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SM gives official statement on Tao and his father
Article: SM, "We are upset about Tao's father's words... we will be seeking a solution in a developmental direction"
Source: Star News via Nate
1. [+230, -12] SM-ah;;;; I think the bowl has been broken since your most popular member Luhan left; Just let go of Lay and Tao and keep the Korean kids as 8. Your profits may take a hit but it will be a lot better mentally... Aside from you missing Tao's treatment timing and IAC and all that stuff, it doesn't make any sense that the Chinese members are the only ones getting personal studios. It actually makes the Korean members more pitiful... and that doesn't make sense;;; Why should they get their own agencies when they're in a group? How empty will the remaining members feel? Tao's father is of course upset about his injury but he's being like this because you gave Lay his own studio first and not Tao too; why should the Korean members put up with that ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Just let the Chinese members go before you lose more;
2. [+172, -8] EXO as a group would've done fine in China as a Korean only group without their Chinese members. It would be better to just teach the Korean members Chinese and debuting them tsk tsk. You have Chinese members for no reason so now everybody's going to expect Chinese members in your future groups and either not take an interest in them because you don't have any or feel put off by them because you have them. Look at the group you've dug yourself. I remember Lee Soo Man gave a lecture on Hallyu and said that there will be a 3.0 generation of the Hallyu wave and that would be EXO but this sounds like utter failure. SM has basically wasted the hundreds of thousands invested in this Chinese venture of theirs. Please, please reconsider having Chinese members in your future teams. There are tons of foreigners promoting in Korea but the fact that it's always only the Chinese being like this means that they're joining with the intent to cause these troubles from the start. And the court needs to hurry up with their rulings because Hallyu is a huge business in Korea and decisions need to be made to prevent the traitors from promoting in China.
3. [+130, -10] His problem all boils down to the personal studio... If you read his father's statement closely, he's worried about his health of course but his main point is that Lay got his own personal studio first. What he fails to get is that SM never intended to announce Lay's studio the way they did because it was leaked by a Lay fan community first and SM had no choice but to release a press statement the next morning as soon as it hit 8 am. And Tao claims that he missed his treatment timing but Tao is getting treatment right now just fine... Fans should know that Tao has felt sorry about being unable to perform at concerts and such. It's upsetting what happened to Tao on IAC but there aren't a lot of shows that idols in general can be on;;; SM has no power in China... I think SM has been doing everything they can within their power so far. They have so many groups an dthere's a line and time to share for everything, that's how balance is maintained... Either way, I bet SM will be getting hate overseas now.
4. [+21, -0] Lay and SM both deserve to be screwed over, Lay for badgering SM for a year for his personal studio and SM for complying with it ㅋㅋ Did SM think that the other parents would stand by and do nothing while Lay got his own personal studio and their own kids didn't? There have been plenty of stories where parents single handedly ruined their kid's groups. SM was wrong in dealing with this;;;
5. [+21, -1] So why'd you give Lay his own studio, SM-ah!!
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Source: Naver
1. [+1,849, -94] Think about why he uploaded it on Weibo in the first place... The Chinese already know. News is already out. Chinese communities have posts making SM out to be a malcious company over Tao getting injured from a variety show. Please judge the situation properly;; if you read his father's post, he was happy that Tao would be getting his own Chinese studio despite being injured and he got mad once he heard news of Lay getting his own. I hope the misunderstanding is resolved between him and SM.
2. [+1,590, -156] Being an EXO-L, I'm so used to being shocked now that I calm down just as fast too
3. [+1,283, -125] Wishing the best between SM and Tao...
4. [+1,100, -120] SM said they were discussing it with Luhan too and now they're saying the same thing again ㅋ
5. [+1,247, -463] Tao will probably tell Korean fans he's sick and then go shoot a Chinese action movie in China too..
6. [+233, -66] I think SM screwed up on this one. They took the group's dancer and stuck him on IAC to get injured and then took him off promos to focus on his treatments but then left him to attend the hospital on his own. We know, we saw him on crutches by himself. I understand Tao's father. SM, please don't make another member leave..
7. [+187, -23] JYP's problem is America, SM's problem is China, YG's problem is the drugs
8. [+215, -57] I don't think SM gave Tao the best treatment they could, we saw pictures of Tao on crutches alone at the pharmacy ㅠㅠ
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Source: Pann
1. [+121, -48] Okay, let's just discuss the facts here, screw everything else. What this basically boils down to is Tao's father being pissed off that both Lay and Tao were supposed to get personal studios but only Lay got his and Tao hasn't and on top of that, Tao is injured ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Tao, you're no different from Zhang CEO ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Tao's father's weibo only has this one post alone and Tao follows it, what does that mean other than he supports him? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ The two both wanted personal studios in the end that would be harmful to EXO as a group. Just hold hands and leave the group, both of you. Tao-ya, stop hiding and you release your own statement too.
2. [+113, -37] "Tao wants to stay in EXO but I do not want that" -> I will be taking the bullets for the both of us.
"SM missed the treatment window when Tao got injured at IAC" -> Journalists, do you hear this?? This is why I'm mad, it's not because I'm greedy, SM are the bastards here
"SM talked about a personal studio first and another member got his but our kid has not yet" -> Screw you SM and giving Zhang CEO his own personal studio but not my kid when he's even injured
These are the facts. Zhang CEO getting his own studio basically gave birth to all of the worries we've been talking about.
3. [+100, -39] You can't compare Tao to the two traitors if you read what his father wrote word by word. And Tao asked his fans to trust him no matter what happens in the future so I'm going to trust him. Tao-ya, don't be hurt and get better soon. I miss you.
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