{"id":28598,"date":"2022-07-05T19:52:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=28598"},"modified":"2023-03-21T06:52:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T13:52:06","slug":"dont-k-pop-idols-get-paid-golden-childs-jangjun-reveals-no-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/dont-k-pop-idols-get-paid-golden-childs-jangjun-reveals-no-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t K-Pop idols get paid? Golden Child&#8217;s Jangjun reveals no earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some K-Pop idols who can buy cars and houses for their families, but not all K-pop groups, as <strong>Golden Child<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Jangjun<\/strong> recently revealed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>I only make money from my individual activities. Like this show today<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, said Jangjun.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>As the boys are currently on their first tour of the United States, a pre-recorded episode of <strong>KBS<\/strong>&#8216; \u201c<strong>The Money School<\/strong>\u201d with Jangjun was released on July 3rd, where he talked about the group&#8217;s earnings and their individual earnings.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he earns any <strong>income<\/strong> from the group&#8217;s activities, the Golden Child member said that he does not. Despite debuting in 2017 and entering his sixth year of career, Jangjun shared that he did not receive anything the group earned from promotions. () <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ko\" dir=\"ltr\">KB$ \uc790\ubcf8\uc8fc\uc758\ud559\uad50 introduction <\/p>\n<p>Lee Jangjun of Golden Child ?\u2764\ufe0f??<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tamara (@infinitygolcha) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>I only get income from my individual schedules like this show today. The hosts were even more surprised when he added that he started having solo activities in 2019 and that it was the first time that he earned money<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, said the idol.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>Jangjun also added that his <strong>mother<\/strong> manages his income and works in the real estate business, which is why she is good at it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>I still haven&#8217;t taken stock of what my mother did with my earnings. But I heard in passing that something was left out, with a phrase like &#8216;For my son when he gets married&#8217;<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, Jangjun concluded.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>The revelations of the have sparked a debate as fans wonder where the band&#8217;s <strong>money<\/strong> goes. In the past, fans have compared record companies&#8217; distribution of profits to agencies like <strong>SM<\/strong> who make 95% of profits from physical sales, while <strong>Starship Entertainment<\/strong> gives 80% of profits to their artists.<\/p>\n<p>Though Jangjun has pointed out that he didn&#8217;t even receive a portion of the <strong>profits<\/strong> the group made from him, fans are confused.<\/p>\n<p><\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some K-Pop idols who can buy cars and houses for their families, but not all K-pop groups, as Golden Child&#8216;s Jangjun recently revealed. \u201cI only make money from my individual activities. Like this show today&#8220;, said Jangjun. As the boys are currently on their first tour of the United States, a pre-recorded episode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":28604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}