Ravi Revealed He Actually Made ZERO Money During His First 4 Years Promoting with VIXX

Basically yeah.

All the larger companies like SM, YG, JYP I believe considers the cost of training trainees an investment so they don't expect to recoup those money.

whereas the smaller companies keep tabs on everything. Training fee, dental fee, skin care, plastic surgery, housing fee, food, etc.

The TV shows they appear as newbies actually increase the debt because the makeups easily cost $300+ per person, in addition to the clothes. They get paid to appear yes, but that is divided according to the contact they signed, and applied to paying of their debt.

Only good sources of income are concerts, school festivals and TV commercials.

Lets look at Seolhyun, who was incredibly popular and was absolutely everywhere with TV commercials, product endorsements, etc.

Even she didn't get paid during those times of insane amount of work. It could be that the company didn't negotiate enough for big enough pay, or the contract caused her pay to be applied to the entire AOA's debt (which happens)

So yeah, unless you are from big 3, you are in debt for yeaaaaaaaaaaaars.

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