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“I thought it was a management company for famous singers, but it turned me upside down.”
The company said, “The company’s bank account has been seized… please wait.”
Singer Lim Chang-jung’s acting academy was the subject of controversy over non-payment of performance fees. [사진 출처=스타투데이]
Singer Lim Chang-jung’s acting academy Yes I Am Academy was embroiled in a so-called ‘scam’ controversy last year when it failed to pay actor fees after filming a commercial.
Singer Lim Chang-jung founded the entertainment agency YES IM Entertainment in 2018.
On March 3 last year, filming for the ‘Daekyo TV Bubble Bee Large Bubble Gun Soap Bubble Infomercial’ took place for 12 hours between 9 am and 9 pm
The cast consists of two adult actors and two child actors.
A text conversation between Ham Ye-shin, the former CEO of Yes I Am Academy, and an actor who did not receive a salary.
Daekyo TV, the advertiser, paid all of the actors’ appearance fees to Yes I Am Academy, but Yes I Am Academy did not pass this on to the actors.
An actor who took part in the filming said, “I believed it was a company run by the famous singer Lim Chang-jung, so even though the company hadn’t signed a contract, I believed it and went ahead with it, but I was bumped into. the back.”
YesIam Lim Chang-jeong Academy home screen
The product in question has 1,665 reviews as of the afternoon of the 21st on the online shopping portal, and has been sold without any problems so far with the advertising video filmed at the time.
In addition, other commercials that cast one adult actor and three child actors did not pay appearance fees, and the company’s employees reported this to the Ministry of Employment and Labor because they did not receive their last salary and severance pay when they left the company.
Another actor said, “It’s a famous ‘black company’ among actors (a company involved in the exploitation of illegal labour),” and added, “I have yet to receive payment for appearing in a commercial filmed by that company last year .”
When a post was posted on an online cafe where about 150,000 actors joined saying that the company did not receive payment for their appearance after filming a commercial, people said, “The same thing happened to me,” and “There’s money, that is. not being paid by this company, which is a very vicious trait.” , “Because the entertainment company in question was a company with a bad reputation even before the incident took place, the operator of the cafe did not allow the company’s audition information to be shared in the cafe,” posted a series of comments.
Former CEO Ham Ye-shin said in a phone call with Maeil Business Newspaper, “After the controversy over Lim Chang-jeong’s manipulation of stock prices in April last year, I told the actors that the academy had gone bankrupt and that their bank accounts seized.” He added, “We cannot pay more than 30 million won in appearance fees.” He said. At the same time, he said, “We are doing our best to pay as soon as possible, so please wait.” He also drew a line, saying, “Mr Lim Chang-jeong was not involved in the operation of the academy, and we only used him as a model.”
Current CEO Shin Taek-ki explained, “The company I’m running now is different from the company that former CEO Ham ran,” adding, “I don’t know .”
Former employee A said, “Former CEO Ham, CEO Shin, and CEO Lim Chang-jung came together as acquaintances to start the company,” and noted, “The three of them they’re ‘spinning bombs.’
Text conversations between actors who have not been paid
Meanwhile, YesIAM Entertainment posted a notice in March last year that it would hold a worldwide audition to select new idols, and also attached a condition that it would pay 100 million earned to each member who passed the final round, but and canceled the audition the following month as controversy over the manipulation of Lim Chang-jung’s stock prices erupted. .
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