The government is promoting a policy to eradicate unfair practices to prevent the recurrence of the 'Lee Seung-gi incident'.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced yesterday (1st) that it is promoting policies to root out absurd practices in the entertainment industry, such as the management of opaque accounting by affiliates.
It was judged that irrational practices, such as settlement issues due to the agency's opaque accounting, were obstacles to the development of the K-content industry.
Previously, the 'Lee Seung-gi Incident' began in November of last year when singer and actor Lee Seung-gi (36) came and had a legal dispute regarding unpaid bills for 18 years.
Since his debut in 2004, he has requested related data, saying that he has not received any settlement of music and album proceeds for 18 years.
When Chuu, who was a member of 'Girl of the Month', debuted in 2017, the company and the singer split the proceeds 7:3, and the cost processing was split 5:5. I was immediately kicked out for rants and verbal abuse.
As such unfair practices in the entertainment industry are being exposed one after another, pop culture artists who are not receiving fair compensation for their activities due to expedient accounting are being spotlighted.
In particular, it was pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen accounting transparency in the industry because it is more difficult for pop culture artists who do not have public recognition to demand legitimate rights from their agency.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will first
The plan is to identify cases of unfair contracts, such as forcing unfair contracts or obtaining unfair profits, by conducting a full-scale survey
of the pop culture and arts industry, including unfair conditions, and use them to improve related systems.
In addition, we decided to promote the revision of the 'Popular Culture and Arts Industry Development Act', which includes the following contents.
Pop culture and arts planners must
regularly notify their artists of not only accounting details but also settlement data at least once a year
.
In addition, the 'Standard Exclusive Contract for Popular Culture and Artists', which requires the current agency to provide relevant data at the same time as settlement, can also be
provided even before settlement if requested by the artist
.
In addition, ▲Expansion of countermeasures and legal advice in case of rights infringement for youth pop culture artists and trainees ▲Reinforcement of work ethics training ▲Strengthening fairness and transparency in the pop culture and arts industry as a whole and raising awareness of singers and trainees We plan to implement a policy for
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Bo-gyun said, “In a situation where K-culture is receiving worldwide acclaim, it has become more important to strengthen transparency within the industrial ecosystem and protect the relatively weak.” We will promote strengthening fairness as a core project in 2023."
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Meanwhile, in accordance with the current law, if the agency's delay in settlement falls under unfair acts specified in Article 13 of the 'Artist Rights Guarantee Act', a correction recommendation or order is issued, and Article 14 (Accounting) Paragraph 3 of the 'Popular Culture and Arts Industry Development Act' In the case of non-payment of contractual distribution amount or delay in processing of remuneration without justifiable reasons, a fine is imposed.
In addition, according to Article 6 of the same Act (Creation of Fair Business Order), if an unfair contract is forced or an unfair advantage is obtained, the relevant fact must be notified to the Fair Trade Commission or related organizations.
Act on Ensuring
the Rights of Artists Article 13 (Prohibition of Unfair Acts)
referred to as "unfair acts") or allow a third party to do so.
1. Acts of forcing unfair contract conditions or forcing artists to engage in activities that are different from contract conditions by using their superior position
2. Acts of denying, delaying, or restricting the proper distribution of profits
to artists 3. Unreasonably interfering with artists’ artistic activities Acts of instructing or interfering
4. Acts of unfairly using artist information learned in the contract process or providing it to a third party
5. Unjustly setting or changing transaction conditions to disadvantage artists in other fraudulent ways or fulfilling them an act of disadvantage in the process
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