Group Aespa suffered sexual harassment at a high school festival in Seoul.
On the 2nd, various SNS shows Aespa (Carina, Winter, Giselle, Ning Ning) attending the Gyeongbok High School Event. Aespa visited the school to celebrate the 101st anniversary of the opening of Gyeongbok High School, which is also the alma mater of SM Entertainment's executive producer.
But the posts posted by some students at Gyeongbok High School were a hot spot: Aespa was surrounded by a huge crowd of boys, motionless and responding to photo requests. In another photo, a male student photographed and posted Aespa's back with a sexual harassment article, "I did everything except touch." There was also a post for boys that said "sexX" to a member who was blocked.
The company apologized instead, saying, "Today, the 101st anniversary of the school was held by the Gyeongbok alumni association. However, after the Event, there is a media report that unintentionally undermines Aespa's reputation, so I apologize. "
"However, after conducting an on-campus survey of students after media reports, some outsiders, not students (our school), visited the Event hall, but there was a fact that they did not allow access due to safety relations, and some SNSs could be inferred that malicious articles that were never true were posted.
Finally, he added, "As a result, I apologize repeatedly for the loss of the honor of SM Entertainment and its singer Aespa after the Event."
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