{"id":282515,"date":"2025-11-14T12:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282515\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:11:09","slug":"le-sserafims-agency-warns-it-will-take-legal-action-against-malicious-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282515\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Sserafim&#8217;s agency warns it will take legal action against &#8216;malicious posts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Girl group Le Sserafim [SOURCE MUSIC]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cef150f9-16ed-41f2-aa3d-6cb6593f4b7b.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Girl group Le Sserafim [SOURCE MUSIC]<\/p>\n<p>                      \u00a0  <br \/>   Source Music, a K-pop agency under HYBE managing girl group Le Sserafim, issued a warning that it will take legal action in response to \u201ca sharp surge of malicious posts\u201d on Friday.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   The official statement comes as online debates and fan wars intensify following NewJeans\u2019 return to ADOR, another HYBE label.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   \u201cWe have confirmed a recent sharp surge in malicious online posts targeting Le Sserafim and individual members, including slander, ridicule and spreading of false information,\u201d Source Music said in the statement posted on its fan community Weverse.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>                                                           <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Girl group NewJeans [ADOR]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c58e8953-4c48-4a4f-ba05-5788033ca923.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Girl group NewJeans [ADOR]<\/p>\n<p>                      \u00a0  <br \/>   \u201cWe have been taking both regular and ad hoc legal actions against malicious posts online,\u201d the label continued. \u201cIn particular, acts of damaging the artists\u2019 reputation by presenting inaccurate information or rumors constitute a clear illegal act.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   The label vowed to \u201cpursue criminal proceedings without settlement or leniency under any circumstances to hold wrongdoers legally accountable to the fullest extent.\u201d  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>                                                           <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Girl group Le Sserafim [SOURCE MUSIC] \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/404b653c-3531-4eed-a78f-511a9c532c15.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Girl group Le Sserafim [SOURCE MUSIC] <\/p>\n<p>                      \u00a0  <br \/>   The warning follows the announcement Wednesday by NewJeans members that they would return to their estranged agency, ADOR, after a nearly yearlong feud.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Online animosity between some Le Sserafim and NewJeans fans dates back to April last year, when former ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin, who had created and led NewJeans, accused HYBE of sidelining NewJeans to promote Le Sserafim.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   During her bombshell press conference on April 25, Min mentioned two certain members of Le Sserafim as being \u201cthe reason that NewJeans\u2019 debut was pushed back\u201d while also claiming that another HYBE girl group ILLIT was a \u201cNewJeans copycat.\u201d  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>                                                           <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Min Hee-jin, former CEO of NewJeans' agency ADOR and the girl group's producer, at a press conference on April 25, 2024, in southern Seoul [YONHAP]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8d6fd618-b529-415f-b654-113a82167aa3.jpg\"\/>                                              <\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Min Hee-jin, former CEO of NewJeans&#8217; agency ADOR and the girl group&#8217;s producer, at a press conference on April 25, 2024, in southern Seoul [YONHAP]<\/p>\n<p>                      \u00a0  <br \/>   Le Sserafim fans staged a protest campaign on Friday, displaying signs such as \u201cSeparate real victim Le Sserafim from real perpetrators,\u201d referring to NewJeans, and \u201cTaking anger out on Le Sserafim for the debut delayed by the CEO? That\u2019s real workplace bullying,\u201d on trucks parked outside HYBE\u2019s headquarters building in central Seoul.  <br \/>   \u00a0  <br \/>   Le Sserafim debuted in May 2022, under HYBE\u2019s Source Music, and NewJeans debuted two months later under ADOR.  <\/p>\n<p>BY SHIN HA-NEE   [<a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"a8dbc0c1c686c0c9c6cdcde8c2c7c7c6cfc9c6cf86cbc786c3da\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Girl group Le Sserafim [SOURCE MUSIC] \u00a0 Source Music, a K-pop agency under HYBE managing girl group Le&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-282515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}