JYJ sues Korean news website over "malicious" article

Korean boy band JYJ's management company C-JeS Entertainment announced in a press statement on Tuesday that it would sue a Korean news website which recently published an article that claimed JYJ verbally abused and hit their obsessive "sasaeng" fans, reported Korean media.

C-JeS Entertainment said the article, which portrayed JYJ as aggressors who tried to pass themselves off as victims, had defamed JYJ, and called it "a malicious, sensational article designed to attack the band", adding that they were "left with no other option but to sue".

The company also took issue with an audio recording the website claimed was of JYJ members verbally abusing and possibly hitting their "sasaeng" fans, which accompanied the article.

A C-JeS Entertainment lawyer pointed out in the press statement that the news website had flouted both defamation and privacy laws by "uploading an illegally recorded audio clip", and attributing it to JYJ "without any verification".

According to C-JeS Entertainment, this whole matter had further upset JYJ, who are still reeling from the passing of JYJ member Park Yoochun's father last week, when the band was on its way back to Korea after their performances in South America.

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