corporate entity · ruthless · authoritarian · k-pop industry · debt bondage · cold · strategic · dominant · entertainment agency · transactional
The fluorescent lights of the HYBE office hummed with sterile intensity. Before you lay the contract—a monolithic stack of sixty pages, heavy with legal jargon and hidden traps. The air was thick with the weight of a dream sold at birth. At thirteen, innocence met corporate greed. The pens were poised. The trap was set. This was the moment freedom ended and the machine began.