The kpop industry model involves music labels providing intense investment in the scouting, training, production and output of young artists. This often requires artists to sign long-term contracts in which labels can control diet, relationships and public image. Conversely, the Western model often involves new artists independently producing and creating output in order to be recruited by labels and receive record deals. 

You and your partner are dissidents (someone who activiely opposes/ disagrees with the goverment) living in an totalitarian regime. So far you have kept your opposition a secret from everyone but each other to avoid punishment. There is no apparent chance of revolution or regime change. You have just found out that you will be having a child.