The thing is, we don't tend to get the details. We get vague statements about contracts and stuff.
Shinhwa's contract ran out and they wanted to move to a new company (afaik, they did not state why) and had to sue for the right to use their name there (Eric taught himself law so that he could defend them in court. They won. I'm kind of in awe of him--like that is the ultimate Leader).
Here's what wiki says about Han Geng:
Han filed a lawsuit against SME to terminate his contract, citing that the 13-year contract was unlawful, overly restrictive, and unfair. His arguments include being forced to do things outside of his contract and being refused sick leave, which led to kidney illness.
JYJ phrased it this way:
stated that the 13-year contract was excessively long, schedules were held out without the confirmation or permission of the members, contract terms have been extended and changed without their knowledge or consent and that the group's earnings were not fairly distributed to the members
In response, SM Entertainment called a press conference and claimed that the lawsuit was not about unfair contracts or human rights, but motivated by the three members’ greed to pursue their cosmetics business uninhibited by the restrictions their exclusive contract with SM bound them with.
As for Kris, afaik there haven't been any details released.
The thing is, the idols have to make the lawsuits about unfairness with money/contracts or whatever because just being horribly, horribly mistreated isn't against the law. So we don't know how much of what they did was motivated by the unfairness with the money/contracts and how much of it has to do with emotional abuse or just ridiculous schedules and exhaustion and overworking.
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Shinhwa's contract ran out and they wanted to move to a new company (afaik, they did not state why) and had to sue for the right to use their name there (Eric taught himself law so that he could defend them in court. They won. I'm kind of in awe of him--like that is the ultimate Leader).
Here's what wiki says about Han Geng:
JYJ phrased it this way:
As for Kris, afaik there haven't been any details released.
The thing is, the idols have to make the lawsuits about unfairness with money/contracts or whatever because just being horribly, horribly mistreated isn't against the law. So we don't know how much of what they did was motivated by the unfairness with the money/contracts and how much of it has to do with emotional abuse or just ridiculous schedules and exhaustion and overworking.