Written by: Anushka Basnet - 24001, Grade X
Posted on: 04 July, 2021
Kim Woojin is a former member of the boy group "Stray Kids''. He left back in 2019. He joined a new entertainment company named "10x entertainment". He was preparing for his solo debut and everything was going well until some people started creating false rumors about him. This started back in March of 2020. Random person on the internet claimed to have seen Woojin in a bar. People accused Woojin for being a sex offender. They even accused him of bullying the Straykids member while he was a member. People were really hating Woojin, so much that they even accused 10x of being a fake company. People were too blinded by hate, they started accusing Woojin of ridiculous crimes that he never committed. Having a whole bunch of people saying you assaulted a woman, bullied your ex-group members, your company is fake, is not something anyone would want to experience. Getting death threats everyday even though you did nothing wrong is unfair but Woojin and the company could do nothing about it.
10x proved all the allegations false and because they did it really fast people started saying they made it up. People turned blind eye even to the proof shown to the public. That is both dumb and violent.
Many people turned their back on Woojin. This was not what was planned. People bullied Woojin everyday on the internet. A sasaeng even exposed Woojin's number to the public. His social media was blocked for months. All this because of some rumors the whole world believed. People started giving him death threats. He was the oldest member on StrayKids and didn't speak much but that doesn't mean he bullied the other members. If that was the case, he would have been blacklisted from the kpop world forever. He was accused of sexually offending women. But there was no proof. 10x had to prove the world that they were a real company by posting their legal documents online, they had to prove Woojin innocent. And they did. Every accusation was proven false. But still people were not satisfied. They wanted to bully Woojin and the company so badly that they turned blind eye to all the proof shown online.
Imagine you are about to debut and are practicing day and night but then random people on the internet start accusing you of things you never even did. Recently 10x even released a documentary on the whole scandal but then people started saying the company used the accusations as an aesthetic.
People really know no limits.
Even till now there are so many people bullying Woojin. Bullying someone, giving them death threats, spreading false and malicious rumors are not done for fun. These need to stop. Starting a whole hate movement just because of some mere rumor is not how a person is supposed to behave like. Having people hating you is way more hurtful than it sounds. Woojin and the whole company has suffered a lot because of this and people should apologize even though apologizing would do nothing good but pleading guilty is always appreciated
