Pledis Takes Legal Action Against Privacy Breaches Targeting SEVENTEEN
Mar 17, 2025
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On the 17th, the agency officially informed the progress of legal action against artists through the fan community platform. We are suing for various types of misconduct, including leakage of undisclosed information, malicious comments, defamation, and invasion of privacy, especially regarding excessive haters. "There is no agreement or preference." made the position clear.
In addition, an airline employee who illegally leaked artist ticket information has recently been criminally booked, and additional complaints are continuing on charges of violating the Stalking Punishment Act. To protect fans and artists, we plan to continue our strong response.
Pledis Entertainment said it was responding to the leakage of undisclosed information on artists, adding that "We have been doing our best internally and externally to protect information on artists' activities as a secret, but we have determined that the leakage has exceeded the level that can be overlooked since a certain point."The company began to work on evidence for legal measures such as criminal complaints, and appointed a law firm in the second half of last year to proceed with the criminal complaint process, and the investigation into the complaint is currently being conducted through an investigative agency." he said.
Regarding responding to malicious posts such as defamation and insults "We are steadily collecting malicious posts and comments such as personal attacks, false facts and slander, and sexual harassment through fan reports and self-monitoring.""We included all those who wrote posts that went overboard, ridiculed, personal attacks and sexual harassment against artists, baseless rumors and privacy violations, and filed a complaint with the investigative agency based on this."," he said.
In addition, Pledis Entertainment said, "An airline employee who recently illegally sold an artist's flight ticket boarding information was criminally charged with violating the Information and Communication Network Act after investigation, and also filed a complaint for violating the law on the punishment of stalking crimes (Stalking Punishment Act)."
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