TVXQ(DBSK) vs. S.M. Entertainment

[sugarrush]

Okay, for all of you die hard fans out there, I'm not sure whether there was a thread on the whole Yoochun, Junsu, and Jaejoong vs. SM Ent. (without Yunho and Changmin). So I just made one because recent updates on the issue surfaced, so here's the whole shindangles fo' ya:

DBSK members have financially earned close to nothing from their six years of work and almost no profit from album sales, DVD sales, television appearances, concert performances, etc. Virtually all revenue generated from DBSK products have gone straight to SM and the terms of the contracts are unfair.The members have a contract of 13 years, excluding military service and they get virtually no rest. Think "slave contracts".

Then this whole situation started to reflect on netizens complaining about how other bands under SM are also suffering:
- If DBSK gets barely profit, what about the payment split between SNSD and even worse, Super Junior?
-SHINee members are rail-thin and have to balance high-school and work at the same time (more referring to Minho and Taemin)
-S.M.'s reputation with somehow "managing to break up" some of Korea's biggest stars (H.O.T. and Shinhwa- which, started out in disagreements between the members themselves)
-Henry and Zhou Mi anti-fans who are still voicing out their opinions
-Incoming criticisms are coming in on Kangin's DUI and bar charges.

I think DBSK is an awesome band, but if they had issues regarding their contract, why didn't they voice their complaints earlier? All of a sudden it just happened. People also push all the blame onto SM. Sometimes SM is a little unfair, but they manage the biggest stars and they to accommodate them to their best abilities. SM isn't a bad company, it's just people's opinions and their bias on bands.

I'm really not on any side, I just want the whole thing to end (and end the bad year for K-Pop it's been a crappy one, eh?) and have DBSK perform again

[iLOVEsuju~]

ahh yea..hmm..problems in SM entertainment eh >.<
there r sooo many members in suju O_O soo yeahh, how do they split their payments??

This is a really hot topic eh..it's everywhere TvT Well..I just hope this problem will end soon and the netizens really need to calm down~ just chillax lol xD I dun want this problem to end in a..sad way u kno O.O

[Key]

But SM are the guilty ones here, IMO...There's really no proof that they're going about their business in a proper way, while all the evidence (not saying it's perfect evidence, everything's still really muddled at this point) suggests them taking unfair advantage of their artists. I feel like they're kind of devious sometimes too, and tricky. Today on Omona, there was a newspost about SM wanting to rewrite the contracts of all their artists, but in small print it said something about they wanted it so that nothing like this could ever happen again. But say the contracts still aren't good enough? The artists are screwed =/

but if they had issues regarding their contract, why didn't they voice their complaints earlier?

(Sorry to cut your post!) As for the timing, it all started with the cosmetic company that Jaechunsu were investing in. SM said they couldn't do it and they wanted to. From there, it developed into the contract thing, because it says in their contract that they can't do stuff like that without permission. From there, it turned into the money argument. And why not now, anyways? It could be that they finally just got tired of it.

It's just not fair that DBSK is getting little to no money for their hard work, you know? I'm obviously biased towards DBSK, but I honestly just can't find how they could be guilty in this at all.

And as for the SHINee thing, it really makes me sick. As far as I can see, at this point, while SM keeps an eye on their artists' weights, they don't truly restrict them on their eating habits. SHINee has come right and said that they aren't allowed to eat after 7pm because they might get fat =/ These are teenage boys, who really need nourishment, especially with how hard they work. That just doesn't seem right at all.

[sugarrush]

Originally Posted by Key

(Sorry to cut your post!) As for the timing, it all started with the cosmetic company that Jaechunsu were investing in. SM said they couldn't do it and they wanted to. From there, it developed into the contract thing, because it says in their contract that they can't do stuff like that without permission. From there, it turned into the money argument. And why not now, anyways? It could be that they finally just got tired of it.

It's just not fair that DBSK is getting little to no money for their hard work, you know? I'm obviously biased towards DBSK, but I honestly just can't find how they could be guilty in this at all.

Ah, okay. I see where you're coming from! I still think that they should have voiced their opinion earlier, it's a shame all their Korean activities in 2010 are canceled indefinitely for now....