K-pop's Frankenstein — Digital Twins Born from an Artist's Voice, Memory, and Personality
Galaxy Corporation is pursuing a dual IPO in Seoul and New York as a trillion-won unicorn, spearheading its 'The Day After Tomorrow' digital twin project and robot idol initiatives that learn an artist's voice, personality, and memory data. With 75–80% of revenue concentrated in a single artist — G-Dragon — the company faces deep structural vulnerability, even as a wave of simultaneous idol departures across the industry fuels its AI replacement strategy. Critics argue this approach does not solve K-pop's exploitative structure but merely swaps the subject of exploitation from human beings to data, raising the fundamental question of whether this experiment will revolutionize K-pop's business model or erode the emotional economy that sustains fandom.