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It will not be easy for 2PM member JaeBum, who has been criticised for his offending messages written on his MySpace page, to get out of the public eye and criticisms.
With that, JYP Entertainment has gone with the situation, and had decided accordingly not to have JaeBum appear in the media’s eye for the time being.
He will be put on a self-discipline period for the time being.
This will also have a significant effect for the group’s upcoming album to be release early-October. With that JYP’s representative said on 7th September, “For the time being, 2PM will not have any broadcast schedule, and all scheduled events will also be cancelled. But the recording for their album and dance practice will still continue accordingly.”JYP’s representative also said, “The messages which JaeBum wrote in 2005 on his own MySpace page is just an exaggeration to his friends back in the States. But because of the way and his language of expressing his ideas, he has received many disagreements and unhappiness from the mass public. Currently JaeBum is reflecting on his wrong in the dormitary and he is also skipping meals. He understands the magnitude of his mistake.”
Before this, many netizens are calling for him to be banned from broadcast shows and even from the group.
JYP’s stance:
Park Jinyoung, representative of JYP Entertainment, has spoken up about Jaebum’s future activities with 2PM. “Although, we feel very guilty and sorry for all the people who have been disappointed by Park Jaebum’s past mistakes, I will not be taking him out of the group. Many people have been suggesting ideas of banning Park Jaebum out of 2PM, but that will never happen. We believe that he has done something wrong, but as a whole, we do not think it is enough to be taking his dreams and goals away from him. This was not a decision made by only the JYPE staff, but it was something all of the fellow 2PM members have agreed to.”
This was long, but basically the lead guy of a big K-Pop group (2pm) is Korean-American. He got recruited to train for this group several years ago as a teenager, since K-Pop managements typically sign contracts with young kids before they are old enough to realize they are handing their lives over.
Anyway, when he first got to Korea, he hated it and had left posts on his friends’ Myspaces about how Korea is “gay” and whatever. Big deal, he was like 16. This week, though, crazy “netizens” as they are called here, found these posts and have been flipping their shit. People get really obsessive about Korean pop culture, so if someone messes up, or gets a girlfriend, or does anything to upset the public, they are screwed. So a ton of people are demanding that he get sent back to America, and dropped from the group. Even though just a few days ago, these same people were fawning over him.
There is also a such thing as an “anti-fan” in Asian pop. This isn’t just someone who dislikes a person or performer, but actually hates them and does what they can to bring them and their fans down. These people are all kinds of crazy.
I haven’t been reading too much on this Jae Bum situation, so I don’t know all the deets, but damn. I am glad I’m not famous in Korea.
