In recent years, several family members have sued the company over abusive treatment and so-called "slave contracts".
But the furor over "slave contracts" damaged S.M.'s reputation among netizens, and in recent years its contracts have become more equitable.
"In bondage there can be protocols and slave contracts, forms of address, positions you must assume, behavior and etiquette – it all comes from the military, doing as you're told on the parade ground.
There have been allegations of mistreatment of K-Pop artists since the late 90s, with talk of lawsuits and slave contracts in the Korean media.
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But the Korean Wave, also known as hallyu, certainly has its own seedy underbelly: rampant plastic surgery, training regimens often referred to as "slave contracts," and suicide rates so persistent the South Korean government set up support centers for abused performers.
The government buys up the slaves' contracts to allow them to live freely, work for wages, and mingle with white people in the town.
The couple's entering into the slave child contract and then proceeding to have a child under that contract thus violates the child's right.
And let q be any one of the children who might have existed had the couple not entered into the slave child contract yet still produced a child.
It then notes further that – again calculating probability just prior to choice – the probability of the particular child's coming into existence is also very low, even given that the agents do enter into the slave child contract.
