Recently, #Pledis sued Zhou Jieqiong # on the hot search, Pledis for Zhou Jieqiong Korean brokerage company, against Zhou Jieqiong unilaterally proposed to terminate the contract in September last year, without the company's permission to carry out a number of brokerage business in the mainland.
Artists bypass the brokerage company to negotiate business privately and perform publicly is a taboo in the industry, any brokerage company will write this clearly when signing an artist, Pledis sued Zhou Jieqiong, whether from the legal or moral point of view has an absolute advantage, Zhou Jieqiong's possibility of losing the lawsuit is very large.
A major legal instrument used by Korean entertainment companies to restrain artists is the sky-high liquidated damages, and therefore have no fear, forcing artists, especially female artists, to accompany customers with wine, Zhang Ziyan is an example, and Song Zhuxi in the previous two years is also an example.
In 2018, Song Zhuxi unilaterally proposed to terminate the contract due to dissatisfaction with the company's forced wine and demanded to dress too revealingly, and was sued by the brokerage company, claiming 80 million won, equivalent to nearly 460,000 yuan.
It seems that the amount is not high, but the income of Korean artists is extremely low, most of them are taken away by the company, and they can only take about 10% of the total income, and they also have to share with the members of the group.
Therefore, many artists can only ask for perfection because they can't afford to pay the sky-high liquidated damages, and they have done a lot of reluctant things.
Song Zhuxi's agent was signed about 2009, the liquidated damages were 80 million, Zhou Jieqiong's liquidated damages were only high and not low, and because Zhou Jieqiong had privately received a large number of performances, this part of the income was very likely to be taken away by the brokerage company, with heavy losses!
Zhou Jieqiong responded on March 25 to the termination of the contract:
Zhou Jieqiong original text:
Due to the many serious problems and thoughtfulness of career development in the process of cooperation, I Zhou Jieqiong has officially proposed in writing to PIERCE ENTERTAINMENT CO., Ltd. and Xingcan Shengshi (Beijing) Culture Media Co., Ltd. through lawyers to terminate the artist agency contract in writing, originally wanting both parties to solve their own problems according to law, and did not want personal matters to disturb everyone, but since the matter happened, face it and solve it.
All right and wrong do not want to argue anymore, all I can do is to do every job conscientiously, strive to improve myself, present better works for everyone, and live up to the people who love me and trust me. Thanks to the company for taking care of me in the past, I hope that each of them can get better and better in the future.
Zhou Jieqiong's response is equivalent to a disguised admission of her unilateral breach of contract, but only clarifies the reason for the breach: serious problems in the cooperation process.
As for what this serious problem really is, it is estimated that Zhou Jieqiong will not let everyone wait too long.
In fact, all the problems are ultimately the problem of money, Zhou Jieqiong's income in the mainland is hundreds of times that of South Korea, of course, she is not willing to give 90% to the company, and it is sooner or later to terminate the contract.
Xiaobian supports Zhou Jieqiong's termination of the contract, even if she gives all the income of these two years to the original company, she will only earn and not lose.