My SM love among all the hate!
From what I read in the last couple of months I conclude that I’m the only one who thinks that SME is an amazing and impressive company? (maybe it’s because I do businesses and they are amazing from that point of view..)
Everyone is crying out for the “unfair” treatment of DBSK… but what about the SM side? They are a HUGE entertainment company. Thousands of employee’s salaries, hair and makeup, trainee costs, building costs, dorms costs, cost of producing albums, marketing, PR, purchasing music, food, water, transportation, global and local auditions, etc. These costs are huge, even when ignoring the beyond expensive costs of Korean items and goods (why do you think they keep handing out beef as prizes on shows?). We know the approximate numbers that DBSK earns, but we don’t not know how much money is spent maintaining DBSK and letting SM survive as a company.
SME is a COMPANY! They are out to make money, not to be kind to people. DBSK is a product, SNSD is a product, Super Junior is a product, and they are no different than a person promoting an item. They are the ‘face’, they get paid to be the ‘face’, and the companies behind them reap in the profit of selling the item the ‘face’ promotes. The companies don’t give vast amounts of money to the person promoting, just enough to keep them happy, and keep enough of the profit to pay the cost of producing items and still have a profit.
Without SM there is no DBSK, it’s just a group of boys, bunch of makeup, a background and clothes. SM put them together to CREATE DBSK. It’s kind of weird to hate the company that made the one you ‘love’ into who they are. SM also has to pay for the groups that don’t succeed, not every group earns back the money spent. SM is a venture capitalist in a sense, VC invest in 10 companies, 9 of which will fail, they charge an interest of up to 90% on the 1 company that makes it big. Why? To get their money back, to make a profit. SM is doing the exact same thing! The only reason why they have recently loosened the terms of the contract is because the vast majority of their groups are doing well. But that’s not how it always was, or always going to be.
So hate all you want, but just take a look from SM’s side. And no I don't think SM is perfect about the DBSK issue, but the case isn't black and white. Thanks for reading through my rant. :)
Comments
I'm big fan of TVXQ. I understand what you say. Yes, SME is company. And TVXQ is product. I love SMP like purple line, mirotic or rising sun very much. They did really good job.
I love their job but I really worrying about TVXQ. I think you have read the contract. TVXQ can't get money from SME or SME forged tvxq contract...etc. And TVXQ always had hard schedule. I watched the video which Changmin couldn't stand on the stage and nearly dead. When they came to Japan, they didn't know why they came to Japan and sing in Japanese.
They are TVXQ but they are human. TVXQ is product but they are human. Usually people cannot do their hard schedule. Because they are TVXQ, they could do the hard schedule. But that TVXQ isn't that SME made. TVXQ themselves struggle very very hard so they could do the schedule and become TVXQ now.
Bad point of SME is SME didn't treat them as a human and don't have oppotunities to talk with TVXQ and listening to their opinion I think.
If you work, you can get money to live. It is natural. But TVXQ cannot.If you become terrible sick, you can have day off. But they cannot. I feel it violation of human rights.
I hope 5 of them become happy and smile us again^^
I'm really sorry my English is bad>< I'm not english speaker.
I hope you understand my English...><
As an enterpreneur, I would never consider SM as a truly successful company I should idolize as a role model or whatever, I would have learn from them what I shouldn't do as the one owning big business.
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