Korean Music Discussion - Page 1062

On January 25th, Landmark, the legal representatives for the three members of KARA (Kang Jiyoung, Jung Nicole, Han Seungyeon), revealed that, “DSP Media has proposed the following for KARA members: ‘Creating an agreement on promotions within and outside of Korea’ and ‘Consulting and requesting the members’ opinions’. With regards to the first proposal, DSP expressed that the company has shown clear intentions of negotiating with the members. These were proposed in hope that the three KARA members will continue carrying out their schedules in Korea and Japan. DSP predict that the fans will be able to see the five members of KARA promoting together very soon.”

The contents of ‘To create an agreement on promotions within and outside of Korea’ are as follows:

1) From now on, KARA members will have an experienced manager while promoting in Korea and overseas.

2) After discussing resuming promotions in Japan, DSP will acknowledge the opinions of members and seek contact from the manager stated in the first point.

3) During promotions in Korea and overseas, the members are allowed to have their guardians (the members’ parents or someone they have chosen) accompanying them and contribute to making important decisions.

4) While promoting in Japan, the representative of DSP Japan will be cooperative.

However, a representative of the three KARA members said, “In regards to the second proposal, the KARA members expressed that they still don’t have faith in DSP. There’s been a promise and agreement with DSP to promote right away, yet we are disappointed with their insincerity.”

The KARA members’ opinions of ‘Consulting and requesting of the members’ opinions’ are as follows:

1) The three members of KARA will let the legal department deal with their contract, and both sides have agreed to complete activities that they have missed.

2) In order to restore faith in the relationship between KARA and DSP, the three members have suggested the following to be completed by January 27th:

a) The members will meet with representative Lee Hoyeon and not DSP.

b) Finding an end to the gap between the management until the return of representative Lee Hoyeon.

c) They will seek a management that is highly regarded and reliable.

d) They will find a way to organize and improve Care, KARA’s management team.

e) Making sure that KARA’s promised income is given.

f) An explanation in the relationship between DSP and DSP Japan.

3) Fixing the individual contracts before all the members terminate their contract.

4) Once the overall income has been calculated, they will provide full disclosure and all paperwork regarding the income.

A representative of the three members said, “DSP was not able to give a clear answer in regards to representative Lee Hoyeon’s whereabouts, as well as performing as five members again. Not only did the three KARA members lose faith in DSP, but the contracts were also unfair. The members have also recognized a difference between their opinions and the company’s stand on the issue.”

With regards to their requests to shorten their contract, they expressed, “It was not the members who had brought it up first, but DSP had privately approached one member with this issue. We were able to find out the intentions of DSP on that day. The company had stated that they would resolve and shorten the contracts but to change their answer now has confused all of us.

On January 25 2011 17:16 T.O.P. wrote:

Korea isn't the main market for Kara anymore. Just look at the picture.

On January 26 2011 08:09 DarkOptik wrote:
It is relevant in many ways. It goes to show you why WG went over to the United States and is still there, despite having done absolutely nothing in the past two years they've been there. JYP is banking on that huge market to open up on him, but I think that's never going to happen

As for KARA and Japan, what that picture shows is that the market is indeed many times bigger in Japan than it is in Korea, and therefore, there is much more potential for making money. In that regard, it is much more profitable to promote in Japan than it is to promote in Korea, and by that value chart, it shows that it doesn't matter if you're the most popular in Korea anymore because having a decent market share in Japan overshadows that by many times. As a result, successful promotion (which is a deserving title for KARA thus far) in Japan has yielded much higher numbers than any possible in Korea.

If you look at that allkpop article about how much SNSD and KARA have made, you would see that it is approximately 15 billion and 10 billion Japanese yen. This correlates to 204 billion Korean won and 135 billion Korean won respectively. This is far, far more than SNSD has earned in Korea (and they're undoubtedly the biggest earners in Korea).

For example, this article:
http://www.allkpop.com/2010/05/sm-entertainment-scores-with-snsd-and-super-junior

shows that from SUJU and SNSD, SM got approximately 22 billion won. This is only from half a year however, so let's double that (even though they stopped promoting really and the album sales from the first half dwarfed that from the latter), to have net gain from SUJU and SNSD to be 45 billion won. Notice that SNSD alone in Japan for like four months has out-grossed SUJU's and SNSD's entire year-round sales in Korea by 3 times.

On January 26 2011 18:40 GTR wrote:
http://www.allkpop.com/2011/01/ex-kara-member-kim-sung-hee-to-get-married-in-may

she's back.
although interesting to see this the reason why.

On January 26 2011 01:17 Kipsate wrote:
Ugh, anyone got a link for T-ara Hello baby downloadable subbed?I can't seem to find them. my googling skills dissapoint me.

On January 26 2011 18:47 Hyaach wrote:
everytime i see a >6-8 year gap marriage i die a little inside.
i also sought to make more money.

On January 26 2011 21:11 NicksonReyes wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkukueGI_fk
DFD>GD&TOP
Best flow among all korean rappers.

EDIT: I would never do something like this just because of being a fan. Losing all of my remaining dignity would be too much. They just lost their's. Ballers.
+ Show Spoiler +
Well, I might do it once.

On January 26 2011 10:43 DarkOptik wrote:
(but then you're going to have to look up the timeframe they've been promoting in Japan vs. SNSD and see if the difference is made up due to the fewer months of exposure if you want to get really technical).

On January 26 2011 18:40 GTR wrote:
http://www.allkpop.com/2011/01/ex-kara-member-kim-sung-hee-to-get-married-in-may

she's back.
although interesting to see this the reason why.