JYP Leisure points assertion on invasion of Stray Children’ privateness
JYP Leisure, the company behind Stray Children, has introduced plans to take “civil and legal measures” towards people invading the group’s privateness.
In a statement posted to the group’s fancafe earlier today (November 11), the administration company defined that members of Stray Children have continued to face repeated conditions of privateness invasion, regardless of “a number of earlier bulletins” issued by JYP Leisure relating to this problem.
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“[S]erious psychological and bodily misery is being skilled not solely by the artist, but additionally their neighbours who stay in the identical constructing,” JYP Leisure mentioned of the impact the privateness invasion instances have had on the group.
To keep away from future incidents, JYP Leisure introduced that CCTV footage of individuals following the group’s members to their dorm room has been gathered and forwarded to the police, and that “all doable civil and legal measures accessible” shall be taken towards people caught stalking the group’s members sooner or later, citing South Korea’s stalking-related legal guidelines.
The assertion added that anybody caught stalking Stray Children can even be blacklisted from the group’s fanclub actions.
“We notify you that we proceed to don’t have any intention of reaching a settlement or displaying leniency in such instances,” the administration company wrote of their assertion. “JYPE will proceed to work tougher for our artist’s security and the safety of their rights.”
This isn’t the primary time JYP Leisure has issued a warning towards folks invading Stray Children’ privateness. In 2020, the administration company released a list of acts considered “definite stalking and not affection”, which included following the group’s members throughout their private time and trying to go to the members’ non-public areas.
A follow-up statement in 2021 added JYP Leisure’s plans to file legal complaints as soon as CCTV proof of people stalking the group’s members has been collated and forwarded to the police.