Lawsuit against SM Entretainment

Super Junior also said SuJu or SJ. Super Junior is a boy band, from Seoul, South Korea. Your representative is the producer Lee Soo Man and is currently the largest group in SM Entertainment. Super Junior has 13 members and debuted in 2005 as singers and actors. The members are Leeteuk (the leader), Heechul, Han Geng, Yesung, Kang In, Shindong, Sungmin, Eunhyuk, Donghae, Siwon, Ryeowook, Kibum and Kyuhyun.

Lawsuit against SM Entertainment

On December 21, 2009, China sources confirmed the lawsuit filed by a member of Super Junior Hankyung and leader of the sub group Super Junior-M.

Six Reasons of Lawsuit

1. The contract has many provisions for SM.

• When the contract was signed for the first time (January 2003) Hankyung was 18 then (it was minor) and being a citizen Chinise, he didn't know nothing about the Korean entertainment and SM gave him a contract with the same content suggested.
  
  
• Not only that, after that, the SM made changes on their side. which means that Hankyung was not able to suggest rules in their favor.

• The first contract that he signed said that would end 10 years after the launch of the first album of Super Junior, but the second time it was modified was extended to 13 years. The Super Junior's first album was released in December 2005 and the contract will end in December 2018 and Hankyung will be 35.
  
  
• Also, if Hankyung will not some day in their activities because their health or their education, the contract period will be extended and should pay for them to go wrong.
  

• If Hankyung wants to go to another company and continue its business, will pay to the SM three times the money that the SM has invested in it and pay twice more for the remaining period of the contract.

• Hankyung has to follow and attend all activities organized by the SM, you must follow all instructions or orders but don't have the right to request that their contract is reviewed.

• During the training, if Hankyung was late or didn't attend or didn't go would be fined 10,000 won (9 dollars today) for the first time, 20,000 won (17 dollars) for the second time, etc. After the debut if he was late or absent from his agenda, would pay for all damages, and if you cut contact with SM for more than 1 day, the SM would cancel his contract and would be fined 5,000,000 ($ 4.245).
  
  
• According to the contract, Hankyung has no right to decide its agenda, you must follow all instructions in SM and only attend events or performances that the manager of SM has been designed for him. Hankyung has even been forced to attend some activities in order of SM even when he was sick.

• During the contract period, all copyrights of the albums and songs belong to SM. Even if Hankyung writes or composes the songs, can be used by SM without your permission.
  
  
• And on profits, the album does not sell over 50,000 copies before Hankyung can receive 2% of the profits.
  
  
• Digital Sales must be equivalent to net income for Hankyung can receive 10% of the profits.
  
  
• The foreign income must be equal to net income for Hankyung also receive 60% of the profits.
  
  
• And the income from activities abroad are only after the SM subtract all promotion costs, the remaining money will be divided among group members.
  

LeeTeuk

HanGeng

Yesung

Kangin



Eunhyuk