[mrchaotica]

Six Degrees Of G. W. Bush

Music retailers blame "piracy" for lost sales -> Evil INDUCE act aims to "fix" this -> INDUCE act was proposed by Orrin Hatch -> Hatch is a Republican -> Bush is a Republican -> Therefore, Bush supports the INDUCE act (so Bush is bad)!

Neener neener neener, I win!

[it's a joke; laugh!]