Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-chon stated that it is difficult to legally regulate the ‘tampering incident’ of Group 55P. At the ‘2024 National Assembly Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Comprehensive State Audit’ on the 24th, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-chon said, “Tampering ( “Prior contact before contract termination requires a lot of effort in the industry,” he said. “It is a difficult issue to stipulate by law.”
He pointed out, “The issue of tampering means that small and medium-sized agencies are having difficulty maintaining relationships with artists and could have a negative impact on the development of K-pop.” In response, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-won said, “Although it was before I took office as minister, there were concerns from the management and related parties.” I talked to him a lot and also researched ways to introduce the FA system at the time.
Although many efforts have been made to improve the situation in the field, nothing has been properly organized institutionally.
“We need to constantly educate and make efforts for the industry to make efforts,” he said. Previously, Attract said that while 5P5FT was on hiatus due to poor health in June last year, there was an external force that approached the members and made them violate their exclusive contracts with the agency. insisted.
The external force they pointed out was Winner Music Korea.
All Fifty Fifty members filed a request for a temporary injunction against Attract to suspend their exclusive contract, but the court ruled in Attract’s favor. Afterwards, Saena, Aran, and Sio filed an appeal, and Kina returned to Attract.
Currently, Fifty Fifty has reformed into a five-member group including Kina and released its second mini album ‘Love Tune’ on the 20th of last month.
Saena, Aran, and Shio, who left Attract, signed an exclusive contract with Massive V&C and formed the group Abloom on the 15th.