TVXQ

T IS REPORTED THAT THE SOUTH KOREAN POP BAND DBSK WILL SUSPEND THEIR ACTIVITIES FOR THE TIME BEING

The group DBSK will temporarily suspend their activities. This has been reported simultaneously by all the main entertainment media in South Korea.

DBSK, whose members have filed a lawsuit against their management company, will complete all their planned schedules. However, all their schedules that have been planned before the lawsuit will come to an end on the 29th of this month, and they will have a period of time where their activities will come to a pause.

For the time being, TVXQ's last activity will be their performance at the open-air concert a-nation in Osaka, Japan, and they will take a break after that. Also, besides their scheduled concert in Shanghai, China, which will be held the following month, there will be no other group activities.

Also, with regards to the application for injunction to stop the exclusive contract (with their company) filed by some of the members, the ruling will be decided on the 11th of September. The ruling will have a large impact on their future activities as a group, which all the fans are concerned about.

In the meantime, one of the members, Yunho, will be making his acting debut in MBC's drama "Heading to the Ground".


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闷。。。

无奈。。

我相信问题是在我的身上。。

有时有心事，但又不知道该向谁述说。。

毕竟大家都为生活在忙着，

不想给他人带来困扰。。

但是，

有时不想说的原因，

是因为你们不会了解我的想法。。

到最后，我在你面前却像个傻瓜。。

到最后，没有结果，没有结论。。。

到头来，却只是白忙一场。。。

不快乐。。也只能埋在心里。。

到最后，也开始学会封闭自己。。

在封闭自己后，开始觉得孤单。。

问题出现在我身上，

所以我应该改变自己吗？

为了迎合这个世界，

我已经做出了很多的改变。。

再继续下去，

我已经不知道我是谁了。。

好闷。。

心里的闷快要把我杀死。。

有时突然会很郁闷。。

不是故意给你们脸色。。

只是真的闷。。。

看了一个ANIME，

有个男孩明明有许多朋友围绕着。。

可是在他发生事情时，

没有人慰问他，关心他。。

结果，朋友的原因是因为他看起来很坚强，好像当作没有事情似的，

所以他们就没有多问。。

有时不是某人不关心，

而是不懂得方法。。。

不是某人不想慰问，

而是因为错了时机。。

在这种情况里，双方都没错。。

只是不对了时机，地点，和许多Ｘ元素。。。

想到这些烦恼，

又开始郁闷了。。

就像ＫＡＹ说的，我们不要放大我们的烦恼。。

那就不会这么痛苦。。

问题是在夜深人静，一个人的时候，

这些问题一直在我的头脑里围绕着。。

所以还是很无奈。。。

现在是两点三十七分，

其实认真思考，

我应该珍惜我现在所拥有的。。

毕竟我所拥有的，

已经很多了。。

感谢主。。。

只是，心里的不满足。。。

还是。。。

无法理解。。。

该睡了吧？

不该在胡思乱想了。。

虽然还想看ＡＮＩＭＥ。。。哈哈。。

知足常乐。。。

我应该把这句话常紧记在心里，

提醒自己，

警惕自己。

人类好复杂。。

好无助。。。

应该重新出发吗？

东方神起也要加油哦。。

希望事情能快点解决。。

以前还在嫌你们的单曲出得太快，

现在一直在等你们的单曲呢。。

要加油哦。。

ＯＰＰＡ，ＨＷＡＩＴＩＮＧ！！　

SM official

TVXQ's agency SM Entertainment has put forth another official statement

to refute the one given by YoungWoong Jaejoong, Micky Yoochun and Xiah Junsu's side today.

SM sent their statement to various reporters at 8 o'clock on August 3rd

and the content was full of points that refuted what Sejong had stated.

SM began off by responding to Sejong's statement

that there was a clause in the contract that stated that unless TVXQ sold 500K copies,

they would not receive a single Won from the album sales.

SME stated, "TVXQ has received, from when they debuted till now, a total of 11 billion Won (9.2 billion won given during the time + 1.77 billion won given beforehand) ,

luxury foreign cars (bonuses with no relevance to the contract).

In contrast, SM Entertainment was in a deficit for four years after TVXQ's debut.

The opposition (Sejong) has disregarded the fact that income divisions

from CFs, events, and other income sources differs depending on the overall economic situation.

They are only focusing on one bad side of this contract instead of looking at it as a whole.

"On Sejong's statements about the 13-year 'lifetime contracts,' SM stated that,

"The Fair Trade Committee's seven year contract urge does not apply to singers. Also, it states that for singers who are working overseas, there is no limit to how long the contract can be.

"SM stated that, "We have been through five changes already in the contract with the members of TVXQ.

And of those two, the clause regarding compensation if TVXQ were to cancel the contract was revised by the Fair Trade Committee,"

and "The other three times concerned the divisions of income and the first revision was January 2004 when they debuted.The next two times were in February of 2007 and 2009.

"Also, in regard to Sejong's statement that, "We (Sejong) have tried numerous times to talk with SME about a compromise,"

SME stated, "They have only started asking for a suspension of their exclusive contract after the three members sent us a certification of contents through the firm Sejong in June 2009."In reference to the members' statements that they were only sleeping 3~4 hours per day which resulted in bad health, SM said, "We have always compromised schedules for their health." And in regards to the cosmetic company, which Sejong stated was not the main cause of this lawsuit, SM stated, "This (the cosmetic company) is the real reason why they filed this lawsuit. This statement can be solidified by the fact that only the three members who have ties to the cosmetic company are filing the lawsuit."Regarding TVXQ's future, SM said, "We would like to solve this problem quickly with the three members who filed this lawsuit.

"Note: 11 billion won = approx $9 million

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090803..latest news

090803 TVXQ’s 3 members “No Conflict Amongst Members”
Reporter: Chang Soyun

“There are no conflicts between the members. The application for temporary injunction of their contracts is not a premise for the disbandment of TVXQ.”
In a press release today, 3 members of the 5-member idol group TVXQ which is managed by SM Entertainment, Jejung (Stage name: Hero, Real name: Kim Jaejoong), Yuchun (Stage name: Micky, Real name: Park Yoochun) and Junsu (Stage name: Xiah, Real name: Kim Junsu), also touched on the topic of “disbandment”.
On the morning of the same day, the legal representative of the 3 members, Lim Sang-hyuk from law firm Sejong expressed, “Although many fans are worried about TVXQ disbanding, this application for temporary injunction of their contracts is not a premise for the disbandment of TVXQ.The members just have a difference in opinion on how to resolve the problem which is why only 3 of the members have joined in, but there is no problem amongst the members.”
He also said, “All the members feel the same way about wanting to protect the promises they have made to their fans. The case this time is to remedy the injustice of the contract, to be given the right to prepare their music freely under the right conditions, and stand together again before all their fans.”

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may god bless TVXq

090801 Phone Interview with TVXQ’s Legal Representative
The following is phone interview with legal representation of the three members of TVXQ, Im Sang-hyuk from SEJONG law firm:

- What is the core of conflict?
“The irrational exclusive contract. If we review the contract standard from Fair Trade Comission (FTC), the longest duration of a contract is not to exceed 7 years. Of course, if the singer themselves who choose to develop the contract, it might be an exception, but some of given terms in TVXQ’s FTC case, the proposed standards are so unfair in many ways. It is the best way to realize these points quickly than later”

- Also the cosmetics enterprise which three member and their parents running became known as one axis of the conflict.
“The cosmetics company could be one of the reasons for the discord but not what ultimately convinced the three members to go to court. We have examined the official statement from SM this morning and noticed that SM had painted the make up company as the cause in a negative light on the surface of their statement. If they think that the additional business of the members is the legal case, then it’s a mistake.”

- There’s a conclusion appearing about the crisis that the activities of 3 members who file the lawsuit will be stopped?
(I cant understand this one in details, but basically he said that the members would continue if their disposition is approved, and he hoped it would be soon. The court’s desicion is now in the middle of the most important and difficult variables and he had goal to finish the case within 6 months.”

- The possibility of winning?
“To see it on the bright side… SM Entertainment has in the past been ordered by the Korea FTC several times to reform contracts for violating the standard contract limits. TVXQ are now appealing for the parts that are different from the FTC terms.

- Before taking the legal action, it’s said that the members did not try to make consultation with the agency before.
“We have tried to solve the problem through dialogue. Members had even met directly with the agency. While I was also trying to resolve the problem through multiple channels. However, the agency ignored members opinions, therefore a legal appeal finally made. The members are very sorry to the fans as well.

- What is the conflict regarding to cosmetic issue?
“Should an agency has a fight with artists who are having family’s personal investment? Other celebrities are common to have additional business. Moreover, the three members had already made consultation process with agency representative, Kim Young-Min before they started the cosmetic business, but we feel betrayed then as the company told another story later on.

- TVXQ has already taken the step, but eventually dismantled
“We have already tried many ways, but all the efforts finally bring us here. We’re not too hasty to be in this position. We create legal procedure first before we present every single new plan. The 5 people based their activities together in SM Entertainment, therefore it will not be easy to be in our situation now. “

- Is there a plan for press conference?
It’s necessary but as for now, we don’t have any plan yet. The members are really sorry now to the fans. Actually we want to proceed this case undisturbed.

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the truth

TVXQ’s Official Press Conference
by Kat ~ August 3rd, 2009
I’ll write the official position of TVXQ members in points, I hope they have already explained the whole main problems.

Seems that “official position” means the official statements from Jaejoong, Junsu, and Yoochun of the injunction application they submitted against SM.

So it doesn’t lead to any final result of the case, yet.

Just an additional information, no surprise, SM stock price is highly declined due to this case. Today’s official position is the opportunity of SM to gain their stock price back in track, yet I don’t see it will happen soon, to see how’s the official position of the members written..........................
Three TVXQ members’ Official Position “We don’t not get proper treatment,”

Xiah, Hero, Micky Yoochun represented by SEJONG law firm revealed their official position.

From the three members, “In five years since debut, the schedule that is conducted by the agency has been causing exhaustion both to body and mind. Cosmetic business is not related to the lawsuit.”

1. After 5 years debuting, among the three members due to the schedule conducted by the agency, it causes exhaustion to the body.

- According to SM instructions, Jaejoong, Yoochun and Junsu along with the rest TVXQ members have to go across Korea, Japan, China back and forth in a week, each member only have 3-4 hours sleep a day.

- The members’ health is deteriorated a lot, and also enduring mental fatigue.

- Due to SM attempt to advance overseas market, as time goes by, the established active schedule for the members is getting unreasonable.

- SM doesn’t treat them as artists anymore, but not more than just a tool to achieve more and more income for the company.

2. 13-year exclusive contract is like a contract for a lifetime.

- The exclusive contract whose period lasts for 13 years purely active in entertainment world in which if it’s including the military service, the contract basically lasts for 15 years period (T/N: since 13 years is excluding military service) — it means, still 10 years to go to finally retire the contract.

- Meanwhile, if they turn down the contract in the middle of period, the penalty they have to pay can reach hundreds of million won since they have to recover 2 times of revenue loss the company suffered from disabling the contract.

3. The members don’t receive proper treatment from SM.

- They have no deposit, since the terms of the exclusive contract forbids the distribution of revenue records.

- In the first contract (unrevised), only if they can sell a single album more than 50,000 copies, the members can receive 1/1000 of the sales. However, if the sales is less that 50,000 copies, they won’t have even a single penny of revenue allocation.

- The contract then was revised on 2009.02.06. Yet, even after the revision, the contract states that the distribution profits received by the members from album sales for each person is only 0.4 % – 1%.

4. Members have already demanded to correct the unfair clauses in the contract, but SM did not listen to them.

- The three people had requested to SM and shared their own vision to adjust the unfair clauses caused by the exclusive contract effect, but SM passed the discussion and pointed out the cosmetic business instead which is not even the essence of their request.

- Nevertheless, the three kept continuing to solve the problem through dialogues so that it would satisfy both parties, but SM still didn’t response. Since they felt no hope and realized that their efforts to talk to SM had been meaningless, therefore they finally filed the appeal to the court for a final solution.

5. Cosmetics business investments and also other financial investment are unrelated to the entertainment business they’re focusing in, thus have nothing to do with their injunction application. The nature of the case is to solve the unfair exclusive contract.

(no need futher explanation. SM just insists to point out cosmetic companies investment as the core problem, but they stressed here again, that it’s not the case. The three members are only one of shareholders and not even the high officials of the cosmetic companies. Their lawsuit is purely only to resolve the unfair exlusive contract.)

6. The members don’t want the disbanding, they just want to escape from the bondage of the unfair contract.

- The injuction application is not for a purpose that leads to disbanding. The problem now is to solve different opinions regarding the contract. The three members have no problem to the rest of members and still want to create good music together.

- Once all the unfairness is getting straightened, they will start their activities together soon. Through this condition, they ask the fans to be united and believe in them.

7. This situation is an opportunity for them to get mature.

- The three members of TVXQ who are included in the injunction application feel sorry for the fans for making them shocked and disappointed.

- However, to think it in bright side, it’s an opportunity for them to jump to bigger dream and getting more mature. The members have promised the fans to repay all the supports received.

source: asian economic
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