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YG Entertainment denies rumors of conflict with trainee Lee Michelle!
Beginning on October 16, various reports began surfacing that former K-Pop Star contestant and YG Entertainment trainee, Lee Michelle, had left YG Entertainment after escalating trouble between her and her agency.
YG Entertainment stepped forward to clear up the rumors and denied there was any discord between Lee Michelle and the agency. The agency added it believed the rumors began from Lee Michelle’s absence from her training, which is due to personal reasons.
The representative stated that Lee Michelle was simply taking a break, just like countless other trainees who have to deal with personal reasons, and denied that there was any discord or conflict.
YG Entertainment previously announced that Lee Michelle would be debuting through Su:Pearls, but has not released any additional information on the group or its members since.
Source: enewsworld
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Date: 2012-10-16 09:26 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-10-16 01:08 pm (UTC)I'm eyes-siding anyone who relates this to 'race' without any clue. It could be so many things...
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Date: 2012-10-16 02:30 pm (UTC)Idol companies research their market carefully and if they found out the public was not receptive to a black girl, they may not debut her.
Anyway hopefully this is just a break for personal reasons as they say and she will debut.
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Date: 2012-10-16 03:39 pm (UTC)them flabby arms are a no-go sis
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Date: 2012-10-16 05:14 pm (UTC)She is not fat at all.
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Date: 2012-10-16 05:16 pm (UTC)She's been leaving this type of comment in other post too
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Date: 2012-10-16 04:37 pm (UTC)but anyhoo, i hope she's having fun during her absence.
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Date: 2012-10-16 06:11 pm (UTC)crying omg
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Date: 2012-10-16 06:22 pm (UTC)Especially with the racist shit that has come out of YG and kpop in general.........
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Date: 2012-10-16 09:41 pm (UTC)Actually I even find it rather racist that so many people think about a race issue right away, given that she's bi-ethnic. Okay, Korea isn't paradise and there's still a lof of racism there (and YG Entertainment included).
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Date: 2012-10-24 11:39 am (UTC)I didn't know how to get a reaction, I remember feeling against a wall here. Maybe I shouldn't have talked to you. I just wanted to say that it's fast to call out racism. All this issue makes me really uncomfortable. I know that there's a lot of racist words in k-pop world and that also makes me uncomfortable. But I don't want to think that if Michelle has a problem, it must be only about race issues. Call me naive if you want, but I'm waiting for more clues (while keeping an eye on this) because we can't really judge with the few we have...
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Date: 2012-10-24 11:35 am (UTC)"Yes okay I'm sorry I haven't said things in the way I should have. I'm still struggling with English. I'm against racism ; and I find unconfortable that people are jumping on this issue without proofs, just because well, she's half-Black, and she's among people that are known for racist words. If it happens to be true, it's unforgetable. But we don't know yet, I think people should wait for more evidences..."
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Date: 2012-10-16 10:27 pm (UTC)People are just trying to find reasons to hate on YG, anything to justify why they dislike the company and the people in it. I hope supearls debuts soon, I've been looking forward to this debut ever since YG announced he took them into his company.
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Date: 2012-10-17 10:06 pm (UTC)I know it sounds whiny and such but knowing Korean societies views on race, I can not help but think that Lee Michelle will face a lot of press that tries to paint her negatively, no matter what. It's a shame, but its the truth.
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Date: 2012-10-19 05:51 pm (UTC)She is biracial and cannot pass. She has already admitted that she received a lot of mistreatment living in Korea because of her African ancestry. Given how frequently foreigners and African Americans are stereotyped in the Korean entertainment industry I can only imagine the horrors she has had to deal with.