Following their initial statement announcing termination of their contracts with SM Entertainment, EXO’s Baekhyun, Xiumin, and Chen have released a new statement via their legal representative that refutes SM Entertainment’s statement from June 1.
Read the full statement below:
This is lawyer Lee Jae Hak of the law firm LIN, representing EXO members Baekhyun, Xiumin, and Chen (Byun Baek Hyun, Kim Min Seok, Kim Jong Dae, hereafter “artists”). Below, I will share the artists’ position regarding the claims made by SM Entertainment (hereafter “SM”) on June 1.
1. SM’s claim of an external influence’s intervention evades the essence which is the artists’ just exercising of rights and is additionally false information merely aiming to mislead public opinion.
The artists feel very distressed after seeing SM’s official statement that keeps talking about an external third party. They feel especially distressed as it seems to clearly show the perspective that SM views the artists with.
Is it a third party influence again?
Our artists are definitely adults who can think for themselves and take responsibility for their own decisions, and they are individuals with independent thoughts and judgments. They have felt some doubts for a decade, and they mustered up fearful and difficult courage with the thought that the questions they couldn’t dare bring up as rookies should at least be brought up now.
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