Episode 30 of “Train To Kwangya” music documentary is astonished to find SMTOWN engulfed in fire after the SM executives announced a new SM 3.0 era upon kicking Lee Sooman out of the company he founded about 28 years ago. Should we rejoice a new world that is now free from Lee Sooman’s one-man show or brace ourselves for an unstable future that is going more haywire than ever before? – I bring Drama-ma-ma-ma, I break Trauma-ma-ma-ma, With MY WORLD in the back, It starts with me, Drama 😱🤯🔥🔥🔥🔥
Episode 29 of “Train To Kwangya” music documentary chants the popular tagline among the K-pop idols “PASSION, PASSION, PASSION~!” while finding out the possibility of passion as an important factor that could have kept many older generation SM artists staying on and renewing their contracts with SM Entertainment despite the shockingly low salaries and alleged mistreatment of artists over the years. Can passion alone overcome all adversities, unfairness and toxicity of this K-pop industry? – Now take it, it’s ready, The time only for us, Being bold is alright, Show your true-self, You better than this, You better than this ❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🕺🏻💃👯♀️
Episode 28 of “Train To Kwangya” music documentary sees the money raking in for the ex-SM artists who made the bold but wise choice to leave SM Entertainment, even as some bitter people like Lee Sooman called them traitors for leaving. It’s not a matter of greediness for more money, but respect of self-worth and not fall victim to Lee Sooman’s exploitation of one’s own passion. – I got it, you know it, I’m on it, Begging for things you can’t buy or don’t have, Ka-CHING Ka-CHING-CHING, Ka-CHING Ka-CHING Ka-CHING-CHING, Let’s determine the price, time is money 🤡🙅🏻♀️🤑💰💲😎
Episode 6 of “Reclaiming the Earth’s Pop” music documentary assembles the Avengers of K-pop, SuperM, the super brain child of Lee Sooman and discusses whether their journey of ‘jopping’ to the U.S. succeeded or not since their very Marvel-lous debut in 2019. – I don’t even care here we will burn on this stage, Left to the right, we gon’ make it, make it bang, Put your hands in the air, let me see you bounce, To the left, to the right, it begins the round 🦸🏻🕺🏻🤾🏻♂️🍾🪂🇰🇷🇺🇸
Episode 27 of “Train To Kwangya” music documentary interprets why and how some SM idols tried to climb the ladder to grab a spot in Lee Sooman’s favourites list but risked getting dragged down by snakes in the process. Surviving in the competitive K-pop industry is like playing a game of Snakes & Ladders with their Teacher Lee Sooman himself being the biggest snake of all! – I can’t live if living is without you, I can’t give, I can’t give anymore 🤡🪜🐍🎲🙏
Episode 5 of “Reclaiming the Earth’s Pop” music documentary debates over whose American dream it was when BoA debuted in the U.S. with an English title track funnily named “Eat You Up”. Lee Soo-man couldn’t wait to declare his war of cultural invasion on America back then! – I’ll eat you up, your love, your love, Woah, I’ll eat you up, Woah, so yum yum, Woah, can’t get enough, Woah, oh oh, I think I’m in love 🍔🍕🍟🍽😋🇰🇷🇺🇸
Episode 26 of “Train To Kwangya” music documentary digs into Lee Sooman’s secret of finding new stars like NCT. Was it just all about one’s natural talent, hard work and passion? It seems like without women’s sensitivity to seeing potential, or ‘aura’ they say, in a child even from random streets, Lee Sooman would have missed out on rare gems like TVXQ!’s Changmin and Jessica Jung. Definitely more than meets the eye! – It was just like a movie, It was just like a song, My God this reminds me, Of when we were young 👧🏻➡️👸🏻🌟🤩
Episode 25 of “Train To Kwangya” music documentary revisits the same question that was asked right from the beginning of its premiere. Do we know any better now what Kwangya exactly is after the last 24 episodes? This would be our last chance to know Kwangya before the year 2023 concluded. – Won’t you give it up, This is your last chance, Don’t you know? Your heart wants me, Hurry and come to me, lalalala 😜🤷🏻♀️❓😮💨
Episode 4 of “Reclaiming the Earth’s Pop” music documentary discusses Lee Sooman’s American dream of making it to Hollywood with Girls’ Generation, NCT 127 and SuperM over the last decade or so. But his quests were not without challenges and setbacks, especially when he was up against his unexpected strongest rival like BTS from a relatively smaller agency back then. This episode examines what could be the pitfalls that prevented him from triumphing in the US. – It’s you and me, that’s my whole world, They whisper in the hallway, “She’s a bad, bad girl” (okay), The whole school is rolling fake dice, You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes 🕺🏻👯♀️😮💨🏆👎🇰🇷🇺🇸
Episode 24 of “Train To Kwangya” music documentary makes Lee Sooman eat his words for promoting unhealthy dieting in the K-pop industry with his message telling K-pop idols to stay hungry and foolish, quite literally. The harshness of his hunger games needs to be stopped and discouraged as these idols struggle to stay alive with eating disorders in order to maintain the company’s impractical standard of a ‘god-like’ body figure. – I want Goob, goob, goob’ne, I I I call again, I want Goob, goob, goob’ne, It’s so so so good, I I I call again 🍗🍖🍲👩🏻🍳😋🤤
Episode 23 of “Train To Kwangya” music documentary reads the messages sent by Lee Sooman in his group chatrooms with the SM idols revealing his narcissistic personality and texting behaviours. How would the SM artists respond to his cold dad jokes and reply to his texts that were filled with hints of sarcasm, gaslighting and superficiality? – We skipped the small talk, Straight to what’s next, just like that, The only flaw you said was that there’s none, I think I get it now, Gonna block you, Lights out, To. X 👴🏼💬📱📵😤
Episode 3 of “Reclaiming the Earth’s Pop” music documentary discusses the impact of YouTube on the K-pop industry in facilitating the unprecedented worldwide spread of the K-wave since the late 2000s. Lee Sooman’s 360 business approach to his K-pop system could be self-sufficient enough, but without the technological advances, growth of social media and active contributions of the passionate K-pop fans themselves, his extent of reach in propagating these K-pop contents to foreign shores would have been very much limited. – My only one friend in this world, You’re my joy and my soul, I’ll continue to treasure this preciousness, I swear to the heavens forever, I love you my friend 👯♀️👭📹💻👀🇰🇷🇺🇸