Source Music releases statement about Garam's bullying scandal, announces hiatus

[goshipgurl]

HYBE has announced their position over victim A (Yoo Eun-seo)'s bullying claims.

On the 20th, Le Sserafim's agency Source Music issued an official statement and claimed Kim Garam was a victim of A's bullying and physical assaults and declared a halt to all of Garam's activities.

Below is the full text of HYBE/Source Music's position:

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[goshipgurl]

I didn't add it to the post but there's also a new post on pann with someone claiming to be a former school mate of Garam. He or she didn't provide any proof though.

[Spoiler (click to open)]I'm a school colleague of Kim Garam. Kim Garam asked me to join the dance club, so I had no other choice but followed her. There were two students from the first year in the club. There was this girl, H, who did some movement wrong. She was told, 'H-ah, if you're only going to do this wrong and harm the other teammates, just leave~ We can pick out some new members anyway' and the other teammates laughed at her. When H apologized, she was told, 'What are you sorry for?~ We're just kidding' some kind of bullshit. Kim Garam often ruined the mood of the club. There was one time the dance club was about to participate in a festival, we didn't have much time to practice so one of the members thought it was a great idea to practice 4 times a week. Kim Garam responded, 'Who allows you? It's not a big festival anyway' as if she was the head of the club. I was about to say

[aures]

Thank you OP for adding these

[greasetastic_x]

Not going to comment on these statements exactly but Source/hybe whoever the heck really fumbled this whole thing from the beginning. Had they just made her "reflect" and join promo later or whatever i dont think this would have grown to the extent it has now. I understand wanting to protect your idol but like this is harming the other members and it certainly isnt protecting Garam in any way. Get a new PR team

[nudrive]

Tbf ignoring stuff has worked for their other groups lol

[greasetastic_x]

Completely agree it has worked for their other groups. But their other groups have been men. And the world tends to work in men's favor. Especially when theyve already amassed a fanbase

[accioanime]

considering that all of these came out BEFORE the debut, they still could have pulled her out, maybe add her way later. It really overshadowed their debut in some ways because if you search them, this comes out. Ignoring would have worked if they were already a more established group, and as some users pointed out, if they were men.

[nekobot]

They may be completely incapable of replicating even a fraction of BTS' success but at least they can sleep well at night knowing they're still number one at ruining promising talented girl groups via male incompetence.

[goshipgurl]

Giving YG a run for their money

[nekobot]

The truck to take away all of their hard disks will be rolling into the school parking lot any second now

[aures]

the situation is quite serious but i snorted so hard reading this. high five.

[jaequeeragenda]

the post on netizenbuzz with ppl on this commitee talking its rare and scale 1-3 is considered minor violence...O_O; like...eeeesh

i dont know what she actually did, i stopped at the bully and I didn't wanna read into the details* i mean, but if this commitee thing is valid and she really got a super high ruling for violence then yikessss D;

[digitalqueens]

now even the ministry of education got involved.