Korean Music Discussion - Page 355

On March 05 2010 08:26 T.O.P. wrote:

What if they tell you you're not getting signed unless you sign a unfair contract?

On March 05 2010 08:30 ryuu_ wrote:
yeah it still stumps me but if i had to take a guess either they arent told of their entire contract, which would be really messed up, or they just get caught up in the "oh im gonna be famous" moment. :/

On March 05 2010 08:45 Craton wrote:


Well, think about it.

You start training when you're in like middle school, so you've been training for basically as long as you can remember by the time the offer rolls about. It's effectively your life's dream that you've been devoting all your free time and you're still pretty young. I guess the parents could intervene if the kids aren't 19+ KR age, but that's a hard thing for a parent to do. It's pretty much a lock that you'll be so caught up in the realization of your dream that you aren't going to objectively look at the fine print of the contract (if you look at all).

On March 05 2010 08:45 Craton wrote:


Well, think about it.

You start training when you're in like middle school, so you've been training for basically as long as you can remember by the time the offer rolls about. It's effectively your life's dream that you've been devoting all your free time and you're still pretty young. I guess the parents could intervene if the kids aren't 19+ KR age, but that's a hard thing for a parent to do. It's pretty much a lock that you'll be so caught up in the realization of your dream that you aren't going to objectively look at the fine print of the contract (if you look at all).

On March 05 2010 09:20 kakaman wrote:Apparently the REAL reason jaebeom got kicked out of 2pm is not because of the "gay" comment he wrote on his myspace, but because he exposed JYP's 10 year slave contract. This is very detrimental to JYPE's image b/c they pride themselves of giving their artists better treatment compared to SM, but jaebeom revealed the truth. Notice in his myspace he talks about it, but conveniently it was whited out in the original screenshot...hottests have filled in the blanks

On March 05 2010 09:47 silverfire wrote:

I doubt it. in b4 tl;dr, but if you read the transcript, what he got kicked out for was something he did repeatedly, and it was phrased in a way that implied they were social transgressions.

My personal theory is that he sat down with a lawyer to figure out how to get out of the contract and they came up with telling the management that he's gay. They can't prove any of it, and given conservative Korean society, the management would almost certainly exercise their option to release him. I'm invoking any homophobia here, but if I were in the management's position given that sort of environment, just thinking about the potential bad publicity from something like that would have made me sweat already.

On March 05 2010 10:00 T.O.P. wrote:

Sounds plausible.