Heechul and Han Geng Talk About SM Entertainment

[kanbinayume.livejournal.com]

Heechul has been going off about slave contracts to everyone who will listen these days and his latest interview in GQ has caused his biggest controversy yet.

When he said on his radio show, Heechul’s Youngstreet, that “a man must live with loyalty,” many fans believed it was directed towards JYJ and Hankyung.

In his new interview, he said, “Of course, I as well, have a lot of problems with the company. But, I don’t think there’s any reason for me to express that outside. Honestly, “we can’t make money”? No. These days, everyone keeps saying slave contract, slave contract but the really laughable thing is — what slave buys his parents something like a building and what slave can go around in a car and what slave can go drinking?"

Former Super Junior member Hankyung also talked about SM Entertainment recently in the newest issue of Marie Claire China.

“There were a lot of entertainment news that portrays Korean entertainment companies’ with harsh demands: The artistes do not only receive a hellish sort of cruel training, not allowed to be in a relationship, not allowed to have personal feelings, all has to be collective and aware of the content (T/N: I think what they are referring here is the things artistes say in the public). So much so that, some artistes are being forced by the company to do stuff outside their profession, for instance escort services and so on.

When I relayed what the content was, Han Geng explained, exaggerated a little: “SM has no such stipulations. I am not aware if other companies have such stuff/mess. Anyway, it does not exist in my company.” Isn’t this something what the company has imprinted on him? The general expression is to not speak randomly, think before you speak.”

Shared by : sltan@geng-bao.net
Translated by : paranoiame@geng-bao.net
Article: http://tinyurl.com/4vvamxe (MTVK)
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The Heechul part might have already been posted, but what Han Geng said.
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Comments

[pinefir.livejournal.com]

HAH.HOOFUCKINGRAH.PEOPLE CAN ALL STFU NOW ABOUT SLAVES

[syimato.livejournal.com]

AGREED

[pitri73.livejournal.com]

I'm confused..... What exactly is Han Geng saying?

[rosetta16.livejournal.com]

wondering the same

[jtyy239.livejournal.com]

just here to say that i love that pic sfm.

[shocko-o.livejournal.com]

it's made my day ^^ besides the pics from the idol athletic tournament

[gabucha26.livejournal.com]

lol I thought it was a joint interview...got excited for a moment

[queenhinata.livejournal.com]

that's what I thought ,too.

[gabucha26.livejournal.com]

lol nino...

[kanbinayume.livejournal.com]

the Heechul part was, but not what Han Geng said.

[rosetta16.livejournal.com]

don’t most of the companies have the no dating policy?
i think i read that Dara cant date till she islike 30 lol

[xoxorichi.livejournal.com]

Thought this was about Hanchul ;______________;

[walnuuut.livejournal.com]

escort services? what is geng talking about omfg or please someone tell me i read that wrong

[onewhomust.livejournal.com]

He's saying SME doesn't have escort services. I think you read wrong. The article didn't make it very clear, either.

[stopthedisco.livejournal.com]

[spread.livejournal.com]

OT But what's your icon from?
I'm in a Korean thriller/horror kind of mood tonight.
I just watched a movie called "Bedevilled" a few hours ago (it was kind of shit), but I'm in movie mode now..

[ariee200091.livejournal.com]

can i just say heechul looks fabulous in that pic with geng ;D

I honestly still wish that all the sm artists could just walk out and join the YG fam, JYP nation, or cube family. but sadly we know it's not that simple :/

[http://users.livejournal.com/_niji_ayu/]

It's not like JYP is all that good considering what they did to Jaebum -_-

[onewhomust.livejournal.com]

So for people confused the Han Geng thing in quotations there is just an excerpt from an interview with Marie Claire China (http://community.livejournal.com/geng_bao/138482.html) that Han Geng did.

The quote is from the writers point of view, and they were saying that they heard all this terrible stuff about kpop/SME and he denied them, and said SME wasn't like that at all.

[aleexnews.livejournal.com]

[chewmi.livejournal.com]

hahaha

What Han Geng said:

[proleptical.livejournal.com]

Interviewer asked him if it's true that SME wouldn't let their trainees/etc have girlfriends and they'd force them to work as escorts.

Han Geng said, "lol no."

Basically.

Re: What Han Geng said:

[notochrasy.livejournal.com]

lolol, I want to hear Geng say "lol no" in real life now, in that funny accent of his :'D

[syimato.livejournal.com]

I ALMOST HAVING GOT A HEARTATTACK. i thought its an interview of Heechul WITH Hangeng

[notochrasy.livejournal.com]

ngl it would be nice to have an interview with both of them. i miss their interactions

[notochrasy.livejournal.com]

[royalantares.livejournal.com]

Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.

[hiroi-wonnie.livejournal.com]

IDGI. Think before you speak is supposed to be something WE ALL should do in general, not only for idols.

[belovedseason.livejournal.com]

as if I need reason to love Heech more.

[anrixan.livejournal.com]

Your icon is very hypnotizing...

(Is he drinking a slurpee? because I find that so amazingly adorable LOL)

[douknow.livejournal.com]

finally, someone who speaks some sense...

[risabet.livejournal.com]

Except that the article itself barely made any sense. I had to read it at least three times.


(Then again, maybe that's just me.)

[thetaintedblade.livejournal.com]

i thought this was a hanchul post
(http://s280.photobucket.com/albums/kk180/SilverCrescentX/?action=view&current=403.gif)

[shocko-o.livejournal.com]

almost? it's a "brothers think alike" post

[anrixan.livejournal.com]

Omg, I totally almost spit out my water when I saw the title... I TOTALLY thought that Geng replied to Heechul's twitter or something and REALLY got excited....

*sigh*

I want to see them all on stage again. ;_;

[sinfulcherries.livejournal.com]

*sigh* i thought it was hanchul....

well at least other ppl have proof that SM isn't ~EVIL~ anymore.

[gjigji.livejournal.com]

I don't get how this whole "SM is/was EVIL" thing blew up so much. I get the feeling that the heavy use of the word "slave" contract helped that idea. I was led to believe that it was only coined that term for the sheer length of the contract (13yr for any contract is seriously & abnormally long).

If I remember correctly, SM is not the only agency that had these lengthy contracts. I think the public/fans are the ones that made it out for these companies to look like pure evil, not so much the artists that left.

[anicolen.livejournal.com]

Got all worked up for nothing.

[xoxorichi.livejournal.com]

Mte. ;__________;

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

misleading title is misleading.

SO didn't get what i was expecting ie. hangeng responding to heechul's comments and giving us brand new information

[episkia.livejournal.com]

wait

was he saying that some artists had to resort to escort services, or that they themselves were the escorts


oh well x) as long as hangeng is happier now. and heechul is happy. or rather, as happy as can be. *shrug* i would like one day far in the future to see suju as fifteen though.

[onewhomust.livejournal.com]

No. He's saying that there were no such thing as escorts in SME. The article doesn't make it very clear, but what they are quoting is a different article. So the first paragraph in quotations is the reporter talking, and then the second paragraph is Han Geng denying what the reporter said about SME.