[서울파이낸스 김무종 기자] Lee Ja-yeon, president of the Korea Singers Association, expressed deep regret and concern regarding the recent SM scandal.
According to the association on the 18th, Chairman Lee Ja-yeon recently held an emergency meeting with association executives and said, “I have always respected the hard work and achievements of Chairman Lee Soo-man as a person in the pop culture industry and as a singer. However, I am concerned that this kind of confusion may adversely affect K-pop and the music industry.”
Chairman Lee also said, “It is unimaginable that he, who led K-pop to industrialization, would fall into a scapegoat as if he were a ‘product of the old era.’ He is remembered as a ‘pioneer of POP’. His artistic soul and entrepreneurial determination became the cornerstone of SM and has expanded to the level of today’s K-culture. Beyond SM’s structural problems and conflicts, his disgraceful retirement is a tragedy in the music industry. will be,” he said.
He continued, “There may be mistakes at the management level. However, the reality that he, who is our great senior singer and a living witness of Korean song history, might be expelled from his closest aides and collapsed in an instant, is very sad.”
Chairman Lee said, “I hope that the conflict between the two parties will not hurt each other and be resolved amicably. Rather, I hope it will be an opportunity for improvement and development. I hope that SM Entertainment, where Chairman Lee Soo-man’s artistic soul has been for a long time, will not be destroyed by the logic of the ‘money game’.”
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