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Singer MC MONG has responded to allegations that he tried to recruit EXO's Baekhyun and Kai, calling them "intentional framing."
"I just put up with it, but you guys really are," MC Mong wrote on his Instagram story on January 18.
Earlier in the day, TenAsia reported that it had obtained a recording of MC Mong's comments about EXO's Baekhyun and Kai at a meeting with entertainment industry officials last January.
According to the report, MC Mong claimed that the exclusive contracts between EXO and SM Entertainment were unequal and said, "I really want to bring Kai and Baekhyun back. I'm working hard on it. That way, my brother will be the number one," he said.
Last month, EXO members Baekhyun, Xiumin, and Chen had a dispute with SM Entertainment over the termination of their contracts. At the time, SM speculated that the artists' sudden termination notices were due to the machinations of impure outside forces, and MC MONG was named as one of those "outside forces.
At the time, MC MONG emphasized, "I only have a personal relationship with Baekhyun as a senior member of the music industry, and I did not take any action to sign the artist in question using my personal relationship," and "I only comforted my junior member who was struggling with company problems when we met as part of a normal exchange, and I did not induce any illegal activities as stated by SM, nor was I in a position to do so."
On the 19th, Law Firm Gow (lead attorney Ko Yoon-ki), which is representing MC Mong, said, "We plan to strongly respond to Mr. Ahn's repeated acts of intimidation through the recordings he obtained in an illegal manner and some of the recordings he compiled and edited based on arbitrariness and malice, as well as his illegal second and third acts of intimidation that did not stop even after the police investigation and the prosecution opinion were sent."
According to FirmGow, the recordings are private conversations between MC Mong and acquaintances that were illegally recorded by Mr. An Mo (alias Jung Ho-Young) without the consent of the parties and then intentionally edited and stitched together as a means of blackmail.
"We express our deepest regret that the recording was used as an instrument of criminal activity and that the contents of the recording, which were edited with specific intent, are being disseminated and reported to multiple parties without any opportunity for rebuttal," said Law Firm Gow.
Mr. Ahn, who has been editing and distributing portions of the recording, was sent to prosecutors on Sunday with an opinion of intimidation, according to FirmGow.
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