In the entertainment industry, as stars have repeatedly confessed that people who had been 'manager companions' for years instead betrayed or defrauded them, manager risk has resurfaced. Following Seong Si-kyung, past stories about Cheon Jeong-myeong having his parents defrauded by a manager have also been reexamined.
Singer Seong Si-kyung announced a sudden split with a manager he had worked with for more than 10 years. His agency SK Jaewon said on the 3rd, "Seong Si-kyung's former manager was found to have acted in a way that betrayed the company's trust during the course of his duties," and "We are currently confirming the exact scope of the damage, and that employee has already left the company," the agency said in an official statement.
The manager in question was a key figure who had been responsible overall for Seong Si-kyung's management, including performances, broadcasts, advertisements and events, and was familiar to fans for occasionally appearing on the YouTube channel "Muk-eul Tende" (I will eat) . Therefore, this betrayal went beyond a simple abandonment of duties and led to emotional shock.
Seong Si-kyung himself confessed on social media, "The past few months have been truly painful and a continuous time of hardship. Experiencing the breaking of trust from someone I trusted, cherished and thought of like family… at this age it is not an easy thing," he wrote.
Meanwhile, actor Cheon Jeong-myeong's past of being defrauded by a manager he had worked with for 16 years, to the point of considering retirement, was also mentioned.
Actor Cheon Jeong-myeong also confessed that he suffered large-scale fraud at the hands of a manager he had worked with for a long time. On a broadcast, he said, "The manager I worked with for 16 years committed fraud and even embezzlement," and "He even defrauded my parents, and I eventually contemplated retirement." He also said, "I was greatly defrauded and embezzled, and the shock caused me to develop social phobia," which drew sympathy.
What Cheon Jeong-myeong experienced was not limited to financial loss. He went through a long hiatus amid broken trust, saying, "How could something like this happen to me?" The core issue is the collapse of trust, given that a manager who had been with someone for a long time emerged as the agent of a split or fraud.
Seong Si-kyung left a pledge saying, "This too shall pass… I will do my best to get through it well." Cheon Jeong-myeong also conveyed a message: "I have come to distrust people. But I want to meet again and rebuild trust." As the perception spreads within the entertainment industry that the manager-star relationship carries many risks and can no longer be maintained solely on unconditional trust, attention is focusing on what institutional changes may follow.
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