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by VITALWARNING on February 17, 2011

The members of KARA returned to Japan to resume filming for their show, “URAKARA“, and they were forced to endure yet another chapter of airport chaos.

Since Han Seungyeon left for Japan yesterday ahead of her group due to a personal schedule, the media saw the remaining four depart from Gimpo Airport together on February 17th.


Park Gyuri, Nicole, Goo Hara and Kang Jiyoung were seen at the lobby on February 17th at around 7:15 PM preparing for their evening flight to Japan. The members entered the airport in a composed manner, and did not answer any of the reporters’ questions; instead, they were rushed to the departing gate while being surrounded by bodyguards.

The members faced a situation where they had to grab onto each others’ hands to squeeze through their bodyguards in order to bypass the overly-enthusiastic reporters who swarmed around them.






















KARA trio rejects KSA president Tae Jin Ah's arbitration?


Source: TV Report via Naver, OSEN via Daum Media, Newsen
by VITALWARNING on February 17, 2011

Recently, it was announced that the president of the Korean Singers Association, Tae Jin Ah, personally decided to arbitrate the dispute between KARA and DSP Media. It was reported today that the three members of KARA have firmly refused to accept the Association’s intervention.

The representatives of the three members were in discussions with Tae Jin Ah until 5:00 PM KST on February 17th to talk about possible mutual agreements with DSP Media. Unfortunately, however, the discussion ended with the following statement from KARA, “We cannot come to agreements with the proposed cases.”

A representative of the KARA trio revealed to OSEN, “The initial issue that the three KARA members had expressed concerns over has still not been resolved, so unfortunately, the lawsuit must go on.”

With regards to the public’s discontented opinions on this on-going matter, the representative stated, “We are aware of the public’s opinion. We will be opening a conference sometime next week and reveal our perspective in full detail.”

Meanwhile, the KARA trio recently dissolved their partnership with their previous lawyers, Landmark, to begin fresh with the Hankyul law firm.

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[UPDATE]
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Through TV Report, Tae Jin Ah revealed that earlier reports of KARA’s trio rejecting arbitration was false. “On the 17th, Nicole’s mother called and asked to postpone discussions until the 19th. I cannot understand why reports of the trio rejecting arbitration were released. It’s difficult to believe, especially since we have not received any contact from representatives of the three.”

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In a conflicting report, through Newsen, Tae Jin Ah announced, “Responses were originally scheduled to be given by 5 PM KST on the 17th, but have been postponed to 12 PM KST on the 18th.”




DSP Media reveals KARA’s full income and contract information

Source: Star News via Naver (1) (2)
by VITALSIGN on February 16, 2011

Three days after KARA’s Seungyeon, Nicole, and Jiyoung filed their lawsuit against DSP Media, the agency’s legal representatives have released an official statement refuting the girls’ claims.

On the morning of February 17th, DSP Media’s legal representative, Im Sang Hyuk, spoke with Star News and stated, “It’s said that the lawsuit was filed on February 14th, but it was actually filed on the 11th. Their accusation has not arrived yet, but DSP Media will be preparing to take legal action. This case is different in various ways from the TVXQ lawsuit.” (Im is also the lawyer for JYJ against SM Entertainment.)

He continued, “The representatives of the three KARA members claimed that each member only received $860 USD from January through June of 2010 from album sales made during their ‘Lupin‘ promotions. Their claim made it seem as if this amount was all that the members received for their income during this time period, but they are hiding the accurate truth.”

Im continued, “Aside from their album sales, KARA was distributed a total of $200,000 USD per member from income made through CFs, events, broadcast appearances, digital sales, and mobile sales.”

DSP Media’s lawyer further revealed that all promotional expenses were taken out from the income made through their album sales, and the girls were given a total of $1 million USD during this promotional period, which was divided into $200,000 USD per member.

Im further claims that Landmark’s demands for a change in administration was an invasion of DSP Media’s administration rights. “After Lee Ho Yeon CEO was hospitalized, his wife received full administrative rights and successfully advanced KARA into Japan. She has done absolutely nothing wrong. Because of this, Landmark demanding that the company change administrators is an invasion of DSP Media’s right of management.”

He continued, “KARA’s contracts have already passed the evaluation review by the Fair Trade Commission. There is nothing wrong with their contracts, which is why we believe that Landmark is acting as if these three members experienced a loss in their income.”

Im concluded, “We will continue to attempt discussions, but now that the three members have already taken legal action, we will be responding in the same manner.”