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omonatheydidProducers and directors of soap operas and movies may have difficulty shooting as scheduled after a group of management agencies announced they were refusing to let their actors work due to unpaid wages and performance fees.
The Corea Entertainment Management Association disclosed Wednesday a list of companies responsible for 32 dramas and films, which have failed to pay actors, along with the names of the productions, production heads and directors who made the dramas.
It said actors of the agencies will not participate in films made by the companies in question.
The collective action follows a chronic overdue payment problem in the film and drama production industry.
“We concluded that we need to take action. From now on, our actors will not appear in soap operas and movies filmed by the named production companies,” the association said in a statement.
According to a survey conducted on actors at the member agencies, the performers are owed 1.5 billion won in overdue payment for dramas and 700 million won for movies.
The association said both the productions and broadcasting companies that outsourced the dramas have not made any effort to solve the problem.
“Heads of production companies failed to pay performance fees and kept making dramas after setting up another production company or change their names. Then the overdue payment problem gets bigger. Broadcasting companies know this, but they keep outsourcing, saying the payment issue is between producers and actors, and not their business,” Kim Gil-ho, director of the association, said.
He said actors belonging to the association are top stars, such as Song Hye-kyo. “Top actresses such as Song have still not been paid for appearing in the KBS drama ‘Worlds Within.’ The production companies pay half of the fee first and then keep delaying paying the rest, claiming they didn’t make enough money,” Kim said.
“How come we, who have contributed to the hallyu boom, are caught in this underdeveloped system? We need a fundamental solution,” the director said.
Aside from “Worlds Within,” the list of soap operas includes “President” and “Jungle Fish 2” aired on KBS; “Queen of Reversal,” “Pasta” and “Iljimae Returns” on MBC; and “Bad Boy” and “Swallow the Sun” on SBS.
Movies include “Girl Friends,” “Rough Cut,” “The Housemaid” and “Hwanghae.”
A similar protest took place last September after an entertainers’ union alleged production companies had failed to pay a total of 4.3 billion won in fees to its members. The unionists stopped appearing in soap operas for days and only scrapped their collective action after broadcasters promised to devise measures to prevent payment delays.
source: koreatimes
The Corea Entertainment Management Association disclosed Wednesday a list of companies responsible for 32 dramas and films, which have failed to pay actors, along with the names of the productions, production heads and directors who made the dramas.
It said actors of the agencies will not participate in films made by the companies in question.
The collective action follows a chronic overdue payment problem in the film and drama production industry.
“We concluded that we need to take action. From now on, our actors will not appear in soap operas and movies filmed by the named production companies,” the association said in a statement.
According to a survey conducted on actors at the member agencies, the performers are owed 1.5 billion won in overdue payment for dramas and 700 million won for movies.
The association said both the productions and broadcasting companies that outsourced the dramas have not made any effort to solve the problem.
“Heads of production companies failed to pay performance fees and kept making dramas after setting up another production company or change their names. Then the overdue payment problem gets bigger. Broadcasting companies know this, but they keep outsourcing, saying the payment issue is between producers and actors, and not their business,” Kim Gil-ho, director of the association, said.
He said actors belonging to the association are top stars, such as Song Hye-kyo. “Top actresses such as Song have still not been paid for appearing in the KBS drama ‘Worlds Within.’ The production companies pay half of the fee first and then keep delaying paying the rest, claiming they didn’t make enough money,” Kim said.
“How come we, who have contributed to the hallyu boom, are caught in this underdeveloped system? We need a fundamental solution,” the director said.
Aside from “Worlds Within,” the list of soap operas includes “President” and “Jungle Fish 2” aired on KBS; “Queen of Reversal,” “Pasta” and “Iljimae Returns” on MBC; and “Bad Boy” and “Swallow the Sun” on SBS.
Movies include “Girl Friends,” “Rough Cut,” “The Housemaid” and “Hwanghae.”
A similar protest took place last September after an entertainers’ union alleged production companies had failed to pay a total of 4.3 billion won in fees to its members. The unionists stopped appearing in soap operas for days and only scrapped their collective action after broadcasters promised to devise measures to prevent payment delays.
source: koreatimes
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Date: 2011-06-22 11:07 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-06-22 11:12 pm (UTC)What in the world? =_='
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Date: 2011-06-22 11:20 pm (UTC)damn these people needa get their paper already
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Date: 2011-06-22 11:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-22 11:39 pm (UTC)I guess Sungmin, Jay Kim, Jiyeon, Joon and Dara are among these unpaid actors . . .
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Date: 2011-06-22 11:40 pm (UTC)How the hell do you not pay the people?
and why the heck isn't anyone taking their asses to court?
Believe me, when those lawsuits start rolling in, they'll start paying
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Date: 2011-06-23 12:37 am (UTC)And when someone fights..they get called greedy and a troublemaker.
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Date: 2011-06-23 12:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-23 05:32 am (UTC)It's seriously a whole entertainment industry problem =/
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Date: 2011-06-23 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-22 11:56 pm (UTC)the list of soap operas includes “President”
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD: WTF.
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Date: 2011-06-23 12:14 am (UTC)PLEASE DON'T LET THIS AFFECT CITY HUNTER, KDRAMA GODS.
I WOULD DIE.
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Date: 2011-06-23 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-06-23 01:13 am (UTC)That's crap. CHEATING crap! Basically, those companies set out terms to only to give themselves the most benefit.
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Date: 2011-06-23 01:38 am (UTC)GET YOUR STUFF TOGETHER
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Date: 2011-06-23 02:02 am (UTC)...... not pleased.
Worlds Within was in 2008! How are these people not suing yet?
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Date: 2011-06-23 02:05 am (UTC)i just wanted an excuse to use this gif
srsly though, these networks need to settle the disputes even if it's a middle-man issue. it gives them a bad name. i hope it blows up so that something is finally done about it.
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Date: 2011-06-23 02:05 am (UTC)Cause if this was Hollywood, I can imagine actors/actresses suing immediately.
I'm still wondering about Lee Nayoung...did she eventually get paid?
I was so shocked that they said that they didn't have any money due to all the shoots that took place.
Don't they think about saving money and make sure enough funds are available so they could pay their stars?
I'm sad that Queen of Reversals was one of them.
Maybe since they kept on extending...
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Date: 2011-06-23 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-23 05:32 am (UTC)What are they doing with all those monies?!?
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Date: 2011-06-23 06:01 am (UTC)That's crazy.
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Date: 2011-06-23 08:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-23 09:23 am (UTC)"Money, who needs money? We have the power of HALLYU"
fu broadcasters. fu.
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