[News] The public criticizes SM’s rebuttal to the courts’ decision

The public points out, “the only thing greed leaves is destruction… they need to draw a big picture”

On the 17^th, the Seoul Central District dismissed all injunctions filled by SME against the court’s decision to suspend their contract with JYJ (Jaejoong, Yuchun, Junsu).

In response to the courts’ decision, SM Entertainment rebutted that “the legal battle between SM and JYJ isn’t finished. The courts’ recent decision is only on the injunctions and not on the invalidation of the contract between SM and JYJ.”

SM also claimed, “furthermore, the original lawsuit is still ongoing and the date for pleading the case will begin in mid-March. We will use the original lawsuit to objectively investigate the facts and the truth to prove the validity of our contract with JYJ.”

However, such statement from SM has increased criticism from K-Pop fans. The criticism comes from not only JYJ fans, but also the general public, putting more pressure on SME. Most opinions stems from the belief that SM needs to look at the bigger picture.

The harshest criticisms against SM comes especially from social networking sites.

In response to SM’s feeble attempt to reduce the significance of the courts’ recent ruling, a twitter member (Twitterian) pointed out that “SM, like its name (Sadistic and Masochistic) will continue to torture JYJ.” A different  member sarcastically claimed, “SM is a stalker management company.“

Movie critic Professor Shim YoungSup also tweeted, “Will SM faithfully carry out the courts’ decision? If SM continues to hold back JYJ and refuse to follow the courts’ order, couldn’t fans file another lawsuit against SM?“

One Tweeterian emphasized, “even the large boulder get cracks and break when water drops continue to fall on it. I believe today’s decision by the courts will not only break the boulder known as SM, but also become the cornerstone for making a cleaner kpop industry.”

In various sites, Netizens pointed out, “instead of only seeing celebrities as products, we need attitudes that respect the worth and rights of celebrities.” Furthermore, they claimed “increasing greed only leads to destruction. We hope SM, one of Korea’s representative management company, will not foolishly continue to grow the public’s mistrust with their myopic vision.“

Besides such opinions, voices criticizing SM’s antiquated patriarchal leadership and opinions pointing out the  urgent need to structurally reorganize the entertainment industry caught our attention. Views claiming the need to introduce effective new management methods to change the entire system also raised numerous heads.

Original article. http://news.nate.com/view/20110219n06264

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[Images] New (& old) pics from Nii in HQ

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(Note: this post is so full of JYJ-goodness from Nii that it’s almost endless ^^;)

I love you Nii..

I promise to buy lots of your clothes when I get to Korea T_T

 

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[Images] JYJ in March Issue of Ceci

…OMG…. T_T

 

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[News] It is time for KFPCAI, who has been blocking JYJ’s activities, to answer

On the 17^th, the Seoul Central District dismissed all injunctions filled by SME against the court’s decision to suspend their contract with JYJ, the group formed by Kim Jaejoong, Park Yuchun, and Kim Junsu.

The most noticeable part of the court’s decision is that the courts have also dismissed SM’s request for suspension of  JYJ’s contract with CJES entertainment.

At this point, there is an organization that also draws attention along with SM Entertainment. It’s Korean Federation of Pop Culture and Art Industry (KFPCAI). Last October, the federation caused a stir by sending out an official statement asking the national broadcasting stations, cable channels, record labels, music distributors, and the media to restrict JYJ’s activities after their release of “the Beginning” album.

At that time, KFPCAI took issue with JYJ’s “double contract.” Their claim was that although JYJ won their case to suspend their exclusive contract with SM, their contract hasn’t yet been invalidated and thus their contract with CJES in the current situation is unjust.

However, through the court’s recent decision, such claims made my KFPCAI have lost its persuasive power and justification. This is because the courts recognized that there are no problems with JYJ’s “business delegation contract” with CJES, who is currently managing the group.

However, KFPCAI has yet released its official position on the courts’ recent decision. K-pop fans are watching to see if KFPCAI will continue to ignore the public opinion by reasoning that “the legal battle over the problem of the exclusive contract isn’t over” or by reasoning that “the showbiz’s order is being disturbed because of JYJ.”

On such issue, a representative of a certain civic group pointed out that “with the court’s clear-cut decision, KFPCAI most likely knows that reasoning they’ve asserted in the past is weak. It is now time to change the unjust order of today’s show business instead of rashly reacting with our emotions.”

It is now time for KFPCAI to answer.

 

Original article. http://news.nate.com/view/20110219n06265

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[News] Yuhwan’s comments about Yuchun in his interviews :)

Park Yuhwan, “I’m a little bit cooler and more chic than my older brother”

Actor Park Yuhwan revealed his older brother, Group JYJ Park Yuchun’s, secret.

It’s that his brother is “overly neat.”

However, he couldn’t find any flaws in his older brother. After thinking for a while, he said, “hmm… it really seems like he doesn’t have any,” and laughed after asking, “is he a perfect man?”

The only flaw that he could point out was “my older brother can’t stand loose hair rolling around the house. If I place a cup on the table and leave, he tells me to put it away quickly.” However, it isn’t as if his brother has mysophobia. It’s just that “his neatness is sometimes slightly tiring.”

Yuhwan, however, is different from his brother. “My older brother is more feminine and I’m more masculine. He is more detailed and likes to arrange things and decorate his room, but I wear what’s given to me and am not very interested in decorating. I’m more cool and chic.”

Park Yuhwan, who says that he got his confidence and cheerful personality from acting, also confessed “when I was in elementary school, I used to share a room with my older brother and I used to get annoyed because my older brother would try to sleep holding my arm.”

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Original article. http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=106&oid=003&aid=0003692560

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Yuhwan, “I want to better my brother as an actor”

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Park Yuhwan said, “I’m getting a lot of attention because I’m Yuchun’s younger brother and as my acting senior, my brother gives me lots of acting advice. My older brother’s presence is more reassuring than burdensome. My older brother is a star I know I’ll have a hard time passing over, but I want to be better than him as an actor.”

Yuhwan, like Yuchun, spent his teenage years in the United States. He said, “we’re like all other brothers who full around and pull pranks on each other. Ever since Yuchun’s drama aired, I’ve been teasing him by sometimes calling him “uncle” like his drama’s character,” and smiled a smile much like his brother’s.

“When we were young, we grew up sharing a room. My older brother loved music even back then and would always let me listen to songs that he said he wrote. While my brother grew his dream to become a singer, I grew my dream to become an actor by mimicking performances on Korean dramas and sit coms.”

Yuhwan, who’s been cultivating his dream of becoming an actor by attending acting lessons in Korea, confessed to Yuchun that he wanted to debut as an actor, but his brother had told him to “think about it carefully since it isn’t an easy path.”

“At first, Yuchun told me to think about it carefully, but once he understood my goals, he became an active supporter. I also get my strength from my older brother’s fans who show an interest in me.”

 

Original article. http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=106&oid=001&aid=0004912230

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[Article] JYJ Lawsuit, The End of Lee Suman’s Patriarchal Leadership

Yesterday, the Seoul Central District Court (Civil Cases Department 50, Chief Prosecuting Officer: Seong Joon Choi) dismissed both SM Entertainment (SME)’s objection against JYJ(Kim Jaejoong, Kim Junsu, Park Yuchun)’s provisional injunction, and SME’s injunction to terminate their management contract with C-JeS Entertainment. Though the declaratory suit is left hereafter, judging from the decision made by the court that had dismissed SME’s objections, SME isn’t considered to have a better position in the lawsuit (coldly speaking, the judgment of the original lawsuit can be considered to have been made by over 51%)

First, Let’s look into why the court dismissed the objections.

- The exclusive contract of this case is a dominant-subordinate contract that an entertainer doesn’t have the rights in the decision-making process, and only had to follow the unilateral directions of the management company.

- Because JYJ members were in unilaterally inferior position than SME in negotiation, they had to follow SME’s measures.

The pretext, such as a decrease of investment risk or stable international expansion, cannot justify the extremely long subordinate exclusive contract like this case’s contract.

- Because not only the long-term contract but also the clauses such as SM’s command and supervision to JYJ’s every action and excessive penalty of breach of the contract intensify the subordination of this case’s contract, they are unilaterally unfavorable to JYJ members, and so they are invalid.

Giving these reasons, the court dismissed SME’s injunction to terminate the validity of JYJ members’ management contract with C-JeS Entertainment. The court granted an injunction banning SM’s hindrance to JYJ members’ independent activities in October 2009, and now made clear that SM cannot supervise JYJ members, so SME doesn’t have the chance of winning in the original lawsuit.

I think this decision brought the end to SME Chairman Lee Suman’s patriarchal leadership. The core of this leadership is the strategy of a hot and cold bath : as long as the entertainers are the inside of the SM fence, they can be taken best care of (even he supports the members of the group who was terminated because they were no longer popular, employing them as vocal trainers or dance trainers), but once they leave SM, they will stand in the Siberia. In this manner, he has held his entertainers.

This strategy might have been effective in order to maintain the idol-oriented large management company. Rightly or wrongly, it might. But now this strategy has passed the expiration date. Also, rightly or wrongly, it has. Now the outside of the fence is no longer Siberia. They have firm fandoms, in particular JYJ has a global fandom.

In spite of restriction on JYJ’s broadcasting activities, the sales of sound sources and albums are never behind. Despite the check of a Japanese large management such as AVEX, the OST of the drama made good profits in the Japanese market. Outside the Japanese market, SM doesn’t have friendly troops. Only is there global fans and the foreign press that will criticize the unfair contracts and violation of human rights.

Now, it’s time for SM Chairman Lee Suman to change the model of his leadership. Because SME is the largest management company which has twice or three times as many staffs as JYP or YG does, it has an ideal condition to make stars. In Asia, it has made “Korean Wave Silk Road” which could make Korean Wave stars. As a No.1 Asian partner of Yutube, SME is putting up a good fight. It needs ‘the win-win strategy’ based on these abilities.

Reality is reality. Even if SM is waiting for the decision of the original lawsuit, the consequences will be more hopeless. Now SM has to draw the bigger picture and holds out its hand decisively. SM has to draw a big picture in order that “StayingXeinQui” and “LeavingXeinQui” work together in the global market by correcting the parts which the court point out, treating them as artists and suggesting proper profit sharing. This is the new leadership that is required of the industry’s No. 1 Chairman Lee Suman.

 

 

Original Article. http://poisontongue.sisain.co.kr/1749 (dogsuldotcom’s Blog)

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