[cassiopeia<3]

Mine was so weird…
I was auditioning for Brosent Entertainment through email and passed.
After that, they told me to call Mr. Han, since he was in charge of my audition.
I don’t live in Maryland so I couldn’t call them just like THAT.
I lived half way across the country so it was going to be a long distance call.

I didn’t want to call them so I emailed them that I couldn’t call them.
Cause my mom had incidents with my little sister calling long distance for hours at a time,
Since her best friend moved out of state.
She didn’t tell my mother about the calls so when the phone bills came (for 2 months), it topped at $400.
It wasn’t like we were rich where we could afford everything. It drove us to a little debt where my mom cried for hours on end about how bad my little sister for getting a $400 phone bill since we could barely afford anything. We’re middle class people who are trying our best to live off of what we make.
Ever since then, she cut off the long distance calling plan and watched our every move on the phone.

They then emailed me again, within the next day, saying that they were insulted for me not being able to make a phone call to them.
I couldn’t believe them…I was shocked out of my mind. I couldn’t believe that they wanted to sever their ties with me just over a stupid phone call.
If they wanted to work with a person but gets offended this easily, why are they even auditioning people?!
I mean, I get it but still, I had a good reason for not being able to call them.

I’m not going to risk my mom’s sanity over people who aren’t willing to work with me just cause I can‘t call them. They told me to not reach them or even audition with them again.
Its not like I want to anyways.
I mean it. It was so stupid….


I wanted this so much. To the point where I would give up everything just to be there.
But I don’t want to work with people who just give up on the people who they are auditioning.
If they gave up this easily, what’s going to stop them from giving up on you later on?






-edit
OMG!
I had no idea!
I just read some of the replys and topics about Brosent in the Performers Thread.
WOW!
Read this thread! here <-------
I'm chinese. But I got through.
WTH is wrong with them?
Try being a little respectful at least!!

[miss_xchunsah]

yeah it probably was the hacker... e-mail them back and ask them if it was really them, or if it was the hacker. the real head of the e-mailing and all should reply saying it was all a misunderstanding... why would they tell u to never call back and crap?!
that's rude, and cus u cant make the call?
i mean. isn't mr. boony (?) i forgot his name >_>
supposed to call you? not you call them?

[dominyqz]

hMm .. mayb you should mail them again regarding the topic juz to double confirm .. who knows .. with the hacker lurking around and all .. might b another prank mail that "hacker" mailed .. but tch tch, doesn't that "hacker" had something else better to do than to crush people's dreams? and in such a harsh manner as well ..

[cassiopeia<3]

yeah it probably was the hacker... e-mail them back and ask them if it was really them, or if it was the hacker. the real head of the e-mailing and all should reply saying it was all a misunderstanding... why would they tell u to never call back and crap?!
that's rude, and cus u cant make the call?
i mean. isn't mr. boony (?) i forgot his name >_>
supposed to call you? not you call them?

I don't want to email them back cause I'm scared that it might be the actual people.
I offended me enough that they even said not to contact them again.
Could someone help me?
Since its a pretty recent thing. Just got the email today.

[dominyqz]

I don't want to email them back cause I'm scared that it might be the actual people.
I offended me enough that they even said not to contact them again.
Could someone help me?
Since its a pretty recent thing. Just got the email today.

but from most of the tread i read, bros. ent. will only reply you with something like "they most likely won't review again from people who failed an audition before" but they didn't state that people who had failed their auditioned before wouldn't make it into bros. ent. ever though .. so i guess something like don't contact them ever might not be sent by representive of bro. ents?

[brosentgal]

Mine was so weird…
I was auditioning for Brosent Entertainment through email and passed.
After that, they told me to call Mr. Han, since he was in charge of my audition.
I don’t live in Maryland so I couldn’t call them just like THAT.
I lived half way across the country so it was going to be a long distance call.

I didn’t want to call them so I emailed them that I couldn’t call them.
Cause my mom had incidents with my little sister calling long distance for hours at a time,
Since her best friend moved out of state.
She didn’t tell my mother about the calls so when the phone bills came (for 2 months), it topped at $400.
It wasn’t like we were rich where we could afford everything. It drove us to a little debt where my mom cried for hours on end about how bad my little sister for getting a $400 phone bill since we could barely afford anything. We’re middle class people who are trying our best to live off of what we make.
Ever since then, she cut off the long distance calling plan and watched our every move on the phone.

They then emailed me again, within the next day, saying that they were insulted for me not being able to make a phone call to them.
I couldn’t believe them…I was shocked out of my mind. I couldn’t believe that they wanted to sever their ties with me just over a stupid phone call.
If they wanted to work with a person but gets offended this easily, why are they even auditioning people?!
I mean, I get it but still, I had a good reason for not being able to call them.

I’m not going to risk my mom’s sanity over people who aren’t willing to work with me just cause I can‘t call them. They told me to not reach them or even audition with them again.
Its not like I want to anyways.
I mean it. It was so stupid….
I wanted this so much. To the point where I would give up everything just to be there.
But I don’t want to work with people who just give up on the people who they are auditioning.
If they gave up this easily, what’s going to stop them from giving up on you later on?
-edit
OMG!
I had no idea!
I just read some of the replys and topics about Brosent in the Performers Thread.
WOW!
Read this thread! here <-------
I'm chinese. But I got through.
WTH is wrong with them?
Try being a little respectful at least!!

It was definitely a hacker!! I can't believe that they would say that.

Bros. Entertainment even have on their website of how much their artists are so important to them and the company.

Don't believe what you got..seriously..as heart wrenching as it is..just let it go..it was most likely not them at all.

As a matter of fact if I was you I would send them an email again explaining the situation and what you just experienced.

This is really unprofessional of them, and they shouldn't even be in business if it was truly them. And I highly doubt that it was them.

Don't lose hope and I am so sorry that you had to get that...grr...that makes me mad...I got something like that too..and I was so shocked I nearly cried..

[Irulanne]

I have trouble beleive that such a serious company would say to you to F*** off and never audition again because of a temporary money issue...

They sure receive a LOT of auditions and when they open the door for you, you can't waste any time. Yes, they will go to the next person if for any reason, you can't step through that door, but still. It is not professional to be rude to people like that. They should have told you to audition again once your money issue were resolved, so they could put your case on hold for the time beeing.

I would give you 2 littles advices. First, I would recommend you to write a letter (not an email) to the executives of the company, about how you were treated, in a very polite, short and honest way. Second, I would recommend you not to give such many details about your money situation. It may looks like you are giving excuses, that you are not autonomous, trying to buy some time before calling, blah blah blah... Just a simple "I truly appologize; my current situation dose not allow me to make long distance call. Is it possible to make some arrangments of some sort for me to contact Mr. Han as soon as possible ?" or such.

On that, dont give up. Audition again once this crisis is over. They may not even remember you.

Good luck.

Irulanne

[miss_xchunsah]

I don't want to email them back cause I'm scared that it might be the actual people.
I offended me enough that they even said not to contact them again.
Could someone help me?
Since its a pretty recent thing. Just got the email today.

dont be scared! it shouldnt be the real company... that's too rude of them, and once again, unproffesional..
so yeah even if it's not the real people, try to send one >_<
that's the only help that i can give you :x sorry ^^;

[cassiopeia<3]

I have trouble beleive that such a serious company would say to you to F*** off and never audition again because of a temporary money issue...

They sure receive a LOT of auditions and when they open the door for you, you can't waste any time. Yes, they will go to the next person if for any reason, you can't step through that door, but still. It is not professional to be rude to people like that. They should have told you to audition again once your money issue were resolved, so they could put your case on hold for the time beeing.

I would give you 2 littles advices. First, I would recommend you to write a letter (not an email) to the executives of the company, about how you were treated, in a very polite, short and honest way. Second, I would recommend you not to give such many details about your money situation. It may looks like you are giving excuses, that you are not autonomous, trying to buy some time before calling, blah blah blah... Just a simple "I truly appologize; my current situation dose not allow me to make long distance call. Is it possible to make some arrangments of some sort for me to contact Mr. Han as soon as possible ?" or such.

On that, dont give up. Audition again once this crisis is over. They may not even remember you.

Good luck.

Irulanne

Oh man!
You should of posted earlier!
I sent an email to them already…
Saying that I was sorry that they felted that way, and to not misunderstand.
I told them about the bill and stuff.
But I just wonder what’s gonna happen.

I want to post the actual email, but I got so mad and pissed off that I deleted every email
I got. It was THAT offending.

[elaineeel0ve]

hmm if you don't want to email them back, i think the best option is to call.
i mean that's what theyre expecting of you anyways.
and if you cant do it with your phone, use a good friend's.

[appledapple]

Have your mother call them with a calling card. Not to seem rude, but you are going to have to even posssibly have to call Korea sometimes if you want to get into the industry...so you will need to prepare better in the future. But you guys are probably going to need to get a calling card or something and call them.

[mikasaranghae]

please be realistic. the entertainment world is harsh and cruel.
i believe they did send you that.

ask any aspiring models they would tell you how rude these so-called agents/ect are.


also....
this is just like a job-seeking.... it must be important for the job-seekers to call LD.
its the fact of life because if they don't have you, there are tons of others waiting for the opportunity.


life is cruel & sad in the entertainment industry.

[hc&&jc:]]

i think it was a hacker, because i sent in my email before with my picture and they said i wasn't waht they were looking for. but i just emailed them back again sending in a diff. picture, but they responded like really fast like within 30 mins and said to try when i am 2 or 3 years older and that my first pic. was a disastor and first impressions are SO important. but tehn today when i checked my mail, i had an email from them and it said one of their casting members is requesting for me to send more pics and a singing sample. so i was like O-O? what the...
but yeah. i dont think brosent would say dont ever audition for us

[elavndrc]

I have no idea if it was a hacker or not....but I don't think it was the right choice not calling them in the first place. There's no way you would've rung up a $400 bill calling Bros because your sister was taking to her best friend. No offense, I'm sure the Bros entertainment people don't want to talk to you for hours on end, they would've just done a small interview or given you some information. If you have a job interview in the future, people would be offended if you told then you can't call them because of long distance, if it was me...and I worked at a company - I would've been offended...

If you really wanted to be an entertainer so much, you should have called.

They've giving you a once in a lifetime opportunity, and if you have to fly somewhere to audition or perform somewhere...it's going to cost more than a long distance phone bill. Plus you can always just pay your mom for the long distance calls, unless you talk for hours on end...the most it can probably ring up is like $40.

[Bi=Oh]

i think it was hacker because why would they get you to call them... its usually the entertainment company thats calls you.. and besides if they were interested in you... they would call you because mr boone called these guys i know last week after they send their application forms .. so its got to be a hacker..

[C13L]

thats really cool that they're interested in you =) and good luck..

i dont' think it would be a hacker telling you to call... if it was a hacker... wouldn't that mean that the phone number shouldn't work then? (do hackers have that much time to do this? they'd just be rude to start)

for the 2nd e-mail that sounds quite rude... it's possible that it was a hacker because it's not very professional at all to insult you. but at the same time could it be that you were very angry at that moment and interpreted it as a really harsh insult? i don't know =S either way best of luck with this ^^

if one company has interest in you, i'm sure others will too

[Bi=Oh]

thats really cool that they're interested in you =) and good luck..

i dont' think it would be a hacker telling you to call... if it was a hacker... wouldn't that mean that the phone number shouldn't work then? (do hackers have that much time to do this? they'd just be rude to start)

for the 2nd e-mail that sounds quite rude... it's possible that it was a hacker because it's not very professional at all to insult you. but at the same time could it be that you were very angry at that moment and interpreted it as a really harsh insult? i don't know =S either way best of luck with this ^^

if one company has interest in you, i'm sure others will too

if the company was interest in you.. thye dont' get you to call them... they call you...hmm this is very confusing

[appledapple]

if the company was interest in you.. thye dont' get you to call them... they call you...hmm this is very confusing

eh, but they'd already contacted her. and did she provide them with a phone number in her audition or not?

i'll probably seem bad for saying this, but the times I dealt with Korean industry people it was different than dealing with american music people...it may seem to someone from the States unprofessional or amateurish even, though they are indeed very picky...

as far as the op's issue...maybe the phone call from mother will fix it, but brothers did come on here and post before that anyone who posted their online communications would have a lesser chance of getting help from them.

Allow me to introduce myself - my name is Justin Han and I am the director of new talent for Brothers Entertainment. This is a friendly but firm notice that public forms such as this are routinely monitored. If you are auditioning and post our private communications on a public forum there is an increased chance that you will be rejected. Please respect our privacy in the same way that we respect yours. For example, we would never post your private contact information, singing samples or comments on a public forum. We firmly respect your freedom of speech but since the entertainment industry is so competitive it is important to keep certain information confidential. Please keep this in mind if you plan to audition. A true star should be able to keep secrets and be able to be elusive and mysterious. We are a professional company and each audition is handled on a case by case basis. No two situations are identical. When in doubt, it is best to ask us in private. Our goal is to find superstars and only a few people are capable of acheiving that. Thank you for your continued interest

[b0ol1nda]

Okay guys, I know I dont work for Brothers Entertainment or anything...but let me TRY to clear up everything...cus I feel really bad about their situation right now.
To Cassiopeia: I got the same exact email..saying to "contact Mr. Han" and gave me a number...so the next day I actually didnt worry about the long distance call...and I called..Mr. Han picked up and we started talking in Korean. Mr.Han seemed to be really confused...so after we talked for a long time about just the ent. business, I emailed Mr. Boone again, and asked about the recent reply about contacting Mr. Han...and he said that it was the hacker and that hes sorry.
So yeah, everyone...please dont think negatively about Bros...I'm sure theyre going through a lot right now trying to figure out who the hacker was, emailing back everyone who was offended and explaining their situation, etc.
Keep trying to achieve your dream with Bros~~~~ Theyre more professional than most of us think

--edit: I dont believe this is a "private convo" so...hope this doesnt "increase my chance of not making it" haha

[VindictusDame]

WOW. I see. so it was a bloody hacker.