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Idol worship: what it costs to become a K-Pop star

Kim Ye-Seul is determined to be an 鈥淚dol Singer鈥� in a Korean girl band, but at what cost? K-Pop is enormously popular, with legions of fans worldwide, but extreme weight-loss, cosmetic surgery and years of training are a given in this industry. John Murphy reports from Seoul.

First broadcast on From Our Own Correspondent, Sat 9 Jun 2018.

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