Yeon Mae-hyeop and Han Yeon-no, "Pay for the appearance of the late Kim Soo-mi's 'Friendly Mom' statement" [Official]

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(G)The Korea Entertainment Management Association's special organization, the Commission on Compensation and Coordination Ethics, and the Korea Broadcasting Actors' Union (Han Yeon-no), have jointly responded to the late Kim Soo-mi's unpaid appearance fee for the musical "Personal Mom."

"The production company of the musical 'Chinjeong Mom', which the late Kim Soo-mi starred in in 2024, has filed a petition with the Yeonmae Association's award committee for failure to pay performance fees until now, nearly two years later, and has proceeded with an ethics review process," Han Yeon-no said in an official statement on the 13th. "We decided that the situation could no longer be ignored at a time when even the deceased and his family, who suffered from the production company's failure to pay performance fees, complained of secondary damage."

Both sides said, "The Korean pop culture and arts industry has grown significantly in the wake of the Korean Wave, but backward and malicious practices continue to exist, and the damage is passed on to actors and their agencies (pop culture and arts planning businesses). The damage caused by the failure to pay actors' fees is very serious, he said. "Many actors in Korea are threatened with their right to live because they do not receive fees even though they appear in dramas, musicals, or movies, and the damage has led to economic and mental decline in morale and motivation, and skepticism about the job of acting, leading to a serious situation in which valuable talented resources in cultural content leave the industry."

"Receiving a complaint about non-payment of the above contribution fee is a serious offense, unjustifiable disorder, and desecration of the deceased, violating the principle of good faith in the contract," he said. "If the production company continues to fail to pay the late Kim Soo-mi's contribution fee, we will consider it an illegal act that can no longer be overlooked, and we will take measures to regulate the activities of producers and producers so that the pop culture and art industry can move forward properly, and will actively respond to the problem with all our lives."

"In this regard, if the production company of 'Friendly Mom' does not present a clear solution to the non-payment of contribution fees to the association's special organization, the association will thoroughly verify any form of production and restrict production activities, and will continue to take strong measures until the problem of non-payment of contribution fees is resolved," he said.

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