MC Mong / Hankook Ilbo file
Singer MC Mong has denied allegations of an extramarital relationship with Cha Ga-won, chair of P-arc Group and CEO of One Hundred, an leisure firm, and stated he plans to take authorized motion over the experiences.
On the twenty fourth, MC Mong issued an announcement on his social media account in response to a report alleging that he had been in a relationship with Cha, who’s married. The report additionally claimed that Cha gave him giant sums of cash and luxurious autos on a number of events and printed what it stated had been non-public dialog data between the 2.
MC Mong stated the messages had been fabricated, saying the individual “didn’t merely edit messages however created them from scratch” and “got here to my house, threw issues, slapped me, and threatened me like a gangster to pressure me to signal a contract.” He added that he left the corporate as a result of he wished to “defend it,” rejecting the affair allegation and suggesting he would take authorized motion in opposition to the media outlet that printed the article.
One Hundred additionally moved shortly to disclaim the allegation, saying its inside fact-checking discovered that each the article and the chat messages weren’t true. The corporate stated the messages had been “one thing MC Mong despatched after being threatened and manipulated by a relative of Chair Cha.”
The company added that the relative tried to pressure MC Mong to promote his shares to grab management of Huge Planet Made leisure firm, and that the manipulated chat messages had been delivered throughout that course of. “We are going to reply below a zero-tolerance precept to malicious slander and the spreading of false data concentrating on our artists and administration. We ask the general public to chorus from baseless hypothesis and criticism,” the corporate stated.
MC Mong co-founded One Hundred with Cha in 2023 however stepped down from his place in June this yr.
This text from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Occasions, is translated by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Occasions.
