Ju Haknyeon is facing a major scandal after being exposed for soliciting prostitution with former Japanese adult video actress Kirara Asuka in Japan.
The controversy began when reports surfaced of their meeting. Soon after, Ju Haknyeon announced his departure from THE BOYZ. His agency confirmed the termination of his contract and his removal from the group.
He then posted a handwritten apology letter on Instagram addressing the scandal.
Ju Haknyeon
“I am truly sorry to all the fans who trusted and supported me…”
However, netizens quickly raised suspicions about the authenticity of his apology. Many pointed out awkward spacing and phrasing in the letter.
Netizens on an online community post after the letter went viral with over 111,000 views:
“I felt his line switch seemed strange, so I looked it up, and it seems like it looks like that because he copied and pasted something written on Word or KakaoTalk.”
Fans tested the theory by retyping the apology into KakaoTalk, finding it matched perfectly.
Comments from netizens:
“I think he just wrote it exactly the way he received it through his phone?”
“If you send the apology through KakaoTalk it cuts right at that point.”
“If you are in the right mindset, you should think it’s strange even when you write it out yourself…he didn’t even think to look over the content someone else wrote for him…”
“If it were me, I would’ve written it, then rewritten it before uploading it. But then again, it was copied from something written for him, so how sincere could that be?”
“He either really doesn’t have even a bit of sincerity, or he isn’t able to make that kind of judgment…”
The backlash continues as fans and netizens question Ju Haknyeon’s sincerity and the way he addressed the scandal. The situation remains tense as the public keeps monitoring his next moves.
