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Rain's Agency Sued for Breach of Contract

By Park Si-soo
Staff Reporter

The management agency of K-pop singer Rain has been sued for contract violation.

The Seoul Central District Court said Friday a domestic multimedia content provider filed a suit against Rain's agency, J.Tune Entertainment, demanding one billion won in compensation.

The plaintiff said in a statement, "The two parties signed a contract to share copyright of footage of the singer's concert in September. We were supposed to produce a wide range of secondary products based on the clip". But the business model collapsed as the agency failed to obtain the copyright from MBC, which filmed the event.

Rain's agency admitted its failure to obtain the copyright but claimed, "Imposing full liability for the damage on us is unacceptable".

"Conflicts among the related parties are to blame for the dispute, meaning we cannot hold full responsibility for this", J.Tune said. "Due to the possibility of internal conflict, the contract was made with a precondition that it would become invalid unless the project went smoothly".

This is not the first litigation surrounding the 26-year-old singer, who made his Hollywood debut this year starring in "Ninja Assassin".

In April, the singer, whose real name is Jung Ji-hoon, and his former agency, JYP, faced a multi-million dollar lawsuit for the abrupt cancellation of his world tour concerts between 2006 and 2007.

The legal action in 2007 was taken by Star M, a domestic concert promotion company, which claimed it sustained more than 4.57 billion won losses due to the cancellations.

In a separate case in March, the singer and JYP were found guilty by an American court of breaching a contract with Click Entertainment Inc. for the singer's canceled concert in Honolulu and ordered to pay the Hawaiian promoter some $8 million in punitive charges and compensation.

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