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韩国造星产业化的一条龙生产线 At?a?rented?theatre?on?a?Saturday?night?in?Seoul, 20?self-conscious?young?talents?standawkwardly,?some?of?them?in?tears,?in?front?ofhundreds?of?cheering?friends?and?relatives. 周六晚上，在首尔的一个租来的剧院里，20个年轻选手有些局促地站在台上，一些人眼里还有泪水，台下是数百名为他们加油的朋友和家人。 All?have?been?working?towards?this?moment?foryears,?before?passing?through?preliminary?auditionsstaged?by?JYP?Entertainment,?one?of?South?Korea’sbiggest?music?production?companies.?Then?came?six?weeks?of?intensive?training?for?thisclimactic?performance,?after?which?only?three?are?handed?the?bouquets?that?signify?theoffer?of?a?training?contract. 所有人都为这一刻努力了多年，他们先是通过JYP?Entertainment公司的初选，之后接受了6个星期的密集培训，而这次表演就是培训后最终的高潮部分。在表演结束后，只有3人能拿到花束，代表签订培训合同的邀约。JYP是韩国最大的音乐制作公司之一。 “I’ve?been?working?so?hard?for?five?years,?and?now?I’ve?finally?made?it,”?Kim?Byung-kwantells?the?audience,?clutching?the?flowers?and?visibly?overwhelmed?after?being?namedchampion?of?the?evening. “我已经辛苦努力了5年，现在我终于做到了，”Kim?Byung-kwan向观众们说，手里紧握着花束，显然已被成为当晚冠军带来的巨大喜悦压倒。 The?stakes?are?high?for?these?young?hopefuls,?who?have?the?opportunity?to?becomesuperstars?not?only?in?South?Korea?but?across?Asia,?and?increasingly?beyond.?Psy’s?2012?raphit?Gangnam?Style?—?so?popular?that?it?recently?forced?YouTube?to?recalibrate?its?countingsystem?for?video?views?—?is?only?one?example?of?the?growing?clout?of?South?Koreanpopular?music,?which?hauled?in?revenues?of?Won4.4tn?($4.1bn)?in?2013,?according?to?theKorea?Creative?Content?Agency. 对这些渴望成功的年轻人来说，奖赏是丰厚的。他们将有机会成为韩国、乃至整个亚洲的超级明星，甚至越来越有可能在更多地方扬名。朴载相(Psy)2012年的热门Rap单曲《江南Style》(Gangnam?Style)太过流行，以至于YouTube最近不得不为其重新校准视频播放次数计数系统。这只是韩国流行音乐日益增长的影响力的一个例子而已。根据韩国文化产业振兴院(Korea?Creative?Content?Agency)统计，2013年韩国流行音乐产业共实现4.4万亿韩元（合41亿美元）的收入。 With?its?slickly?choreographed?videos?and?addictively?energetic?sound,?K-pop?commandsobsessive?followings?across?Southeast?Asia,?China?and?Japan,?and?has?established?firmbeachheads?in?Europe,?the?US?and?Latin?America.?Its?international?success,?along?with?thatof?the?country’s?melodramatic?soap?opera