[단독] Controversy over Lim Chang-jung’s acting academy being scammed… No fees are paid to actors who appear in commercials.

2024-02-21 07:22:39

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“I believed it was a famous singer management company, but it turned me upside down.”

The company said, “The company bank account has been seized… Please wait.”

Singer Lim Chang-jung’s acting academy was embroiled in controversy over non-payment of performance fees. [사진 출처=스타투데이]

Singer Lim Chang-jung’s Yes I Am Academy acting academy was embroiled in a so-called ‘scam’ controversy last year when it failed to pay actors fees following filming a commercial.

Singer Lim Chang-jung founded the entertainment agency YES IM Entertainment in 2018.

On March 3 last year, the filming for the ‘Daekyo TV Laser Bubble Bee Large Bubble Gun Soap Bubble Infomercial’ advertisement was conducted for 12 hours from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The actors cast are two adult actors and two child actors.

Text conversation between Ham Ye-sin, former CEO of Yes I Am Academy, and an actor who did not receive pay.

Daekyo TV, the advertiser, paid all of the actors’ appearance fees to the Yes I Am Academy Acting Academy, but the Yes I Am Academy Acting Academy did not pass this on to the actors.

An actor who participated in the filming said, “I believed that it was a company run by famous singer Lim Chang-jung, so even though the company did not sign a contract, I believed it and proceeded with it, but I was hit in the back.”

Lim Chang-jeong’s YesIam Academy homepage screen

The product in question has 1,665 reviews as of the followingnoon of the 21st on the online portal site shopping mall, and has been sold without any problems so far with the advertising video filmed at the time.

In addition, other commercials that cast one adult actor and three child actors did not pay appearance fees, and the company’s employees reported this to the Ministry of Employment and Labor because they did not receive their last salary and severance pay when they left the company.

Another actor said, “It is a famous ‘black company’ among actors (a company that engages in illegal labor exploitation),” and added, “I have not yet received payment for appearing in a commercial filmed by that company last year.”

When a post was posted on an online cafe where regarding 150,000 actors signed up saying that the company did not receive payment for their appearance following filming a commercial, people said, “The same thing happened to me,” and “There is money that is not being paid out by this company, which is a very vicious characteristic.” , “Because the entertainment company in question was a company with a bad reputation even before the incident occurred, the cafe operator did not allow the company’s audition information to be shared within the cafe,” a series of comments were posted.

Former CEO Ham Ye-shin said in a phone call with Maeil Business Newspaper, “After the controversy over Lim Chang-jeong’s stock price manipulation in April last year, I told the actors that the academy went bankrupt and their bank accounts were seized.” He added, “We are unable to pay more than 30 million won in appearance fees.” He said. At the same time, she said, “We are doing our best to make payment as soon as possible, so please wait.” She also drew a line, saying, “Mr. Lim Chang-jung was not involved in the operation of the academy, and we only used it as a model.”

Current CEO Shin Taek-ki explained, “The company I currently run is different from the company former CEO Ham ran,” adding, “I don’t know.”

Former employee A said, “Former CEO Ham, CEO Shin, and CEO Lim Chang-jung came together as acquaintances to start the company,” and pointed out, “The three of them are ‘spinning bombs.’”

Text conversations between actors who have not been paid

Meanwhile, YesIAM Entertainment posted a notice in March last year that it would hold a global audition to select new idols, and also attached a condition that it would pay 100 million won to each member who passed the final round, but canceled the audition the following month as controversy over Lim Chang-jung’s stock price manipulation erupted. .

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