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Essentially some of the reporters didn't do their job right. The job of a reporter(as opposed to a gossip writer) should be to give us news which is as truthful as possible, and a key part in their process should be fact checking. Without fact checking anyone could say anything and then they will just write it up. Then as consumers of news we would be making poor decisions due being mislead by those reports. Translation sites such as allkpop should also be responsible for their articles/translations, particularly for these delicate issues. Understanding that they(allkpop) may not be the original publishers of those articles, they should at least stress the nature of these articles as rumors. (I tend to check allkpop for kpop news so I can only talk about them) As human beings we can (sometimes) easily jump to conclusions. This is (I suppose) the danger of emotions. As many might know we make decisions based on what we currently know, so obviously the more we read the better educated we are on the issue, but depending on what we read this may also cloud our judgment. So all those netizens out there who have jumped to conclusions and tried to find their own evidence by manipulating facts that are taken out of context should take a step back and breathe again, especially as most of the storm appears to be over. Now on a side note, about this T-Jinyo group. I don't know how they will go about their protest, but bullying may or may not be the serious within T-ara. The obvious issue to me is management, and in particular the ceo. Little squabbles can be dealt with in private. But letting their issue, which according to the ceo is Hwayoung's refusal to go on stage, then appear to be or be interpreted by the public as bullying is hard to deal with.

Yes and in english no doubt.

So he knows staff are underpaid yet he doesn't do anything about it? I just can't stress how bad that sounds. Splashing out money for a new group without paying the staff of the current one, that's just silly. I mean didn't the new group even get a cf offer or something and turned it down? Just silly. Right now it's hard to take anything seriously with so many contradictions. I feel like (and I'm sure that many others do as well) that unless the girls come out and clear things up themselves it will never feel resolved. Just about everything points to poor management. Going back to earlier in the year when they released a statement about things like member changes, complacency, threat of member change and such. He knew these things might happen and it appears he prepared for this early on. -a quote from Allkpop article Apr 5, 2012 CCM's Kim Kwang Soo releases official statement regarding T-ara's member additions "He continued, “We will try even harder to make sure that no controversy arises from their greetings or attitude. If there is a member within T-ara who does not work hard and becomes full of herself, and as a result causes harm to other members, I will decisively exchange that member in question with a new member. That is the way that T-ara can go from being just Korea’s T-ara to a group that goes beyond Asia to stand at the center of K-Pop.”" edit: after looking at this article's title once more "CEO Kim Kwangsoo, "Hwayoung brought this upon herself"" I can't help but feel bad after quoting the above.

If T-ara do attend the concert tomorrow and a large number of fans turn out and support the group, maybe it will help turn things around. Lets be honest the members aren't bad it just comes down to bad management. People make mistakes and it's the people around them that can help fix those mistakes. We don't know if their agency gave Hwayoung or the group a chance to fix their her mistakes. I feel like maybe she got pushed into a corner and finally couldn't handle it anymore. Showing support and trust in someone can take you far in an industry where experience matters. Even if someone were to start out as a gifted individual, without improvement/practice/growth how can you expect to last.

Now I don't know what's true and what is not from all these claims of bullying. But if it is, T-ara(as a group of individuals) should come out and directly apologize to Hwayoung. This can naturally be done only if bullying is at the core of this issue. It would mean having to possibly step over/across their agency and the ceo in order to do so. But in the end this could be interpreted as a publicity stunt which then the clearest way to solve this is maybe to leave the company altogether. Only this will save T-ara. This is how I see it.

I'm seriously confused. From the articles I've read it's hard to believe it, there must be a bigger underlying reason for her being forced out. I just wish the ceo could've just said something more believable. This looks like poor management. It's hard to say anymore. (and I really can't until the people involved tell us more)

Now I don't actually know much about this. I've only read a few articles about it but "avoid disruption" and "big announcement" don't go well together, a big announcement usually means big disruption. Someone is going to get seriously reprimanded if not privately, then publicly (i.e. kick someone out). From the twitter translations I personally don't understand it and why that has caused such a big issue. If it had been just a misunderstanding they should've come out immediately and said so, but it's already been a few days. Maybe the announcement might clear things up.

Wow nice article. I was reading and reading, then it came to a picture and I thought it would stop, but it just kept going. Thank you I really enjoyed it.