JYP Entertainment will be inquiring for a reinvestigation into the case in opposition to the individual who accused ITZY’s Lia of school violence.
Back in February, one of Lia’s middle college classmates (hereafter called “A”) uploaded a post on an online community claiming to have been a sufferer of school violence. A wrote that a “famous woman idol born in 2000” had borrowed cash from a classmate without returning it, had spoken badly of her to different college students, and had made her and others outcasts for no cause.
When the put-up was uploaded, JYP Entertainment replied by stating that they’d already filed a match against A for defamation and that investigation had been ongoing. Earlier this week, Incheon Yeonsu Police Station found out that A had ultimately been cleared of her defamation fees, explaining that there has been inadequate proof to prove that the claims made within the post were false.
On June 15, JYP Entertainment launched an in-depth announcement saying their plans to request a reinvestigation into the case against A. The organization additionally emphasized that even as the police had dropped the expenses in opposition to A “because they did now not have evidence that the posts had been false.
The police further stated that “they were not noticing that the posts were genuine [meaning] their choice no longer to ahead the case to the prosecution did not imply they had been confirming that Lia had participated in faculty violence.”
The business enterprise’s complete statement is as follows: This is JYP Entertainment. We are informing you of our organization’s position at the case related to our artist ITZY’s Lia that turned into recently said in the media.
- When we first recorded a suit against [the individual in question], we have been now not submitting a claim in opposition to a sufferer of school violence, however a suit towards posts and remarks that we decided to be malicious, like the ones beneath.
The preceding posts were uploaded on online communities over the years, beginning from 2018. It became impossible for us to recognize who become posting them and have not concrete complaints about struggling faculty violence.
Using fanatics’ reports and our habitual tracking of posts as a foundation, our employer currently has a gadget of frequently taking legal action in opposition to malicious online posts. Under that system, we also took criminal motion in opposition to the above commands in December 2020.