I’ve decided to take the parts ONLY about Super Junior out ~
Super Junior, longest contract is 13 years
Other idol groups in SM entertainment is being targeted first. It was reported that for Super Junior, Girl’s Generation, and Shinee, contracts are different for each members but the contract periods are anywhere from 5 years to 13 years.
Because some members of Super Junior and Girl’s Generation have different debut years, their contract is individual.
Before Kangin became a member of Super Junior, he was a VJ for a entertainment news program. Before the release of Girl’s generation album in 2007, member Sooyoung made debut in a duo ‘Route Oh” in 2002 under SM Japan so she signed a contract before the other members. Because the contracts are individual, earning distributions and schedule conditions are different for each member.
One Super Junior member spoke with IS on the phone stating, “even if I want to move to another company, the remaining terms of the contract and penalty for breaching the contract is far beyond than people imagine. Because we have a lot of members in our team, we have to divide our earnings into 1/13, so we do not make much money. Up until recently, SM tried to make it our responsibility to pay for our stylist but a senior member took courage and corrected it. There are feelings in the company that if you do something that the company doesn’t like, it is only your loss so even if we have complaints, we can’t express it well.”
Original article can be found Here
Article Credit: Kim Sung Eui @ joongang
Translation Credit: j.adore @ soompi
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