SEVENTEEN’s Seungkwan pens message about supporting fellow K-pop idols

nme.com:

SEVENTEEN singer Seungkwan has posted a lengthy message on Instagram about the K-pop industry and voicing his support for fellow idols.Last week, K-pop company HYBE disclosed company documents during a National Assembly’s Culture, Sports and Tourism committee audit.

Several pages of documents that allegedly contained disparaging remarks about K-pop artists have since been leaked, sparking outrage from K-pop fans both domestically and internationally.Amid the ongoing controversy, SEVENTEEN vocalist Seungkwan has shared a message speaking up for his group and fellow K-pop idols. “I don’t want to see people hurting each other anymore,” he wrote per Soompi. “I feel that I can no longer stay silent for all my colleagues who are working hard even at this moment, my fans, my members, my people who are getting hurt.”The singer wrote that while there are parts of being a celebrity to be endured, he did not believe that “it is a job where we have to endure to the point of self-destruction, getting hurt until the brink of death.”“We have experienced enough pain, fallen apart, and somehow overcome it, putting in tenacious effort to show our best on stage for our fans,” he said of SEVENTEEN and their peers in the K-pop industry. “I hope people don’t take idols lightly.”“You don’t have the right to easily intrude on our narrative.