--♥ Crebeau President Kang Seok Won ♥--

♥ speaks up about SM and ♥

♥ Junsu, Yoochun and Jaejoong ♥

The cosmetic company that is being shown

by SM Entertainment as the crux of the TVXQ dispute.

To find out what exactly the relationship is

between TVXQ and the cosmetic company,

we met with Kang Seok Won, President of Crebeau,

for an interview. President Kang Seok Won

carefully picked his words and said,

"More than 10 years of hard work to build this

company are being rattled because of TVXQ's small investment."

Question&Answer

▲What is the relationship between Crebeau
and the three members of TVXQ?=Crebeau was
created over 12 years ago. It has been over ten years since we began using sheep placenta as a main ingredient in the cosmetics.
This can be easily verified in our homepage
or on our certificate of authentication.
We have over 100 stores in Korea alone.
We are also a company that has
spread to China and Japan.
TVXQ's Xiah Junsu, Micky Yoochun and YoungWoong Jaejoong
made only small investments in our company.


▲What kind of company is the Beijing
Representation Corporation that sued
the three members of TVXQ?=The
Beijing Representation Corporation is the
company who is in charge of all the
Crebeau stores in the Shanghai region in China.
We currently have three chain stores
open in Shanghai as of now. We met for the first time
at the Company Presentation that was held in
China in January of this year and signed a contract together. This company opened these three stores in
July and officially began their business.
As soon as they opened, complications arose.
(President Kang showed Sports Seoul
the contract between Crebeau and Beijing
Representation Corporation)
Beijing Representation Corporation were
not adhering to the clauses in
the contract and were using TVXQ
to advertise their products. They irrationally
held advertising events, and when we
intercepted their actions, they decided to file the lawsuit.


▲If the three members of TVXQ only hold
small investments, why where they sued?=The three members attended the Investment Presentation we held in
Shanghai in January. After listening to the
Investment Presentation, the three
completed their investments in March/April.
The Beijing Representation Corporation interpreted
'The TVXQ Three members have invested' as 'The
TVXQ Three members are now ambassador's to Crebeau.'
Therefore, the company tried to use
TVXQ to advertise products but as soon as we heard of this and intercepted their actions, they retaliated.
(Holding the contract)In the contract,
not even the 'T' of TVXQ is mentioned.
The three members of TVXQ represent
SM Entertainment, not Crebeau.
The side that violated the contract is in fact
Beijing Representation Corporation, not the three members.


▲Do you have proof that Beijing Representation
Corporation violated the contract?=On October 2nd,
when the TVXQ Shanghai concert was coming up, they sold cosmetics tied with tickets for the concert.
We have even collected evidence of this.
They opened a store that did not follow
our standards, and illegally sold cosmetics
at discounted prices near the concert location.
These are all violations of the contract.
The main office located in Korea told
Beijing Representation Corporation
to ask for all of the cosmetics sold along
with tickets to be returned so that the
company's image would not be tarnished.
70 million Won worth of damages were incurred but the main office compensated for all of these losses.


▲When you say a 'small investment' by
the three members of TVXQ. How small is their investment?=
The three members invested less than 100 million Won each in the Chinese branch of our company.
Crebeau itself invested more than
3 billion Won for the Chinese expansion.
The three members' investments combined
are only worth around 300 million Won.
It is only around 1/10 of all of the investments.
Xiah Junsu's father also showed
interest in investing. We gave him the
right a chain store outside of Seoul.
All the investment money related to
TVXQ does not amount to much.


▲How are you planning to deal with
Beijing Representation Corporation?=We are going through the appropriate steps with a lawyer from China.
They are at an advantage as this is a case
that will be dealt with using the laws of China.
That is why Beijing Representation Corporation
did not sue the Chinese office of Crebeau either.
If there was a problem with the company
as a whole, why did they just sue the
Korean main office? This is their blind spot.
I believe that the truth will always win.


▲SM Entertainment is blaming the cosmetic
company for the TVXQ dispute.=We find it quite
absurd that we are being blamed for
the dispute between TVXQ and SM Entertainment.
Many people were witness to
TVXQ's Xiah Junsu receiving permission
from SM to invest in the company.
All the procedures we had to go through
were legally correct and there were no problems.
SM Entertainment blamed us only after the
dispute occurred between the agency and members of TVXQ.
Because of SM, our work has been
disrupted and our image has been tarnished.


▲How do you plan on solving the issue regarding SM?=
This is a problem that has nothing to do
with the three members of TVXQ.
It is a problem between two companies.
SM Entertainment used Crebeau as a
scapegoat and tarnished our image to put the blame of the
TVXQ dispute on us. The Chinese and Japanese plans we have been making have been rattled because of SM's claims.
The main office of Crebeau in Korea,
as well as our offices in China and Japan
are planning to get together and file a
large-scale lawsuit against SM.
We will receive an appropriate apology
for our tarnished image and disrupted work.


Source: [sports seoul+DNBN]
Translation credits: jeeelim5@tohosomnia.net
Shared by: tohosomnia.net
Do not remove/add on any credits