Former Warner Music executive gives testimony about Ahn Sung Il, “He has never worked as Warner Music’s production director”
Following forgery of academic background allegations, The Givers CEO Ahn Sung Il is suspected of faking his job history.
On July 26th, A, a former executive at Warner Music Korea during the period that Ahn claimed to have worked there, said to Daily Sports, “Ahn Sung Il has never worked for Warner Music Korea. During the period he claimed to have worked at Warner Music Korea, I was in charge of album production, and I have never worked with him.”
On the world’s largest business-specialized website LinkedIn, which allows individuals to edit their own profiles, Ahn Sung Il wrote in his profile that he worked for Vitamin Entertainment from 2006 to 2007, and Warner Music Korea for about 4 years, from 2007 to 2011. However, former Warner Music Korea executive A during that period confirmed that he had never worked with Ahn Sung Il. Since A also moved from Vitamin Entertainment to Warner Music Korea, it’s possible that they could have worked together. Currently, Ahn Sung Il’s job history cannot be found on LinkedIn.
A clarified, “I was a senior at Vitamin Entertainment and later moved to Warner Music Korea. Even during that time, I was the only member of Warner Music. There was no one working alongside me”. Regarding Ahn Sung Il’s profile on portal sites with “Vitamin Entertainment’s production director” written on it, A insisted, “He has never worked as a production director at Vitamin Entertainment or Warner Music Korea. There is no producer contract with him”. A added, “When Vitamin Entertainment acquired J’s Enterprise and produced singer Rumble Fish. During that process, I received a recommendation for Rumble Fish’s song “Eurachacha” produced by Ahn Sung Il so I left the production to him as a short-term freelancer.”
Regarding A’s claim, Warner Music Korea revealed that all the records related to Ahn Sung Il were payments from Vitamin Entertainment in 2006. It was when Vitamin Entertainment was merged with Warner Music Korea. In this regard, Warner Music Korea explained, “We cannot find any records of payments to Ahn Sung Il as a member of Warner Music”.
In response to the claims made by A and Warner Music Korea, Ahn Sung Il’s side explained through Daily Sports that he worked as a contract director of production at Warner Music Korea for two years from 2007 to 2009. They stated that the current listing of Ahn Sung Il as a production director at Warner Brothers Korea on the portal site is a mistake, and it should have been listed as “Warner Music”. However, even after following Ahn Sung Il’s explanation, there is still a difference in the working period.
Earlier, CEO Ahn Sung Il was also suspected of forging academic background. Although The Givers announced their position, saying “We have confirmed the wrong parts regarding CEO Ahn Sung Il’s academic and career backgrounds, and will take corrective action”.
However, the controversy is expected to intensify as suspicions over Ahn Sung Il’s job history have been raised.
Meanwhile, Ahn Sung Il is the producer of the hit song “Cupid” by FIFTY FIFTY, the girl group that recently filed a lawsuit against their own company Attrakt to suspend their contract. Attrakt has sued Ahn Sung Il as they suspected him to be the mastermind behind the lawsuit.
Source: Naver
