To be honest, I don't think it's a Korean entertainment culture to speak out. The celebrities can't even openly tell public who they are dating, especially when their partners are non celebrities. Back on topic, the elites probably have threatened them before they could even speak out. Those people are capable of ruining the celebs' lives in just a split second. You see what's happening to those ex SM artists? None of them can appear on music programs anymore cause SM banned them. Knowing how powerful the agency is, those programs just have to obey whatever SM says or their lives will be ruined too. Basically, once you're out of their control, you're free but you're ruined. They can threaten to murder your friends or family too, who knows. When you're under mind control, it's gonna take a lot of struggle to break free and the process just won't be completed if you're still under their control. They will notice what you're trying to do and if they feel like it's time to execute, they will try to do everything to break you down and make it feel like you're the problem here and not the system. That's probably what they did to Jonghyun.My parents have told me that these artists have NO control of what happens until they are at GDRAGON's level (of course they didn't use GD, but I'm using the KPOP equivalence of what I was told) So, they are controlled in all aspects. So, with this being said, I feel that he may have been mind controlled along with other idols at the beginning of his career. Whether or not they are still mind control at a higher level Im not sure- but I believe they are. I believe that idols are truly being controlled completely, from the beginning of their career until the end.
I know it probably won't make sense, but I feel like most idols are indeed under mind control. Atleast, so they can control the way they act for the public. Being a KPOP idol, you have to act a certain way and appeal to fans, so I feel like these companies may use mind control so they can keep up with a certain image. When it comes to pushing the agenda as heavily as the top stars do, I feel that the artist will probably have to reach a certain level of fame? Anyone can correct me, but I think they may not feel it necessary to use idols who can't even hold fanmeets to push their agenda. So I think that once the group is at BTOB's level, is when they'll start pushing the agenda to the point that it's obnoxious.
I also wonder if Jonghyun knew, or if BTS and Jin know of his possible death? I can't imagine someone would sit still if they knew they were going to be killed. One of these idols would surely speak out, right? Tons of western celebrities did, so I wonder why they won't say anything. Maybe they are under such heavy mind control that they can't speak out and are being forced to just wait until it occurs. I don't know.