Chapter 238: The War Begins
In the conference room of the cube company, the bigwigs of the Korean entertainment industry rarely gathered together in broad daylight, and today's atmosphere was particularly solemn, and the staff of JK-CUBE instinctively became cautious when they came in to pour hot water.
At this time, a video was playing on a laptop on the conference table, and the person in the video was the Jin Zhongming in an army green cotton coat.
"I want to ask President Ann Shengji. Li Xiuman closed the laptop. "Does this interview with Vice President Kim Jong-ming represent what you mean?"
"That's right!" An Shengji's answer was unobtrusive.
"But why don't I, as an executive member of the committee, know about this?" asked Li Xiuman with a grim face.
"Because you are a party and are suspected of using a slave contract to infringe on the rights of artists. An Shengji's answer was also very strong. "You are no different from Kim Seung-hoon in the last meeting. As for the issue of the right to know of other committee members, it is actually very simple, and it happened during the Spring Festival, so I asked Zhong Ming to use the Spring Festival holiday to investigate, and now because we have received the corresponding feedback, we have immediately held a meeting. At this point, An Shengji paused deliberately. "I don't think there's anything wrong with that, right?"
The conference room was quiet for a long time and no one answered, and the two parties, namely Jin Zhongming and Li Xiuman, looked at the sky and the ground, and didn't know what they were thinking.
"I would like to take the liberty of asking. In the end, it was Yang Hyun-seok who spoke. "Does Zhong Ming's phrase in the interview 'promote it to the entire Korean artist market' mean that the committee is ready to fully intervene in the labor contract issue of Korean artists?"
"That's right!" An Shengji's answer was simple and to the point, completely overturning some people's illusions. That's what it means. β
"But our committee has never conducted a similar ...... before," Yang Hyun-seok was not unaware. But he was still a little caught off guard by this situation.
"President Yang!" Jin Zhongming, who had been looking up at the sky, turned his head and interrupted the other party's chatter impatiently. "Don't kid yourself. We are the Korean Artist Rights Self-Help Committee. It is not a self-help committee for the rights of Korean brokerage company owners. What's the use of you talking nonsense here? Don't tell me that you haven't thought about today's situation, and didn't you discuss this issue with several of the presidents and directors here on the eve of the death of Cui Zhenzhen's predecessor last year? Aren't you very sober at that time, and you still say that you should do everything you can to stop the committee before the issue of labor disputes among artists...... It's ridiculous!"
Yang Xianshuo looked at Jin Zhongming, he felt that he no longer knew this young man who had been in the same office building as him for more than two years, and there were not a few people who had the same reaction as Yang Juhua, many people looked at Jin Zhongming with iron faces, and the atmosphere became completely tense.
"Let's do it step by step. An Shengji nodded to the table. "We have the text of TVXQ's contract on our side. Let's take a look at it first, after all, we still have to talk about things after all, if everyone thinks that this contract is extremely fair, then we can go back to rest, just after the New Year, everyone is very busy......"
"I'm afraid I can't go back to rest, right?" Before An Shengji finished speaking, Cui Minzhi, who was sitting next to him, was already shouting with the copy of the contract that had just arrived. "There is no need to say much about this 13+2 contract period, right? Whether it is the singer association or the performing arts association, there is a clear definition, 10 years is a slave contract, what are these 15 years? Let the family work for you from the age of 17 to the age of 32?!"
"This contract is too much. Zhang Dongjian also showed his attitude, the butt decides the head, he sits here as an artist, and he has to show his attitude no matter what. And be firm.
"That's right, it's not acceptable at all. Lee Byung-hun also understands the seriousness of this position.
"It's too much. Lim took off his reading glasses and threw the contract on the table. The director is also the one who is hired, although no one dares to really give any slave contract because of his detached status, but there is no doubt about the position.
"I want to ask. Li Xiuman watched one person after another jump out and characterize the contract, and he was really a little impatient. "How did this contract come about?"
"I got it. Jin Zhongming raised his hand in response.
"How did you get it?" Li Xiu's brows were locked into an earthworm. "If it is obtained by irregular means, is it qualified to be placed here for everyone to discuss? The evidence used in court needs to be innocent ......."
"How do you care how I got it?" Jin Zhongming was a little impatient. "I still have a Girls' Generation contract in my hand, do you want to see it?"
Li Xiuman was stunned, he also instinctively wanted to interrupt the rhythm in the conference room, not to really engage in procedural justice or anything like that.
"Actually, I also think this contract is too much. This time, it was a person who everyone did not expect, Kim Jong-do, the owner of the tree artist.
However, everyone didn't think much about it immediately, Kim Jong-do has always been an outlier in the circle, as the owner of the agency, he is still the president of the Korean Performing Arts Association, and although his company has many stars, there is no contract dispute, and they are all renewed when they expire. You can even simply think that this bald head is a traitor among the bosses of Korean agencies! In fact, everyone knows very well about the actor, that is, Sidushq is the real boss, and Kim Jongdo has repeatedly attacked Sidushq as the president of the performing arts association.
As soon as I thought of this, everyone's eyes naturally fell on Cha Seung-jae, the president of SidusHQ, the largest agency in South Korea, who single-handedly created SidusHQ, and then used SK Group's funds to punch and kick S.M, a well-known actor in Korea, and his business spanned music, TV dramas, and movies. In short, this is the real backbone of the bosses here.
It's just that this recognized hero in the Korean entertainment industry seems a little hesitant.
After a long time, Cha Seung-jae turned his head to look at Kim Jong-ming. Then asked an inexplicable sentence:
"Zhong Ming. Is that what you mean?"
"That's right!" Jin Zhongming nodded expressionlessly. "What does President Che think?"
Cha Seung-jae smiled bitterly: "You want to put the whole of South Korea's economic companies in one pot?"
"How can I have that ability?" Jin Zhongming shook his head repeatedly. But he quickly changed his tune. "I just wanted to give it a try. Young people, angry, ideas out of the box, don't care. β
Cha Seungjae smiled bitterly again, and waited for a while before continuing to ask: "So, have you prepared a new contract template?"
"Of course. Jin Zhongming waved his hand and motioned to the staff of his company to distribute some things to everyone again.
With the contract in hand, many people gasped.
"If we do this, we won't make any money. Someone retorted with a dry laugh at the time. "A seven-year contract is a legal one, yes. But how can there be 7 years in the industry? Even the singer association says that it is 10 years ......."
"The tree artist is a 7-year contract. Kim Jong Ming stretched out his hand and pointed at Queensway. "Gen Ying talked to me about this a few days ago, and I don't think that Queensway seniors will lose money over the years. β
"An actor is an actor. "Maybe it's because the things of Girlhood made him a little sad, Park Jin-young just said the first words of the night now. "It's really not good to be a singer for 7 years, there are trainees in it......"
"President Park. Kim Jong Ming interrupted the other party's words again, and then pointed to Yang Hyun Suk behind him. "President Yang's contract is 7 years, and he didn't say that he wanted to lose money, right?"
"Even then, I can't use this model contract. Yang Hyun Suk put the contract down. "It's not about the number of years and shares, but about the control of the artists, the company must grasp the itinerary and notices of these artists, and the so-called penalty clauses must be retained......"
"Will you agree if you keep it?" Jin Zhongming sneered. "You're looking for any other reason, right?"
"Cha Seung-jae senior. Yang Hyun Suk looked at Cha Seung Jae helplessly.
The gray-haired Cha Seung-jae lowered his head and thought for a long time, and finally stood up suddenly: "Zhong Ming." I'm going to retire tomorrow and let that kid Zheng Xuntuo take over from me. You see. Why don't we vote on his membership first?"
"So be it. Jin Zhongming smiled angrily. "I don't embarrass you, so we don't have to say anything, let Zheng Xuntuo come for you. β
The audience was silent, and everyone listened to the conversation between the two speechlessly, and no one expected that Cha Seung-jae would be cowardly! And he confessed to Kim Jong-ming! However, Zheng Jin-joo, chairman of the Korean Film Promotion Committee, who rarely came here, thoughtfully remembered some past events.
Still, most of the bosses are on the verge of collapse.
What are you afraid of? People such as Yang Hyun Suk have already shouted 10,000 times in their hearts! You are Cha Seung-jae, the boss of this circle, you have SK behind you, you have the most abundant actor resources in Korea, and you don't know how fierce the connections around you are!
"Well, I think, if Director Li Xiuman can reach a private solution with TVXQ. Finally, another person who was uneasy, that is, Pei Yongjun, who was born as an actor but changed his career to be a boss, jumped out to play a round. "Then there is no need for our committee to intervene......"
"Impossible!" X2
The same voice was voiced by the respective main figures of the two camps in this confrontation -- Lee so-man and Kim Jong-myeong.
"As long as the inappropriate behavior that violates the rights of artists is discovered, regardless of whether they reach a settlement in private or not, our committee should go all out!" Kim Jong-ming raised his eyebrows, and did not save face for Bae Yongjun at all.
"This matter is our company's internal affair!" Li Xiuman did not save face for Pei Yongjun. "Whether we reach a settlement or not, I will not allow the committee to get involved!"
"Then there's no need to talk about it?" Jin Zhongming asked with a sneer. "Then why are you still here? Let me be blunt, you all have your own positions, and I am not reluctant, you can talk if you obey, and if you don't obey, you will fight!
Li Xiuman stood up suddenly, then grabbed the laptop in front of him with one hand and pushed away the chair with the other, and walked directly to the door of the conference room.
Everyone looked at all this with complicated faces, some were disdainful, some were helpless, some were resentful, and some were panicked. Things have come to this point, coupled with Kim Jong-ming's sentence 'Everyone has their own position', everyone on the scene has already understood: taking the break between the largest company in the Korean music industry and the most popular group in South Korea as an opportunity and battlefield, An Shengji teachers and students are going to lead Korean artists to do a big job, and their spearhead is all the investors in the Korean entertainment industry.
And this kind of battle, which involves the fundamental interests of the two camps, everyone is forced to choose a faction, and then take up arms to fight!
That's right, unless Cha Seung-jae chooses to retire tomorrow, at least no one in this committee is eligible to be spared.
"Senior Li Xiuman!" Suddenly, Yang Xianshuo, who couldn't bear the pressure, stood up and blocked the other party's way, and then changed to a tone that could almost be described as sincere. "Don't really go. β
"Why?" Li Xiuman sneered.
"Seniors listen to me. Yang Xianshuo couldn't care about anything at this time. "In the past six months since the reorganization and restructuring of the committee, we have done a lot of things, both inside and outside, and there are bright and dark things, and now, this committee has great prestige and appeal, and these things are the efforts of our people. If you want to leave at this time, you will undoubtedly give up this battlefield!"
"Yang Hyun Suk. Li Xiuman sighed helplessly. "I always thought you were a character, but now it seems that you are still too naΓ―ve!"
After that, Li Xiuman walked away.
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