Speaking of Shangguan Li, you may know who she is, or you may feel that the name is a bit familiar.
In the 2020 hit "Youth with You 2", Shangguan Li won the 16th place and failed to form a group with THE9, but she has a high degree of recognition, a cool personality, good singing and dancing, and stage performance is recognized.
The 25-year-old Shangguan Li revealed the truth about the end of the prosperity in the interview program "The Shelf Life of Idols": she has no income for 9 months, and she owes the company 790,000 yuan for "debt", while her contract with the company has been fulfilled for 7 years, and there are 3 years left.
A year and a half after the end of "Youth with You 2", Shangguan loved to announce continuously, and appeared on variety shows such as "Summer of the Band", "Strange Story", "Masked Singer", "Hundred Changes Big Coffee Show", etc., looking like a first-line red star.
But even with so many jobs, she still didn't make money, and the money she owed to the company was snowballing more and more.
Shangguan Li signed a contract with the company at the age of 18, received three or four years of arduous singing and dancing training, and accompanied the 7-member girl group Xiqi activities.
They recorded 19 singles and released only 2, and Shangguan liked to say that she spent "hundreds of thousands" to record songs alone.
At least Shangguan likes to be red, and her teammate Anzaki has also joined the THE9 group, and the two of them have participated in "Youth with You 2", but the Xiqi teammates Mo Mo and Wenzhe, who have been on a round trip, have received the most share in these years for half a year and 20,000 yuan.
As trainees for 7 years, they have no salary, the company will pay them an "advance payment", whether they make money or not, the "advance payment" will be returned to the company sooner or later.
They live off "advance payments" and nibbling on the old, and Wen Zhe even chokes up and says "I'm sorry Daddy".
After this interview was broadcast, there were voices on the Internet questioning Shangguan's love for "selling misery" and "selling poverty".
In everyone's impression, it is too easy for celebrities to make money, so there will be so many handsome men and women flocking to the entertainment circle. But in the entertainment industry, the trainee contract is super long, the division is harsh, and there is indeed a lot of bitter water to pour.
China's trainee system is basically copied from South Korea, and the Korean boy band "Myth" once became a big hit and made hundreds of billions of won for the company, but 5 members returned to the company and found that they owed the company 40 million won.
Therefore, Shangguan likes to owe the company 790,000, which is not surprising, but it only shows that she does not earn enough for the company.
Wen Zhe and Mo Mo obviously have no job, but they have not yet terminated their contract with the company, and they and Shangguan Like did not mention the termination fee and liquidated damages in the interview, which is the most "pit" link in the trainee system.
The host He Jiong once disclosed the status quo of the trainee industry, a company signed 100 boys in one go, as long as one stood out and earned, the remaining 99 slowly consumed, forcing the trainees to take the initiative to terminate the contract, can earn at least 500,000 termination money from a person.
Cai Xukun is the biggest winner of the "first year of the 2018 draft", when he debuted from the C position of "Idol Trainee", the former company asked him to pay 30 million yuan in termination fees and 15 million in liquidated damages.
The lawsuit became a protracted battle, and Cai Xukun finally successfully terminated the contract, but not all the trainees were as profitable as he was.
In recent years, there have been many trainees who have termination disputes with the company, but their fame is much smaller than Cai Xukun's, and their attention is much lower.
Cai Zhengjie, a trainee of "Creation Camp 2019", signed a 12-year contract with the company and only received 60,000 yuan in income.
In order to make a living, Cai Zhengjie consulted with the company, and he went to the store in Sanlitun as a cashier, and the company agreed. Later, he offered to terminate the contract, received a letter from a lawyer, and the company claimed 5 million yuan in liquidated damages from him.
Another company asked trainee Zhou Rong to pay a termination fee of 1.98 million yuan, but Zhou Rong's deposit was only 647 yuan and there was no other property.
There are also some companies that will take trainees to self-funded plastic surgery, and trainees with general economic conditions will borrow from the company.
The most lamentable trainee is Huang Zhibo, who participated in "In the Name of the Regiment".
From a poor family, he sold masks during the severe period of the epidemic in 2020, received money and did not ship them, involving an amount of up to 117,000 yuan, and was finally sentenced to 3 years and 3 months in prison for fraud.
Committing such a big thing, of course, is a matter of character, but it also shows that it is not good to be a practicing child at the bottom of the pyramid.
If the family is not good enough, it is really very painful to bet on being a trainee, and finally if you can't get it right, you will end up nibbling on the old, let your parents sell the house and terminate the contract, like Huang Zitao, who has a rich family as the backing, can be regarded as a real no worries.
Most of the trainees' contracts are as harsh as the "deed of sale", but there are still so many boys and girls who are willing to sign, and even seriously lack the legal awareness of self-protection when signing the contract, perhaps they are blinded by the charm fans of Vanity Fair in the entertainment industry!
In order to achieve the goal, there is always a price to pay, and the entertainment industry is a place where "one achievement will be made of ten thousand bones".
Every trainee has a dream of stardom, but 99% of them are beaten hard by reality.
In the end, it is a sentence: the entertainment industry is too deep, and you need to be cautious if you want to enter the industry.
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