Hitman Bang was able to fool the BTS members into re-signing on October 2018.
As a result, his net worth is around $3 billion, give or take some, while BTS members' net worth, individually, is less than 1/50 of that.
Worse, they are signed up to 2027, plus a couple years accounting for their military services.
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Lee Jieun had run her affairs from around 2015, and when Edam Entertainment was formed around her, she managed to secure a 60% control of it.
Her shares are worth $15 million according to a financial statement from Kakao, and she gets to keep a major portion of it for herself.
Given that BTS earned about $600 million last year ,
if they had entered into a similar arrangement like IU, with Big Hit (no Hybe in this timeline) keeping 40% of everything and Hitman Bang not getting to spend money on buying foreign outfits, their gross would have been $360 million, and their net profit , collectively, would have been close to half of it, or around $25m per person.
Plus the value of their stock would have been very high.
They are being peanuts compared to their relative value.
BTS will only get to be independent on 2027 or later. By then they will mostly stick with their existing fans, at least 6 years older than today.
What BTS does makes Mr. Bang what he feels like to do, while what IU does will make her do what she feels like.
That is the biggest difference as they will be under the contract they signed back in 2018 all the way to 2027.