Monday, September 23, 2019
Article: [Exclusive] "Water and electricity cut off, please not the gas" Sleepy, financial hardships of a 13 year rapper
Source: Dispatch via Nate
1. [+5,427, -20] Sigh, this is ridiculous. You could basically call him the second Eugene Park. I hope they investigate every piece of this and penalize them as necessary. His agency took it too far.
2. [+5,067, -24] Can't believe a 9:1 contract still exists
3. [+4,581, -30] TS has had several other scandals and contract lawsuits with their artists before
4. [+505, -3] I feel so damn bad for Sleepy. His sad concept wasn't just a concept, it was real life.
5. [+474, -2] The Katalk conversations show that his agency is complete trash. I understand paying him so little when his contract was 1:9 but now that it's 4.5:5.5, how could he have only made 10 million won in a year? I remember he was on a lot of TV shows, shot a couple CFs, and performed at festivals... One or two festivals alone could net you over 10 million won.
6. [+427, -3] Hul, his agency is cruel. They need to pay their artists enough so that at least life is sustainable. Why wouldn't you pay the people that did the work for you?
7. [+359, -6] And Sleepy is quite a famous celebrity himself too;;;
8. [+349, -2] I always got annoyed whenever celebrities complained about financial hardships on TV but Sleepy was for real..
9. [+284, -1] This is basically a slave contract
10. [+260, -1] It's not like Sleepy is an idol group with a ton of expenses, he's just one person... he was on so many variety shows and yet he's still poor? Why hasn't TS gone bankrupt yet? They have so many issues.
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Article: [Exclusive] TS "We paid for 50% of Sleepy's various hospital bills and home bills" vs Sleepy's claim of financial hardship
Source: News 1 via Naver
1. [+7,036, -24] You wouldn't have had to pay for his hospital bills if you had just paid him what he earned
2. [+4,194, -30] I feel so bad for him. That means he didn't even have enough money to pay for his mother's hospital bills because his agency wasn't paying him. I can tell how difficult his financial hardships have been by this article alone. This is going too far.
3. [+3,748, -16] Imagine how little TS paid him that he had to do whatever he can to get money out of them, even with hospital bills ㅋㅋㅋ TS better not brag about paying his hospital bills for him and start thinking about why their own artists is having to request such expenses to be paid in the first place.
4. [+2,742, -25] How does a 1:9 contract make any sense at all ㅡㅡ just pay him already
5. [+1,745, -16] This agency has so many problems... who knows how much more successful Sleepy, SECRET, BAP, or Sonamoo would be if they had signed with other agencies...
6. [+536, -1] So Sleepy is claiming that TS started having issues with paying him after their CEO passed away and that he was paid on time when the CEO was still alive, and yet TS is putting out receipts from when the CEO was still alive...
7. [+382, -1] Paying 50% of someone's hospital bills does not justify a 1:9 contract ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ If you had given him a 9:1 contract, you would not have had to pay 50% of his hospital bills in the first place ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ TS is acting like paying 50% was something grand that they did.
8. [+292, -1] Sleepy is turning 40 soon, why would you make him beg for his own money like this? And what kind of agency only pays their artists when they beg for it?? None of this would've happened if he was just paid on time.
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