> The biggest contributing factor to Kpop’s widespread success is the long term contracts:
Lee Soo Man became the first person in the Korean entertainment industry to implement a systematic and scientific management system. He picked trainees to foster into idol stars, who all signed 13-year contracts. By doing this, he essentially became the principal of a school of talented students.
However, these long term contracts have been controversial and often referred to as ‘slave contracts’ (after negotiations with the Fair Trade Commission, the length of the contract term has been reduced to 7 years if artists are only promoting within Korea, 10 years if going overseas). 13 years is a long time to the trainees, but it’s also a long time for the management as well, since they are making a 13 year promise to take responsibility in transforming the trainees into stars.
Lee Soo Man cited these long term contracts as the biggest contributing factor to K-Pop’s widespread success all over the world.
Even the Government allow this.
I don't know how much money or profit the SME given to the government, but this is wrong!
What the hell is wrong with the Government system?
Are they really needed so much money and power they have forgotten that "Human Right"?
I mean that they are just using innocent teenage to sign contact without them knowing of their rights.
First of all, teenage usually do not know a lot of things because lack of knowledge, plus their parent are usually not so smart at all and poor.
YOU BASTARD! LEE SOO MAN USED the innocent teenage to make MONEY!
Worst of all, the inhuman Korea Government Law system allow this to happen.
JUST DEAD!
There might be a corruption going on or else how would they just amend the law. I mean everybody who knows Korea knew that there is always a corruption in the Government system. Ah ha! That remind me the the
suicide case of Korean actress "Jang Ja-yeon" who was force to have
sex with 31 men including the Government personalises that was truly amazing that how corrupted the Government System is, until now it is still not settle. I would say that they only know how to blame and not settle the problem. Too corrupted to be help. No wonder the citizens are not happy with the Government. So sad.
They dare to use TVSQ/DBSG/DBSK as an example how they have push the poor 5 men into a weak little dogs in
8 years time. Now they have "
red eyes" all over JYJ's stealing their market shares by forcing the Japan AVEX (SNSD's deal) to stop JYJ activities. I mean they even now stop the TV broadcast of JYJ.
Now SNSD will regret later on that they have sign such a contact because you can't marry or have a normal date at all through out the 13 years contact. "13 YEARS!"