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UKnow Yunho and Michael Jackson’s Tribute Concert’s producer, Morris Pleasure had met each other in America.
In order to welcome the upcoming Michael Jackson’s Tribute Concert on 27th March & 28th March at Yongsan War Memorial of Korea, Uknow Yunho arrived in America on 5th March (America Time) and started the training.
UKnow Yunho, whom is playing the lead role of the Tribute Concert in Korea, has arrived in Las Vegas. Upon arriving, he immediately engaged in detailed discussions for the performance tracks order and contents with Morris Pleasure, the keyboard player of Michael Jackson’s This Is It Tribute Concert.
Although the [Korean] Fair Trade Committee has ordered that entertainment agencies rectify the unlawful contracts that violate the privacy of celebrities, the majority of entertainment agencies has ignored this order.
The Fair Trade Committee has given an extension to this order and is planning to take strict action against those who do not follow the orders by the new date.
According to the Fair Trade Committee on the 4th, 278 agencies were told to fix their contracts in October, but only 12 have submitted the results of their implementation of the FTC's standards.
I thought that anything standing in the way of the continued rise of TVXQ would be crushed. While that may have been my melodramatic way to express my belief that TVXQ is special beyond just a regular group, it looks like "the universe" is beginning to work it's magic. SM is in deep $hit.
News just broke that the company standing in the way of TVXQ being allowed to freely express themselves as a group of 5 (especially in their home country of South Korea) is being investigated for unfair contract terms. I won't get too overly excited until there is more than just allkpop attached to the source of this news, though.
The Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) made the announcement of the investigation into SM, according to translated reports.
When SM's founder Lee Soo Man suddenly announced his resignation from official duties, AND news that AVEX (Japan) divested completely from SM, we all should have known something big was coming. Word probably came down about the investigations and upcoming scandals within SM.
What's worse for SM is that the unfair practices against TVXQ may be the tip of the iceberg. Other groups like SNSD and Super Junior as well as 53 other celebrities that fall under SM Entertainment will have their contract terms investigated, according to the translated reports.
The gorgeous 'Youngwoong' Jaejoong (TVXQ / DBSK) is set to appear in another drama written by Kitagawa Eriko. Kitagawa is the writer for "Heaven's Postman" which starred Jaejoong.
This next drama titled "For Being Dishonest" (according to the translated information) will also have a other famous Japanese actors in it as well like Ueno Juri