Depends on their age. Fresh rookies are more likely to call him sunsengnim… although recently he seems to enjoy being called “Producer” by idols in his employ.

Bear this in mind first, when you’re talking about companies threatening anybody else:
http://oniontakers.tumblr.com/post/23111201705/why-sm-can-only-ban-jyj-from-appear-on-music-show-why

Companies are unlikely to court them to begin with. Even if they did, would JYJ be happy in any other company where, if you strip them down to their bare mechanics, they are practically the same as SM Entertainment and every other large company in the business?

I don’t think they would have, unless JYP or YG could have provided a better monetary offer than SM Entertainment and this, I find unlikely. YG and JYP are smaller than SM, and this is a financial fact.

To put some numbers on it, we can actually use JYP’s own statements to make a quick projection: 50% of JYP’s entire cost was dedicated to Rain by the time he left the company… so they would not have found it profitable to have such a large portion of their investment having a low return (given that JYJ were wanting a bigger cut than the industry average).

Perhaps mnet could have done it, given the ongoing “mnet vs SMe” feud. They chose not to, despite having the balls to invite them to MAMA to collect an award.

First of all, JYP gets hands-on with all of his artists. I don’t mean just the ones under JYP Entertainment, I mean the ones from all the subsidiary companies and all the things he owns via proxy.

I personally feel that it’s dangerous for a single person to be the sole creative powerhouse of an entire label.

JYP did not invent the hook song.
Wonder Girls were not the first successful girl group.

LOL JYP does look like an Asian Gordon Ramsay

His target market is tweens and I’m pretty sure you and I are not tweens. It’s going to have to take looking through the eyes of that demographic to see if they are “a flop” or not. More kids know about the Wonder Girls than before the movie was released so I would say that some ground was gained.

I guess the Japanese release is to try and claw back some of the money sunk into other endeavours in investment.

Maybe JYP is a brilliant genius and the rest of the world is just dumb.

In all seriousness, JYP is a shrewd businessman and a smart man. His actions lead me to believe that he isn’t as committed to making the Wonder Girls grow so much as use them to experiment to gain experience and a template for a future girl group, while making as much monetary short-term gain as he can to cover costs.

I’m sure that this was not the original intention when he made Nobody their US debut single but it might be the conclusion he has now come to after dragging them across the globe and ruining the good thing they had going back in the day.

My actual facial expression when this announcement.


JYP, putting the WHY in JayWhyPee.

the least popular member or the ugliest member, usually those members seem to be the target of stylists

The stuff they used to do to Taeyeon’s hair… ㅠㅠ

The thing is that JYP has always had a love affair with motown and the soul/jazz side of things more than any other genre of music throughout his career. Sure, he does branch out but that is his natural calling. Even songs like So Hot were composed of retro melodies and sounds.

I think you should give him credit for the fact that he has introduced some dubstep into his productions, whether rightly or wrongly, since it’s an indication that he is adapting to the meta in American and K-Pop.

This development changes nothing in terms of joint concerts: that was always a possibility without this agreement. I fear that UAM is a way for SM/YG/JYP to stop each other from sniping and stealing trainees, effectively giving trainees no choice but their incumbent company.

Organisational structure depends on the company, regardless of their size or whether they are in the same industry or not.

To put it in simple terms: if you have all your eggs in one basket, all you need to do is to protect one basket. Dividing up your company into subsidiaries and sister companies results in a lot of managerial duplication and you lose day-to-day control over many of the artists and training.

If you have it all in the palm of your hand and you can ensure that the best people are in the relevant positions, you will still enjoy success.

Tax reasons, financial reasons, mitigating losses, isolating loss-making or high-risk groups from the rest of the company, expanding the operations in an inorganic manner etc.

Glad that there’s such a high profile case to highlight the issue. Things have improved since Insooni was Michelle’s age but we’ve still got a long way to go. People need to learn to empathise with more than people with slitty eyes and yellow skin.

JYP trained people like Ivy and Rain. On a personal level, he was also influential in bringing R&B over to Korea, breaking down a lot of cultural barriers in terms of provocative choreography and stage attire. JYP trainees can be told apart instantly from any other trainees, apparently, simply from their dance style according to a lot of people in the industry so whatever he does, he gets the kids taught well.

CUBE are growing but all they really have at the moment is BEAST since 4minute are really under-performing in commercial terms (in comparison to the good music that they make).