SEVENTEEN singer Seungkwan has posted a prolonged message on Instagram in regards to the Ok-pop business and voicing his assist for fellow idols.
Final week, Ok-pop firm HYBE disclosed firm paperwork throughout a Nationwide Meeting’s Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism committee audit. A number of pages of paperwork that allegedly contained disparaging remarks about Ok-pop artists have since been leaked, sparking outrage from Ok-pop followers each domestically and internationally.
Amid the continuing controversy, SEVENTEEN vocalist Seungkwan has shared a message talking up for his group and fellow Ok-pop idols. “I don’t wish to see folks hurting one another anymore,” he wrote per Soompi. “I really feel that I can now not keep silent for all my colleagues who’re working onerous even at this second, my followers, my members, my people who find themselves getting damage.”
The singer wrote that whereas there are elements of being a star to be endured, he didn’t imagine that “it’s a job the place we’ve to endure to the purpose of self-destruction, getting damage till the brink of loss of life.”
“Now we have skilled sufficient ache, fallen aside, and in some way overcome it, placing in tenacious effort to indicate our greatest on stage for our followers,” he stated of SEVENTEEN and their friends within the Ok-pop business. “I hope folks don’t take idols calmly.”
“You don’t have the correct to simply intrude on our narrative. Not simply us, however different artists as properly, we aren’t your gadgets. I hope you don’t suppose you should utilize and luxuriate in us as you please,” Seungkwan continued.
He went on to specific his gratitude for the phrases of encouragement and interactions exchanged with different Ok-pop idols, including that they gave him power.
“I don’t wish to see my members, all my colleagues who’re working onerous proper now, the employees who’ve sincerely labored for us, and our followers getting damage anymore. To the followers who’re loving us warmly even at this second, I wish to say I’m sorry and I really like you,” he completed.
The singer additionally included a photograph of a handwritten letter from NMIXX member Haewon, which she despatched when the group gifted him their newest mini-album ‘Fe3O4: STICK OUT’. In it, she thanked him for his sincerity as a senior within the business, calling his music “a supply of motivation, empathy, recollections, and in addition consolation at instances”.
Seungkwan debuted in 2015 beneath Pledis Leisure as a part of SEVENTEEN. In 2020, HYBE Labels turned the bulk shareholder of Pledis Leisure and formally acquired the corporate. It now operates as an impartial label beneath HYBE.
