Hanse (VICTON) reveals the reality of his activities on music shows: ”My fee was 50,000 won and my debt was 20 million won”

Hanse of the Korean boy band VICTON has been attracting attention by revealing the reality of what it's like for idols to perform on music programs.
Hanse is a paid fan communication platform called Bubble.
Hanse, who released the single "Scent of Skin" in April this year, told fans who wanted to appear on music shows, "Music shows,
"It's great. It's great, but it's not profitable," he said, giving a negative response. He continued, "Like the second generation seniors, appearing on music shows has a tremendous effect on publicity.
Not only that, but it costs 10 million won (about 1.1 million yen) to appear on music shows for a week. I don't know if it has gone up recently. In our time, the appearance fee for a music show was 10 million won (about 1.1 million yen) per group.
Hanse also revealed the reality of his performance fee, saying, "It was 250,000 won (approx. 14,000 yen)." He also revealed that if you add in the set construction fee, hair and makeup fee, styling fee, and on-site staff fee, the total is 2,000,000 won (approx. 14,000 yen).
She added, "Every time I release a song, people ask me to appear on a music show, so I'd like to know why I don't appear on music shows."
Yes, there are. There are very few idol groups that can get paid. Except for a few groups that are festival headliners and are known even by the general public who are not fans.
"If you can get a pay increase along the way or complete the seven-year (contract) without any problems, you can say you've held up well," he said, revealing the reality of idol pay.
"I don't have to pay back the debts I've accumulated during my career once my contract is over. But in exchange for not having to pay back the debts, I won't earn a single won in my seven years of idol work," Han explained.
Se continued, "I don't know about idols who write lyrics and compose music and have copyrights, but... copyrights aren't as good as you'd think compared to labor."
When Hanse revealed the details of the idols' profit structure, the netizens
This caused a stir among netizens. Netizens commented, "There must have been a reason for cutting their music show activities short," "It's so sad that they ended seven years with nothing but accumulated debt," and "It's so sad."
At first he seemed to respond by saying, "Isn't there really a miracle for a small to mid-sized agency?", but then he continued the war of words by saying, "It's not like there's no PR effect for it to become a Hot Topic on Fan Cam."
Meanwhile, VICTON debuted in 2016. The contracts of members Hanse, Choi Byungchan, and Chung SuBin expired in 2023.