On Monday, a Seoul Southern District Court judge ordered the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) to issue an on-air retraction of statements made last year by Jong Junhyung of the K-pop boy band BEAST, on the KBS2 TV program "Win Win," that the CEO of his previous record label broke a bottle and brandished it to intimidate the star.
The court ordered the network to issue two on-air statements refuting Junhyung's claim XING Entertainment CEO Kim Kyeong Ok took him to a bar with the purpose of threatening him so he wouldn't challenge what the BEAST rapper referred to as a 10-year "slave contract."
"KBS needs to broadcast a refuting report ahead of their programs 'Cool Kiz on the Block' and 'Entertainment Weekly' letting people know 'there is no truth to Junhyung's claim that his previous agency's president threatened him with a broken bottle,'" read the Seoul Southern District Court decision, according to the publication Chosun Ilbo.
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The court decision was the result of lawsuits Kim filed against KBS and Junhyung for slander.
The 23-year-old star was signed to XING Entertainment before joining BEAST. Junhyung was in the band Xing with with U-KISS Kevin Woo, and performing under the stage name Poppin' Dragon.
Woo's contract, also a 10-year agreement, was thrown out by a Seoul Court back in 2010 for being unfair, according to the website allkpop.
Yet, when Junhyung attempted to leave XING Entertainment a couple years earlier to seek out more enriching career options elsewhere, Kim wasn't ready to let that happen.
"After mentioning that I wanted to quit, I was called to a bar where the CEO was," the BEAST band member said in the now infamous "Win Win" interview.
"He held a broken bottle and asked, 'do you want to leave or not?'"
KBS executives are fighting the court-mandated apology, according to the publication My Daily.
"KBS has appealed the court's decision," read an official network statement following Monday's decision.
"In the first trial, it had been confirmed that Junhyung's remarks could not be seen as a false accusation. In addition, it had been judged that KBS was not the subject of the refuting report."
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