[Trans] Shinhwa Being Sued for Breach of Contract For Their Concert Tour]


Korean Idol Group Shinhwa Being Sued

Shanghai Lan Chen Communication Cultural Pte Ltd, Shanghai Rui Yang Cultural Communications Pte Ltd to sue HanShin Entertainment, ShinCom Entertainment and all 6 Shinhwa members for breaching of contract as the reason, asking for 2 million USD (12 million RMB) as compensation. Currently Beijing Haiding District Court is in charge of this case.

The plaintiff Shanghai Lan Chen Communication Cultural Pte Ltd & Shanghai Rui Yang Cultural Communications Pte Ltd sued stating that their company had signed a "2015 Shinhwa Asia Concert Tour" contract with Hanshin Entertainment, which stated the concerts for Shanghai, Beijing etc. stops. After the contract was agreed and signed, the 2 plaintiff companies actively went ahead according to all the contractual terms, paying on time, actively planned all the activities and performances. Shinhwa 1st concert stop in Shanghai became a huge success.

But regards to the next Beijing concert stop, Hanshin Entertainment despite of the contractual agreements along with Korea ShinCom Entertainment and the Shinhwa members adopted infringements, breach of obligations under the contract by entrusting a 3rd party to handle the shows arrangements at same time to get the 2 plaintiff companies to handle all the financial matters.

The 2 plaintiff companies feel that they paid the fees to Hanshin Entertainment according to no change in circumstances, Hanshin Entertainment without authorisation entrusted the whole show to a 3rd party which was originally handled by the 2 plaintiff companies, not only lead to performance cost increase significantly but also gives the 2 plaintiff companies to lost its bid to host the concert, making it impossible to obtain an expected earnings as stated in the contractual terms. Hanshin Entertainment constitute a fundamental breach of contract. Therefore, the court appeal system asking the court according to the law to get Hanshin Entertainment to compensate the 2 plaintiff companies double the performance fees and also by getting the other defendants (ShinCom & Shinhwa members) and the 3rd party Beijing Chun Qiu Yong Le Communications Cultural Pte Ltd jointly responsible and liable for this.

Currently, the case is under further investigation.

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Source: http://ent.sina.com.cn/y/yrihan/2015-05-26/doc-iavxeafs8134415.shtml

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