I am an extremely nosy person, and nothing drives me up the wall more than K-pop scandals that are so vague you’re left piecing things together like a nutty conspiracy theorist. I hate not knowing things, and K-pop companies are so good at giving us just enough information to be confused but not enough to actually understand what happened.
Are there any scandals you guys wish you could’ve witnessed firsthand—either because you’re just as nosey as me or because the situation made no sense and you need to know what actually went down?
For me, it’s Woojin leaving Stray Kids. It was so abrupt, and JYPE’s statement was basically just “he’s leaving, don’t ask questions.” Like… what happened??? The rumors afterward only made it messier, but to this day, I don’t feel like we ever got a real answer.
Also, Seunghan leaving RIIZE—or more like the entire timeline of that situation. I have tried to make sense of it from every angle, and it just doesn’t add up. Who puts a rookie on hiatus for 10 months, cuts him from all promotions and recordings, then doesn’t bring him back right before the one-year anniversary? If the plan was to reintegrate (and I say reintegrate because at that point it’s like adding a whole new member back into the group??), why did it take almost a year? If they originally planned to keep him, what changed? Like surely they were prepared for the backlash…? I need to understand the thought process behind this because the math is not mathing.
Whatever happened with HyunA and E’Dawn in Cube Entertainment’s offices the day they got kicked out. The way Cube went from “denying” the dating rumors to literally dropping them from the company in 24 hours is insane. Especially because from what I remember all universes (well me and my moots who ulted ptg) all were trying to play guess the Triple H member she was dating and when the news finally dropped I literally don’t think anybody gave a rats arse we were happy for them??? Literally “fork in a kitchen” moment so I was confused as to why CUBE would remove both of them when it was A) the highlight of Pentagon’s career with Shine taking over the charts B) everybody was loving Triple H and C) Literally not a single person that was actually a fan of pentagon cared?
For me, the one that keeps me up at night is X1’s disbandment. After the “Produce X 101” vote-rigging scandal, the group’s fate was uncertain to say the least. Despite not having officially signed their contracts, X1 was doing incredibly well—11 wins for a debut is almost unheard of. So, disbandment didn’t even cross my mind; maybe a contract shortening because the original contract was extremely long, and the members were kind of old? So the companies behind the trainees deciding to disband the group was WILD to me I guess they thought they’d see their own groups with these members reach that same level of success but we see with any post produce group they totally never do. The only group that really benefited from that disbandment was Victon and Cravity (and I can’t even say either companies did better or worse after debuting + establishing these groups because they didn’t lol)
But like, I want to know which companies were against continuing X1. Looking at the members now, it makes zero sense—none of them have done particularly well in music (except maybe Cravity, who are doing okay, but if you compare them to IVE, who have produce group members who were under the same circumstances there’s no real competition). Why disband X1, which had a solid fanbase, only to form new groups that struggle to gain traction? I need to understand the decision-making process behind this.
Also, I feel like this is the main reason why 4th gen was so… meh for boy groups. The only real frontrunners were TXT and X1 in 2019. After X1 disbanded, there was no real competition for TXT. Then all the boys re-debuted in different groups, but the market became so oversaturated. Fans were split on which groups to give their attention to, so I feel like none of them gained huge traction because of the split. And most of the former X1 boys were debuting with similar music styles—it was just too much. not to mention Covid lol
What about you guys? What K-pop scandals still haunt you because the details don’t make sense?
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