With a loan of 6.1 billion...Hwang Young-woong responds legally to defamation controversy over billions of dollars in sponsorship
Jul 21, 2025
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SBS 'Curious Story Y', which aired on the 18th, dealt with suspicions of sponsorship by Hwang Young-woong's fan club.
Hwang Young-woong was likely to win the MBN 'Burning Trotman', but it was revealed that he had previous injuries. Later, Hwang Young-woong issued an apology, but expressed his unfairness, saying there was something different from the truth, but the controversy intensified as additional allegations of military assault, school violence, and dating violence were raised, and Hwang Young-woong eventually dropped out of the competition. He returned to the stage after six months of short self-reflection.
As a result, fans jointly purchased the album. As a result, 1.5 billion won in public funds were collected in four days and 6.1 billion won in a month. As a result, Hwang Young-woong's first mini album 'Autumn, Longing' exceeded 500,000 initial sales.
A, a woman who identified herself as a fan of Hwang Young-woong, said on the show that "Some people bought albums by borrowing money or selling wedding rings." There are also people who bought it for basic living expenses."
The joint purchase was a voluntary action by fans, but controversy began when the details of the fundraising bank account transaction were leaked. Fans claimed that 1 million won was withdrawn six times a day from the end of August 2023, and more than 120 million won was withdrawn in 22 days.
The fan cafe's general manager, who managed the bank account at the time, said "In accordance with the fans' opinion to withdraw the album's joint purchase amount and deliver it in cash for Hwang Young-woong, we withdrew the fundraising amount from regional bank accounts and delivered it in cash to the singer."
Fans also raised suspicions that Hwang Young-woong rented a vehicle under the fan's name and paid for it, but the settlement details were not transparently opened.
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But other singers' situations were different. Trot singer managers are saying, `It's ridiculous to get cash. They returned cash even if it was received, and they never received hundreds of millions of dollars." Another trot singer fan cafe manager said "The basic amount, deposit and withdrawal details, withdrawal evidence, and final amount are important among the accounting data. But it doesn't make sense that there is no evidence of expenditure such as receipts", he pointed out.
As the controversy arose after the broadcast, Hwang Young-woong's legal representative jumped to the law office on the 20th "The withdrawal details were a normal procedure for delivering donations. For some amounts, gift tax returns and payments have been officially completed. The Central Secretary made the settlement clearly and confirmed that there was no problem after a review by a tax expert" he said.
"The details pointed out in the broadcast are partially excerpted and edited from this entire process," he said. "We are very sorry for the loss of the honor of 58,000 fan cafe members." It is very regrettable that there is not enough opportunity to object before the broadcast. We plan to take legal action in the future, including filing a complaint with the Media Arbitration Commission, filing a civil and criminal complaint against SBS and its informants, and requesting a corrective report on distorted reports that defame the agency and its fans.
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