YG Entertainment said they will take legal action against vicious rumor spreaders after 2NE1’s Park Bom, Minzy, and Dara were recently involved in false drug scandals.
The false rumors first started spreading after E-Sens of Supreme Team was arrested for smoking marijuana a couple days ago. Shortly after his arrest, Korean press reported there was a black list of star celebrities who smoked pot in Korea and it would be made public soon. One of the names rumored to be on that list was Park Bom, and later the rumor grew into include other 2NE1 members too, as it quickly spread through Twitter and Facebook.
“Park Bom has absolutely nothing to do with that list. It’s completely false so we just didn’t pay any attention to the rumors. But people started taking it as the truth and so we decided to address the issue with harsh legal measures,” YGE said.
“The initial rumor-spreader is currently being investigated by the Korean cyber police. We will also file a defamation lawsuit against some of the Korean press that falsely reported on this without enough fact-checking,” YGE added.
Meanwhile, YGE has passed screening to go public on the KOSDAQ (Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations), a trading board of Korea’s stock market, and is expected to be listed by later this month. However, following recent drug scandals involving some of its top artists, YGE’s initial public offering is expected drop nearly 10%.
Source: thunderstix@Soompi
Da fuq? No more corn, Bommie. No more corn.

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Date: 2011-11-04 05:04 pm (UTC)i kid , i kid ...
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Date: 2011-11-04 05:05 pm (UTC)I don't even care if they do drugs or not, idols have the right to do their own thing in their own discretion. It's just pretty sketchy that they would always single out on YG artists when it could happen to anyone, why always someone from their company? Not being coherent here but I'm just appalled by how shameless these detractors/haters get.
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Date: 2011-11-04 06:19 pm (UTC)the reason it matters now, and why they feel like legal action is needed is most likely because their stock value has been decreasing.
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Date: 2011-11-05 04:40 am (UTC)like someone above me said, YG has been pretty cool before, maybe that's why netizen keeps attacking them and all, plus Tablo is in YG now and you know what netizen has done to him.
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Date: 2011-11-04 06:30 pm (UTC)BRAND NEW INFORMATION
Date: 2011-11-05 04:08 am (UTC)Are there pictures?? Or did someone see her?
Or is it another baseless rumor?
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Date: 2011-11-04 06:49 pm (UTC)Not sure what to believe in this but I'm sure behind YG on taking that bitch down for having no concrete proof.
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Date: 2011-11-04 07:43 pm (UTC)I think it is a good idea to sue. Even though a lot of these things may start out as rumours, sometimes they get wayy out of hand and people start to take them as the truth. And when you finally start to take an offensive stance, it's already too late because that tiny rumour has blown out of proportion.(ex. Tablo) I don't think YG would care if it wasn't about weed. But this is liking pouring gasoline into the flames of the GD scandal.
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Date: 2011-11-05 02:00 pm (UTC)Someone's definitely out to get YG imo.
Suing definitely isn't the way to go though, I just think YG has to be a hell of a lot more careful and not give anyone any room to even point a finger at them.