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DSP Media released another official statement refuting the claims made by representatives of KARA’s Nicole, Seungyeon, and Jiyoung.
On January 20th, they stated:
“We are making this announcement due to the second statement released by Landmark on January 19th. Their statement distorted the truth, and we regard it as a matter of pity.
The claim about DSP Media fooling the members into signing exclusive contracts by having them sign what they believed were Japanese artist registration forms is absolutely groundless. We brought together the parents in a meeting and provided them with the original copies of the consent forms in Japanese, along with a translated document.
In the case of Nicole’s mother, she personally confirmed the content of both the original copy and the translated copy before signing her name under the original Japanese copy, complying with the clause, ‘I am signing my name in full understanding of the translated copy. I do not have responsibility over content that does not match the original.’
They completely understood the content of the contract before signing, making their original claim a distortion of the truth.
On their claims over how shopping mall, ‘Karaya,’ is being run by three members of KARA, this, once again, is groundless. When we first offered the members to take part in the shopping mall, we listened to their opinions and respected their decision. Three members accepted the offer, proving that their accusations of exploiting members of KARA for profit is not the truth.
As for the income distribution, the KARA members receive 80% of the profits made by the company through the shopping mall. Regarding the members’ putting their reputations at risk by modeling shirts featuring profanity, that act was not discussed with DSP Media prior to its run, which forced us to aggressively lodge complaints until we eventually received a confirmation document preventing the recurrence of such an event.
We hope that they restrict the reporting of distorted information, and we hope that the issue does not spread into anything bigger. Should there be issues between both parties, adjustments and reconciliation should be the appropriate step in continuing to promote themselves as a representative girl group of Korea.”
Via news.nate.com
