K-pop stars in training work for 18 hours a day and are encouraged to starve themselves

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A former K-pop trainee has revealed the gruelling experience she endured at a South Korean entertainment company. Euodias, who is half Korean and half Chinese, moved from her home in England to South Korea to train for two years to become a K-pop star. In a new op-ed for BBC News, Eudioas has described how her and her fellow trainees were encouraged to starve themselves, forced to sleep on wooden floors, and after 18-hour days of work would often pass out from exhaustion. Download the new Independent Premium app Sharing the full story, not just the headlines Download now She also revealed trainees were kept away from their parents and how her gay colleagues were ostracised. Shape Created...

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