LE SSERAFIM complains of damage due to hateful comments and announces plans to respond strongly through legal proceedings.
On June 29th, LE SSERAFIM’s agency Source Music released a notice on Weverse, saying “Our company regularly initiates legal proceedings against perpetrators of malicious activities related to LE SSERAFIM, including defamation, personal attacks, sexual harassment, the spread of groundless information, and ill-intentioned criticism”, adding “We would like to provide an update on these activities.”
The agency continued, “To strengthen the protection of artist rights, we have recently upgraded the system we use to monitor and collect evidence of malicious postings in real time. We have filed several criminal complaints with law enforcement agencies against the authors and disseminators of malicious postings, based on evidence submitted by our fans as well as collected through our internal monitoring system”.
Source Music emphasized, “In the criminal complaints, we included postings and comments involving sexual harassment on the account of their violation of Obscene Acts by Using Means of Communication. We also recognize the gravity of malicious acts involving the creation and dissemination of digitally manipulated explicit materials incorporating the artists’ photographs, which we are addressing via legal measures“.
“We would like to inform you that we will continue to take strong legal measures against malicious postings that violate our artists’ rights”, adding “Our policy of no settlement and no leniency under any circumstances during the legal proceedings against such invasion of artists’ rights remains in effect“, they stated.
Lastly, the agency said, “We will regularly collect information on malicious postings regarding LE SSERAFIM, report them to the authorities and take legal action. We ask that our fans make continued use of our hotline to report any cases of abuse.”
This is not the first time Source Music has filed a complaint against haters. On August 10th last year, the agency posted a similar notice on Weverse, announcing their plan to sue various malicious commenters.
LE SSERAFIM is a girl group under Source Music, a label of HYBE, that consists of five members, including Sakura, Kim Chae Won, Huh Yun Jin, Kazuha, and Hong Eun Chae. In May last year, the group made their debut by releasing the first mini album “FEARLESS”.
Source: Wikitree
