New SM and AVEX ties Reveal a Possible Reason Why JYJ was Blocked in Japan

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The reason for AVEX’s behavior a few months ago towards JYJ (Jaejoong, Yoochun, Junsu) may have been revealed in a new official statement from the company.  AVEX’s (Japan) renewed ties to SM (Korea) seem to be antithetical to supporting to JYJ.  It does appear to some observers that AVEX made the calculated business decision to block JYJ’s rise in Japan in exchange for getting to represent other SM artists. 

The ultimatum from SM to AVEX may have been to either get the trio to give in, or to drop them completely.  The obvious penalty for continuing to support JYJ would have been that AVEX could lose out on the opportunity to represent other SM artists in Japan. 

According to the translated statement released in Japan, AVEX “will be executing exclusive contracts of Super Junior and f(x)”, along with continuing to be the agency of choice for BoA and J-Min.  Also included in that list of AVEX-managed artists is “Tohoshinki”.  But this won’t be the Tohoshinki you’re used to.  This new “Tohoshinki” will only include Yunho and Changmin, apparently.  All of these groups, in case you still haven’t gotten it, are artists controlled… uh, owned… no, uh, signed to SM in Korea.

North Korea Kills South Korean Marines

articlesHours after North Korea’s deadly artillery attacks on Tuesday, South Korea’s president said “enormous retaliation” is needed to stop Pyongyang’s incitement, but international diplomats urgently appealed for restraint.

“The provocation this time can be regarded as an invasion of South Korean territory,” President Lee Myung-bak said at the headquarters of the Joint Chiefs of Staff here, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.

The incident — in which two South Korean marines died — is “the first direct artillery attack on South Korean territory since the Korean War ended in an armistice, not a formal peace treaty” in the 1950s, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. The United States has about 28,500 troops deployed in South Korea and are warily watching the situation.