EXO's Kris has decided to
file a lawsuit to end his contract with SM Entertainment,
pulling a Hangeng and getting the hell outta Korea. Of course, AKF's investigative team has the scoop for you.
According to Seoul Central District Court, on May 15th, Kris filed court papers to request that his exclusive contract with SM Entertainment be terminated.
Law firm Hankyul has confirmed that they will be handling the case on behalf of Kris, with their lawyer Cho Bum Suk representing Kris personally. The same law firm represented Hangeng in his lawsuit against SM Entertainment.
In a telephone conversation with eNews, Cho Bum Suk said “It’s true that Kris has filed a lawsuit today against SM Entertainment for termination of his contract.”
They continued on to say that the case will not be made public to or media in order to ensure discreetness.
SM Entertainment released a statement saying, “We were very caught off guard by this. We will do our best to ensure that this does not effect EXO and the groups promotions as much as possible.”
Fans collectively lost their shit, not understanding that the poor boy wants OUT. I don't know about you, but if I filed a lawsuit to get out of EXO, the last thing I would want is for people to be unleashing their angst on social media to try to get me to change my mind or some shit.
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| "belive" tho |
Trust me, it only gets worse from here. The entire #WeBeliveInYouKris makes no sense as a concept. What are these fans beliving in?? That this is all a dream, they'll wake up and everything will be right in the KPop world? That Kris is going to change his mind and stay with EXO?
From all accounts, this isn't the first time Kris has "acted out" so to speak. Reports allege that he disappeared to Canada at least twice now, once before debut and once before the Growl Wolf promotions. That indicates at least SOMETHING being amiss in the EXO group, but of course people will ignore it in favor of the simpler "He just wants a vacation despite being a undebuted/rookie in a hyperpopular group with hundreds of events scheduled and getting outstandingly preferential treatment even veteran acts wouldn't receive" excuse that makes no sense if you think about it.
His fellow EXO members are so fed up with his shit, they allegedly all unfollowed him on Instagram/Twitter/Weibo/whateverthefucktheyuse. To quote someone in my Twitter feed, "NOT EVEN BEYONCE UNFOLLOWED SOLANGE FOR THAT SHIT."
But fangirls gonna fangirl, so I've gone ahead and curated some of the funniest/delusional posts about this mess for your enjoyment.
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| Clearly not forever, cause he wants to GTFO. |
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I guess Kris is... Filing for divorce.
AYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
At least he won't want custody of the kids. |
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I'd be more inclined to believe you if he hadn't pulled similar disappearing
acts in the past. |
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| Kris is probably like "LET GO OF MY HAND, YOU CRAZY BITCHES." |
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| PLEASE BE REAL WAHAHAHAHA |
If this is what International fans think, surely the
Korean fans must be in full panic/shield-oppa mode...?
1. [+191, -12] I'm not an EXO fan but I think this shows a bigger problem with Chinese kids. How can he do this to his members in the middle of promotions?
2. [+159, -7] Seems like a Chinese company is willing to pay the lawsuit fees to get him to join their company, exactly like what happened with Hangeng. He doesn't need to promote in Korea anyway so obviously he's throwing away the rest of his members...
3. [+120, -18] Gotta give it to the lack of work ethic with the Chinese.
1. [+718, -108] I don't like SM but this proves why you shouldn't train Chinese stars. He's backstabbing the company exactly like Hangeng did. The Chinese do not know who it was that made them whot hey are right now. Soo Man-ah, just kick him out of the country!
2. [+632, -45] Like Hangeng, don't they make more money in China anyway? He probably wants to live getting top star treatment in Korea. If this is true.
3. [+453, -61] So he requested this to the same lawyer Hangeng used. This is why I don't like Chinese members being added to groups. I already knew Kris would do this when I saw him on varieties. Aigoo, SM are you stupid? You already got backstabbed by Hangeng, and now this again?
Clearly Kris is lacking determination, that's why he doesn't want to stick around. Freakin' Chinese people and their shitty work ethic right? With all my experience with these kinds of things, I should be desensitized to how readily the Korean netizens pull out the race card, but I can't help but be baffled every time.
I do realize a large part of this backlash has to do with Korean expectations of respecting your elders or even simply knowing not to bite the hand that feeds, but I think it's all a load of shit. Especially considering how we don't, or ever will get a complete picture of what's going on since Kris and SM are understandably keeping this hush-hush. Did we ever get Hangeng's full story either??
At the end of the day, Kris gets to live with his decision and pray for success. Can you imagine how fucked he is if he loses the lawsuit? If he thought he was being enslaved by The SM Slave Contract before, he will soon learn the true meaning of it.
RIP in peace.
