An Inconvenient Truth about JYJ’s TV Appearance

[death-folder.livejournal.com]

OCT 04, 2011
Here is an idol group that is the center of Hallyu[Korean Wave].
They are immensely popular.

As an idol group, they have expanded their activities by combining unit-activities in acting, musicals and other fields. Their songs swept charts on music sites as soon as their album was released, pre-order of the album was 300,000 copies and even some record shops made exclusive counters only for their album. They are also due to have concerts in Europe, beyond the U.S.A.

However, music distributors refuse to distribute their album when this idol group plans to release, venues reject their concerts when they plan to have one in Japan. TV program is cancelled even though they already have finished recording [of the program], and they even suddenly get cancelled of the stages that they are scheduled to perform to celebrate the event as the honorary ambassador.
You can see them on news and dramas but cannot see them on programs of entertainment department [of the same broadcasting company] at all.

If you see these twofold situations, you might think that this idol group committed some kind of heinous crimes or had really bad reputations that make people reluctant to work with them. Or you could doubt that they refrain themselves from TV appearances as a mysticism strategy.

What if all of these doubts are not true? What if they are banned on TV without any heinous crimes committed, always receive a favorable evaluation from colleagues who work with them and sincerely desire to appear on TV?
Then it is a natural to think that there is something wrong.

This idol group who I have explained on this column, is JYJ. The group is formed by Junsu Kim, Yuchun Park and Jaejoong Kim from TVXQ, the best Hallyu idol group of Korea, and they do not seem to have their activities freely even though they are massively popular. And they speak about these situations so calmly, as if these things are just everyday life to them.

They are idol stars and there are likes and dislikes to see them just like all idols have. Ordinary men might do not like them or there are fans and anti-fans even among women. But those have nothing to do with these situations. The thing you should focus on is that they [JYJ] are under unfair situations despite the fact that they have the most powerful strength as a celebrity. JYJ has one of the most powerful strength as celebrity in public. The power of a celebrity comes from fans. The fandom JYJ has passes over Korea and the scale is beyond your imagination. The royalty of fans are amazing. At the moment in Korea, the pre-order of 300,000 copies of album is absolutely outstanding and this is just a simple example of their fandom’s volume and strength. However, they receive all kinds of unfair treatments although they have such powerful strength.

What could be the reasons for this? No one could say clearly. But one thing seems to be clear – There are a lot of possibilities that some big power exists[behind of this situation].

There is a word P.S.M on the song ‘Pierrot’ on their latest album.
SBS and MBC enquired what the word meant, Jaejoong Kim who wrote the words of the song answered that it stands for ‘Performance,’ ‘Success,’ ‘Museum.’ The song was passed the broadcasting reviews of those two broadcasting companies.
But KBS interpreted this arbitrarily and the song did not pass the review [of KBS].
It did not even ask the meaning to the creator of the song.Then what made KBS so sure of its review, on which certain basics?
There must be reasons.
One thing is clear. Other artists may face even bigger interferences that actually can make them impossible to live their basic life. For them, it is a problem of life or death. I seriously think that this situation beyond fairness, which can severely damage someone’s living, needs to be corrected.

KBS previously said that JYJ would be able to appear on Music Bank when they release an official album. And JYJ says they really want to be there. The songs already took the top of music charts and album sales seem to take the top for sure. Also their title songs, <In Heaven> and <Get out> already passed its broadcasting reviews. If JYJ cannot appear with these facts, it must be inferred that KBS, the public broadcasting cooperation that must consider its viewers as its priority, puts something above the viewers.
Also I expect that it would be way off to save artists who cannot have activities on TV with nothing to blame if JYJ could not appear on Music Bank. You might think that there is no way but to surrender to the power [that causes this situation]. And surrendering to the power could directly become the beginning of unconscionable bargains, because this is a matter of simple survival to someone.

The issue of JYJ’s TV appearance is not just intolerant matter about whether an idol group can appear on TV or not. This is an issue of that whether the healthy industry can be settled or not. The current audition craze manifests show people’s desire to see no other than a fair society that evaluates someone only by ‘ability’. JYJ’s case is the same.
Whether you are a fan or not, this issue is definitely a matter you must think about. About ‘fairness’.

Source
Translated by: Mission4JYJ

Comments

[cc9095.livejournal.com]

Nothing new.

[devilsatin.livejournal.com]

lol

[death-folder.livejournal.com]

...

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

With SNSD's comeback round the corner don't expect Oppas to be on TV anytime soon unless it's on a viagra CF.

[nighttimefalls.livejournal.com]

A+

[gardenintheair.livejournal.com]

viagra CF

looking forward to it. especially with Jaejoong's... hidden treasures

[untilsally.livejournal.com]

Wow! Google Translate has come on leaps and bounds.

[ofeliajunsu.livejournal.com]

Ask Jay Park

[johnnyquest89.livejournal.com]

He wouldn't know what to tell em. Situations are vastly different.

SO EFFING TRUE

[jkkwai.livejournal.com]

i swear.
this is just so..ugh.

then again im slow becoming numb to all this ):

[ari-meh.livejournal.com]

i can't even be assed to be properly angry any more ):

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

It's easy to blame SM because they are directly involved but it's obvious the the Korean music industry are all working together. The way they approached the Kara situation made it blatantly obvious how they feel about idols leaving their company.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Don't remind me of that rat faced CCM fucker who talked about banning the ones who wanted to leave.

[raiknii.livejournal.com]

There is a word P.S.M on the song ‘Pierrot’ on their latest album.
SBS and MBC enquired what the word meant, Jaejoong Kim who wrote the words of the song answered that it stands for ‘Performance,’ ‘Success,’ ‘Museum.’

wut

[soft-daisy.livejournal.com]

He said something along the lines of those three things being all companies see in a singer's worth--performance, then success, and then being showcased in a museum. looool, it's weird, but it makes more sense than PSM because then why not LSM?

[shinyflex.livejournal.com]

He's sitting on a white box though?

[baboboy.livejournal.com]

they proved they can survive without cheap music shows and variety shows, they're going to be fine.

[angela-derp-otp.livejournal.com]

pretty much this tbh, if anything they opened a gate for other entertainers to look into other ways of promoting.

[puffy-wuffy.livejournal.com]

JYJ debuted one year ago, people. I think they're doing great regarding exposure since they are in a small company. Probably why none of them complain publically but fans complain for them all the time is that each of the 3 of them know how hard it is to make it. Its not like JYJ is gonna have the awesome popularity that TVXQ had (shows, shows, dramas, etc) with Mirotic overnight, besides which, it took 5 years for that to happen after TVXQ debuted! Slow your roll and stick with them for the long haul, they'll get back on top eventually.

[baboboy.livejournal.com]

MTE

[konichiwacobra.livejournal.com]

"Performance, Success, Museum"

lol stop

[shinyflex.livejournal.com]

ㅋㅋㅋ

[suzieeq-luv.livejournal.com]

They're still getting CF deals, selling out concerts and getting casted in dramas and musicals that have been well received.
Its been an interesting 2 years but the boys are doing well despite everything.

But dammit I want to see them perform in HD and I'm sooooo over this Pierrot crap.

[averigua.livejournal.com]

joe jang looks really happy to be in that dress.

[boba-holic.livejournal.com]

I'm glad they're doing well, but I'd still like to see a performance that's not a fancam. One day~~

[dongbangsuju20.livejournal.com]

I don't know why people are talking about JYJ being successfull and doing great after two years on their own.
To me, this is clearly not the point and especially not when you write a comment to this article specifically.

Sure, they are doing great and they (and the fans) can be proud of them for being successful in dramas and musicals and what not. But please let's not forget that they are singers and they released a korean album.
They are korean singers with a new album and they can't perform in their own country where it's normal that you perform on music shows after releasing something.

This is the point. They are korean singers and they are banned from promoting and performing their songs on shows. I mean, this is basically their job.
Can you imagine how you would feel if you won't be allowed to do what you're supposed and want do? and in your own country.


I don't think I can imagine how frustrated they feel about this, if you already look at their fans. And they can't even do anything about it, they already released an album and did promotions as good as possible and additionally they are practically going out of their way to promote themselves, JYJ, a singer group, through other aspects like acting and commercials.

[fayoochun.livejournal.com]

so true, so sad. sigh.

[ckino9095.livejournal.com]

P - Perfect
S - Slave
M - Management

[erikaoi.livejournal.com]

No surprice.now I thank those low shit kbs and SME because they make free promo of JYJ by their shit

[marsheumallow.livejournal.com]

And they speak about these situations so calmly, as if these things are just everyday life to them.

hasn't it become a part of their everyday life already?