Having read Wikitree's latest article, WINNER Song Mino united supporters are both eased but extremely upset too.
Previously, in the middle of the huge COVID-19 outbreak, Dispatch disclosed that Mino played at a nightclub in Gangwon Province.
Given his image as a celebrity, especially with the current situation, people on social media blamed and attacked him for his acts and for not following the social distancing regulations.
YG Entertainment subsequently released a statement stating that they would work diligently to ensure that their artist complies with social distancing policies.
A previous report by Wikitree, however, claims differently.
Mino didn't even visit a nightclub, like what Dispatch reported. According to Wikitree, he went to a considerably different guest house.
He had been seen with his friends at the guest house. The first four floors were guest accommodations. The fourth was designated as a party room, and visitors used it to indulge private events.
It is claimed that Mino spent some time there with his colleagues and also that the event he conducted was a private act with all of his buddies, not a public venue like a club where anyone could easily enter it.
Fans are happy that this can clear Mino's name but remain furious at Dispatch. Despite this, they ask Mino's managing label YG Entertainment to take strict legal proceedings against the media outlet.
On May 12, YG Entertainment has replied to rumors that WINNER's Mino has been seen singing at a club amid the state's social distancing guidance to eliminate the COVID-19 outbreak.
Dispatch disclosed on May 12 that on May 3, Mino was visiting a club in Yangyang County, Gangwon Province.
The report provides images that are identified as Song Mino performing his song "Fiancé" spontaneously using a mic in the DJ box.
A YG Representative on that day delivered the agency's statement that reads:
"We have learned that Song Mino previously went on a trip as a personal and private outing with several of his colleagues. We wish to make an apology for raising many worries for people.
In the midst of this recent incident, we pledge to become much more conscious and implement more steps to make sure that our artists follow acceptable protocols for social distancing and personal preventive acts."
Aside from Mino, singer Park Gyuri had made it to the headlines recently for not following social distancing protocols being implemented by South Korea's government to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
Park Gyuri apologized to fans for attending a club in Seoul's Itaewon neighborhood connected to multiple cases of COVID-19.
"I apologize deeply for not adhering by a policy that everybody should have during most of the period of social distance, whatever the reasons," she was reported as telling by the local news media.
Park, 31, formerly from the now-defunct K-pop girl band KARA, made a public apology on Monday (May 11) after a media source disclosed she was caught and seen at a night club in Itaewon on May 2.
Four days before the social distancing steps had been relaxed and on the same day, the COVID-19 patient attended the local clubs. She has been tested and screened for any possible virus infection, and the test results showed negative, and she is now in isolation.
South Korea, which has already been propped up as a role model for reducing coronavirus spread, COVID-19 situations from Seoul's Itaewon neighborhood resurged after an infected man went club-hopping in the neighborhood on May 1 and early May 2 hours.
There have been far more than 100 infected cases connected to the clusters since.
