IU and her agencies have been in a long and continuous fight against the malicious commenters and haters who harass both her and her fans.
Her current agency, EDAM Entertainment, made an official announcement to update everyone on their legal fight.
Through our own monitoring system and the reports collected from our fans, we used these evidences as the foundation to submit numerous lawsuits through our legal team for investigation.
— EDAM Entertainment
They revealed that among the recent lawsuits, a perpetrator was charged with excessive slander on a serious level and was sentenced to a higher fine than the standard.
Among them, those who continued to write excessively slandering posts with indiscriminate malicious intent was charged with slander and defamation. The prosecutors deemed their actions as serious crimes and sentenced them to a higher than the standard fine.
— EDAM Entertainment
They once again emphasized that they will not stop their legal efforts and they will not be taking any settlements or leniency for anyone who harasses, maliciously insults, spreads defamation and attacks IU.
As we had announced before, we will not stop in continuing our efforts to collect and monitor for evidence, and we will take action without any settlement or prejudice.
EDAM Entertainment will take all legal actions possible to continuously file lawsuits, investigate, and fight for sentencing against those who maliciously attack IU and the fans who love her.
— EDAM Entertainment
They thanked the fans for all of their help and asked for their continual efforts.
We’d also like to say that the reports submitted by the fans have been a huge help in our fight. We ask that you continue to file reports, and EDAM Entertainment will work diligently to make sure that IU and UAENAs will only have bright, happy moments together. We thank you always.
— EDAM Entertainment
Clearly, IU is in the best of hands with her hard working staff and her beloved fans!
Read their full translated statement below:
Hello. This is EDAM Entertainment.
We would like to sincerely thank all the fans who support and love our artist IU.
We had previously announced that we will continually be taking legal actions against those who hurt IU with malicious posts, malicious slander, spreading false information, harassment, invasion of privacy, personal attacks and defamation. We wanted to update everyone with the current progress.
Through our own monitoring system and the reports collected from our fans, we used these evidences as the foundation to submit numerous lawsuits through our legal team for investigation.
Among them, those who continued to write excessively slandering posts with indiscriminate malicious intent was charged with slander and defamation. The prosecutors deemed their actions as serious crimes and sentenced them to a higher than the standard fine. Other perpetrators’ investigations have completed and some are in the process of being investigation.
As we had announced before, we will not stop in continuing our efforts to collect and monitor for evidence, and we will take action without any settlement or prejudice. EDAM Entertainment will take all legal actions possible to continuously file lawsuits, investigate, and fight for sentencing against those who maliciously attack IU and the fans who love her.
We’d also like to say that the reports submitted by the fans have been a huge help in our fight. We ask that you continue to file reports, and EDAM Entertainment will work diligently to make sure that IU and UAENAs will only have bright, happy moments together. We thank you always.
— EDAM Entertainment
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