Woollim Entertainment Responds to Tasty's Plans to Halt Activities

[tsubaki874.livejournal.com]

The Chinese duo Tasty, who debuted in the K-pop scene in 2012 under Woollim Entertainment, have announced that they will not be continuing their activities in Korea.

Tasty is composed of twins Daeryong and Soryong, who most recently dropped their digital single entitled “Addiction” in August 2014.

On July 15, the duo posted a statement on their official Weibo. “Hello, this is Daeryong and Soryong,” they say. “We’re announcing that after eight years, our time in Korea is coming to an end. There were many things that we could not negotiate with our company, and after much consideration we have come to this decision.”

They add, “Although our time in Korea is ending, we won’t stop making music.”

On July 16, a representative from Woollim Entertainment responded. “We have been working hard to support Tasty’s various activities and fulfill our joint goals,” they say. “We completed recording a new song with the goal of Tasty staging a simultaneous Korean and Chinese comeback in June, but then we confirmed that Daeryong and Soryong had suddenly left for China without notice. After that, they cut off all communications with the agency.”

“We have seen their social media posting,” the representative continues. “But we still don’t think that this is the worst-case scenario. We’re currently waiting to hear from Daeryong and Soryong.”

Source: Soompi, XSportsNews, StarNews

Comments

[jrt131n.livejournal.com]

Its amazing that these companies have lasted this long...it really is. If its SM, they don't every know whats going on and they got to check with Frida and them to see what's up, and with other companies they either they don't know how to manage more then one group or they start managing but then forget they even exist.

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

Yeah right. They didn't do jackshit for Tasty their entire stay in Korea.

[tsubaki874.livejournal.com]

After that, they cut off all communications with the agency.
Woollim dumped them in the basement so fast I'm surprised they even noticed they left

[fabulousdoll.livejournal.com]

¡Qué turbio está el tema!
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[angela-derp-otp.livejournal.com]

"This is so messy" its a good translation albeit not literal lol.

pero si, estas companias son un desastre total tbh.

[froggster.livejournal.com]

'We’re currently waiting to hear from Daeryong and Soryong' what an SM thing to say lmao.

speaking of artists forgotten by their company; anybody remember Cube's solo singer Roh Ji Hoon? aka crotch-wedgie dance guy. (his last self written song was pretty good)

[genesisgrey.livejournal.com]

I remember! What did happen to him...

[sayuridoll.livejournal.com]

this sounds like something SM would say lmaoooo

[tree-star123.livejournal.com]

Idk why they gotta be like this. Just let them go, it's not like you actually had plans for them... Netizen's xenophobia is all over this. But they are Korean... Chinese born Korean right?

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

eh... i don't know how tasty members identify themselves but most korean chinese identify as chinese and koreans view them chinese.

if anything i feel like koreans' xenophobia against korean chinese is worse than towards native chinese - it's comparable to how americans view the illegal immigrants and it only got worse with some notable crimes committed by oh won chun and other korean chinese.

[torontok.livejournal.com]

Tasty had such potential. Twins who are fluent in Korean and Mandarin, good looking, passable talent.But Woolim did jack at all for them. Woolim needs to get their shit together, their roster isn't all that big to begin with and Infinite is their current cash cow who's army deadline will be approaching soon enough.
And idk if we can blame that statement on SM, Woolim;s always had terrible PR lol

[tsubaki874.livejournal.com]

They were also fluent in English and very familiar with NY/LA so there could've been promotions potential in the Western areas too

[atopworld.livejournal.com]

Lol SMCC, that you?

[millie (from livejournal.com)]

my thoughts exactly...

[springsky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't believe them. They didn't do anything for those kids.

[miuratenshi.livejournal.com]

Woolim already denying everything. SM would be proud at how quickly they grasped their marketing strategies.

[ultimaaa.livejournal.com]

Looooooool okay.

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

They are tired of your shit Woolim (and SM C&C that is clearly your PR)

Good luck in China

[angela-derp-otp.livejournal.com]

And this just confirms the fact that Woolin is being managed by SME

lmao messy PR, messy statement tbh.

[hearttaek.livejournal.com]

Woollim is a fave among kpop fans when asked to choose which company is the best. I wonder if this will affect that image. Well, probably not since Tasty are "Chinese traitors" rme

[mlmello.livejournal.com]

I can't understand why. kpop fans must confuse infinite's image with woolim, idk...

the company completely threw tablo to the wolves while he was fighting against crazy people, but maybe kpop fans are too young to remember this.

[ari-meh.livejournal.com]

mess.

i wonder if they have anything planned in beijing, wouldn't mind shelling some of my scholarship to watch their handsome faces.
(although i always run from anything kpop related over here because chinese fans.... are scary.)

[missingmisnomer.livejournal.com]

how are they scary?

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

even being left by their artist, like SM /slow clap/ good job, woollim

[tsuyoi-hikari.livejournal.com]

They had great stage presence and Woolim give them really awful songs. What a waste! :(

TASTY TWITTED OMG

[woohyun.livejournal.com]

[TRANS] @tastytwins0809 (https://twitter.com/tastytwins0809) pic.twitter.com/eqovOk3Ypb (http://t.co/eqovOk3Ypb)

— 지니 • 안#괜찮아요 (@hellomeIIo) July 16, 2015 (https://twitter.com/hellomeIIo/status/621508047081336832)

Re: TASTY TWITTED OMG

[swhyeon1991.livejournal.com]

THis is so emssy oh my god.

[astraltea.livejournal.com]

i hope that they find success outside of woollim

it sucks that they had to be buried for so long

[tubby-bunny.livejournal.com]

Lmao tasty is exposing woollim on twitter.

Woollim's management has always been incompetent. It's just that ppl don't really notice because of how successful inft has been and lbr woollim even screws up with them. Suffice to say I'm pretty happy that tasty is spilling that tea.

[junhobrand.livejournal.com]

this is so crazy... i actually really like Tasty >.< I was hoping for comeback news and then this...don't blame them tho...they haven't had a real comeback since 2013(?) I don't count addiction since it was a song that was previously released

funny thing is I saw them in Hongdae just the other day

[kjc48.livejournal.com]

I'm surprise Woolim's response wasn't "누구?!"
but real talks: lol @ this imaginary comeback (that would have been a flop and wouldn't have been promoted for more than 2 weeks). How very convenient.

[digitalqueen.livejournal.com]

woollim has show their ass in many ocasions in the past, why is it so hard to believe this is on them?