Recently, suspicions have been spreading in the entertainment industry about alleged tax evasion through one-person agencies. It was revealed on the 27th, according to capital market and entertainment industry sources, that Park Shinhye ran a one-person agency called EbenEzer Entertainment from 2015 to 2021. At the time, EbenEzer was reportedly a paper company, with its registered address listed as Park’s home address.
Receiving activity payments through a one-person agency personally operated by a celebrity has recently been cited by tax authorities as a representative method of tax evasion. Earlier, singer and actor Cha Eunwoo was hit with a tax penalty of around 20 billion won on allegations of evading taxes through such a method. Since then, suspicions that many other celebrities have operated one-person agencies have continued to surface across the industry.
However, Park’s agency, Salt Entertainment, stated that EbenEzer has absolutely no connection to any tax evasion allegations. The agency explained that it only became aware of the corporation’s existence after seeing a 2016 article reporting that Park had made donations through EbenEzer, and that it instructed the company to be dissolved immediately afterward. It also claimed that Park never received activity payments through EbenEzer.
A Salt Entertainment representative said, “We were completely unaware that Park had served as the CEO of EbenEzer until 2021,” adding, “Naturally, no settlements were made to Park through that corporation.”
The agency explained that it “instructed the company to be dissolved after becoming aware of its existence in 2016,” but the corporation remained active until at least 2021. Park served as CEO of EbenEzer until March 2021. Even on a 2020 business registration certificate issued for EbenEzer, Park is listed as the company’s representative.
Some in the industry have also claimed that Salt Entertainment settled Park’s activity payments through EbenEzer. An anonymous industry insider stated, “It is certain that Salt settled payments to Park through her one-person agency.”
This is not the first time Salt Entertainment has been caught up in controversy over a one-person agency. Actor Kim Seonho was also embroiled in tax evasion allegations after it became known in January 2024 that he had established a one-person agency. Although Kim is currently under Fantagio, the same agency as Cha Eunwoo, at the time he was still under contract with Salt Entertainment. Salt had previously stated that Kim requested settlements be processed through his one-person agency and that the company handled the work accordingly.
An industry insider commented, “It’s somewhat hard to understand how a company that was aware of Kim Seonho’s one-person agency, which operated for about a year, could claim it did not know about Park Shinhye’s case, where a one-person agency was operated for a much longer period.”
EbenEzer is currently said to be supporting the entertainment activities of Park’s older brother, Park Shin-won. However, it has also been confirmed that the company belatedly registered as a popular culture and arts planning business, which has recently become an issue alongside one-person agency tax controversies. Under the Popular Culture and Arts Industry Development Act, companies engaging in celebrity management and related businesses are required to register as a popular culture and arts planning business. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism operated a “comprehensive registration guidance period” late last year to encourage unregistered corporations to complete registration.
Despite this, EbenEzer only completed its registration on January 19 of this year, well after the tax controversy involving Cha Eunwoo had surfaced. Recently, several other celebrities, including Jeon Jong-seo, Hwang Jung-eum, and Ock Joo-hyun, have also faced controversy over issues related to unregistered agencies.
source: https://naver.me/xoGxe3bt
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