Agencies will take steps to protect teenage entertainers

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Entertainment agencies will work out guidelines to protect the basic rights of teenage entertainers and those who aspire to become entertainers. Minister of Gender Equality and Family Kim Kum-lae met officials of five major entertainment agencies in Seoul Friday and discussed ways to protect teenage entertainers and those who wish to become entertainers. Among those present at the meeting held at the Korea Press Center were officials of JYP, Cube and Can Entertainment.

A ministry official said participants expressed concerns that many allegedly suffered from extortion of money and harsh treatment.
They stressed the need to map out guidelines to provide young people with proper information on entertainment agencies, and prevent inappropriate treatment and infringement on human rights, the official said.

He pointed out a typical fraud that a person, who calls oneself an entertainment agency official, recruits aspirants through the so-called “street casting” and has them register with hagwon where monthly fees amount to hundreds of thousands of won.

An entertainment agency official said, “Our agency has never demanded money. But there are young people who have no idea about this and become victims of fraud.”

In recent months, sexual assaults against teenage entertainers and those who wish to become entertainers have triggered a backlash. About 10.3 percent of entertainers and aspirants for the job said they had exposed their breasts, according to a 2010 survey of 103 entertainers and aspirants which was conducted by the Youth Policy Analysis and Evaluation Center. Sixty percent of them said they were forced to do it by agencies.

About a half of teenage entertainers and aspirants questioned said they were asked to get their weight down and deprived of rights to study, the survey said.

Source: Koreatimes

Comments

[annhh.livejournal.com]

but are they actually doing something to help or are they just discussing about it

[spassbremse123.livejournal.com]

Empty words most likely.

[orenji13.livejournal.com]

so you protect them from getting fraud by other agent??

What about protection from inside of the company itself or after they debut?? Their working hours?? Education right??

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

words r wind. i believe this when i see it.

[fiercediva.livejournal.com]

This sounds as though they expect the industry to self-police, which is the same as maintaining status quo.

There is too much power concentrated in the hands of one company where the aspirants are concerned. Here a recording artist has a manager, a lawyer, an agent and a music company working on the music, choreography and publicity. The manager and lawyer looks out for the interests of the client above all else and does battle with the other entities when problems arise. The agent negotiates contracts and finds the artist non-music work so all the income and career decisions are not coming from a single source.

The entire dorm system is also rife for corruption as it isolates the trainees from family and loved ones and allows for easy access to abusers. When young performers were under contract in Hollywood during the days of the old studio system, they were groomed and given image makeovers and learned what they needed to learn to be in films, but they went home at night to live with family or a guardian, and the union mandated they be tutored on set if they couldn't go to school, and most did go to school with other kids.

[susansaid.livejournal.com]

It's like the fox guarding the hen house.