Former T-ARA’s Areum Speaks Her Mind Following Hwayoung’s Update
With former T-ARA’s CEO Kim Kwang Soo reigniting the group’s bullying controversy, member Hwayoung has spoken up.
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She took to Instagram and posted a lengthy message about the bullying.
Firstly, the fact that I was bullied is true. The claim that I did not experience bullying and merely pretended to be a ‘victim’ is false. As a new member of T-ARA, I worked hard with the determination not to burden the original members and to blend in. However, the original members often subjected me to violence and constant verbal abuse. The reason I endured was that I believed things would improve if I tried harder.
— Hwayoung
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Most recently, she posted on Instagram again to clarify misunderstandings and revealed that she wants to move on with her life and put everything in the past.
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Not long after, former member Areum also took to Instagram to give a bit more clarification regarding her position.
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“I have nothing to say officially about the incident itself, but I’ll leave a short message because I keep getting DMs. When I first joined the group, I was busy adjusting and keeping up with them by memorizing all the songs in Korean and Japanese, learning the choreography, and even memorizing the movements.
So, practicing hard was all I did, but it was hard to accept everything when the Twitter incident occurred among the members.
I’ve said this many times since leaving the group, but it always gets buried. As a new group member, maybe it was because she knew how I felt, but Hwayoung Unni took care of me, and I was always so grateful and followed her around. But after the injury incident and everything between the members, it felt like I was walking on thin ice and had no one to lean on.
Every day was torture for me at such a young age. I had no time or energy to cause trouble. And after the misunderstanding, it’s true that I received an apology from Hwayoung.
If I had a younger sister, I would have done the same thing, as it was the only thing she could do for her sister then. I didn’t take it to heart, so everything ended well.
T-ARA was just a scar, nothing more and nothing less. I just left it as part of a memory where I lived my hardest. How about we just leave it as the main characters of the songs we liked back then? What’s the point of asking me all these questions?
I believe everyone involved regrets and feels sorry and hurt due to their actions from when they were young. It’s just that there are some people that have a harder time. I don’t think there was anyone then who didn’t have a hard time. A lot of time passed, and every time I went on broadcast, they would always use the ’T-ARA’ keyword, whether I liked it or not.
I just wanted to live quietly. Even now, and in the future, I just want to live a normal life. I hope everyone can forget the pain from that time and live peacefully.”
— Areum
Meanwhile, Areum recently surprised netizens with her shocking pregnancy announcement.
