Singer and actor Kim Min-jong / Photo = Seoul Economic Star DB
Singer and actor Kim Min-jong leaves SM Entertainment after 17 years.
On the 13th, SM Entertainment told Seoul Economy Star, “The exclusive contract with Kim Min-jong ended at the end of June, and we mutually agreed not to renew the contract.”
Kim Min-jong signed an exclusive contract with SM Entertainment in 2006. He works as an actor and singer, and he also served as an outside director of SM C&C, a subsidiary of SM Entertainment.
In particular, Kim Min-jong had a special relationship with former general producer Lee Soo-man, the founder of SM. Last February, when SM co-representatives Lee Sung-soo and Tak Young-joon promoted the ‘SM 3.0’ plan and criticized Soo-man Lee’s unified system, they publicly supported Soo-man Lee along with producer Young-jin Yoo.
At the time, Kim Min-jong sent an e-mail to all SM employees, saying, “Contrary to what was announced, Lee Sung-soo and Tak Young-joon, co-CEOs, cut off all conversations with the teacher (Lee Soo-man) and said goodbye to the unilateral announcement without any discussion with the insiders.” “As an actor and singer, the activities of SM artists, including me, require (Lee Soo-man) teacher’s producing and sensory capabilities,” he said.
Kim Min-jong, who debuted in 1988, has appeared in the dramas ‘Feeling’, ‘Faraway Country’, ‘Mr. Q’, ‘Guardian Angel’, ‘The Return of Iljimae’, ‘A Gentleman’s Dignity’, ‘I Hear Your Voice’, ‘Vagabond’ He is an active actor from the 1990s to the 2020s. As a singer, he left behind hit songs covering the 1990s, including the songs ‘For Another Meeting’, ‘Under the Sky’, ‘Ghost Boy’, ‘Good Love’, and ‘Beautiful Pain’.
