Under Fifth Teen CEO Seo Hye-jin's student ID barcode = sex trafficking? I don't know how to connect like that
Mar 25, 2025
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On the afternoon of the 25th, MBN held an emergency production briefing session for the entertainment program Under Fifteen at a hotel in Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul. CEO Seo Hye-jin of Crea Studios, CEO Hwang In-young, and producer Yong Seok-in attended the event. Producer Lee Kuk-yong, who was originally scheduled to attend, was absent due to health reasons.
CEO Seo Hye-jin said "I want to tell you that there was a huge misunderstanding. We'll show you 'Kakao Talk' first because you might say that we suddenly made up the evidence," he said, revealing the contents of his 'Katalk' conversation with the person in charge of SNS. Then "It's because it's a student ID concept. We thought this was a school. It is a school that fosters dreams and hopes, and I thought it was to meet a good teacher and expand their training. These days, the student ID includes a barcode and one's date of birth, but the date of birth cannot be put in. I just put my age in it. That's because it's a student ID concept, I already checked it when the picture was uploaded. Most of the students these days don't think this is how it is. I didn't know you would connect the barcode to the last name. I took down all the profiles because I was afraid the children would be hurt. I was very surprised by the new thumbnail. I was very surprised to hear you talk with your student ID as 'Sexile', 'Something sexual' of '9-year-old girl'. And I'm telling you that the designer is a woman, not all female workers in the media industry edit as you might think. There are 90 percent female workers. I think the fact that female workers think they will run out of adult population itself is a low view of female workers in the media business. So what we're trying to say is that we want you to recognize that everything from these designs to editing, to talking, to teaching dance, to dressing up, is done by women."
'Underpiptin' is an entertainment program that announced its first broadcast on the 31st, and it is the first generational audition to discover K-pop prodigies under the age of 15 in the world. It tells the story of 59 prodigies selected through global preliminary examinations over six months, regardless of race, nationality, and genre, among girls under the age of 15 in more than 70 countries around the world. However, the broadcast has been completely reviewed as a number of teenagers under the age of 15 appear, and four 9-year-old girl participants appear.
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