Singer Kim Wan Sun has been embroiled in controversy over failing to register a one-person agency.
On the 12th, according to the entertainment industry, Kim Wan Sun was recently sent to prosecutors without detention on charges of violating the Popular Culture and Arts Industry Development Act. The Gyeonggi Yongin Eastern Police Station reportedly sent Kim Wan Sun to prosecutors without detention on the charge on the 5th.
In 2020 Kim Wan Sun established a one-person agency named after her, KW Sunflower (KWSunflower). However, for about five years she operated the agency without registering for the popular culture and arts planning business. She then belatedly began the registration process in the second half of last year.
At the time the entertainment industry was embroiled in controversy over unregistered one-person agencies, starting with Ok Joo Hyun, a musical actor and former member of girl group Fin.K.L. Not only Ok Joo Hyun, but comedian Park Na-rae, who was actively working, was also revealed to have been in an unregistered one-person agency amid disputes with former managers. It later emerged that countless stars' one-person agencies were unregistered, causing an uproar.
In Kim Wan Sun's case she debuted in 1986 and this year marks her 40th anniversary since debut. This has amplified the fallout that even Kim Wan Sun, who has been active for a long time, was lax about registering a one-person agency.
However, in connection with this matter Kim Wan Sun's side has not issued a separate statement. She is reported to have departed for New York, U.S., for her first solo exhibition "Icon On Demand," which runs at the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York from the 13th to the 31st.
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