K-pop Confidential by Stephan Lee

K-pop Confidential by Stephan Lee

Candace Park knows a lot about playing a role. For most of her life, she’s been playing the role of the quiet Korean girl who takes all AP classes and plays a classical instrument, keeping her dreams of stardom and her obsession with SLK, K-pop’s top boyband-to herself. She doesn’t see how a regular girl like her could possibly become one of those K-pop goddesses she sees on YouTube. Even though she can sing. Like, really sing. So when Candace secretly enters a global audition held by SLK’s music label, the last thing she expects is to actually get a coveted spot in their…. Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Sexism
  • Fatmisia & body shaming
  • Dieting & restrictive eating, on-page
  • Panic attack
  • Hospitalisation of a grandparent