SM Entertainment Donates to Korea University's American Football Team

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Management agency SM Entertainment, which manages popular bands such as TVXQ, Girls' Generation and Super Junior, has donated W18 million (US$1=W1,123) to Korea University's American football team, the Korea Tigers.

An Sang-eon, coach of the team, said, "CEO Kim Young-min of SM Entertainment who used to play on the team donated the money to support the athletes." As American football is not a popular sport in Korea, the team receives little funding from other than the university and mostly relies on donations from former players.

SM Entertainment and the football team had already built a relationship, as players from the squad appeared in the music video for the Girl's Generation's song "Oh," in which the singers played cheerleaders at an American football game.

Source: The Chosun Ilbo

Video source: sment

Comments

[lovelysasusaku.livejournal.com]

Ok.

[rosetta16.livejournal.com]

SM can u please donate me one Changmin? i REALLY want one ♥

[violoncelliste.livejournal.com]

well that's nice =D

[p3rk3le.livejournal.com]

that means they have more than enough money for an awesome SUJU comeback? huhuhu~
(http://tinypic.com?ref=1j3x8j)

always a necessary question

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

So how much of your artist's supposed earnings did you donate, SMent? Also, what else were also 'donations?'

Not trying to stir up some shit, but I've always wondered about the former, siigh.

Re: always a necessary question

[plu178.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming they paid out of the portion sme gets after paying their artists their portion.

And what do you mean by 'donations'?

[pitri73.livejournal.com]

same here. i'm always like "oh! sooyoung!" then i move on. she's on the screencap for Gee too. very wise of you, SM.

[asuka-roses.livejournal.com]

me too :') .. I end up clicking it eventually most of the time x)

[invadeddreams.livejournal.com]

This.

Can't resist the flawless face of Sooyoung //shrugs

[flumpool-shinee.livejournal.com]

wow, that's great then.

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

that's kinda a dumb reason to donate to the team though. just because your CEO played on your team once?

[pivotandsway.livejournal.com]

that kind of stuff happens all the time. when people have money they give back to organizations, schools and teams that supported them. I don't think that's dumb at all.

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

not something i would do, considering you could donate to charities, to rep ~social responsibility~ for your company and all.

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

sport teams need support, too. sports help kids stay out of trouble. it helps build character. and for some people, it's their way of getting a better life. you may not agree where they put their money, but they are still helping people who need it.

[rikayla.livejournal.com]

eh, i guess =/

[sirenasfun.livejournal.com]

I've always wondered about the identity of the football players in the MV. When they weren't announced to be actual SM artists, I just assumed they were extras or something.

[unreal.livejournal.com]

After what happened SM I just see this as a 'trying to make ourselfs look good'

[saphbluedreams.livejournal.com]

yeah same here I was like lul wut? Why American? then I was like ooohhh pig skin not soccer. derp derp derp.

[rabu-parade.livejournal.com]

For once SME's not being selfish and people still find something to complain about.

[flumpool-shinee.livejournal.com]

lol, many people here are like that though. if it's YG, everyone's all "Papa YG's so generous!! blah blah". i can't understand it, all of the companies have their fair share of evils but it's like SM is the biggest evil in the world. /oh right, whatever.

[stopthedisco.livejournal.com]

lol ikr, these comments are annoying me. damn, just appreciate something nice was done.

[ss501pixie.livejournal.com]

basically this

[sinfulcherries.livejournal.com]

THIS

[bottledcats.livejournal.com]

MTE.

[anconeous.livejournal.com]

Amen. It's tiring to see.

[saphbluedreams.livejournal.com]

(http://s1090.photobucket.com/albums/i378/umlikestuff/?action=view&current=2nsm41yjpg.gif)

Now if they would use some of that money to properly pay their artists....But charity is always nice especially for a school.

[kimiko1387.livejournal.com]

That's cool. It's always nice to give and the fact that the team was in one of their music videos adds a bonus. I hope the team does a lot of good with that money.

[message.livejournal.com]

Sweet. I studied abroad twice at Korea Uni., so hearing stuff about KU always makes me happy. xD

[snoozy.livejournal.com]

so that is like what? 15 grand?
hum, not bad, not bad.

[lei-hime.livejournal.com]

And after that, they say they can't pay their artists because they don't have money.
Lol.

[stopthedisco.livejournal.com]

lol when have they said that, i'm sure their artists aren't starving on the streets anyway

[lei-hime.livejournal.com]

They said that on the court, to explain why they didn't paid DBSK on 2009
"We can't pay them, because we made no profit with them"
Something like that

(for the memory, Mirotic sold 500 000+)

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

technically, before that :)

[invadeddreams.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm just here to watch the MV for the millionth time. Flawless Soo cannot be ignored. Truefax.

[qrizta.livejournal.com]

lol at the amount of complaining.
Once evil, forever evil I guess.

Good that they donate something to support a sport team that is in need of financial support.

[cryssybloom.livejournal.com]

Sooyoung~ *w*

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

kinda missed this post the first time around. :) but any excuse to rewatch this mv.