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My SM love among all the hate!

By: highonsugar
Oct 30, 2009
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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. :)


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  • highonsugar

    highonsugar said:

    @galygal: Thanks for understanding. I was merely trying to show that SM isn't a 'snake that leechs off the faithful stars' as ArashiDBSK puts it. It's a company and sometimes people forget that. I wanted to bring it back to the front of their mind.
    on: November 4, 2009 @ 06:42PM | Flag as inappropriate
  • highonsugar

    highonsugar said:

    @ viola501: I think that if SM wasn't treatly DBSK fairly and that's why DBSK is suing. Then addressing the length of the contact in the case is a funny way of going at it. It makes sense that SM treats artists who leave their company not as well as they should. I wouldn't like someone who I helped and raised into popularity ditch me as soon as they become sucessful. I'll ignore that jab at me, but I think that if you don't recognize DBSK as a product then SM has done it's job very well. They created an character that you adore, so much that you no longer see the makeup and costumes.
    on: November 4, 2009 @ 06:39PM | Flag as inappropriate
  • galygal

    galygal said:

    Being a fan of DBSK, I too, I have to look at the company. I agree with this article, in many parts. I don't think this article, written by highonsuger, mention anything about slavery, etc. It only talked about the company's side. Before judging the case regarding the lawsuit, I had already known that SM is a company, and what they have to done and do to make/form the group. That I'm thankful of and have to put that into consideration as well. I've never once hated the company, because I feel that they've done they're best at trying to keep everyone in SM happy.
    on: November 4, 2009 @ 05:59PM | Flag as inappropriate
  • ArashiDBSK

    ArashiDBSK said:

    SM are such snakes to bands that literally devote themselves to SM AND sm IS TRYING TO leech on these stars even more than they are supposed to...
    on: November 4, 2009 @ 05:54PM | Flag as inappropriate
  • viola501

    viola501 said:

    The DBSK trio wouldn't have problems with the LENGHT of the contract if they are happy to be with SM. The fact is they are unhappy, so they want to part from the company. I don't know about others who still stick with them. but I admit that big and powerful company like SM can provide more than the smaller ones can. That could be one of the reasons ppl still stay there. However, there are also those who are already out and never return PLUS SM also treat them badly after they departed - JTL, SES, Shinhwa. From my point, I think SM should start treating their people as HUMANs, not as products or money-making machines. I dont know about you, but I was taught to do business with civil and treat my people with respect.
    on: November 4, 2009 @ 05:45PM | Flag as inappropriate
  • highonsugar

    highonsugar said:

    @kimce: ROFL I don't even know how to respond to you... My 'idol' is in SM, Kim Heechul ring a bell? You need to calm down, I'm merely trying to show the SM side of the story. We don't know what goes on between SM and DBSK, so all we can do is take everything with a grain of salt. And that means not blindly trusting EITHER sides of DBSK.
    on: November 4, 2009 @ 04:59PM | Flag as inappropriate
  • highonsugar

    highonsugar said:

    @viola501: That's a good point, however the lawsuit's main argument is the LENGTH of the contract and the share of the profit. The whole slavery and human ethics issue was first brought up by Cassies. If there really is a slavery problem, with the fact that DBSK won their case, other SM artists should rebel also. It makes no sense for them to sit around and not do anything. Being 'forced' by SM, is not a legit reason, because as we can tell DBSK was under SM control also but this didn't stop them from suing SM...
    on: November 4, 2009 @ 10:07AM | Flag as inappropriate
  • kimce

    kimce said:

    then if "YOUR IDOL" will be in this case would you side the company if they are doing bad things about "your idol" ???? ha??? you didn't even no what other plan is SM doing....
    on: November 4, 2009 @ 12:02AM | Flag as inappropriate
  • viola501

    viola501 said:

    I am also doing and studying business, but I notice something that I think you seem to forget to mention. The Good Governance and/or Corperate Ethics. A good company not only maximize their profit and please the shareholders, but they also have to make sure that their employees PLUS the customers (in this case, the fans) are happy with their works and (in your word) their product. In this department, SM failed, big time!
    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.
    on: November 3, 2009 @ 10:55PM | Flag as inappropriate
  • kimce

    kimce said:

    then what about the hard work of DBSK? atleast let them treat the artist good... many rumors have grown that SM treat artist "not human" ....
    on: November 3, 2009 @ 10:40PM | Flag as inappropriate

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