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Amidst controversy over the suspicion of abusing actor Cho Byeong-gyu (26, photo), the agency took the knife that it was a legal response.
On the 18th, Cho Byeong-gyu’s agency, HB Entertainment, said, “We will take legal action and respond strongly to the spreaders of additional false information.” We wanted to hold legal responsibility for the indiscriminate malicious comments and spreaders of false information posted on the current online community. Has officially requested a police investigation and has initiated an investigation into this case.”
This seems to be to firmly cope with the suspicion of abusing that continues to be raised while Cho Byeong-gyu is actively active.
Earlier on the 17th, on the 17th, netizen A, who was named Cho Byeong-gyu and an elementary school classmate, posted an article saying, “I am a victim of school violence.”
Mr. A said in his writing, “Cho Byeong-gyu was famous for the so-called Iljin when he was in elementary and junior high school.” In addition, he insisted that “Cho Byeong-gyu refused to borrow a bicycle when he was in elementary school, and he fired it with a BB shot.”
However, afterwards, a netizen who revealed himself as’Jo Byeong-gyu’s elementary and middle school alumni’ appeared and posted an article refuting the suspicion of academia, saying, “It is a kid who has received a lot of attention because he has been popular since he was a child.
On the 16th, a netizen who said he had attended a school in New Zealand with Cho Byeong-gyu said that he had been verbally abused as an international student. Then, the author of the article directly contacted Cho Byeong-gyu’s agency and appealed for preemption, and the agency decided to accept it.
Meanwhile, Cho Byeong-gyu appeared in the JTBC drama’Sky Castle’ and SBS’Stove League’ and gained popularity with recognition. In the recently ended OCN’Wonderful Rumors’, he played an active role as a protagonist, breaking OCN’s previous ratings and emerging as a’popularity’. Following MBC’What do you do when you play? -He is actively engaged in activities such as appearing in the episode 2021 Living Together.
Kang So-young, online news reporter [email protected]
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