Is the Japanese music industry etter than the Korean music industry?
Japanese music industry is the second largest music industry in the world, after US music industry. So of course many entertainment companies in Korea will want to try to penetrate Japan music industry. Moreover, Japanese are more dedicated and royal in spending money to buy the music stuff such as CDs and DVDs compared to Koreans who prefers to download the songs and videos illegally. That was why for DBSK, selling 500000 copies of MIROTIC album was already a big feat while in Japan, Arashi or Exile can easily reach that numbers in 2 or 3 weeks. Another example, the girl groups SNSD is one of the top selling girl groups in korea since they are able to sell 100000 of their albums consecutively, but in Japan, DBSK sold 100000 cds of their single in the first day, so obviously Japanese music market is more profitable. Moreover, the culture is more similar to Korean and the short distance enable the company to have better control of their artists there. Also, many of the Korean entertainm
