Article: Hyolyn, Bridge: "We agreed to settle the school matter after a long conversation"
Source: Sports DongA
Hyolyn has settled the bullying dispute with classmate 'A'.
According to a statement by her agency Bridge on the 28th, "They agreed to settle the issue from both sides after a long conversation."
The controversy first began when alleged victim 'A' uploaded a post on an online community claiming to be a victim of school violence perpetrated by Hyolyn. She explained that Hyolyn had bullied her for 3 years in middle school taking her clothes, money, and assaulting her at an apartment playground and karaoke room. To prove her claims she shared Hyolyn's graduation photos and the messages shared between her and her friend in middle school.
When the allegations first broke on the 25th, Hyolyn released a statement and said she does not remember as it was over 15 years ago. She then later changed to a hard-line stance seeking legal action claiming that the one-sided allegations "damaged their artist's reputation." She has since then agreed to settle with the victim.
Comment source: Naver
1. [+10,102, -114] What settlement? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ She needs to be exiled forever if she did indeed bully her
2. [+8,292, -60] A compromise is meaningless because school bullying is an issue in our society and they need to set an example for our teens. Any celebrity found guilty of bullying should be taken off of shows, managers fired, and kicked from groups.
3. [+5,352, -39] If it wasn't true, she would've gone hard on the legal action. If it's true, she should be retiring. Don't try and bury this like it never happened. Teens are watching and learning... Just retire if it's true.
4. [+2,543, -32] Don't try and make this go away...
5. [+1,256, -4] So it's true in the end. She did hit her. It's wrong of her to think that money will solve everything.
6. [+636, -11] It must be true, I don't want to see Hyorin on TV ever again
7. [+610, -1] ㅋㅋㅋ This basically means the bullying was true;;
8. [+530, -4] What is this?? Does she think we're stupid?? It's obvious that Hyorin's past is all true then. Otherwise she'd be taking legal action and going through with it. Hyorin's trash and I don't want to see her on screen again.
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