Ok-pop company SM Leisure has addressed the claims made by the authorized consultant of EXO members Baekhyun, Xiumin and Chen. Earlier right now, the trio had notified the corporate that they might be terminating their contracts on account of “mistreatment and unfair contract phrases”.
Of their unique assertion, by way of authorized consultant and lawyer Lee Jae-hak, the three EXO members alleged that SM Leisure had repeatedly didn’t furnish the three Ok-pop idols with fee information over the previous 12 to 13 years. Baekhyun, Xiumin and Chen additionally claimed that the company was “perpetrating extraordinarily unjust use of energy” to be able to lengthen the artists’ contracts to over 17 years.
SM Leisure has since refuted the claims made by Baekhyun, Xiumin and Chen’s authorized consultant in a brand new assertion to XportsNews, as translated by Soompi. On the difficulty of fee information, the Ok-pop company claimed that “artists can verify the premise for settlements at any time, they usually haven’t introduced up any points with this course of over time”.
“We then defined a number of occasions that the artists can view the whole lot of the settlement studies […] along with consultants corresponding to their authorized consultant or an accountant and may evaluate them intimately at any time,” SM Leisure added. It additionally claimed that the three EXO members’ authorized consultant didn’t categorical an intent to view the studies, whereas alleging that he “additionally didn’t promise to not present the studies to exterior events”.
“Provision of copies of our artists’ settlement studies to exterior events is a matter that we can not merely flip a blind eye to,” SM Leisure stated. “For instance, if the varied detailed actions offered as foundation for settlement are leaked to exterior events, the opposite EXO members excluding the three artists can obtain unjust hurt.”
SM Leisure additionally refuted claims that it had used its “energy” to be able to lengthen the contacts of Baekhyun, Xiumin and Chen. SM Leisure alleged that seven members of EXO had signed new contracts with the company in December 2022 “with the assistance of a lawyer from a big regulation agency”, following a yr and a half dialogue.
“Through the strategy of discussing the contract renewals […] we went by way of the method of coordinating every occasion’s opinions,” SM Leisure stated in its assertion. “For a few month from mid-November 2022, amendments have been exchanged with the member’s authorized representatives a complete of eight occasions, and we accomplished our discussions as we went over intimately each phrase within the unique contracts.”
“Regardless of this case, the artists’ newly appointed consultant abruptly modified their place and insisted that they can not settle for that the brand new unique contracts are legitimate,” SM Leisure added. On this section, the company additionally talked about the profitable contract renewals of different teams underneath the corporate, together with Ladies’ Era, TVXQ and Tremendous Junior.
The Ok-pop company ended its assertion saying that its “largest objective is to guard EXO […] and to guard all of our company’s artists”. It added: “To this finish, we are going to take sturdy motion in opposition to exterior forces that attempt to delude artists with unreasonable monetary temptations, flattery, and groundless rumours to break down the workforce itself.”
