Sex Tape and Attack Assault on K-Pop Idol Controversy
There’s also sex tape and attack on K-Pop idol scandal, as well! Some idols were reportedly involved in the case, one of them was Jung Joon-young. He was accused of sexual assault after releasing a sex video with a woman, without her permission. He made a number of sex tapes, collecting footage of women’s body parts and sharing it through a chatroom with a bunch of other men.
Meanwhile, the female K-Pop idol Goo Ha-ra experienced such a sexual assault and threat from her boyfriend in 2018 before she died. Her boyfriend, Choi Jong-bum, tried to destroy her committing a brutal attack in Goo Ha-ra’s home. He also threatened that he would release a sex tape during their time to public, so it would hurt Goo Ha-ra’s career.
Choi Jong-bum assaulted Goo Ha-ra while he was drunk. The police found the wounds on Goo Ha-ra. Fortunately, it the abuse stopped because Choi Jong-bum went to jail for one year and six months, and was suspended for three years as well.
Agencies Unfair Treatment Controversy
Last, but not least, there’s the controversy over unfair treatment from the agencies toward their artists! There’s a lot of management agencies in K-Pop entertainment industry, some of them are known as the biggest agencies so far, and others are ordinary agencies. However, the agencies are supposed to take care of their artists, but in some cases, they have been reported to treat their artists very unfairly.
One of the unfair treatment controversies came from SM Entertainment, one of the largest entertainment agencies in South Korea. Even though SM Entertainment is really huge and famous, they also have a ‘dark side’ in their contracts with certain artists. The unfair treatment involved girl-group S.E.S, boy-group Shinwa, and the boy-group H.O.T, all of which were raised under SM Entertainment.
S.E.S was prohibited from doing individual promotion because the agency considered it unprofitable, which ultimately caused the members to disperse. Meanwhile, there’s also unfair treatment between the different members of H.O.T, since there was one member who had a more profitable contract the others, causing some of the members to leave. With Shinwa, SM Entertainment continued the contracts with all the members except Dong Wan, and causing him to leave, too.
The other artists in SM Entertainment, such as Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, and f(x) also revealed that some of them experienced such a bad contract with their agency. We could see that ex-Girls’ Generation member Jessica Jung revealed that she was removed from the group because she launched her own business at that time.
The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) did an investigation of SM Entertainment, and once asked them to delete certain points in their contracts, such as the point about unliterally canceling contracts. It was revealed that the agency could cancel a contract for ambiguous reasons, as well. Eventually, SM Entertainment promised to remove some of the points in the contract due to KFTC’s insistence.
Not only SM Entertainment, but some other agencies in South Korea are known for such unfair treatment toward their artist as. Some of those agencies are TS Entertainment, Polaris Entertainment, MBK Entertainment, and Cube Entertainment. Examples of their unfair treatment were various, ranging from not paying salary to their artists, sexual harassment by the CEO toward the artists, and many more.
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