{"id":151529,"date":"2025-11-01T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=151529"},"modified":"2025-11-01T10:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:07:07","slug":"sm-entertainment-fires-back-at-exo-cbx-amid-growing-controversy-over-group-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/sm-entertainment-fires-back-at-exo-cbx-amid-growing-controversy-over-group-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"SM Entertainment fires back at EXO-CBX amid growing controversy over group activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things just got even messier between <strong>SM Entertainment<\/strong> and <strong>EXO-CBX<\/strong>! On October 29, 2025, SM Entertainment responded to <strong>INB100\u2019s<\/strong> statement that claimed Chen, Baekhyun, and Xiumin had accepted all of SM\u2019s terms to join EXO\u2019s comeback. According to SM, the trio still hasn\u2019t paid the 10% share of income from their solo activities (something required by their original contract). The company argued that the \u201cunreasonable lawsuits\u201d filed by the trio in the past had damaged trust and hurt the rest of the group members and the fans.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weareoneEXO\/status\/1984178057285177354\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ko\" dir=\"ltr\">\uc5d1\uc18c \ud32c\ubbf8\ud305 \u2018EXO&#39;verse\u2019 \uc120\uc608\ub9e4\ub85c 2\ud68c\ucc28 \uc804\uc11d \ub9e4\uc9c4!<br \/>1\ub144 8\uac1c\uc6d4 \ub9cc\uc758 \ud32c\ubbf8\ud305 \uac1c\ucd5c \uc18c\uc2dd\uc5d0 \uc804 \uc138\uacc4 \uc774\ubaa9 \uc9d1\uc911<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WWFwksahHh\">https:\/\/t.co\/WWFwksahHh<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EXO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#EXO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%EC%97%91%EC%86%8C?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#\uc5d1\uc18c<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/weareoneEXO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#weareoneEXO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EXOverse?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#EXOverse<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SoMiWVDsPK\">pic.twitter.com\/SoMiWVDsPK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EXO (@weareoneEXO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weareoneEXO\/status\/1984178057285177354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 31, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, INB100 published another statement, saying that EX-CBX (Chen, Baekhyun, and Xiumin) do intend to pay the 10%, but only once their ongoing lawsuit process is terminated. They also insisted that all talks had been based on \u201cEXO full-group activities\u201d and that CBX had been in direct communication with the other EXO members, trying to be part of the group for their next project.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffNihility\/status\/1983466421641466114\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">INB100 released official NAVER Article \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d<\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8230; CBX promised fans that they would promote as a full group as members of EXO, and are putting in every effort to make this happen.&quot; \ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1oYQkVjl87\">https:\/\/t.co\/1oYQkVjl87<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TQZvTnjJY2\">pic.twitter.com\/TQZvTnjJY2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; jeff\u2079 \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf7\u035c\u035c\u0361\u0361\u272f but REST (@JeffNihility) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffNihility\/status\/1983466421641466114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The back-and-forth between the two sides shows no signs of slowing down. SM says the trio must pay, and there are still no signs that Chen, Baekhyun, and Xiumin will join the rest of the EXO members for the EXO\u2019verse fan meeting on December 13th and 14th or their 2026 musical comeback. Still, fans are holding on to hope that the iconic group can perform as a full unit again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things just got even messier between SM Entertainment and EXO-CBX! On October 29, 2025, SM Entertainment responded to INB100\u2019s statement that claimed Chen, Baekhyun, and Xiumin had accepted all of SM\u2019s terms to join EXO\u2019s comeback. According to SM, the trio still hasn\u2019t paid the 10% share of income from their solo activities (something required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":151533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[939],"class_list":{"0":"post-151529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-exo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}