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On the 28th, Lawyer Lim Sang Hyuk of Sejong stated, “We have asked that SM Entertainment pay each member one billion Won first. The amount we file for compensation will increase but ten billion Won, which is the amount reported in some news articles, is a false report. We have not yet decided upon a final compensation amount.”
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Earlier on yesterday, there were reports spread through online media that the three members side demanded SM Entertainment to pay compensation for about 10 – 30 billion won regarding the unreasonable income which is one of the clause in their lawsuit.
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I wonder, who is the one spread the rumor at the first place. The boys deserve to have maybe much more than that for all they had done but I hope the news won’t cause another judgement for them (greedy, selfish, etc).
By: Kur4tinc on June 29, 2010
at 6:24 am
don’t mind that kind of things
those who think they are greedy and selfish will think that no matter how much the ask for compensation
haters are gonna hate
By: Alou on June 29, 2010
at 6:29 am
Exactly!
By: Yukki on June 29, 2010
at 8:36 am
That is why we have to be cautious about what we read in the news… we don’t know when there is a mistake.
I really only hope for the best for them
By: Alou on June 29, 2010
at 6:30 am
Figures dont matter much they deserve whatever compensation their lawyers are asking for.
By: Yuna on June 29, 2010
at 6:33 am
one ten billion Won is little money ~ten billion Won is what each of them deserves~ no matter!
By: ... on June 29, 2010
at 6:46 am
I was just at allkpop website. The way they translated is misleading
By: coffevampire on June 29, 2010
at 6:59 am
Seriously! AKP writers always have to add their lame opinions to their articles. “Seemingly-unfair contract”? Unfair is unfair, nothing seemingly about it. And “demanding such an overwhelming amount of cash”? Wtf AKP? South Korea is not some dirt poor country. $2.5 million dollars is how much good plastic surgeons and ibank managing directors make in one year, let alone 3 international stars with years in the industry and millions of albums sold.
By: Cecilia on June 29, 2010
at 7:28 am
yes2, i’m agree with you…
sometime AKP ‘not so nice’ to dbsk… :/
By: diss on June 29, 2010
at 7:33 am
highfive
i was JUST on akp defending the boys against the haters
the comments there can either make you feel warm to the toes
or really gnaw at your face
people can be so ignorant & jump to conlusions about the boys being greedy
one billion or ten billion; they deserve it all
its the money they shouldve gotten with or without the lawsuit
By: Evelynn on June 29, 2010
at 7:38 am
akp always do that -.- they just have to add in thier bias opinion of the matter and cause more controversies.
By: lily on June 29, 2010
at 8:28 am
i think AKP is always bias to SM ==, i never like that site
the boys deserve 10, 30, or more for their hardwork from debut until now,
By: hamaji on June 29, 2010
at 8:47 am
i totally a agree, well said ^_^
By: kecikjer on June 29, 2010
at 9:12 am
The minute I read the ‘seemingly unfair’, I was like ‘whatever’. It just seems that akp wanna save their ass by making their options open.
By: rachui on June 29, 2010
at 9:34 am
AKP is suck… always spread bad news about the boys…
By: Double J on June 29, 2010
at 8:14 am
I gave up on that site a long time ago. I won’t be surprise if SM hire them, or make a deal with them to spread false news towards the trio. Just save yourself some trouble and avoid that site.
By: Yukki on June 29, 2010
at 8:40 am
YES!!!
By: coffevampire on June 29, 2010
at 9:03 am
me 2..
By: Purple Line on June 29, 2010
at 9:21 am
i reckon the article was more neutral than the other ones…
AKP is full of little kids (no offense), half of them usually just jumps on the bandwagon, the other half don’t really care about DBSK (coz they’re new fans or simply fans of another groups), but ofc there are people who do think before they comment (which is a pretty small number IMO), so yea, i won’t get too worked out over those comments lol haters gonna hate anw
i think fans gave up commenting and arguing the same thing over and over again lmao
By: junsujunsujunsu on June 29, 2010
at 12:48 pm
Fuck allkpop. I have never been fond of that site ever since the beggining. They just love to twist the facts of dbsk’s news that leads to fanwars. /shrugs.
By: ohhho on June 29, 2010
at 4:41 pm
if the lawsuit goes in their favour they better increase the amount. What they were paid in comparison to the revenue they were bringing in was nothing.
By: vini on June 29, 2010
at 7:05 am
correct me if I am wrong..is
1billion won=829751109.9855 USD?
if it is true, SMe sure take a lot from our oppas..
By: Tea_key on June 29, 2010
at 7:24 am
1 billion won is more like US$800,000. Considering what celebrities get paid here for one movie or one album, that is chump change.
By: derp on June 29, 2010
at 7:42 am
1 USD = 1,205.26 KRW
1 Billion Won = 829,694.49 USD
This is too little compare to what they should have been piad for their work through out 5 years of their career.
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That’s about the price hollywood pay for a B-list supporting actor.
$2.5 Million is still reasonable anyway..
TVXQ is one of the stars that make the highest $$ in Korea entertainment industry for many consecutive years. Can the AKP people do a calculation?
By: forever JJ on June 29, 2010
at 7:47 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_wave
By: forever JJ on June 29, 2010
at 7:54 am
A+++
What’s wrong if they want their money back?
By: tran on June 29, 2010
at 8:17 am
wow…. that really sucks.
By: lily on June 29, 2010
at 8:29 am
for example…
http://www.google.co.th/#hl=th&q=Top+10+Highest+Paid+Korean+Stars+2008&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=bc57aa75eb43ff2c
This is what they deserve as TVXQ, one of the hottest Asia superstar!!!!
By: forever JJ on June 29, 2010
at 8:42 am
ah………. so sad…. our tvxq members have worked ceaselessly for the last 7 years, and they do not deserve even 10 billion won? They have earned SM more than 90 billion won, but they cannot get even 1/9 of it? And people say the members are greedy because they want the just part of the money they themselves worked that hard? They had only one week~10 day vacation each year, and flew from Korea-Japan-China-Thailand all over the world.. And all the money fans spent to buy their goods, if the money is not given to the members, were we fans donating to SM??? How can a fan call them greedy??? How can anybody blame them when the members ask the payment they deserve to receive?????? I really do not get the people who can dare call JYJ greedy!!! I wish they receive more than 10billion from SM!
By: dd on June 29, 2010
at 7:56 am
who cares! they deserve to get more than 10billion won. Each one of them deserve more than that.
By: TOHOSHIKIN on June 29, 2010
at 8:13 am
god… i do feel very sorry for the members. they work so hard. putting everything into what they do in the end its like no matter how popular they are sme is still giving them the same shit. >.< i was just going to buy some dbsk stuff from yesasia to add to my collection. now i have to rethink about the whole financial issue TT.TT
By: lily on June 29, 2010
at 8:32 am
It’s easy to see that the courts felt like their contracts were illegal (they basically won the first case for the supension of exclusive contract) to the point where JYJ feel comfortable to file for compensations. I mean JYJ have great future projects coming ahead and it seems like HoMin is waiting in the dust. Do you guys believe HoMin is satisfied with how SM is handling their careers? I guess my question is now what’s really holding HoMin back?? and I’m kind of scare to find out.
By: CeCe on June 29, 2010
at 9:04 am
I think we will never find out the reason why HoMin choose to stay in SME, I believe they have a very strong reason.
They satisfied or not, we never know, we only the outsider.
By: Kur4tinc on June 29, 2010
at 9:28 am
why do people spread stupid rumors like that. What do they gain from it anyway?
By: kecikjer on June 29, 2010
at 9:09 am
easy.. SME wants to ruin trio’s image…
By: Double J on June 29, 2010
at 12:38 pm
*sigh*
there’s no much could do..
i don’t want to get my self much into da lawsuit(especially, im not so familiar in this field) and i don’t want ‘getting-white-hair’ doing da calculation…(i hate maths…LOL)
but..news..means..we should be aware…Whats/Theres(more) to come…
By: Purple Line on June 29, 2010
at 9:12 am
fyi
FACTS:
In Year 2009 alone, TVXQ made 6500 million yen…(excluding income in Korea)
In year 2008, TVXQ made the highest income in Korea entertianment industry.
From 2004, they have held several highest sold albums, singles and concert tickets.
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BUT…
Below is what the court has presented as the content of the members’ contracts. The contract has been modified 5 times since their debut, so this is the overall review.
1. TVXQ has received $0 from their album sales till July 2008, and a very small amount after.
2. TVXQ has received $0 from sales of concert DVD’s and albums with recordings from concerts.
3. TVXQ received $0 from their appearances in TV programs.
4. For other ways of getting profit, SM subtracts the total amount with all the expenses that the company has paid for them, including clothing, salary of company staff, stage preparation, rent, food expenses, and etc., which only leaves a fraction for the members of TVXQ.
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They should have raised their voice long ago! A superstar in my little country can earn a hell lot more than this.
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Actually, JYJ risk their life to this lawsuit at the first stage. Nobody knows whether they could win. If they lose the case, they will have to work for a wholelife to pay for the compensation.
However….the heaven has got clean eyes…and granted them little freedom to acheive their music inpiration. (Full of joy…their own kind music is super cool!)
I personally believe that JYJ just want the fairness and earn the freedom to enrich their music passion.
BUT I think that they deserve more than they have asked for.
By: nikki on June 29, 2010
at 9:12 am
I’m agree with you. If you count all the songs that they had composed, they deserve more than 10 Billion won. SME asked their artists to compose songs but all the royalties belong to SME & the artists got nothing.
I really hope that the court will be on the boys’s side.
By: Kur4tinc on June 29, 2010
at 9:23 am
they deserve what they deserve,
which is a whole lot more than what sm is letting them get a taste of. They should be among the top earning stars in the world, these boys own asia!
By: kecikjer on June 29, 2010
at 9:35 am
AGREE WITH YOU^ ^
By: luvjj on June 29, 2010
at 9:43 am
‘they deserve more than they have asked for’
totally agree with u
By: hamaji on June 29, 2010
at 9:56 am
I was not so angry about the 15yrs contract until I read about how SS501 has a 5 yr contract and still includes overseas venture.
Yes. Now I seriously feel that 15 yrs is freaking long.
Go fighters, JaeChunSu!
Side note: read that Hyunjoong left DSP. Hmm, the 2 boybands that lead me to kpop are in banding woes. At least he’s not in a lawsuit. >.<
By: rachui on June 29, 2010
at 9:41 am
And I seriously think SM should have promoted their self-composed songs. In taiwan and japan, individuality is important! If you are a composer, bam(!), added values. But in Korea, it doesn’t seems so. I seriously think part of their ‘getting out of SM’ is due to their composing rights. I wonder if they do get royalties for their own works.
By: rachui on June 29, 2010
at 9:52 am
SME didn’t pay for all the songs they had composed & the royalties are belong to SME. I think this one is also part of the reasons why they fill in the lawsuit at the first time.
By: Kur4tinc on June 29, 2010
at 10:03 am
If they don’t even get what their own works then SM is not fit to be a music company then. (well, we all know anyway.) Sometimes I do feel sad about the recognition of composers and lyricist in Korea. I’m just comparing Korea and Taiwan. As much as the ones getting the awards in Taiwan are popular ones, at least they do recognize composer-singer artistes. What do we have in Korea? Companies who compressed talents and award shows that’s based on popularity.
Sorry for the rambling, just that I feel kinda injustice for their composing efforts.
By: rachui on June 29, 2010
at 10:55 am
It’s sad but that is the reality. In Taiwan, the public really acknowledge their multi talented artists such as Jay Chou & Lee Hom, not because their popularity but also because their multi talented as singer, composer, producer & actor.
In Korea, if you hiatus even only for 1 year, you have to start from zero since the public kind of forgetting about your existance, unless you really have a talent not just base on popularity.
Right now I’m kind of tired to follow KPop since all the package (style, song & dance) quite similar one & another. Not to mentioned they also push their luck in Japan with their poor or standard qualities.
Sorry for the rambling.
By: Kur4tinc on June 29, 2010
at 11:21 am
Agree.
Mayday regrouped after army and still as good as ever.
Arashi, SMAP… dramas and albums, still there.
Once DBSK went to Japan, all of their news vanished from Korea.
Non-SNSD fans wouldnt know that Seohyun plays the piano. (TBH, I was surprised when I saw a clip of it.)
Non-DBSK fans wouldnt know the five guys composed, plays instruments and had a dream of becoming a band for one of the performance. (I just saw this on one of the older interviews.)
………….. I love them!! lol.
(I’m rambling too much. lol. oops.)
By: rachui on June 29, 2010
at 1:38 pm
All well it’s not a first time the media has exaggerated and spread false rumours/news~~
By: ting on June 29, 2010
at 10:06 am
I don’t think 10billion won is enough -.-
LOL.
By: peiwern on June 29, 2010
at 3:04 pm
i don’t read any comments about how DBSk not paid so much…
don’t get me wrong…i just can’t imagine how much money they should have but they had nothing…
it hurts me….
By: wood on June 29, 2010
at 8:33 pm
1 billion Won is approximately 830 million USD. That’s already way more than most- if not all- major American artists are worth. If they got more than that the next couple generations of their family line would never have to work!
I don’t think that they’re greedy, it’s all about being fair. It’s just too bad that Yunho and Changmin won’t get anything
By: Shana Xangai on June 29, 2010
at 9:51 pm
Okay, seriously, learn how to read decimal points. 1 billion won is only $820,000 US dollars. NOT millions.
By: umwhat on June 30, 2010
at 1:49 am
LOL. My mistake…very embarrassing indeed
By: Shana Xangai on June 30, 2010
at 2:58 pm
Maybe SM spread the rumours
By: Don on June 30, 2010
at 3:03 pm