On the afternoon of 10th, SM Entertainment announced that "the company had received the news today as Luhan filed the lawsuit." SM has revealed that due to health reasons Luhan would like to focus on solo activities more than the group.
In addition, SM revealed that "along with the case of Kris, filing a lawsuit in a situation where a lawsuit is not needed determines that the lawsuit is due to prioritizing personal benefits" and that "external influence nearby is also suspected."
In short, while Luhan expressed his wish to pause his activites due to health reasons, in reality it is really for the solo activities in China.
SM has disclosed that it will respond according to the law and that EXO's activities will not be interfered.
The company had received the news today as Luhan filed the lawsuit.
We are baffled by the sudden lawsuit in the midst of a discussion on future plan for Luhan who had expressed his wish to focus on solo activities in China over EXO activities due to health reasons.
But along with case with Kris, filing a lawsuit in a similar pattern (as Kris did) in a situation where there are no reasons to pursue a lawsuit shows that after gaining a huge popularity as a star, it is a lawsuit filed with the intent of putting personal profits as his priority and ignoring the interests of all parties involved including the agency as well as the group itself.
In addition an external influence is suspected.
The company plans to act accordingly with legal partners in China and overseas in a calm and active manner.
We also promise that EXO's future activities will occur without interference.
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EXO-M’s Luhan is filing lawsuit against SM Entertainment.
In breaking news, Chinese media site Sina is reporting that EXO-M’s Luhan is filing lawsuit against SM Entertainment.
Chinese media portal Sina has reported they have received exclusive information that EXO member Luhan has filed a lawsuit today at 9AM KST against his agency, SM Entertainment, for an invalid contract.
The report ends there, with Sina summarizing information about EXO-M and Luhan. Sina is reporting this the exact way they broke the news that EXO-M’s Kris would be leaving the group earlier this year.
SM Entertainment has gone under many conflicts this year starting with EXO Kris’s lawsuit against the agency four months ago, f(x) Sulli’s sudden hiatus following a confirmation of her relationship with Dynamic Duo’s Choiza, and most recently, the withdrawal of Jessica from Girls’ Generation.
Stay tuned as we await for more information from SM Entertainment.
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LUHAN WILL BE REPRESENTED BY HANGENG AND KRIS’ LAWYER AGAINST SM ENTERTAINMENT
Just earlier, we broke news that EXO-M’s Luhan was filing for nullification from his contract with SM Entertainment. Now, reports are coming in that Luhan will be represented by law firm, Hankyul.
According to Seoul Central District Court, Luhan filed a lawsuit against SM Entertainment on October 10th. The law firm Hankyul has decided to take on Luhan’s case against SM Entertainment.
The paperwork filed is the exact same filed by Kris, back in May, when the same law firm represented him.
SM Entertainment has gone under many conflicts this year starting with EXO Kris’s lawsuit against the agency four months ago, f(x) Sulli’s sudden hiatus following a confirmation of her relationship with Dynamic Duo’s Choiza, and most recently, the withdrawal of Jessica from Girls’ Generation.
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Luhan announces termination with SM
Exclusive: Luhan announces termination with SM; EXO loses Chinese popularity king
First paragraph, which contains most of the relevant info:
Sina October 10th, Sina has exclusively learned that Luhan of the chinese subset of Korean boygroup EXO filed an indictment at 9:00AM KST to Seoul Attorney District Court, which aims to invalidate his contract with SM Entertainment. This comes after Kris’s May 15th filing this year, but in less than 5 months afterwards, a second member of EXO-M has filed for termination; Sina will look further into investigating this matter. It is well-known that Luhan is the member with the most popularity in China; during Mid-Autumn festival, he underwent stressed-induced persistent headaches and therefore went to his home in Beijing to recuperate. On September 20th and 21st, both his left eye and the left side of his face began to swell, but despite sickness still attended the first day of Exo’s latest tour site at Beijing Railway Station.
Other relevant information throughout news article:
Luhan’s sickness was severe enough that he missed the Bangkok concert but still went to the Beijing site; it is implied from the article that him performing at Beijing was SM’s decision.
News of Luhan’s imminent leave from SM has been popping up for awhile now in Chinese media. Several major TV stations broadcasted stuff about it
Chinese translation of indictment:
1. Event: 2014 case 573251 confirming that the exclusive contract should no longer exist
2. Plaintiff: Luhan
3. Defendant: SM Entertainment, Co., Ltd.
4. Reception number
5. Received date: 10/10/2014, 9:30 AM
6. Type of claim: indictment
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10.10.2014 в 17:19Exclusive reveal on the reasons behind Luhan's termination of contract: Limitations on development and excessive fatigue
On the 10th of October, Korean group EXO's Chinese member Luhan has submitted the statement of charges through his legal representative to the Seoul Central District Court at around 9AM in the morning, filing for the nullification of contract. Sina Entertainment News uncovered that the main reasons can be summarized into the following points:
1. Company is enable to provide future development plans
2. Difference in treatment of Korean and Chinese members
3. Unreasonable allocation of resources
4. Poor health symptoms that arose due to working under tremendous workload and stress
A glance at this, though the details are different, suggests a similar direction this case is leading to as Hangeng, who has successfully terminated his contract, and Kris, who is in the middle of terminating. Thereafter, Sina Entertainment has discovered many related details from the people who were in the know.
Sina Ent. only managed to find out about the confirmation of the news of Luhan's contract termination not too long ago, but besides the issue of time, there weren't that much details that were out yet. This morning, around 9AM, Luhan's lawyer submitted the statement to the court and Sina Ent. got to know of the few major reasons behind his case. And in mid-May this year, EXO's (ex)member Wu Yifan announced his termination, to which his representative expressed that the main conflict between the two parties resides in three aspects, "One, limiting the artist's personal development, two, severe unfair distribution in income, and three, SM Ent disregards their artists' health condition." Through this comparison, we realize that these two situations share many similarities.
Long-term excessive fatigue caused body discomfort: Waking up in the middle of the night in shock, chest discomforts, headaches
Actually, this alarming health signals that Luhan's body has been showing can be traced way back. When he was filming his movie, due to the short filming period, and having to take into account his concert schedule, he often has to film consecutively for days, and fly to other cities on early morning flights in order to prepare for the concerts: At the Changsha stop, Luhan experienced dehydration and giddiness at the second half of the show, and he only received simple treatments backstage and returned for the encore stage. Next day, while he was still in the process of recovering, he attended EXO-M's endorsement event at Beijing.
Mid-autumn, Luhan returned to Beijing alone to spend the festival, with a worn-out look as he leaves the airport, being escorted by two of his friends. During this time, Luhan was sighted visiting the hospital and the photo was uploaded on Weibo by fans. September 11, Luhan posted on Weibo, apologising to his fans, "Due to long term fatigue, my body has been showing up signs of constant headaches, insomnia, frequent dizziness and the doctor instructed me to rest for a period of time. I can't make it for the Thailand stop. I'm really, really, sorry." Until September the 20th, he turned up for EXO's final stage in Beijing, as his health got better. He worked his best for the two consecutive days but the swelling of his left eye and left side of his face did not subside.
According to sources, the company do not consider the artist's condition and opinions when settling schedules, and it is just a one-way notifying system. Due to the long term irregular eating and sleeping habits, the artists are often in a bad condition, increasing the pre-existent emotional stress that the job brings. Whenever Luhan tells the company of his condition and wishes for a break, the company always rejects it with the schedule as a reason, wanting him to adhere to the confirmed schedule. As this continued, Luhan has been waking up in shock in the middle of the night, suffering from chest discomforts, headaches, and difficulties with breathing when it gets serious.
No confirmed long-term development plans despite high popularity
As a Chinese member promoting in Korea, it was already difficult to begin with. Taking EXO's promotional activities on Korean broadcasts as an example, the screentime for Korean members are generally longer than the ones Chinese members have. On variety shows, this applies too. Overall, the nationality issue has resulted into a limitation in resources and hence market restriction. On the other hand, when it ought to be time for the Chinese members to do well in China, it does not appear to be the case for EXO.
In China, Luhan's popularity is considerably the highest, but the personal resources that are allocated for him are really little as he had only participated in the filming of one CJ-invested movie in the first half of the year. For the past two years after his debut, there is still no visible, constructive plans for his future development, and Luhan is worried about this.
According to sources, with Luhan's current popularity, there are many offers and calls from the Chinese side, but things often did not work out in the end. Recently, Baidu Maps expressed their intentions of finding Luhan for endorsement deals, but they only ended up facing rejections; the production teams of the Chinese version of 2D1N, CCTV dramas, movies and musical have all sought after Luhan with invitations but to no avail. Furthermore, Chinese unit EXO-M is in an extremely awkward position in China, in the years 2012-2013 they were only involved in adhoc concerts, and comparing this to their Korean counterpart EXO-K who enjoyed 5CF deals, the pacing serves to be another striking problem.
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11.10.2014 в 13:57подумать только, человек, говорят, собирался заплатить денег (больших денег), чтобы выбраться - но нет, все в суд! предатели, которые предают.
ну а так, спасибо, Лухан, что ушел, когда группе было удобнее. правда малость довел себя до слухов о терминальном состоянии. но мы тебя прощаем за твою "жертву"