Former AOA member Kwon Min-ah targeted Shin Ji-min again: “This doesn’t mean her sin is cleared”   

Kwon Min-ah, a former member of AOA, once again mentioned Shin Ji-min on her SNS. 

On Feb 9th, Kwon Min-ah posted a long post on her SNS, saying, “I wanted to answer this all at once.” Kwon Min-ah first uploaded a message from a fan. The fan said, “I didn’t come to attack, I came to ask. Why did you lie about what happened between you and Shin? I believed in what you said because empathy was my biggest reason. I hope you can be happy someday.”

In response, Kwon Min-ah said, “I will organize only the facts here,” adding, “The parts where I suffered, the parts where she told me to die, the swear words, violence, subtle harassment, and the fact that I was the only one being bullied in the team, all of those are true. That period was about 9 to 10 years,” stressing that her claim was not false.

She said, “It’s true that I cursed at them through messages after that, which was exactly as it was shown in the news articles,” adding, “I’ve been suffering for 10 years, and things have piled up and piled up so much that I just wanted to do anything. If such a crude act could be my revenge, if I could give her pain, I don’t care if I might become like her, I wanted to do it.”

“Because everyone in my family suffered from my several suicide attempts. There are so many lines in the transcript where she said ‘I’m sorry, but for me, who saw her expression and tone right there, it was never a true apology.” She added, “More than anything else, how could that woman, who insisted that she couldn’t remember, make a sincere apology? I’m not good at anything and I was foolish, but I don’t think that means all her sins are erased,” she said.

Kwon Min-ah said, “I’m in a good mental state right now. I’m doing so well. However, I wanted to organize this story properly.”

Kwon Min-ah made her debut as a member of AOA in 2012 and withdrew in 2019. Kwon later revealed that she had been bullied by other members for more than 10 years during her activities, sparking controversy. Kwon claimed that among them, Shin Ji-min, who was the team leader, intensively harassed her while the AOA members were bystanders. Shin Ji-min then announced, “I’m not good enough to lead the team, I was wrong. While I was looking at her with regret and guilt, I thought I didn’t understand Min-ah well and didn’t care about her enough,” before leaving the team in 2020 and stopped working in the entertainment industry.

Meanwhile, Kwon Min-ah announced on her SNS on Feb 8th, “If I open a YouTube channel in March, will you guys support me?” Attention is focusing on what Kwon Min-ah will share through her YouTube channel.

■ Below is the full post from Kwon Min-ah’s SNS”

Thank you. I wanted to answer this all at once. I’ll just summarize the facts. I’m not asking you who did more wrong, but I just want to tell you the truth.

First of all, I swear the parts where I suffered, the parts where she told me to die, the swear words, violence, subtle harassment, and the fact that I was the only one being bullied in the team, all of those are true. That period was about 9 to 10 years. It’s true that I cursed at them through messages after that, which was exactly as it was shown in the news articles.

I’ve been suffering for 10 years, and things have piled up and piled up so much that I just wanted to do anything. If such a crude act could be my revenge, if I could give her pain, I don’t care if I might become like her, I want to do it. Because everyone in my family hassuffered from my several suicide attempts.

There are so many lines in the transcript where she said ‘I’m sorry’, but for me, who saw her expression and tone right there, it was never a true apology. More than anything else, how could that woman, who insisted that she couldn’t remember, make a sincere apology? I’m not good at anything and I was foolish, but I don’t think that means all her sins are erased.

My mental state is okay right now. I’m doing just fine, but I just wanted to set the story straight. I’m sorry you guys have to read this. Thank you.