Korean Child Actors Association Establishes '6 Organizational Committees Including Media and Awards'

The Korea Child Actor Association (abbreviated as KCAA), established to support the development and protect the rights of domestic (multicultural) child and adolescent popular culture artists, as well as to promote public interest activities, announced on the 3rd that it has set up six organizing committees.

The KCAA organizing committees consist of six committees: the Media Information Committee responsible for media response, information, and publicity; the Event Planning Committee responsible for award ceremonies, fashion weeks, and show performances; the Agency Committee responsible for casting, auditions, and scouting; the Education and Training Committee responsible for acting, vocal, and dance training; the International Cooperation Committee responsible for Hallyu exchange, international events, and overseas projects; and the Disciplinary Committee responsible for legislation, dispute mediation, and damage relief. In addition, there is a separate secretariat handling member management, administrative affairs, information disclosure, budget execution, and external cooperation.

However, a concerning issue is the potential emergence of ‘pseudo (ghost) similar organizations’ that imitate the KCAA organizing committees and cause harm. Moreover, as child actors have become more popular and interest has increased recently, unauthorized interference by non-experts and inexperienced organizations has become frequent. Such illegal labor union activities (including interference in dispute mediation complaints) and damages related to union membership are occurring continuously.

Regarding this, KCAA spokesperson Jinhee Kim stated, “Recently, there has been a rapid increase in child actor fraud victims and illegal child actor agencies. By monitoring, checking, and reporting these, and through damage relief and dispute mediation channels for members in cooperation with related institutions and the media, we expect to significantly reduce the damage.”

Legal professional and Disciplinary Committee Chairperson Park also pointed out, “Although there are some laws protecting child and adolescent popular culture artists (child actors), there are no management regulations regarding artist activities,” adding, “Adults and children/adolescents should be subject to different contract regulations (laws) and guidelines (items).”

Meanwhile, Sungwon Yoo, General Director of Mango Entertainment and Tteuneubyeol Entertainment, as well as Editor-in-Chief of GanGee magazine, was appointed as the interim president.