Han Geng's Termination of Contract Leads To Fragmentation of SJM - Hunan TV Rejects New SM Group

[proleptical.livejournal.com]

The disturbance caused by Han Geng’s lawsuit is yet unresolved, but the company will not give up any chance at money-making, putting Henry and Zhang Liyin into a temporary group for performances.

Yesterday, a reporter learned from the source of a local performance that because of Han Geng’s contract termination, the constantly acting together SJM is now faced with disintegration, with member Henry and company colleague Zhang Liyin being put into a temporary group for performances. For thirty days, they will be performing together in Dongguan, pulling invitation prices of no more than 50000 RMB.

Hunan TV also confirms this – being affected by the termination of contract, SJM may still appear in the New Year’s show as a “battered formation”.


[SJM is replaced by a new group.]

SJM was originally scheduled to perform live as a group at Dongguan on the 30th, but a reporter failed to see SJM on the night’s performance list, instead seeing the group of Henry and Zhang Liyin performing “Love Me”. Before this, no SJM member had ever performed without the other members. As leaked by a staff member of Guangdong TV, they suddenly received an urgent message from SM company on the 21st, expressing that SJM is unable to perform as a group due to “internal problems”, and raised the idea of replacing SJM with the new group of Henry and Zhang Liyin. The anonymous staffer said, “Only after that did we learn from SM’s Chinese division that the reason for SJM’s inability to show up was Han Geng’s termination of contract lawsuit. The company is currently trying to negotiate with Han Geng – in this time where Han Geng is trying to leave the company, SJM’s members will temporarily disband, while both Chinese citizens Henry and Zhang Liyin are turned into a new group to deal with the difficulties of maintaining performances.”

As for the temporary adjustments by SM, the local representative of the performance expressed a continued welcome, saying, “Before, inviting the whole of SJM took 150000, and it wasn’t possible to invite just one member. Now, inviting just Henry and Zhang Liyin takes just 50000 RMB.”




[Hunan TV Rejects The New Group]

SJM had one remaining last performance of the year, namely at Hunan TV’s New Year’s Gala. Yesterday, reporters learned from a staff member at Hunan TV that to get the entirety of SJM to perform is now very difficult: “SM says that until Han Geng’s contract dispute is over, they will not be able to send the entire group to perform. They brought up the idea of having Henry and Zhang Liyin perform in SJM’s stead; of course, we didn’t agree, because what the audience wants to see is Han Geng, and we won’t give up trying (to get him) until the last minute.”

Translation: Neph @ cfensi
Original article: xinmin.cn

Damn Hunan, you tell them. Hopefully that will give SM a clue how much Han Geng Super Junior-M are valued and forced them to actually rework their contracts. They are pretty much their key to the Chinese market.

But ugh, SME using Henry and Liyin like that :(

Comments

[miuratenshi.livejournal.com]

Damn Hunan, you tell them. Hopefully that will give SM a clue how much Han Geng Super Junior-M are valued and forced them to actually rework their contracts. They are pretty much their key to the Chinese market.

THIS.

[katzsong.livejournal.com]

Second that.

[love-flag.livejournal.com]

frankly, idgi.

[proleptical.livejournal.com]

yay? :D

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

Giving your idols vacations and personal space > getting sued and kicked out of a country

[curls975.livejournal.com]

sounds too much like right for them to actually do it.


how they don't get such a simple thing is beyond me.

treat your employees well and they will be more than happy to pull 16 hour days as they will feel their efforts are worth it.

[anicolen.livejournal.com]

Damn Hunan, you tell them. Hopefully that will give SM a clue how much Han Geng Super Junior-M are valued and forced them to actually rework their contracts. They are pretty much their key to the Chinese market.
I couldn't have said it better myself.

I feel bad for Henry and ZLY, but I had a feeling the two of them together wouldn't be a sufficient replacement for SJM.

[inheritable.livejournal.com]

You mean Hangeng. SM not allowing Hangeng to go alone is the reason why they pay for SJM.

[say-o-kay.livejournal.com]

Hunan TV are quite influential at the moment in terms or Mainland entertainment. SM don't wanna mess with them.

[ontokki.livejournal.com]

Don't mess with Hunan TV SM or else there's basically no place for you in the Chinese market.

[inheritable.livejournal.com]

To be honest this always will piss me off.

This is why SM has to use dirty tricks to get the whole group on shows and performances. China just wants Geng.

It wouldn't be fair for the other 6 if they allowed for more solo activities because then more people would only want Geng.

Oh well :/

[faithgrowsold.livejournal.com]

it disgusts me too. gdi hangeng is probably one of the least talented members of sjm. gtf over him china and recognize the rest of their awesome :/

[paperlet.livejournal.com]

omg poor henry. just go back to canada and have some poutin, dude.

[finalfantasyo13.livejournal.com]

This please.

[blooberrie.livejournal.com]

this may come as a shocker to SM, but they actually have to give their members food and rest. revolutionary, i know

[rachellovee.livejournal.com]

omg this

[proleptical.livejournal.com]

For what I understand by reading various informative Chinese entertainment blogs, SM basically has no power to blacklist their entertainers over in the Mainland. SJ-M, particularly Han Geng was their one shot at making in the Chinese market, and while it is true that they probably have thousands of fresh faces training at their disposal, it would be hard for them to establish someone in the Chinese market like Han Geng has been established. By letting of Han Geng is pretty much bye bye China market for a while, huge money loss, and going back to square one on their Chinese strategy.

[inheritable.livejournal.com]

Not to mention their rep would be tarnished over losing Geng.

[finalfantasyo13.livejournal.com]

sigh...this whole ordeal is just so unexpected, at least on how serious it's getting I mean.

[locofruitcake.livejournal.com]

Omg drama, cannot waiiiiit. Lol. It's kinda sad that they demean Henry n zly like that though :/

also... STILL no confirmation for the other five?

[inheritable.livejournal.com]

It's sad because I've heard of other similar situations. Ones in which they ask for only Geng but SM denies it or asks them to get all 7.

[blooberrie.livejournal.com]

also, i can't help but feel bad for the rest of sjm, especially mi, i mean, they had to know geng was china's favorite, but to be completely disregarded like that? damn. :(

[inheritable.livejournal.com]

It's always been like that, blatantly so :( that's why Hangeng tries harder to get them spotlight in shows.

[nimco.livejournal.com]

Nice Going SM

[saybonjour.livejournal.com]

This whole thing is such an epic mindfuck idk what to think anymore.

I'd probably believe ZHOU MI LEAVES SJM TO PURSUE SKINCARE LINE and HENRY JOINS EPIK HIGH at this point, so much ~false information~ is coming in.

[velcro-undies.livejournal.com]

HEY NO SKIN CARE PRODUCT JOKES!

(j/k)

This is all so freaking nutty.

hunan tv to sm

[anicaasharp.livejournal.com]

[chibi-rei.livejournal.com]

The company is currently trying to negotiate with Han Geng

Are they really? SME doesn't seem like the type to negotiate from what we've been hearing over the last several months. The threaten, demean, backstab, and use underhanded tactics to try to get what they want. And again, from what we've heard it hasn't helped gain them any sympathy or respect. Then again if SME knew what "sympathy" or "respect" meant then they would've have had all these problems in the first place.

[inheritable.livejournal.com]

Hunan TV are negotiating with Geng.

[jia-zhang.livejournal.com]

It'll be a big blow to SM if they lose Hannie completely. He's their ONLY connection to the Chinese market, as much as say DBSK is powerful every freaking where. But Hannie is like China's golden boy...and I'm pretty sure you're gonna have upwards of a couple hundred million people supporting. Tsk, tsk, SM, this is what you get for being douchey.

[letseaticecream.livejournal.com]

It's already been christmas for me for like.. 17 hours now, so :/

[jia-zhang.livejournal.com]

Poor Liyin though. >_< Bb is so underrated it pisses me off big time. But of course, that's one again thanks to SM's sucky promotion. Because, damn, that girl is about the only one that can actually sing in China's huge market of singers (who sound like they are drunk cats).

[inheritable.livejournal.com]

They should have kept her in Korea for longer so she'd have a warmer 'welcome home' tbh.

[stopthedisco.livejournal.com]

What a very Merry Christmas in Korea/China.

[xoxoknlove.livejournal.com]

wow SM, all the groups you produce I totally love (esp DBSK&SNSD)
but seriously get a grip (and stop being so money hungry because i'm afraid in the end, all the groups produced by them will be gone ;________;)

uhhh, at least try out henry and liyin... no need to be so like "IWANTHANGENGANDHANGENGONLY"

[hp-eternalglory.livejournal.com]

It's sad really cause part of the reason Geng was overworked was because he had to do extra activities added on to the SJM ones since China really only wants him.

[hp-eternalglory.livejournal.com]

as for Henry and Liyin, i don't think SME is trying to use them necessarily but to just salvage the situation, but of course no geng fan wants a replacement for him.

[onewhomust.livejournal.com]

Honestly, the best Christmas gift I could get this year would be for this whole HanGeng/SJ-M situation were to get worked out quickly :/ What are the chances of that happening?

[inheritable.livejournal.com]

Not very high I would say :/ Unless SM are willing to listen to his demands. I hope Avex will pressure them too.

[breathe-ai.livejournal.com]

This makes me sad for the rest of SJM and ZLY, especially ZLY =___=; god I wish she'd sue too with her brother...though lol SM I'm glad Geng's got you by your tail in China.