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[keiara]

last semester, i took an 'effective writing' class as a credit requirement and our final project was to write an opinion piece on anything we desired. of course, as a kpop fan with lots of opinions and no where to put them, i decided to write my paper on lawsuits regarding contracts in the korean pop industry.

i chose this topic because A) i knew something regarding legality would be the most likely to result in an actual peer-reviewed paper i could use, B) i could connect the paper to my favorite group, GWSN, and C) people in my class (and my chronically online teacher) likely have heard 'cupid' and therefore, if i mentioned FIFTY FIFTY, they might think 'wow, i knew the song but had no idea the story behind the group'. 

the final paper ended up nearly twice the required length, but still missing tons of info i wish i could've added in. however, i was already over the word limit (it wasn't a hard limit but still) and it was final season so i had other work to be doing. i turned in my essay, and ended up receiving an 100% and the ask if my professor could use my paper as an example of a good pop-culture analysis for this assignment in the future, yippee! 

this was around 6 months ago and a lot has happened to FIFTY FIFTY and it's former (or still active) members that makes a lot of my essay contain outdated information, but i still wanted to post it here in case anyone was interested in reading it. it's one of the only school assignments that i actually enjoyed making because it was on a topic i was invested in. once again, it's nowhere near perfect and i actually never read it over in full because i hate reading my writing (basically nothing i write on here is re-read before being posted LOL), but i wanna put it here anyways.

link to the essay is here, enjoy! lawsuits in kpop and fiftyfifty