Seventeen perform on the Pyramid Stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, in Pilton near Glastonbury, Somerset, Britain, June 28, 2024.OAKLAND, California - South Korean boy band Seventeen had fans chanting their names in Oakland, California last week as part of their “Right Here” world tour to promote the group’s 2024 album “17 Is Right Here."
An internal document that circulated among company executives, including HYBE Chairman Bang Si-hyuk, containing disparaging comments about several of its K-pop groups was disclosed during a National Assembly audit on Oct. 24 by the South Korean National Assembly’s Culture, Sports, and Tourism Committee.In the document, some K-pop groups, including Seventeen, were criticized for being "unattractive" and having "too much plastic surgery.
“You support a group, and their own company is not keeping them in mind and wanting to protect them, and being on their side,” she added."I'm just trying to have my focus and on the members, not a big huge conglomerate," she said. “I extend a formal apology to all external artists mentioned in the document,” Jaesang wrote in Korean.
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