Two days later, all the headlines of various entertainment magazines both online and physical magazine read.
"SHIN DAEHYUK LEAVES MAD ENTERTAINMENT"
A variety of these headlines made it to the top of the most searched list, causing a lot of Shin Daehyuk's fans and anti-fans to flood the official website of MAD entertainment with demands for a response. Finally Two hours after the news broke, MAD Entertainment released an official statement addressing the issue.
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MAD ENTERTAINMENT: The exclusive contract between Shin Daehyuk and our company has ended. After ten years together, Shin Daehyuk has decided to go his separate way but we will continue to support him in his future endeavours. We wish him success in all his future endeavours.
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Their statement was met with mixed reactions, not renewing a contract with a company was nothing new for artists. 3 years ago out of all the nine members of MAZE only Shin Daehyuk and two other members renewed their contract with their agency MAD entertainment. Which caused a scandal since they had been rumours of mistreatment of certain members. The rumours started when JJ and Theo two of the oldest members of the group, implied that the members were not equally treated during a live radio program
Although the two rebuked the rumours two days after the news broke, the damage was already done. The most popular members of the group which included Shin Daehyuk received a lot of backlashes. When the group's exclusive contract with MAD entertainment ended and both JJ and Theo never renewed. It provides the anti-fans and solo fans of the group with 'Proof' of said rumours.
The rumours were brought up once again as the announcement of him leaving MAD entertainment was released. While his fans and the fans of the group sent him good wishes, the Anti-fans and the solo fans of the rest of the members of the group that left the company insulted him and praised MAD entertainment for gaining the insight to drop him.
However soon Anonymous Gossip website EXPOSé released an article on Shin Daehyuk leaving MAD entertainment but unlike the other articles that just centred on the announcement. EXPOSé's article was less than positive, it seemed to pit Shin Daehyuk and MAD entertainment against each other.
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EXPOS3é
breaking News: FORMER MAZE'S MEMBER AND LEADER, SHIN DAEHYUK LEAVES MAD ENTERTAINMENT BUT NOT IN GOOD TERMS.
Looks like there is trouble in paradise for Shin Daehyuk, with his exclusive contract with the company coming to an end in a few weeks. All eyes are on Shin Daehyuk, everyone is waiting to see f he would once again renew his contract with MAD entertainment or jump ships. Looks like MAD had no intention of resigning an artist who has had two failed albums in a roll because an insider in the industry reported that the company already resigned his former groupmate JJ.
However, the CEO considering his long-time friendship with his mother veteran Chinese actress Qi Yue, the company deliberately offered him a new contract with unfair terms to force him to give up. According to my sources, Shin Daehyuk turned their offers twice before finally making a decision. MAD entertainment has very questionable methods of doing business considering all the profit he brought the company for over ten years.
However, after an investigation, we discovered that after the contract fell through, MAD entertainment pulled him out of hosting a few variety shows. Talk about being a sour loser, it is one thing to drop an underachieving artist but to pull him out of gigs? MAD entertainment must not want to stay in the industry for long. I guess that is why they are firmly stuck as a mid-tier company.
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Commenter 1: I have always said that MAD entertainment was thrash, this just proves it.
commenter 2: Your right, I have never seen a company so good at sabotaging themselves and their artists as MAD entertainment. Honestly, it is a good thing that Shin Daehyuk left the company, in the three years he signed under them he released about 7 albums. 4 mini-albums, 3 full-length albums and one subunit album with DK and Xiao. All of which he wrote and produced himself, honestly with how overworked he was I am not surprised the last two albums didn't do so well.
Anti-fan 1: it is not like he is the first artist to be overworked so hard, I think he is just lazy
Anti-fan 2: MAD entertainment did well by dropping such an incompetent artist like him. He is just overrated, what idol Producer? Shin Daehyuk is just a spoiled rich brat.
Commenter 3: wow, what a pair of sour grapes I get it that you are jealous of him but at least try to give reasonable arguments to support your delusions.
Anti-fan 1: You are the delusional one, it is fans like you that support a washed-up artist like Shin Daehyuk. If he is so good, why did his two albums flop so badly, maybe he should leave the industry and just focus on spending mummy and daddy's money. Aren't the Shin family as rich as the Gu family?"
Anti-fan 3: they are, the Shin family and the Gu family are two of the wealthiest families. there is a reason Shin Daehyuk and Song Taeeun are so close. Now, these two are a bunch of spoiled rich brats.
Anti-Fans 4: They do not deserve to debut in a group, I bet they bribed their way into their group
Solo fan 1: I pity their group mates that had to deal with them. Aura's are lucky that Song Tae-eun is not as bad as Shin Daehyuk who destroyed MAZE. My JJ suffered because of him and when he spoke out about his treatment, they shut him down and even forced him to apologise
Solo Fan 2: Shin Daehyuk deserves all that is coming to him. I hope no company accepts him and he leaves the industry
commenter 4: wow, you bunch are unique specimens of human beings.
Anti-fan 2: Here comes another brainless fan...
The articles led to a lot of speculations and more rumours.
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Hours later,
K-POP DIARIES 2
Hello, Darlings!
Things sure are getting heated up in the K-pop industry. First there was the big reveal of the identity of the woman in the video with Yu Seok to be Jin Mi-ok's by EXPOSé.
A scandal that took over the headlines for the rest of the week. I guess that is what happens when one of the nation's most beloved actress and a top idol gets caught together.
Although GK entertainment's official statement was vague, fans have concluded that they are together. I guess that is the safest option for both of their careers, we all know how hard the public is on actresses suspected of being in a promiscuous relationship or any relationship at all. I am not even going to touch on the de lulu parts of the K-pop fandom.
We all thought that this new week was going to be peaceful but jokes on us because early this morning just after MAD entertainment announced that Shin Daehyuk had left the company. EXPOSé released an article accusing MAD entertainment of getting Shin Daehyuk dropped from all his variety shows.
So far the Shin Siblings have had a terrible few months. First, there was Shin Daehyuk's latest album not charting at all and then the scandal involving the former Memphis entertainment CEO that delayed Vixen's debut affecting Shin Chung-ae and her group members. Now there are these new contract issues, maybe they should look into meeting shamen.
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Commenter 1- A Shaman isn't the only thing these two need, I feel like Chung-ae should consider leaving that group and the company entirely. Her brother already made a good decision by leaving that sinking ship that is MAD Entertainment.
Commenter 2: MAD entertainment is a terrible company, I think Chung-ae should stay back in MPE. It is worlds better than MAD entertainment.
commenter 3 : That is what I think too. As for the Shin Daehyuk issue... I think it will work out.