this brings up another point: the sm connection. inspirits love to blame sm for everything that goes wrong with woollim. infinite members are overworked: blame sm. infinite doesn’t win on a music show: blame sm. tasty leaves because they’re getting zero work: blame sm. newsflash: sm is not the root of all evil. yes, sm has issues, but woollim had issues before they merged with the big bad conglomerate. sm might exert a certain level of control over woollim on a meta level, but the day-to-day running of their business and dealing with their idols is handled by jungyeop and his management alone. small companies are not immune from the same problems that plague bigger ones. just ask secret/bap (ts ent). or nine muses/z:ea (star empire). and so on.