SM Leisure has stepped up its efforts to guard its artists.
On October 2, SM Leisure launched an official assertion, offering an replace on ongoing authorized motion towards malicious posts and feedback. The corporate additionally reaffirmed its sturdy dedication to safeguarding the rights and pursuits of its artists.
Hi there, that is SM Leisure.
We want to present an replace on the authorized actions taken towards the unfold of malicious posts and feedback involving our artists, together with the dissemination of false data, defamation, sexual harassment, deepfakes, private assaults, insults, and invasion of privateness.
Along with the lawsuits already in progress, we now have completely reviewed a whole lot of 1000’s of posts and hooked up supplies collected by means of our personal ongoing monitoring efforts and useful reviews submitted by followers by way of ‘KWANGYA 119’. Based mostly on this overview, we now have filed complaints with investigative authorities for over 200 confirmed felony circumstances as of September 30, 2025, in cooperation with Shin & Kim LLC.
The method of reviewing posts for lawsuits, together with subsequent investigations, trials, and the supply of outcomes, can take a substantial period of time relying on the case. Through the investigation stage, it’s typically tough to share particular particulars in real-time, and even when such data turns into accessible, we ask to your understanding that we could not be capable of disclose it intimately to keep away from interfering with the investigations. Nonetheless, we’ll present common or irregular updates on every case as quickly as it’s applicable to take action.
Moreover, we prioritize defending the rights and pursuits of our artists, together with Kangta, BoA, TVXQ, Tremendous Junior, Ladies’ Technology, SHINee, EXO, Pink Velvet, NCT 127, NCT DREAM, WayV, aespa, RIIZE, NCT WISH, Hearts2Hearts, Lucas, and Seunghan. We proceed to gather proof from home and worldwide platforms the place malicious posts and feedback are being unfold, comparable to Naver, Daum Cafes, Nate Pann, TheQoo, Instiz, MLB Park, X (previously Twitter), DC Inside, Instagram, Fb, TikTok, YouTube, FM Korea, and others. For all extra incidents that clearly represent unlawful actions inflicting important bodily and emotional hurt to our artists, we’ll take sturdy civil and felony authorized motion with none leniency or settlement. We urge everybody to keep away from turning into concerned in such inappropriate conduct.
We sincerely thank our followers for his or her invaluable reviews, and we’ll proceed to do our utmost to guard the rights and pursuits of our artists in all features. We ask to your continued curiosity and cooperation.
Thanks.
