Saturday, August 22, 2009

[News] 090821 The First Hearing of DBSK VS SM Ent. Legal Case

DBSK who were represented by their lawyer from SEJONG lawfirm at 11:40 a.m met the reporters after the first court hearing was done. The lawyer said, “Members of DBSK are very upset. They’re hoping for a good end of this case.”. He also mentioned that the members wanted the case to be finished as soon as possible.Today (August 21st) at 10:20 a.m was conducted a private hearing at court room No. 358 to examine the offering opinions from both side at Seoul Central District Court.

The 3 members of DBSK were claming for the invalidity of exclusive contract and non-transparent revenue distribution issues. On the other hand, at SM Entertainment side, they’re revealing records of SM deficit for four consecutive years, as well insisting that the contract was communicated well through the members and revenue settlement has been done properly.
In the process, both sides said that they wanted to end the litigation as soon as possible. The hearing ended by mutual agreement stated by court, “If both sides agreed, we’d make the settlement of this case be private.”

The hearing lasted for 1 hour and 20 minutes while additional evidences requested by court must be submitted by September 12th.

Meanwhile, regarding this court case as many as 120,000 DBSK’s fans had signed petition to oppose the unfair contract on the 20th.

source: naver news + AP + asiae
summarized by: sharingyoochun@wordpress

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