Singer MoonMoon Revealed To Have Been On Probation For Hidden Camera Crime + Agency Ends Contract

[pearlychoco.livejournal.com]

On May 25, singer MoonMoon was reported to be currently on probation for secretly filming a woman.

On May 24, according to a media source, MoonMoon was exposed after being caught secretly filming a woman in a public unisex bathroom in Gangnam on August 2016. The victim reported him to the police, and after MoonMoon partly admitted to the charges during police investigations, he was sentenced to a two-year probation.

MoonMoon’s agency House of Music, a new label under Starship Entertainment, decided to end their exclusive contract with the singer and cancel all his upcoming schedules. When MoonMoon signed with House of Music in November 2017, he did not disclose his criminal records and the agency had remained unaware of the situation until now.

The agency’s full statement is as follows:

“Hello, this is House of Music.

“We apologize for concerning many of you regarding the disgraceful reports of MoonMoon on May 25.

“The case took place before we signed exclusively with MoonMoon and we were unaware of the situation. As soon as we confirmed the facts, we ended the exclusive contract and canceled all schedules.

“We decided to terminate the exclusive contract based on the judgements that the said case would have a great social impact, and that our mutual trust in communicating with the artist cannot be maintained.

“Once again, we are deeply sorry for worrying everyone.”

MoonMoon debuted in July 2016 with his single “Moon, Moon.” “Contrail,” the title track of his first mini album, is his most successful song yet, having taken top spots in music charts including Genie and Olleh.

Sources: Nate (1. 2) & Star News via Soompi

Comments

[vintage-boom.livejournal.com]

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glad they cut him loose when they found out but would it kill anyone to idk do a background check on their potential investments??

[pearlychoco.livejournal.com]

yeah, i was a bit surprised that the agency didn''t ask for a criminal background check. i know in my city, it's mandatory to complete a background check when applying for a job, just in case the employer wants to hire you or not.

[torontok.livejournal.com]

Honestly, this is a case where the person just needs to fucking die, he's beyond redemption. He's part of the reason women can't even pee in public without being violated. Sick bastard.

Also, only fucking PROBATION? Fucking madness

[ohlookshiny.livejournal.com]

urghh, he's scum. disgusting.

i'm glad at least that the agency understood the severity of this and are just cutting ties with him (smh @ blossom ent, wtf are you doing) i guess they don't do dbs checks in s.korea? weird.

[blck-ink.livejournal.com]

trash. actual trash

[baekpedaling.livejournal.com]

Wtf! I'm mad he's disgusting cause Marriage was one of my all time fav songs. I tried to look up stuff about him after finding out the artist and there was nothing much.
Disappointed but not surprised

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

I don't want to make this into a certain countries are worse than others for women thing but when I read stuff like this I really wonder how Korean women are able to leave the house and live their lives at all. I read a thread on Twitter that clarified the protest that happened regarding spycams and showed how prevalent it really is (to the point where you can't imagine going about your daily life with it) and it affected me so badly just reading about it, imagine having to actually live with it?

Destroy men, really, just lock them all up and let them back into society on a case by case basis.

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

Do you have a link to that thread? How do women anywhere manage to leave the house ? When I think of all the times I’ve been street harassed it’s I wonder I ever walk anywhere.

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

Tamar Herman posted it, it's here https://twitter.com/mu_nelin/status/997160621522079745

And true about street harassment, this just put it into the "we can't even take a freaking PISS without worrying??" territory

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

Sorry that previous link just goes to the second post, this should link to the whole thread https://twitter.com/mu_nelin/status/995569935869853696

[nekokonneko.livejournal.com]

I saw that and it was so heartrending. The scale of it is just disgusting.

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

It's such a horror movie moment. This is the type of stuff you'll read in an article and will think only the vilest of creeps would do something like that and you can probably protect yourself from it but it's not only incredibly common but also seemingly without punishment. It's sickening.

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

Thanks

[jasmineakaiumi.livejournal.com]

i have no doubt i've been filmed in the public bathrooms there (despite trying to avoid using them, it's basically impossible to not use them at some point during the day as you're out and about).
i found a camera once myself and reported it to the subway station, so god knows how many i missed in the 7 yrs i was there.

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, how did you find it? When/how did you become aware that this was a thing you had to look out for? I'm so sorry you had to deal with that, I can only imagine how incredibly violated you'd feel finding an actual camera let alone knowing there is no way you can avoid them entirely over such a long time, it makes me sick. I'm really wondering if this is specific to Korea or if it's like this on a global scale and we just haven't caught on yet.

Hearing things like this really makes you wish for segregated female only/female run establishments because as you say there is no escape from the risk the way things are right now.

[lovely4evr.livejournal.com]

I've once stumbled unto voyeour camera side of tumblr LIKE SO MANY REBLOGS AND SHARINg, in the thousands. ( i think the one i first stumbled unto was in america?) women in changing rooms , just women walking and the guy films them.... like. it was so unreal , going through the notes and seeing the comments. Seeing similar blogs dedicated to the same thing.

[jasmineakaiumi.livejournal.com]

I went to an all-girls university 2012~2016 and it was pretty widely talked about in the later years, so that's where I had heard about it before it became huge in the media :(
like the twitter thread referenced, my classmates told me to look out for lots of holes near the door handle/lock, and that's where I found it (it was the only little hole that you couldn't see through to the other side).
and hearing that a lot of the times they're placed under the toilet seat now?? so you're basically never safe...
I also wonder the same thing, like it's not widespread knowledge outside of korea (afaik) so no one looks out for them and thus no one finds them kind of thing.

mte. i get the argument of "if we separate people more then it causes the gap of understanding to get even bigger!" but at the same time i only feel safe when i'm completely separated from cis men so...

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

It's weird because creepshots are pretty huge (I've caught guys taking them of me quite a few times and that already makes you feel so seriously violated, so this is just through the roof) and we know how much guys love humiliating and terrorising women so it makes me think they would definitely be into this sort of thing outside of Korea...which means we either don't know about it yet or it will start to catch on soon when they start finding out how to buy these spycams :(

Were you ever told how exactly they work? Like how are they powered, do they store the footage or is it sent somewhere as it's recorded? I wish we had some sort of giant women newsletter that we could use to warn everyone about stuff like this because they seem to be banking on our ignorance here (I know for sure none of my friends would be suspicious about seeing holes in bathroom doors for starters)

And I hear you about the segregation thing. It's crazy because it's something I would have never ever agreed with when I was younger because it reminds of extreme religious dictatorships or something but at this point I'm just like ANYTHING to be able to get a break from men. It's like we're talking to a wall, they just straight up don't seem to care if it has no consequences for them.

[jasmineakaiumi.livejournal.com]

exactly!! like on one hand i hope it catches on so it can stop but on the other hand ignorance is bliss lmao

iirc they're battery powered and have some kind of microSD in them for storage, and a lot of the time/always they have to go back to collect the footage/camera from the bathroom. I think it def became so widespread BECAUSE of that ignorance (like I said above - you can't really be worried if you don't know something like that is a thing).

I remember reading a while ago about segregated "otaku rooms" in Japan where women could go to share with other people of different fandoms (they would go to play videogames together, had tables to work on cosplay together etc) and men were SUPER livid about it..but in my personal experience "nerdism" is one of the most rancid, misogynistic subcultures I've ever taken part in, so I would be 100% down with having my own space to partake in fandoms with other fellow nerds without feeling in danger/uncomfortable??

[minho-lover.livejournal.com]

wowowow im pissed cuz i love his song “marriage” HES TRASH! SCUM OF THE EARTH! lock his ass up

[revedesnuages.livejournal.com]

Disgusting. I'm glad I didn't buy his album.

Sometimes it just feels like there's no safe public spaces for women :(

[tree-star123.livejournal.com]

wtf so i'm so disgusted and so disappointed bc i really liked his song marriage

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

wtffff