OH MY GIRL’s Seunghee To Take Legal Action Against Singer TANK Who Threatened Her Due To A One-Sided Crush
Producer and singer TANK recently released a diss track via his official YouTube Channel. The track, titled “Suni [Diss Track]” contained provocative lyrics that criticized an “innocent-looking idol” for having a bad personality.
His cover image contained the likeness of OH MY GIRL‘s Seunghee although the face had been blurred out, and he did not initially name her in the track itself.
However, when netizens found that the image was from a photoshoot Seunghee did with Dispatch, she became the target of the song’s lyrics. According to Star Today, TANK acknowledged that it was Seunghee in a reply to a netizen.
The lyrics accused the idol of allegedly being rude to people around her, even ignoring greetings from people. He later on added in the description box that the idol had even started badmouthing FROMIS_9‘s Hayoung for not greeting her in the bathroom.
When she goes to housewarming parties, she only buys her own coffee. When everyone else comes with presents, she only comes just by herself and smiles saying she’s the present when people call her out for having no manners. She loves other men when she already has a boyfriend. She receives bags as gifts that are worth thousands easily. When I said people with boyfriends don’t do that normally, she said if you don’t have the means to, then just don’t do it.
— “Suni” lyrics, TANK
His lyrics also accuse the alleged idol of talking plainly about her sex life and badmouthing her own fans, calling them smelly and ugly.
WM Entertainment released a statement, explaining that TANK was distorting the truth and that Seunghee was actually the victim of TANK’s malicious acts. They explained that Seunghee and TANK were purely colleagues and alumni of the same school, but TANK had suddenly sent Seunghee his will and intentions of taking his own life. Worried for his life, Seunghee had gone over to where he was. However, after the matter, TANK had interpreted her actions differently and continued to send Seunghee obsessive messages and had a one-sided crush on her.
On December 7, 2020, TANK sent Seunghee the contents of his suicide note, as well as messages claiming that he has a knife in his possession and will be taking his own life in a couple of minutes.
Seunghee knew that TANK had been mentally unstable and believed that he would truly try to take his own life.
Seunghee visited TANK with the unnie. Worried that he may attempt suicide again, she comforted him by telling him that he was someone who is worthy of anyone’s love. Seunghee was simply trying to help him.
— WM Entertainment
WM Entertainment claims that when Seunghee didn’t reciprocate his feelings, he began to harass and psychologically torment her. After suffering severe panic attacks, Seunghee cut off all contact.
Since then, TANK began excessively obsessing over Seunghee. He claimed that she saved his life and sent her his psychiatric medical records. He psychologically pressured her by claiming that his psychiatrist told him that Seunghee was his medicine and treatment and that Seunghee should stay by his side to help him. He sent her obsessive messages about love, which were different from the actual meaning, and began a unilateral courtship.
— WM Entertainment
TANK’s social media includes multiple photos and videos of Seunghee. One video he posted has Seunghee calling out his legal name with, “Ahn Jin Woong, I love you.”
WM Entertainment explained that TANK began uploading photos of Seunghee while distorting the truth to make it seem like a false narrative.
Others include photos he took of her signing albums in what seems to be his house…
… as well as multiple instances of him posting photos of her with the caption, “I’m uploading these pics that only I have because they’re too pretty.”
WM Entertainment continued that Seunghee had been suffering for about three months now due to his alleged harassment. She had panic attacks and had difficulty completely her schedules due to stress and trauma.
WM Entertainment revealed that they are taking legal action against TANK for slander, threat, the spread of falsehoods, and other charges. They will not be seeking a settlement and will deal with the matter strictly.
Read WM Entertainment’s full translated statement below:
Hello. This is WM Entertainment.
First, we would like to apologize for causing the fans to worry due to the issue regarding our artist, Seunghee.
Seunghee and the composer, TANK, had a senior-junior relationship as industry colleagues and alumni of Korean Arts High School. We would like to make it clear that Seunghee is currently a victim of TANK’s malicious harassment.
1. On December 7, 2020, TANK sent Seunghee the contents of his suicide note, as well as messages claiming that he has a knife in his possession and will be taking his own life in a couple of minutes.
Seunghee knew that TANK had been mentally unstable and believed that he would truly try to take his own life. In an attempt to save his life, Seunghee called a mutual acquaintance (unnie), with who she worked on music frequently, and explained the situation. The unnie immediately called the police.
2. Seunghee visited TANK with the unnie. Worried that he may attempt suicide again, she comforted him by telling him that he was someone who is worthy of anyone’s love. Seunghee was simply trying to help him.
3. Since then, TANK began excessively obsessing over Seunghee. He claimed that she saved his life and sent her his psychiatric medical records. He psychologically pressured her by claiming that his psychiatrist told him that Seunghee was his medicine and treatment and that Seunghee should stay by his side to help him. He sent her obsessive messages about love, which were different from the actual meaning. He began a unilateral courtship.
4. When Seunghee didn’t replicate his emotions, TANK threatened her by claiming that he was going to try to take his life again and that the whole world will remember Seunghee. Seunghee was deeply horrified by his messages.
6. As a result, for 3 months since last December 7, Seunghee suffered extreme psychological torment, pain, and anxiety. She suffered severe panic attacks where she was unable to complete her schedule normally. Although he was her industry and alumni senior, she decided that she can no longer keep in touch with him and cut off all contact.
7. Afterward, TANK uploaded videos and photos to his social media and YouTube accounts that distorted the truth and contained clearly false narratives.
Seunghee is a victim, and we can no longer look over the fact that TANK is distorting the truth by painting her as the perpetrator while taking advantage of her kind heart and harassing her.
Moreover, we learned that he not only habitually harassed Seunghee but also other artists with videos and messages that implied threats of taking his own life and complaints of mental distress.
We are proceeding with all legal civil and criminal measures to further prevent the spread of false information, intimidation, and infringement of personal rights. We will respond with strict legal actions without any settlement.
— WM Entertainment
