Article: SM's side refutes MBC's exclusive report "Yunho never met up with any female hostesses"
Source: Hankyung
On the 12th, SM refuted allegations that TVXQ's Yunho was drinking with female hostesses writing, "It was clearly wrong of Yunho to not abide to quarantine rules but he never met up with female servers. All he did was go to a location his friend told him to go to talk about a concern. It was his first time there."
"The only people he spent time were his friends, there was no female employee sitting with them. When police arrived, only the managers were there to handle the payment, no female employee was around."
"Also, Yunho never tried to escape from police. He truthfully cooperated with police and after they confirmed his identity on the scene, they sent him home. Because 10 police officers barged into their room so suddenly, some of his friends protested from the shock because they didn't know it was police. That's completely unrelated to Yunho."
- [+2,416, -75] Stop talking nonsense...what kind of man in his 30s goes all the way to a room salon to listen to his friend talk? This wasn't just any room salon but a membership-only luxury room salon. Release the CCTV then if you stand by your statement.
- [+1,613, -354] High ranking public officials are really working hard using a celebrity scandal to bury the LH land dumping and headquarter suicide case ㅋㅋㅋㅋ. Just like the 1 trillion won Lim fund scam, once again they're using up celebrities by selling stories to media outlets and broadcasting companies to bury the issue.
- [+730, -44] SM once again trying to media play with lies. There's already news out that the establishment he went to is a membership-only secret adult bar where female servers hang out and play with the customers. His friends got into a physical brawl with police when they tried to arrest him and he tried to run away. The fight was so bad to the point handcuffs were brought out. Who is SM trying to fool right now ㅋㅋㅋ.
- [+373, -28] The news is already out...stop with the excuses already ㅋㅋ
- [+238, -4] I thought it was a friend's mother's restaurant that he visited with friends and had mackerel stew, some soju and left. I really believed and praised his apology when I read it..
- [+11, -4] Looks like SM had a one-on-one meeting to put together this clarification. I'm just laughing imagining them thinking saying "he got called out by his friend to talk about a concern..." isn't as ridiculous as it sounds
- [+100, -1] It's a room salon without a sign in Cheongdam-dong.. Isn't that obvious enough?
- [+37, -6] How could it be his first time there...? It's a membership-only room salon ㅋㅋ