C-JeS Entertainment

C-JeS Entertainment
Native name
 씨제스엔터테인먼트
private company
Industry Entertainment
Genre K-pop, Korean drama
Founded Seoul, South Korea (December 21, 2009)
Founder Baek Chang-ju
Headquarters 629-7, Yeoksam 1-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Number of locations
 Seoul, Los Angeles[1]
Key people
 Baek Chang-ju (founder, CEO)[1]
Services Artist Management
Revenue 32.6 billion won (2011)[1]
Number of employees
 40[1]
Website C-JeS.com

C-JeS Entertainment is a South Korean company established in 2009, handling the management of various artists. Some of the notable ones are boy band JYJ; singer Gummy; actors Choi Min-sik, Lee Beom-soo, Lee Jung-jae, Sol Kyung-gu; and actresses Hwang Jung-eum, Kang Hye-jung, Song Ji-hyo.

History

The agency was established to meet the management needs of Jaejoong, Junsu and Yoochun, former members of TVXQ, after the trio filed a lawsuit against their former record label, S.M. Entertainment. The singers met Baek Chang-ju in mid-2009, not long after they filed the lawsuit. C-JeS was established shortly after that. Baek has directly said in the interview that C-JeS was established solely because of JYJ. Baek invested heavily in building the newly created band, JYJ's image and credibility after the Korean entertainment industry closed its doors on the artists perceived as "rebels" for going against their previous management.[1][2]

On 8 March 2013, actor Lee Jung-jae signed on to be exclusively managed by C-JeS Entertainment. He reportedly chose C-Jes after working with Song Ji-hyo in movie New World.[3]

On 29 August 2014, C-JeS Entertainment signed actress-singer Hwang Jung-eum.[4][5][6]

Artists

Singers
Year Artist Gender Member Status
2010 JYJ1 Male Jaejoong, Yoochun, Junsu Active
2014 Gummy2 Female — Active

1 JYJ first debuted as TVXQ in 2003 under SM Entertainment, but left in 2009. C-JeS Entertainment functions as the management agency of the band, contrary to usual practices in K-pop, where an agency also functions as a record label with an exclusive contract for few year, JYJ has no exclusive contract with C-JeS officially.[7]
2 Gummy first debuted in 2003 under YG Entertainment. After her contract expired, she signed with C-JeS Entertainment in October 2013.[8]


Actors/Actresses

Co-productions

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "JYJ personifies the vision of agency executive". Korea JoongAng Daily. 2012-10-11. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "JYJ and Agency Receives Zero Profit From Its JYJ Member Expo". enewsworld. 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
  3. ↑ Hong, Grace Danbi (9 March 2013). "Lee Jung Jae Becomes Family with JYJ and Song Ji Hyo". enewsWorld. CJ E&M. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
  4. ↑ "Hwang Jung Eum to Sign with C-JeS Entertainment". Soompi. 29 August 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  5. ↑ Soo Jung, Ha (29 August 2014). "Hwang Jung Eum Signs Contract with C-JeS". enewsWorld. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  6. ↑ rubypurple_fan, rilanna (27 October 2014). "[TRANS] 141027 Actress Hwang Jung Eum mentions Jaejoong in her interview". JYJ3. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "이중계약 논란 JYJ "씨제스는 단순 에이전시" "멤버 개별 활동도 법적 문제없어"" (in Korean). Today Korea. 2010-10-15. Archived from the original on 2010-10-22. Retrieved 2013-02-05.
  8. ↑ "Gummy officially signs with JYJ's label C-JeS Entertainment". Allkpop. 2013-10-24. Retrieved 2013-10-24.

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