OMEGA X make assertion about company SPIRE Leisure
The members of boyband OMEGA X have launched a gaggle assertion on an impartial Instagram account alleging “strain” and “unwarranted remedy” by their company SPIRE Leisure.
In October, followers of the boyband and information shops started importing video clips that allegedly depicted SPIRE Leisure CEO Kang Seong-hee’s verbal abuse and bodily mistreatment of OMEGA X members in direction of the top of their ‘Join: Don’t Give Up’ US tour.
Kang denied all allegations of mistreatment to the media, and the company launched an official assertion claiming that Kang and the group had been discussing the laborious work that had gone into the tour, and “wound up airing their grievances in opposition to each other.” SPIRE Leisure additionally stated that “the members and the company have at present resolved all their misunderstandings”.
Members of the boyband themselves didn’t tackle the alleged mistreatment on the time. Notably, OMEGA X haven’t posted publicly on any of their official social media accounts because the allegations first arose in late October.
On November 6, the group arrange a brand new Instagram account that seems to be impartial from the company and personally managed by OMEGA X members. Its first put up featured a photograph of all 11 members of the act placing their palms collectively, accompanied by a message to followers claiming OMEGA X members had been below “strain” from the company that affected the extent to which they might communicate on social media. The assertion additionally spoke of “painful instances” and alleged “unwarranted remedy” from SPIRE that “made us need to cry”.
“We created this small area for communication as a result of we wished to thank the followers who love us and the people who find themselves cheering us on, and we additionally wished to straight inform you of the present state of affairs with our personal mouths,” stated the group, per Soompi.
“Below strain from SPIRE Leisure, we – the members of [OMEGA X]– beforehand signed an settlement that ‘if we add posts to social media with out consulting the corporate, we must take each civil and prison obligation’,” they added.
Whereas OMEGA X didn’t explicitly check with any particular incident or particular person, they spoke about having to “endure painful instances”, including: “When our struggling just lately grew to become recognized to the world, we had been apprehensive that every little thing we’ve completed up till now would evaporate and go up in smoke.”
“There have been days after we acquired such unwarranted remedy from our company that it made us need to cry,” OMEGA X claimed. “Our solely supply of energy that made it potential for us to endure all of it was remembering the cheers of our followers.”
Whereas OMEGA X have but to talk about their future with SPIRE Leisure, they expressed their intention to stay as a staff. “We are going to stand earlier than our followers as soon as once more with good music and performances,” they stated.
SPIRE Leisure has but to reply to the creation of the impartial Instagram account or the contents of its posts.
OMEGA X member Taedong has since turn out to be the primary member to make a person put up on the brand new account, writing a message to followers in commemoration of his birthday at the moment (November 7).