Third Nam Joo Hyuk Accuser Comes Out, Agency Responds

 On July 6, a news outlet reported that they got new evidence of another accuser, a woman, claiming that Nam Joo Hyuk and his friends have bullied and sexually harrased her during their high school senior year.

This 3rd accuser provided text messages from a Kakao group chat from May 10, 2012. It was reported that she was forcefully invited into the group chat because one of the actor's friends disliked her. She was cyber bullied when NJH and his friends take turns sending her hateful text messages, including sexual insults, sexual harassment and comments insulting her looks.

Although he did not start the chat, it was shown that he personally insulted the accuser and was part of the conversation.

She said the perpetrators apologized but only because they were forced to do so. Also, they attempted to apologize 10 years after when she wanted to come out with the incident. 

Management SOOP responded to the allegations saying that while the text messages were real, they stated that the messages were taken out of context. The agency also said that the incident has already been apologized for. They also denied that NJH recently attempted to apologize. They further stated, 

The things that took place in the KakaoTalk group chat are very complicated and an extremely personal matter for the individuals in the chat. As mentioned in the article itself, it is also an incident that was wrapped up with an apology at school. Therefore, we don’t believe it is right to reveal the full story through the media at present.

Here's the agency's full statement. 

We are making a statement regarding the article about Nam Joo Hyuk.

First, in regards to the content of the recent second anonymous report, we checked the truth from various angles through a number of channels, including, of course, the actor himself. We reiterate that we clearly confirmed that the claims made by the second accuser are not true.

Next, today’s article about the messages sent in the KakaoTalk group chat did not reveal the whole story of the situation at the time, and it only provided an excerpt of one fragment of the scene, without any context or explanation of what took place before and after [those messages]. Additionally, it is completely untrue that the actor attempted to apologize to the informant.

The things that took place in the KakaoTalk group chat are very complicated and an extremely personal matter for the individuals in the chat. As mentioned in the article itself, it is also an incident that was wrapped up with an apology at school. Therefore, we don’t believe it is right to reveal the full story through the media at present. The truth of this aspect will also be clearly confirmed during the legal process. Furthermore, we express our deep regret towards the news outlet that unilaterally published the report without checking with us about the truth.

We entreat you. Even though the claims of the accusers hiding behind anonymity have not been carefully fact-checked, and though there is no clear proof, those claims are being revealed in the media as if they are true, and people are currently taking them to be true. No matter how much our agency and the actor counter by stating that they are not true, because this malicious content has already been reported as if it is true, it is very difficult to disprove the claims and prove that he is innocent. Even if his innocence is later revealed through criminal proceedings, it will be impossible to undo this current reality, and that itself clearly means an incredibly great deal of suffering for the actor.

For this reason, our agency has determined that we have no choice but to respond strongly to both the first accuser and the second accuser in order to protect our actor’s reputation, and we plan to speedily file lawsuits against them. We are also letting you know that we plan to take strong and decisive legal action against YouTubers or news outlets that spread unconfirmed and groundless claims or rumors.

Thank you.

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