Lee Ja-yeon, chairman of the Korea Singer Association, recently expressed concern over the SM crisis. After an emergency meeting with the association's executives on the afternoon of February 16, Lee said, "I have always respected Lee Soo-man's hard work and accomplishments as a Singer and as a member of the popular culture industry." Chairman Lee Ja-yeon is concerned that such chaos may adversely affect K-pop and the K-pop industry. It is unimaginable that he, who led K-pop to industrialization, will fall victim to the scapegoat as a product of the old era. It will also be seen as a bad image for overseas markets. He is remembered as a pioneer in the globalization of the recording industry and as a pioneer of the original K-POP. His artistic spirit and entrepreneurial determination became the cornerstone of SM and expanded to the K-culture dimension today. Beyond SM's structural problems and conflicts, he said that it would be a tragedy for the music industry to disgrace abdication. He added that there may be a mistake in management, but it is too sad that the reality that our great Singer and the living witness of the Korean song company can be ousted and collapsed from the closest people he believed in a moment.