[News] Lee Soo-man Gives Lecture at Harvard Business School

Korean entertainment mogul Lee Soo-man gave a lecture at Harvard Business School over the weekend, according to his company SM Entertainment on Monday.SM explained in a press release that Lee spoke about the entertainment industry as representative of Asian showbiz market and "keynote speaker" at the Asia Business Conference, held Saturday at Harvard's Burden Auditorium.The singer-turned-entrepreneur talked about the changes in the entertainment business in Asia during his lecture titled "Don't try to cut your ears!", referring to how legendary artist Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear and stating...

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[NEWS] Lee Soo-man Tops Entertainment Rich List !

Lee Soo-man, the former singer and currently the largest shareholder of SM Entertainment, is the richest entertainment celebrity in terms of stockholdings.According to analysis by Chaebul.com last Friday, 10 celebrities in the entertainment business had stock valued at W100 million (US$1=W1,137) or more as of Thursday last week. Lee, who holds 28.25 percent in SM Entertainment, had the highest valued stocks at W26.2 billion.Next was Korean wave megastar and entrepreneur Bae Yong-joon, the largest shareholder in Kosdaq-listed KeyEast with 34.6 percent worth W10.93 billion. He was at the top of...

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[News] SM, JYP, YG, Star Empire etc form joint venture to establish KMP Holdings

The 7 representative local entertainment companies in Korea YG Entertainment, JYP Entertainment, SM Entertainment, Star Empire, Media Line, Can Entertainment, Music Factory etc will come together for a joint venture to set up KMP Holdings. There are plans for KMP Holdings to build on its competency in terms of music service enterprise, broadcast programmes production enterprise, as well as digital music retail enterprise. Also, it is established to provide a new variety of quality music content through its own contents service platform to consumers for the development of the Korean music...

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[News] Fair Trade Committee Investigating All Celebrities In SM

The Fair Trade Committee (FTC) has launched an investigation regarding all the celebrities associated with SM Entertainment (SM) regarding the accordance of their contracts to the FTC's regulations and many fear that a 'Second TVXQ dispute' will arise.According to the office of Jo Mun Hwan (member of the Grand National Party). the FTC has instigated an investigation of the contracts of 53 artistes of SM including Girls Generation, Super Junior and TVXQ, whose three members (Xiah Junsu, Micky Yoochun, YoungWoong Jaejoong) are locked in a legal dispute with the agency.According to the written answer...

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[News] SM Entertainment discontinues supply of music content to Mnet.com

SM Entertainment has recently announced that they will not be providing Mnet with its music source in the future.There was an announcement posted on SM Entertainment official homepage on 2nd March with the title “Official stand regarding discontinuation of music source provision to Mnet”In the announcement it was stated, “It has been confirmed that Mnet, with whom we have been discussing of long-term music source provision early this year, has violated the contract with our company. They were found with unauthorised use of SM contents on the ASP sites under Mnet.com and Mnet Media.”It was added,...

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[News] SM Korea, "Possible Improvement of Artists' Situation"

Daily News Koreaⓒ 매일경제 & mk.co.kr2010.02.25 11:24:37 입력Founder of SM Entertainment resigned from SM Korea's management position.An SM Entertainment spokesman explained that,"From now on, Lee Soo Man will focus only on future foreign production activities."Lee Soo Man will withdraw from his duties at SM (Korea) which he founded in 1995.He will formally resign from the public management director's position on the 25th,and stay only as the main shareholder of SM Entertainment in Korea.However, it is expected that no particular change will be made at SM after his resignationfrom the director's...

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[NEWS] SM Founder Lee Soo Man to resign

On the 24th of February SM announced that in order to focus more on investments from overseas, new overseas business developments and artiste production, Lee Soo Man will resign as Director of Registrations.A company representative said, "Lee Soo Man will no longer be engaged in business activity,"He added, " However, in order to strengthen his position as major shareholder, an additional 1.5% from Avex was retrieved."-omitted-On the other hand, SM's 2nd largest shareholder, Avex Japan, has transferred 15.4% of their shares to Neowizbugs while the remaining shares will be sold to Lee Soo Man,...

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[News] SM Entertainment, “We would like to apologise regarding manager’s violence towards fan”

With the blown up case of group SHINee’s manager seen hitting the head of a fan, SM Entertainment releases an official apology. The video capturing that moment was uploaded on various portal sites recently and many netizens are angry over the the incident.SM Entertainment revealed through a phone interview on 17th February, “The video was taken last August when SHINee was in the process of moving between their schedules. We would like to express our deepest apology to fans who have met with similar nasty situations.”The SM rep also added, “We will make sure that such will not happen again,...

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[Video] SHINee Key dancing to Oh!

Yesterday 19th High1 Seoul Music Awards ceremony will be an unforgettable moment for SM Entertainment artists. They won some several awards, and also celebrate Super Junior magnae KyuHyun at that moment.Besides all of those, I just found a fancam from the event. It showed us SHINee Key was dancing to SNSD Oh! while they perform.Well, SM Town Love. It will be much better if they were all there.Anyway, enjoy the video.Credit : as tagged & 5 minniemink @ YouTube^tweet ...

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[News] Hankyung’s Contract Termination Lawsuit Starts in Court; No Outcome So Far

The Korean Court has commenced its hearing of Han Geng’s lawsuit and his submission of an “agreement to suspend his contract”, but at present there is temporarily no definite outcome. Up to now, SM Corporation is yet to submit a pleading in response. It appears that it is unknown when there will be an outcome from the contract termination lawsuit between Han Geng and his company, fans will still need to wait calmly.Original Source : http://news.gz.soufun.comTranslated by purple_princess@thirdchapter.orgTAKE OUT WITH FULL CRED...

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[News] Hankyung’s contract termination court session to begin in 2010, will regain freedom earliest by March [Updated]

Sina EntertainmentDecember 30th afternoon, recently SJ(M) leader Hankyung’s contract termination lawsuit against SM has created an uproar after the media reported of the issue. Sina Entertainment has contacted Hankyung’s case representative Attorney Lee this afternoon for an exclusive dialogue, Attorney Lee revealed that Hankyung has submitted a plead for ‘Effective Suspension of Contract Agreement’ and ‘Contract invalid litigation’ to the court. It is learned that court session will be held on January 8th 2010 in South Korea. To prevent SM from using the delay tactics, Hankyung has especially...

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[News] Hankyung Contract Termination Trial Begins January 8

Recently, SJ leader ((TN: They mean SJM, as usual)) Hangeng’s contract termination request with SM Entertainment has caused great turmoil after being disclosed by the media. As Hangeng’s representative lawyer Lee disclosed recently, Hangeng has already turned in a “Suspension of Contract Agreement” request and a “Contract Termination” request to court.The trials will begin January 8th in Korea. To stop SM Entertainment from using delaying tactics, Hangeng has especially requested a “Suspension of Contract Agreement”. If the agreement is approved by court, Hangeng will be freed no earlier than...

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[News] SM denies using Hangeng, SJ Beijing Concert will still be held

SM denies using Hangeng, SJ Beijing Concert will still be heldSuper Junior’s Chinese member, Hangeng’s request of the termination of his contract has caused an uproar. There have been rumors that SM entertainment is using Hangeng to cause a publicity stunt for the Beijing concert and also that Hangeng may not be attending the concert. Due to these rumors, Net Ease Music Channel on the 29th has had an exclusive interview with the representative for the Beijing concert. The representative claims that everything has been going as planned and has not received any news about Hangeng not attending the...

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[News] SME Debunks News Of Henry Defending Hangeng

T/N: Translating all Hangeng VS SME articles, as they might be a reference point to JSC's case in future.Media says Henry going solo; SM says: "We did not accept any interview."[Sohu Korean Entertainment News] After the media reported on Hangeng's termination of contract with his management company last Monday, every media's prime concern has been whether or not SJ-M's activities in China can continue.Previously, there were media reports on "Henry defending Hangeng" and "Henry going solo". Through an exclusive telephone interview with SM Entertainment, they stated that they did not accept any...

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[News] SM to face hefty compensation if Hankyung were to miss Hunan TV’s New Year Eve Concert

During Hunan TV New Year Eve Concert last year, Chen Chusheng’s silent departure became the biggest storm of 2009 created by an artist.Hunan TV’s 2010 New Year Eve Concert in Shenzhen next week may yet again face the “missing gate” embarrassment. This concert’s heavy-weight guest performer SJ-M member Hankyung is in the mist of terminating his contract with his management company.Recently, after Hunan TV communicated with the management company, the other party expressed that the problem is not big. But the reporter was told that the possibility of Hankyung making the trip...

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[NEWS] SM artists topped Channel V Thailand Asian Chart!

As you can see in the chart below,k pop songs almost dominated half of the chart,please remember that this is an Asian Chart,involving singers from countries like Taiwan,China and Japan,can you imagine that?With SM Entertainment's artists Super Junior,SNSD and DBSK topping the charts,it can be concluded that SM's artists are pretty famous overseas.2009 is undoubtedly a big fat year for K Pop!Asian Chart - Channel V Thailand 50 Asian Song of the years 20091.Super Junior – Sorry Sorry2.SNSD – Gee3.Tohoshinki – Stand By U4.SNSD – Genie5.Bigbang – Gara Gara Go6.Jerry Yan – Zai KTV Shuo Ai Ni7.2PM...

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[news] SJM’s Confirmed Show Airing

SJM’s Confirmed Show Airing/GDAs times in TaiwanTelevision1.『DongFeng – Entertainment@Asia』→ Airtime：December 26 (Saturday) 9PM-10PM (Part 1)→ Airtime：Janurary 2 (Saturday) 9PM-10PM (Part 2)2.『BaDa – 100% Entertainment』→ Airtime：December 27 (Sunday) 6PM-7PM (Part 1) → (Episode Repeat)→ Airtime：January 3 (Sunday) 6PM-7PM (Part 2) → (Episode Repeat)3.『ZhongTian – The Largest Political Party*』→ Airtime：December 31 (Thursday) 9PM-10PM (Part 1)→ Airtime：January 1 (Friday) 9PM-10PM (Part 2)4.『DongFeng – FUNMusic』→ Airtime：January 2 (Saturday) 5PM-6PM (Part 1) → Episode Repeat→ Airtime：January 3 (Sunday)...

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[news] Hu Nan TV Does Not Accept Henry & Zhang Li Yin Replacing The Group

Hu Nan TV does not accept replacement groupSJ-M still has a final performance for the year that is the Hu Nan TV Countdown Concert performance on the 31st and the reporter has learnt from one of Hu Nan TV’s staff that for SJ-M to appear at the concert as a whole group would prove to be a great feat. He said that before Han Geng’s contract termination issue has been settled, SJ-M would be unable to perform together as a whole. And when SM suggested it they could let Henry and Zhang Li Yin replace SJ-M, they did not agree as the audience had wanted to see Han Geng the most. In conclusion, they would...

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[news] Other SUJU members filing lawsuit is a RUMOR!

Currently an article ㅡ crediting sina.com as the source ㅡ about Leeteuk, Yesung, Kangin, Eunhyuk and Donghae following Han Geng’s steps and wanting to modify their contracts is circulating on various websites. SJ-World Admin received an email from kangteuk.com.cn (which is a popular Chinese website for Leeteuk and Kangin ㅡ currently inaccessible), and this is what they stated: If you come across news articles claiming that six members of Super Junior filed lawsuits against SM Entertainment: it’s an unconfirmed rumour.This gossip has been presented in various forms, one of the most pular ones is...

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[news] "TVXQ has been monitored in private", Japanese media

Japanese media revealed that while filming the latest PV in December, members of TVXQ were being forced not to communicate with each other. SM Entertainment however responded that this is no evidence that they (SME) are monitoring the members in private.On December 22, 2009, a Japanese weekly women magazine (Women's Self) stated that during the activities in Japan, the communication between TVXQ's has been forbidden and monitored since 3 of the members has filed a lawsuit against SME. The magazine also wrote that during the activities in Japan, the members were unable to perform well as one. Though...

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