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In light of the recent scandal involving their company CEO, Jang Seok Woo, Open World Entertainment has issued an official statement about the media reports regarding his arrest, and it basically consists of damage control and threats.
The representatives of Open World Entertainment issued a message titled “Warning of Legal Action For Defamation of Character Due to False, Exaggerated Reports, and Interference of Work” to Korean media outlets:
2012.4.10 False reports and exaggerations (such as the number of victims being over 20) by a portion of the media reports about Open World Entertainment’s CEO Mr. Jang as well as the confiscation, investigation, and arrest. By releasing the real names and pictures of stars under the agency who have nothing to do with the suspicions concerning Mr. Jang, artists and the reputation of Open World Entertainment have been defamed, causing setbacks in work and loss.
Shedding light on such a situation, Open World Entertainment’s officials, all agency artists, and CEO Jang Suk Woo’s legal representative request the withdrawal of articles, and will take legal action against media outlets that do not issue out correction apology articles as well as the rest of the media outlets that have been blindly following the false, exaggerated reports, and will also make sure that there will be no reports defaming agency artists.
Oh, the number of victims was less than 20, so that makes it cool, yo.
Basically, this statement is full of empty threats towards the media and serves as a way to try to control the image of the ongoing investigation, but somehow I don’t think it’s going to work.
For starters, they aren’t a major company, so I doubt the media will give a shit about their threats. And yes, unfortunately that matters.
Furthermore, not sure about you, but if this is their rebuttal to the serious charges levied against their CEO, it doesn’t sound good. Shit, there isn’t even a half-hearted attempt at a denial in there.
At least they finally confirmed the name of the guy in question, even though anybody with Google could have figured that out from the initial release.
I do wonder what will happen if the accusations are not proven and he comes away with a not guilty verdict.
The news report states that police investigated the allegation for a month. The cops also stated they had strong evidence and sounded very confident. His “hobby” seems to be well known among Korean entertainment industry insiders…. I know the legal system over there is not like here, but I don’t think he just walks away.
Yeah… he seriously didn’t deny anything
‘he’ didnt issue the statement though. its not a personal thing, its on behalf of the company itself. although the whole thing about false claims could be taken as a denial.
Well maybe I should fix up my comment.. Nothing was denied about what was going on…
Generally speaking, innocent parties tend to vehemently deny the charges when in a press release.
I’m just curious of how this is going to panel out. The amount of evidence that is physical would waver a huge importance vs just testimony. There is a very large amount 20 people who are making claim.
I can already suspect Jang Seok Woo defense team is claim ‘conspiracy’ since is the CEO of this company. That this are false reports to get money than actual account of sexual misconduct and deviant behavior.
This shit is just so scandalous
The man has some balls, seeing the way he is expressing about this issue he’s hellla sure he is going to get away with it. I bet the ending of this shit is already written, let’s just sit and prepare ourselves for the indignation
Or he knows hes innocent. People are all assuming he is guilty.
Releasing a statement saying that the claim of the number of victims being over 20 is an “exaggeration”?
That’s the same thing as saying you’re guilty.
If you didn’t molest anyone, you wouldn’t claim that some number of victims is an “exaggeration”. You’d say “there are no victims!”.
You are ignoring the first part of the sentence. ‘False reports’.
This is not a personal statement by the CEO. It is a legal thing from the company itself. Of course their legal department isnt going to directly say ‘he didnt do it’, this isnt that kind of statement.
Dont read too much into this….
Well he just admitted to it.
They basically were just saying that the number of victims was high.
No, I didn’t ignore it.
“…False reports and exaggerations (such as the number of victims being over 20)…”
If the number of victims was more than zero, you wouldn’t call it an ‘exaggeration’. It would be simply a “false report”.
Notice it says false reports AND exaggerations – meaning that the “exaggerations” are not totally false.
Is there any trials or statements from the people he supposedly violated? Who is the actual person(s) that was involved? Are there any witnesses?
Ugh, I WANT TO KNOW MOAR!! >_<
If they had any confidentiality, we will never know who was involved and we shouldn’t.