Chapter 158
Hwang Jun-Kyul stared at Woon, who read his comment and froze. If Siren had been filming a recorded show, Woon’s behavior wouldn't have caused problems, but they were filming a live broadcast. In this environment, people could catch every movement no matter how slight it was. Furthermore, anyone would’ve been suspicious of this strange pause.
Accordingly, the majority of the people in the chat box talked about Woon’s response.
—What is up with Woon’s response?
—Let’s just talk about Siren in their broadcast
—100% chance that he has something going on with Hwang Jun-Kyul
—I heard that they were close
Though it had been just a brief moment, people’s attention on it lasted. This was especially more so because of how often Hwang Jun-Kyul had talked about Lee Woon on live broadcasts. Those who were interested in either of the two knew that whether it was good or bad, there was something deeper going on.
Hwang Jun-Kyul quietly read through the comments. He thought he had only said good things about Woon. Though some people said that he sounded shady, he thought there was nothing bad he said overall in the end. Yet, when he quickly went to social media sites and looked through people’s responses, he realized that people’s responses were different from what he expected.
‘Was that not the case...?’ He was able to more objectively see how he had acted until now. Most people seemed to have caught on about his true feelings about Woon. Though Vision fans were claiming until the end that people were being too sensitive, Siren fans and even outsiders were rebuking Hwang Jun-Kyul.
—Hwang Jun-Kill did keep shading Lee Woon
—Maybe Lee Woon got beaten up by Hwang Jun-Kill too?
—I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought this...whenever this guy talks about Lee Woon on his live broadcast, he sounds like he is trying to bring Lee Woon down
—Lol a gangster idol trying to leech off Siren somehow~
Hwang Jun-Kill was the nickname netizens gave Hwang Jun-Kyul after his assault case. And whenever Hwang Jun-Kyul wanted to assess the damage done to his reputation, he typed up this name from time to time.
‘Damn it....’ After going through these searches, Hwang Jun-Kyul realized that everything he said about Lee Woon until now had been accumulating as his karma and was about to blow up on him. He turned off his phone and computer and even locked his phone. He knew he couldn’t stop what would happen with just this, but...
‘...Fuck...’
It still gave him a little illusion that he could escape this situation somehow.
***
While Hwang Jun-Kyul was locking himself up in his room and Yoon Dong-Hyuk was drinking his troubles away and getting madly drunk, the internet was buzzing with stories about the two. It had been a while since their names were getting these many mentions after their short peak period right after their debut. Unfortunately for them, the responses they were getting now were the complete opposite from that time.
—Hey guys, we should just stop talking about Hwang Jun-Kill. That crazy guy has been talking shadily about Wo*n since the beginning of The Showcase 2
—I thought those guys were hella shady since their debut
—By the way Yoon Dong-Hy*k keeps mentioning Do-Se*ng on live broadcast, I’m completely certain something happened between them
Reply: Yeah; not just Hwang Jun-Ky*l but Yoon Copycat is a problem too. I guarantee he did something to Do-Se*ng
Reply: I just looked up the video and it’s true :0; that bastard keeps mentioning Do-Se*ng and stirring drama
—It’s hilarious how the two didn’t say a word about Wo*n and Do-Se*ng even though they were supposed to be so “close,” but now that S*ren debuted, they are mentioning our guys at every chance possible. Let’s keep using alternative names so that this doesn’t pop up on the searches. Don’t want S*ren members to trouble themselves with this
Though there wasn’t any clear evidence yet, idol fans with quick senses clearly saw through the situation. After several years of stanning idols, fans learned how the entertainment business ran. When they saw that Woon responded strangely to the comment asking if he was close to Hwang Jun-Kyul, they searched for videos related to him and quickly got a sense of the two’s relationship.
After making their projections up to this point, it wasn’t difficult for them to guess what happened not just between Hwang Jun-Kyul and Woon but also Yoon Dong-Hyuk and Do-Seung. They couldn’t know the exact details like the fact that Hwang Jun-Kyul waxed the floor or Yoon Dong-Hyuk stole Do-Seung’s song, but they could easily guess that one person had one-sidedly tormented the other.
Of course, there weren’t only comments that were simply accusing Hwang Jun-Kyul and Yoon Dong-Hyuk as perpetrators.
—The Siren cultists are going at it again
—Besides all that, doesn’t Lee Woon have like zero social skills? Who just freezes like that from a question asking if he was close to someone? hahaha, there’s not even any proof that Hwang Jun-Kyul did anything wrong
—Siren always had a lot of crazy fanatics since the beginning of The Showcase. Just stay neutral
—Why are you also unnecessarily dragging Dong-Hyuk into this too?
These opinions didn’t necessarily shield Hwang Jun-Kyul and Yoon Dong-Hyuk, but they reprimanded the other commentators for going overboard with their projections. Though some of these people throught Hwang Jun-Kyul and Yoon Dong-Hyuk could have done something wrong in the past, they wanted to refrain from guessing without any evidence.
Yet, there came one post that broke this stance of neutrality.
—There’s a post on NacePann. I put the link of it below.
—???
—Wow, it really was true
People’s opinions began to wildly tilt with someone’s post that also included proof of their identity and past.
***
NacePann was a place where all sorts of gossip came up from the entertainment world. From time to time, there were posts with detailed and specific records, and the moment people decided the post was true, rumors became official, and the careers of those who were said to have committed these ill deeds were destroyed. This time, this long post was about Hwang Jun-Kyul.
—Included Evidence) I was an ex-trainee of Vision’s final pre-debut group
It was a title that just invited people’s clicks. Because people had already been curious about the relationship between the two, NacePann's heavy users quickly went into the links. The post was wordy but in summary, it was like this:
—In short, Hwang Jun-Kyul disliked Lee Woon during his entire trainee days. He talked badly about Lee Woon to the trainees he was close to and though he tried to outcast Woon from the rest of the group, he failed every time. For a long time, he tried to impede Lee Woon’s progress and hinder him, and at last, he even went so far as to wax the practice floor so that he could enter the debuting team instead of Woon.
—At that time, he said it was all a joke, saying he didn’t really think Woon would get injured and just wanted Woon to fall a bit. But I know that Hwang Jun-Kyul waxed the floor with the desire and hope for Woon to get hurt. (These are the messages Hwang Jun-Kyul sent, confessing that he waxed the floor in his own words)
—After all the evil deeds he did against Lee Woon, Hwang Jun-Kyul is acting like he was best friends with Lee Woon. I am writing this post in disgust of his behavior. I also uploaded a picture of my contract from my trainee days and some more evidence to prove my identity, so you can make your own judgments.
People’s responses began to pour in with this post. Though some suggested waiting to confirm whether this post was real or not, the detailed and thorough proof of identity convinced most people that the poster was who they claimed they were. And thinking this, what people wondered was how much of this post was true.
The only fact that they could confirm this instance was whether or not Hwang Jun-Kyul really waxed the floor. Because of that, Woon was greatly injured, and he couldn’t participate in the audition for the debuting group. This was an incident that had certainly happened without any doubts and by just the confirmation of this fact, there seemed to be no further need for proof.
—Wow, wasn’t he the devil at this point?
—I always said Hwang Jun-Kill had crazy eyes
—There’s a guy who really does things that come out in dramas...
—Haa seriously, our poor babies
—No, our Woon...sad
The neutrality that had been barely maintained in place completely broke down and Hwang Jun-Kyul began to receive criticism from not just the Siren fans but everyone else. Another incident broke out on top of that then.
—After seeing the post below, I also gained the courage to make a post. I used to be YM Entertainment’s song-producing trainer
Another post with this title came up. The earlier post targeted Hwang Jun-Kyul while the latter post attacked Yoon Dong-Hyuk.
—At that time, Yoon Dong-Hyuk used his group of friends to bully Do-Seung and make him doubt his abilities as a song producer. Do-Seung went through a lot of emotional and mental turmoil in the process.
—I know it’s difficult to judge art forms, but as someone who teaches song-producing as a job, Do-Seung was far superior in terms of his song-producing skills compared to Yoon Dong-Hyuk. Do-Seung’s sense and understanding of instruments, melody, and so on were the most noticeable too.
The content of this post was simple. It was just that Yoon Dong-Hyuk used his group of friends to outcast Do-Seung. Yet, it went further to say that Yoon Dong-Hyuk had plagiarized Do-Seung’s song.
—In a place when the song-producing member of the debuting group had to be chosen, Yoon Dong-Hyuk brought a song that he plagiarized from Do-Seung. The song that Yoon Dong-Hyuk claimed to have written is one of the songs in Visions’ debut album. This is a demo that Do-Seung sent me so please make the judgments yourselves.
After claiming that Yoon Dong-Hyuk had plagiarized Do-Seung’s song, he provided related evidence. People heard the audio the song-producing trainer provided and heard Vision’s debut album’s songs and quickly made their judgments.
—What, he just copied the songs as it was...
—He made no effort to change it
—Did he really think he wouldn’t get caught?
—But Do-Seung didn’t even publish his song or anything so he probably couldn’t have sued for plagiarism :( It’s so frustrating
—Ha, this is so annoying
Yoon Dong-Hyuk’s and Do-Seung’s chorus was perfectly in sync. Besides a couple of details, the song was the same. This incident not only became a hot issue among idol fans but the rest of the public since the topic of plagiarism always garnered a lot of attention. Thus, the issue began to spread even in internet communities that mostly men used through Nutube shorts and TikTakTok videos.
—Hahaha there’s a guy who plagiarized a song in his trainee days haha
—How little talent does he have that he plagiarizes even in his trainee days?
—The person who he plagiarized from is also an idol?
—Yeah, someone named Kang Do-Seung
—But this guy named Kang Do-Seung must really be good?
—I’m a Practical Music student and he really is good at writing songs. His melody and details are insane. He’s one of the producers we often listen to while studying.
As the plagiarism issue became more famous, Do-Seung’s song-producing skills were highlighted as much. All of this led to more public attention towards Siren. This was the butterfly effect of Woon freezing for a moment after reading the chat box monitor.
—Hwang Wax and Yoon Plagiarism are screwed Haha
And thus, Hwang Jun-Kyul and Yoon Dong-Hyuk began to pay for their karma.
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