Bullet Points: Beenzino stalked, Lee Sun Gyun blackmail sentences, BBGIRLS find new agency, Song Ji Eun & Jaekyung get married, donations & births galore, more

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Oh boy, almost three months worth of random news updates. Hell of a time.

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Beenzino filed a complaint against a woman in her 30s for repeatedly stalking him
Dabin (DPR LIVE) lost his lawsuit against Regime International over unpaid wages, also withdrew lawsuits against Dream Perfect Regime and Scott Kim in June
Baek Yerin’s ex (Cloud) accused her of verbal abuse and mistreatment
Lee Sun Gyun’s blackmailers were sentenced to 3 years and 6 months and 4 years and 2 months

Dabin’s problems were briefly mentioned back in February, if you want to catch up on that. For Baek Yerin’s case, it just adds on to the legal action Cloud had taken against her agency PLP (and her, basically). Not sure how that’s going to go, but neither her nor her agency has responded, though they were quick to issue a detailed statement on “plagiarism”. Lee Sun Gyun’s blackmail case seemingly wraps up with the sentencing, though I assume appeals will follow.

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Lee Hi reunites with former AOMG labelmates Code Kunst, Gray, and Woo Won Jae at the new agency the trio founded earlier this year. And speaking of the growing list of former AOMG artists, I wonder where Loco goes now. Jessi’s “controversy” was likely why she left, but it’s still a bit confusing to me unless they forced her out for some reason.

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Notably, Jo was one of the DXMON members that made an impression on me with their hairstyle. Speaking of THE NEW SIX, they changed their name back to TNX recently, dunno. The n.SSign members were on hiatus and the company says it was of their own will, but Eddie went on a rant calling everything about the group fake back in June.

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Moon Geun Young’s situation is crazy because she underwent four surgeries in 2017 due to acute compartment syndrome and was on the verge of needing amputation. The treatment for that is basically cutting the area open, so caring about her weight or whatever seems pointless as hell. For A.C.E’s Lee Donghun, that’s basically gallbladder inflammation, which can get serious in a hurry.

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Speaking of WINNER and the military, I’ll probably recap the MINO thing later.

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As usually seems typical, a lot of donations around the end of the year.

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Guess all that smoke around the marriage of T-ara‘s Jiyeon was indeed caused by a fire. Can only wish her the best. On Song Ji Eun and Park We … I find so much of the discourse around them weird, and it feels like everybody isn’t being outwardly ableist about it cause they know it’s not PC but really want to be ableist about it.

K-pop fans becoming openly ableist to "support" women is one of the weirdest things about the updates/judgments on their relationship. https://t.co/nfkf0D2e0T

— Asian Junkie (@asianjunkiecom) November 11, 2024

Anyway, the marriages of Jaekyung and Monika seemingly came out of nowhere, and there are a lot of celebrity births. For as much as people supposedly care about Korea’s birthrate (which surprisingly is trending up), I always find it interesting how class is danced around despite being a primary factor. Not as many easy clicks for that, I guess, but it’s rarely even alluded to.

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