These are my thoughts.
One day, at the end of July 2009, I read an article about Jaejoong, Yoochun, and Junsu filed a lawsuit against SM Entertainment. I honestly didn’t really care about the case since I wasn’t a hardcore Cassiopeia back then. I was a fan of DBSK, but Super Junior caught my most attention at that time. Then, the articles kept coming out from many fansites. My curiousity was finally dragging me to the lawsuit. And from what I read, JYJ guys filed the lawsuit because they had been under the ‘slave’ contract and because of the unfair profit distribution. I also read many articles saying that SM Ent was an evil company and the worst company which used their artists as money-makers, also A LOT of bad stuffs that I don’t really have to type because I bet most of you already knew.
After reading those articles, I believed that SM was an evil company and I was disappointed with Yunho and Changmin for not joining the other 3. I was disappointed, but I DIDN’T blame them. I didn’t believe in what most articles and or fans said that SM offered HoMin individual activities such as CFs and or dramas and blah blah, so that’s why HoMin chose to stay with SM. (I found it ridiculous.)
Yunho and Changmin and also their dads released statements, but I didn’t really care since those fans said that the statement wasn’t made by Yunho and Changmin and their parents were bribed or kind of things. “It is just one of SM’s tactics,” said some fans. To be honest, I didn’t really follow the lawsuit because the case was getting more confusing and I didn’t want to think much about it.
On December 21, 2009, Super Junior’s member Hankyung filed the lawsuit to void the contract which made fans’ impression on SM got worse. And I really hated SM because of this. (I cried when I knew Hankyung filed the lawsuit even after receiving GDA. Sorry, I was just 15. LOL) Fans were comparing between JYJ’s case and Hankyung’s case, which were… TOTALLY different. (Sadly, I didn’t realize that.)
After the Temporary Contract Injunction judgment was given on October 2009, the 3 started to do their individual activities. And then, many lawsuits were filed: SM against Crebeau (a cosmetic company which JYJ and family heavily involved), Crebeau against SM, SM against JYJ, Crebeau against netizens (I rolled my eyes as I read this).
Time passed by, JYJ got the fans’ sympathy and HoMin got the fans’ hatred. That was how I feel.
And then, JYJ was born. I was a bit surprised. They released Japanese, international, Korean albums, 3hree Voices DVD, held a concert in Tokyo Dome, held world tour. Why did they suddenly do so many things? At that time, I felt like JYJ didn’t want to come back. I also read the translation of Untitled Song Part I since I liked the song very much. In the song, they stated that they couldn’t trust SM anymore. And I just believed what they wanted to say. So then go ahead and find your happiness. You guys must know a fact that JYJ feel happier now by quitting SM and doing activities on their own. JYJ, themselves, also said it, didn’t they?
At the beginning of this year, HoMin released KYHD album. And because of Junsu’s ambiguous tweet… I was in a total lost. JYJ had made their decision, so then why did it feel like he couldn’t let HoMin use DBSK to make a comeback? Okay, I know. The trademark problem and things. But most of us (esp. JYJ stans) knew that JYJ wanted to leave the company, so what should HoMin do? Even Super Junior without Kangin, Kibum, and Hankyung still could make a comeback using the name ‘Super Junior’ (LOL okay may be this is off topic and not a good example, but I am in brainstorming -_-). Well, then. I got really confused.
Those words and sentences above were what I thought and felt before. And what I feel and realize now is on the next post.
NOTE: in Hankyung's case, he did things on his own, and left without disturbing other members' business, but in JYJ's case, they did things on their own, but why did HoMin get bashed so harshly? ;___;
Hankyung was 1 out of 13, in fact 1 out of 15. His case was different. He was racially discriminated, etc. It was understandable that it wasn't the rest of the Suju members' faults, nor were they involved. In fact, because Hankyung was able to leave SME without conflict and without being cockblocked by the media, there was less anger and fanwars overall.
ReplyDeleteDBSK in general held a closer bond as a group than Suju as a group, so maybe more people felt angry. Also, considering that more than half the group (3/5) felt the poor treatment from SME, it was assumed that Yunho and Changmin must have had the same treatment, and yet they chose to stay with SME for their own reasons. Fans also felt that they lied and had their parents lie about JYJ, so JYJ stans might feel that Yunho and Changmin betrayed JYJ. And because the lawsuit is not over and JYJ are still being cockblocked from performing as artists on Korea national TV, it's understandable that there is a lot of resentment towards Homin, justified or not.
Actually, the fact is that Yunho and Changmin had considerably shorter contracts with SME and more friends inside there, so that's probably a huge reason why they chose SME over their band members when deciding whether to stay with SME.
To be honest, not that many people are bashing Homin, but rather SME. Maybe you're getting in the middle of too many JYJ stans/Homin stans fanwars. Those are the harshest and most bitter fans imo, who are completely defensive against criticism either towards JYJ or towards Homin. The non-fans and the fans that like members from both sides--they tend not to bash Homin like that from my experience.