Since the internal conflict broke out between hybe Entertainment and its subsidiary ador, bad things can be said to have happened one after another. Many of its idol groups are suspected of falling into cults. The storm has not yet passed. The leader of the group is BTS (Bulletproof Youth League) 5 On the 2nd, it was revealed that the suspected falsification of music chart results was reported by the public. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the relevant administrative agency of South Korea, will launch an investigation into this matter. After the news came out, it immediately aroused heated discussion on the Korean Internet. Some netizens even bluntly said : "What a shame!"
For those who don't know about BTS's suspected fraud in buying charts, the editor will first do some popular science. A, who was once mobilized to participate in bts online marketing, after the company he ran faced financial difficulties, in January 2017, he leaked an email pretending to be a hacker and told bts's agency company "I have evidence of your illegal marketing. If you don't If given money, the relevant information will be distributed to the media "", and he has extorted 57 million from the other party eight times. After the news of
was exposed, some people asked whether BTS had committed illegal marketing activities such as music hoarding. At that time, BTS's company stated that "the unfair marketing activities mentioned in the prisoner's threats were the prisoners' unilateral claims, and the expedient measures were typical Internet viral marketing. A's claim was consistent with the agreement signed between A and the company at that time." The content of the advertising agency has nothing to do with it. The amount of the loss was caused by the person in charge trying to resolve the matter in his own name in order to protect the image of the artist. "
After the "Min Fang Dispute" broke out last month, this old matter was brought up again, because According to the verdict exposed by the relevant suspects, "illegal marketing" and other behaviors were clearly shown, which also aroused the resentment of a large number of Korean people. Hybe Entertainment has also clarified the matter many times, but in this section of the suspect's verdict Given the amount of evidence, it did not play any role.
At a time when public opinion was boiling, Mr. A, a Korean citizen, filed a complaint with the government department and said, "According to the verdict of the extortion case in January 2017, the court accepted the criminal suspect's confession during the investigation. That is, 'Using the music chart of the artist he belongs to' Manipulation through chart-buying and other means,' although this was different from the position stated by the agency at the time." and a also emphasized that although according to the relevant laws of the music industry, the statute of limitations for prosecution had expired, but in order to promote For the development of culture and art, the establishment of a fair market, the cultivation of a healthy album circulation culture, and the establishment of related order, it is necessary to restore the truth of the incident, and we strongly urge the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to conduct a thorough investigation into this matter.
In addition, A also gave an example of the fact that BTS album sales in 2016 were more than twice as low as EXO album sales, but they won the Album of the Year award in the Melon Music Awards voting. After the relevant news was exposed, a relevant person from the Ministry of Culture and Sports revealed : "We have received correct information regarding complaints about BTS music source purchase charts. After our subsidiary Korea Cultural Industry Promotion Agency gets the relevant complaints, we will start investigation."
After the news was exposed, hybe Entertainment once again reiterated its earlier claims and emphasized that "some of the illegal marketing suspicions related to the judgment are completely fabricated, and our company will severely deal with malicious slander and rumors." A large number of Korean netizens left messages saying that is "what a shame", "this verdict is the most accurate anyway", "the government has come out", "isn't this a complaint from exo fans", "how do they investigate what happened nearly 10 years ago" Things like " and so on.
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