Professional workers(entertainers)' exclusive contracts may be defined as an atypical contract including and consolidating legislative characteristics such as employment, subcontract and delegation. In particular, this kind of contract strongly shows the nature of the exclusive engagement. Application of Labor law in exclusive contract totally depend on entertainers' restriction on status; in other words,the practical degree of employed subordinate relationship between the entertainers and the management agency is decided by specific contents of each entertainer's individual contract. National Labor Relations Act has to be applied due to the acceptance of employees of entertainers because most of the entertainers generally have employed subordinate relationship with the management agency.
Therefore, entertainers' position as an employee should be accepted so that the protection under National Labor Relations Act could be applied.
In the case of Korea and other countries, the standard of judgement about an employee has been developed by former cases according to the specific issues. Standard of judging and defining the employee is now necessary because of the appearance of the various occupational clusters in our traditional industrial society which will also lead to the flexible definition of the employee. Based on current trend, this study has looked after the ways of improving entertainers' protection under National labor Relations Act.
Entertainers are definitely employees, but because of the unique characteristics of the show business, complete application of the provisions of National Labor Relations Act can be very difficult.
Definition and standards of entertainers' unique subordinate relationship have to be clearly defined, and entertainers must secure their position through the legislation.