After it became known that Summer, a content production company founded by actor Jeon Jong-seo, belatedly completed its registration as a popular culture and arts planning business, the agency moved to explain, saying, "It was not to create a management company."
Jeon Jong-seo's agency Andmarq told Hankyung.com on the 10th, "Summer is not a corporation established for management, but a company for content planning, development, and production." It added, "When the corporation was established, management-related items were included in the process of broadly listing the business categories, but since there were no actual plans to operate that business, we did not recognize the need for separate registration."
According to the industry, Jeon Jong-seo founded Summer in June 2022 and completed registration as a popular culture and arts planning business on Feb. 4 this year. It is known that the corporate purpose includes film and drama content production and development as well as matters related to actor management, with Jeon serving as CEO and her partner, film director Lee Chung-hyun, listed as an inside director. Under the current Popular Culture and Arts Industry Development Act, anyone operating an entertainment management business must register as a popular culture and arts planning business with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism or a local government.
The agency also offered its position on why the registration process was delayed. Andmarq added, "As related issues were recently raised, we reviewed the details again and corrected them by completing the necessary procedures."
Meanwhile, Jeon Jong-seo debuted with director Lee Chang-dong's film Burning (2018) and appeared in Call, Romance Without Love, and the Hollywood film Ballerina.