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Posted by Yaki-Jones Saturday, February 18, 2023

Reports reveal SM Entertainment has paid Lee Soo Man's LIKE Holdings 130.8 billion KRW in the past decade, which is about 35% of SME's operating profit

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Reports revealed SM Entertainment has paid Lee Soo Man's LIKE Holdings 130.8 billion KRW in the past decade, which is about 35% of SME's operating profit.

On February 18th, the corporate data analysis research institute Leaders Index revealed SM Entertainment's cumulative operating expenses for LIKE Holdings from 2013 to the third quarter of 2022 amounted to 130.8 billion KRW (about 100 million USD). 

LIKE Holdings is Lee Soo Man's private company that provides "music consultation and production services" to SM Entertainment. 

 

Leaders Index stated, "SM Entertainment's three-year average operating profit rate is 5.9%, which is lower than that of HYBE (16.7%), YG Entertainment (7.7%), and JYP Entertainment (29.5%). Were it not for the expenses paid for LIKE Holding, operating profit would have increased by more than 35%." 

Previously, 'Dispatch' alleged that Lee Soo Man has earned over 744.3 billion KRW (~ $570 million USD) in the past 23 years since SM Entertainment first made its public offering. But in 2021, SM Entertainment recorded an annual operating profit of 74 billion KRW, even when sales peaked at 417 billion KRW. Lee Soo Man was paid 24 billion KRW in production fees alone that year.

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bae-bae
bae-bae4,838 pts Saturday, February 18, 2023 3
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Employees are complaining about the shitty pay and artist are extremely underpaid, while AN ENTIRE THIRD of the company profits is going to LSM's pocket through his "private comopany", mind you even SM employees were wondering what exactly does this company do...it went on for so long clearly SM execs knew and let it happen, so everybody is shit and once again it's employees and artists getting screwed over

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Violetta123
Violetta12321,538 pts Saturday, February 18, 2023 0
Saturday, February 18, 2023

I haven't really commented too much on any of this, but it is looking like LSM has been taking way too much money from the company.

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