ZEROBASEONE’s Agency Takes Legal Action In Response To Threats Against Members

Jul 29, 2023

ZEROBASEONE’s agency WAKEONE Entertainment has taken legal action in response to threats against the group’s members.

On July 29, WAKEONE announced that it had filed criminal charges against multiple individuals who had written malicious posts threatening the ZEROBASEONE members.

The agency also warned that it would continue to take legal action against such malicious posts, as well as false rumors defaming the idols’ character, in the future as well.

WAKEONE’s full statement is as follows:

"Hello. This is WAKEONE.

We recently saw that there were multiple posts online and on social media threatening the personal security of our artist ZEROBASEONE.

We are letting you know that in order to protect our artist, we are taking the actions described below.

On July 27, we filed a criminal complaint through the law firm SHIN&KIM against the writers of the posts in question for making threats and violating the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc.

We are informing you in no uncertain terms that we will take strong legal action, using all available measures, in response to any words or deeds that cause fear or anxiety, including actions that could harm our artist’s personal security.

Additionally, we are regularly monitoring, reporting, and deleting malicious posts about our artists that include malicious libel, defamation of character, insults, and the spreading of falsehoods, and we are continuously taking legal action against such posts. We plan to respond firmly, without any settlements or leniency towards the suspects in question.

We ask that you continue to actively send reports to WAKEONE’s official email address, and we will do our utmost to protect the rights of our artist. Thank you."

Source: Soompi