Source: Sina, Baidu

Translation under the cut.



Beijing City Zhongyin (Shanghai) Law Firm accepted Luhan, Wu Yifan’s (hereon referred to as “artists”) entrustment to release the following statement regarding SM ENTERTAINMENT Co., Ltd’s (hereon referred to as “SM”) recent statement’s related issues:



The “contract nullification” lawsuit that the artists filed have already entered into mediation. Both sides have been suggesting their own settlement terms as well as gone through several consultations throughout the mediations. There will be another mediation session on February 27th in Korea, and both sides have agreed to meet with their representatives in China. During this situation, SM has recently released a statement that does not help with resolving the disputes, making one question whether they really have sincerity to settle.

As the biggest entertainment company in Korea, SM used their superior status to sign contracts with artists that are unreasonable and unfair. Because of this, the Korean Fair Trade Commission has punished SM many times. The artists have mentioned contract termination to SM many times (because of overload of artist schedules, weekends and holidays have no proper rest times, deteriorating health, the company never considers artists’ opinions, no clear understanding of and unfair income distribution), however, the company either avoids or rejects it. The artists, as a last resort, chose to go through a lawsuit to break away from a slave contract. SM knew of the above reasons yet still stated in their statement, “under no justified reasoning, no consideration of the contract, trust and ethics, and for only personal benefit left the group EXO,” you can see that SM is creating confusion between right and wrong to purposely hurt the artists.

During SM and JYJ’s (formerly TVXQ members who broke away from the group) exclusive contract dispute, SM used “as the artists are in a contract dispute” as a reason to send television broadcasts, radio broadcasts and others letters requesting to stop all JYJ artist activities in Korea. In the end, Korean Fair Trade Commission issued a sanction to SM requesting that they correct their “interfering with artist activities” actions. Now, in China, Hong Kong, and other regions, SM is repeating their old tactics, recklessly sending Chinese artist agencies and media legal letters in order to interfere with artist activities, and even further directly files a lawsuit with the goal of slandering the artists reputations and strangle the artists’ activities.



Lastly we reiterate, artists continue to try to settle this dispute through consultations. However, SM continues to release misleading and threatening statements, artists will discontinue chances of settlement and bring out the weapon of law to protect their legal rights and interests. We also express apologies to those friends who have suffered from these disputes.

