Give K-Pop Idols Their Basic Human Rights!

This petition is to stop unfair treatment and violation of human right to Korean pop idols such as EXO, SNSD and f(x). It will be sent to SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment, JYP Entertainment, and maybe a few more companies. Hopefully, they will see that fans care and love their idols and biases so much and they want to see them taken care of well.

I was thinking that a few things this petition would cover:

At least 2000-2500 calories a day- dancers are supposed to intake 45-50 calories a day per kg of body weight.

At least 6 hours of sleep per 24 hours.

10 days of rest a month on request for each idol.

Follow all medications prescribed by doctors.

Follow doctors recommended amount of rest upon injury/exhaustion.

No discrimination between anyone.

Allow idols their Basic Human Rights.

If you have any ideas for me to put into this petition please email me at:
northsouth5SS01@gmail.com

To those who don’t know about k-pop or the way the companies are treating their idols, here is a brief note:

YG, JYP, and SM Entertainment are the ‘big three’ companies in the korean pop industry. They have a very large influence in the kpop industry- in fact they created the first kpop bands. The process that people go through to become a kpop idol is very hard and difficult to endure. The way to stardom is much different in Korea than it is America. People ranging from age 12-20 go through several rounds of auditions to become a trainee and have a chance to become like their favorite artists. They then go through 1-10 years of training in dancing, singing, modeling, and acting. Then the company may or may not choose you to sign a contract and debut in a group. The chances of becoming an idol are very slim. SM Entertainment is one of the very well known Korean pop music company. A few bands such as Girls Generation, EXO, Super Junior, f(x), SHINee, BoA, and Red Velvet are under the music company. SM Ent. has been known to hold their artists in ‘slave contracts’, such as very extreme diets, rigorous schedules, little amount of sleep and rest, and unfair treatment to Chinese/foreign members. There have been multiple lawsuits that artists filed to try and nullify their contracts. Kris and Luhan, former EXO members are currently amidst a legal battle with SM. This is very similar with the other companies too.

Here is a clip from an interview with former Super Junior/Super Junior M member, Han Geng. Super Junior is a Korean pop band that is under the company SM Entertainment.

Han Geng - “Actually, the way that SM Entertainment had treated me is really unbearable. So I made a decision to leave the company. Since I have a mild nature, neither SM nor my friends had ever thought that I would make such a decision.”

MC - “I want to emphasize that I have to ask these questions.”

Han Geng - “Yes, I know.”

MC - “I really support you to come back to China to develop your career. We all know the contracts you signed in Korea were too harsh. Besides, you had to sign a contract for 13 years, you can’t have a sick leave, and you also can’t go back to China to visit your families. Is this true?”

Han Geng - “Absolutely true, it was last year that I went to a Korean awards ceremony with the other members of the group. I was very sick that day. Both me and Choi Siwon were very ill that day, and there were only two hours before the red carpet part of the award ceremony. I went to the hospital with Siwon. I went to the emergency room and the doctor put in an intravenous drip (IV). That day, one of the managers of SM Entertainment drove us to the hospital. He kept shouting ‘We don’t have time! Hurry up!’. Then he adjusted the speed of the IV drip to the maximum. I felt really dizzy, but he still shouted at us to hurry up. Before half of it had went into my vein, the manager pulled out the needle and told me to go to the award ceremony. The next day they also forced me to preform.”

When the speed of an IV is on maximum speed, it can have adverse effects such as heart failure, or immediate death. Read another part of an interview here:

http://www.soompi.com/2013/09/30/ex-super-junior-member-hangengs-recent-interview-raises-several-eyebrows/

If you sign this petition hopefully it will encourage people to treat their idols better.

Thank you,
a fellow K-pop fan~

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
1. We are all free and equal. We are all born free. We all have our own thoughts and ideas. We should all be treated in the same way.
2. Don’t discriminate. These rights belong to everybody, whatever our differences.
3. The right to life. We all have the right to life, and to live in freedom and safety.
4. No slavery – past and present. Nobody has any right to make us a slave. We cannot make anyone our slave.
5. No Torture. Nobody has any right to hurt us or to torture us.
6. We all have the same right to use the law. I am a person just like you!
7. We are all protected by the law. The law is the same for everyone. It must treat us all fairly.
8. Fair treatment by fair courts. We can all ask for the law to help us when we are not treated fairly.
9. No unfair detainment. Nobody has the right to put us in prison without a good reason and keep us there, or to send us away from our country.
10. The right to trial. If we are put on trial this should be in public. The people who try us should not let anyone tell them what to do.
11. Innocent until proven guilty. Nobody should be blamed for doing something until it is proven. When people say we did a bad thing we have the right to show it is not true.
12. The right to privacy. Nobody should try to harm our good name. Nobody has the right to come into our home, open our letters or bother us or our family without a good reason.
13. Freedom to move. We all have the right to go where we want in our own country and to travel as we wish.
14. The right to asylum. If we are frightened of being badly treated in our own country, we all have the right to run away to another country to be safe.
15. The right to a nationality. We all have the right to belong to a country.
16. Marriage and family. Every grown-up has the right to marry and have a family if they want to. Men and women have the same rights when they are married, and when they are separated.
17. Your own things. Everyone has the right to own things or share them. Nobody should take our things from us without a good reason.
18. Freedom of thought. We all have the right to believe in what we want to believe, to have a religion, or to change it if we want.
19. Free to say what you want. We all have the right to make up our own minds, to think what we like, to say what we think, and to share our ideas with other people.
20. Meet where you like. We all have the right to meet our friends and to work together in peace to defend our rights. Nobody can make us join a group if we don’t want to.