OMEGA X say they’ve received their lawsuit in opposition to SPIRE Leisure to droop their contracts with the company.
The announcement was made by way of the Okay-pop boyband’s Instagram web page yesterday (January 11). “Right now, we received the lawsuit we filed in opposition to our company to droop the validity of our unique contract,” their put up learn, as translated by Soompi. “We had been in a position to obtain this because of all of you giving us braveness and reaching out a hand.”
OMEGA X went on to thank their followers for his or her assist and concluded their announcement with hints at new “music and performances” to come back, though it stays unclear whether or not they are going to be shifting to a brand new label or if they are going to be working independently from right here on. SPIRE Leisure has but to remark.
Moreover terminating the boyband’s contracts, OMEGA X’s authorized counsel had beforehand acknowledged plans to press fees in opposition to SPIRE Leisure’s former CEO Kang Seong-hee for allegedly “threatening, assaulting and exploiting the members”.
Within the first courtroom listening to for the lawsuit relating to OMEGA X’s contracts, which was held on December 7, 2022, SPIRE Leisure contested the group’s utility to file the injunction, asking OMEGA X to present it “another likelihood”. Regardless of saying it “[wasn’t] denying” OMEGA X’s claims of verbal abuse, SPIRE’s attorneys instructed the courtroom that the label “was not conscious that Director Kang had cursed on the members”.
Allegations that Kang had abused OMEGA X first surfaced in October 2022 after the group concluded their tour of the US. Then, Korean outlet SBS Information revealed a variety of video clips stated to depict Kang verbally abusing and manhandling members exterior the live performance venue and of their resort foyer in Los Angeles. Shortly after these clips went viral, the band launched a brand new, unbiased Instagram account, the place they claimed they had been topic to “unwarranted therapy” from SPIRE.
In a press convention in November, members of OMEGA X spoke personally concerning the mistreatment allegedly inflicted on them by SPIRE Leisure, together with allegations that Kang had sexually harassed a few of them and threatened them with homicide. In December, Kang once more denied that she had abused OMEGA X in an interview with the New York Occasions.
“I took care of all of them like their mom,” she claimed. “Of their opinion, our firm doesn’t have sufficient to nurture them.” Kang additionally accused OMEGA X of “conducting a witch hunt” in opposition to herself and the corporate.
Kang has but to touch upon OMEGA X’s announcement that they’ve received the lawsuit to droop their contracts with SPIRE Leisure.
