Hello, this is JYP Entertainment.
Last September, 2PM’s member Park Jaebeom announced his withdrawal
from the group and returned to Seattle after a message he wrote on the
internet during his trainee days caused backlash. We will now reveal
what course of action will be taken.
Although the message that became an issue last September upset many
people, it was written during Jaebeom’s tough trainee days on his
personal page. At the time, the company agreed with Jaebeom when he
asked to take some time for self-reflection. We did not think that this
meant that he would stop all activities in the entertainment industry
or that he would leave 2PM.
The company had the option of forcing Park Jaebeom to stay and
continue promoting with a 7 member 2PM. However, although netizens
exaggerated Jaebeom’s words through mistranslations, his words still
had the potential to hurt many people. Because of this, we did not want
to endorse Jaebeom and force him to continue promotions because it
might have damaged his image permanently in the public eye, and so we
agreed with his decision to return to the States.
When a celebrity makes a mistake and does not apologize for his /
her mistake or if the company endorses that celebrity, the public view
of that celebrity becomes more negative and it was in the company’s
thoughts that letting Jaebeom withdraw from the group for
self-discipline would be good.
Thankfully, after Park Jaebeom left the country, an outpour of support gave him another chance.
After Jaebeom’s leave, we did not release any additional information
because we did not want the public to be influenced by malicious
sources. Since Park Jaebeom’s return to Seattle, the company has
searched for vocal, dance, and acrobatics teachers, and the company
producer JYP went personally to Seattle to talk to these teachers and
formulate a program.
All recent CF’s, performances, promotions and contracts that have
involved 2PM have been made with the mindset that the group would
eventually have all 7 members present after Park Jaebeom’s return and
so we waited for his comeback.
In November, 2009, the company proposed that Park Jaebeom make his
comeback through an album that would have been released this year in
April, and Park Jaebeom had agreed to these plans. The plans called for
Jaebeom’s return to Korea on the third week of February and a press
conference would have been held before promotions as a 7 member 2PM
began.
Because of the support he received from the public after his
withdrawal from 2PM, Park Jaebeom’s return would have improved 2PM’s
efforts and most importantly we would have been able to receive the
complete support of the fans once again. The company and the group had
high hopes.
However, if the news of Jaebeom’s comeback were revealed too
quickly, we felt that the public would once again be negative. Although
the fans criticized the lack of information from us, we did not reveal
any plans for the comeback.
On December 22nd, 2009, Jaebeom confessed to Jung Wook, a representative, that he had done something wrong during the Again and Again promotions. Apparently, it was far more serious than his MySpace controversy.
The six other members were not notified then as they were busy with
year-end activities. On January 3rd, 2010, we all sat down for a
discussion and came to an agreement 3 days later that it was no longer
possible for Park Jaebeom to continue activities along with 2PM.
We thus decided to terminate our exclusive contract with Jaebeom.
Although we wanted to release this information as soon as possible,
Park Jaebeom’s personal situation prevented us from revealing this
information until now and we hope you understand.
We would like to emphasize that all the information above is true in its entirety.
We are revealing these details through this message now because if
we had lied and gave false information, we would have lost any trust
that we held with the fans.
To 2PM and all the people who waited for Park Jaebeom’s return, we
apologize deeply and are sorry to have to reveal this sad news to
everyone.
The company and the remaining 6 members will prepare even harder and greet you with a better image.
Thank you.
а воопще сегодня будет много интересных новостей насчет этого всего.
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28.02.2010 в 00:43Ну вот я еще не читала отчеты о сегодняшней конференции..тока слухи чем закончилась, обидно , что кажется пермаментно..то бишь навсигда Jaebeom отстранили от 2ПМ...хотя я их и вшестером люблю.
А еще корейские фанатки там просто сумашедшие чесслово...