My mind went completely blank.

The newly released article was the only one of its kind so far. The piece, which claimed to have received a direct tip-off, was accompanied by a still cut of Cheon Yoonsung from the recently announced drama Exclusive Report.

[Exclusive] “Exclusive Report” Kim Iwol, post from mother exposing him appears: “I want my unfilial child to reflect on himself”

20XX.09.XX 10:03 AM

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[Actor Kim Iwol. Photo | UA Entertainment (TVm)]

Testimony has surfaced from the family of rookie actor and idol Kim Iwol, who has been on a winning streak after being confirmed for Exclusive Report following his role in “In My Office”—claiming that he engaged in deviant behavior throughout his youth.

On the 2nd, Kim Iwol’s mother sent a tip-off to Weekly An, stating, “I am concerned that there may be innocent victims due to my violent child’s hypocritical behavior.” She further stated, “I want my child, who grew up unfilial, to sincerely reflect on his actions.” Below is the full text of her handwritten letter.

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That I was violent?

That I engaged in hypocritical behavior to the point where she’s worried about innocent victims?

I read the same lines over and over. But nothing changed.

I clicked on the image of the handwritten letter—something I had never seen before and couldn’t even be sure my mother had actually written. Cramped handwriting filled the screen.

...Because he was born with an exceptionally sensitive temperament from early childhood, he caused constant discord until he became independent. I tried to educate him with a sense of responsibility to ensure he wouldn’t harm his peers, but all I received in return were reckless police reports claiming that I was abusing him. As parents, we had to feel a sense of helplessness for a long time due to our child’s unchanging behavior.

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I searched everywhere to find my child after he ran away, but no police station would accept a runaway report for a child who had reached adulthood. I finally managed to find out his agency and went to see my son, but his violence had only worsened.

I want to ask UA: Is it right to leave children younger than my son in an unsafe environment just because he possesses star quality? If you tolerate such tyrannical behavior simply because he is marketable, who would ever feel at peace pursuing their dreams?

My husband and I have lived in constant fear that innocent victims might emerge due to our child’s hypocritical behavior. While we blame ourselves, wondering if we should have withheld support for his runaway expenses, we believe we couldn’t have made any other decision when thinking of our child spending the cold winter outside. I cannot sleep, feeling as though this complacency ruined my child.

It is shameful that we, as parents, lacked virtue and failed to prevent our son from growing into an unfilial monster, but we hope our child sincerely reflects so that there are no more victims like us.

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I didn’t have the heart to read any further. Even after I closed the laptop, the afterimage of the letter wouldn’t vanish.

I heard the sound of the digital door lock being pressed. Manager Daeyeon’s voice calling for me followed. After a knock, he opened the door and appeared.

“Mr. Iwol, did you get a good sleep?”

“......”

“About the monitoring... Since there will be many articles today due to the Exclusive Report announcement, the dedicated team said they’d check everything at once...”

“Manager.”

I didn’t need to hear the rest of his words to understand what he meant. And I knew well that simply hiding wasn’t the answer.

“I saw it.”

“......”

“It’d be better to talk at the office, right?”

It had been a hot summer until recently, but my fingertips felt cold. I slowly stood up and picked up the document folder I’d packed into my suitcase not long ago.

Upon arriving at the company, I was sent to the practice room instead of the meeting room. Everyone except for the younger members was gathered there.

“Did you hear about the article?”

At my question, Jeong Seongbin’s expression darkened.

“......Then this’ll be quicker. First of all, I’m sorry.”

“Is this really something you need to apologize for?”

“I know it’s not my fault. I also know that apologizing out of habit isn’t a good thing.”

But it’s my mom who did this.

At my words, Choi Jeho sighed. It was a sigh deeper than any I’d heard from him before.

“...Are you okay?”

Park Juu carefully reached out. When he took my hand, a look of surprise crossed his face for a split second, but he quickly pretended nothing was wrong and began to massage my cold hand.

“I’m not great, but I’m not falling apart either. What matters is that I have to explain things. I was planning to visit Ms. Jukyung first anyway, but they told me to wait a bit.”

The impact of this was bound to be on a different level compared to the last time, when an anonymous person posted a slanderous thread.

Even now, what kind of comments and speculation were spreading? My mouth went dry.

“Family matters aren’t something you can explain easily.”

Choi Jeho muttered.

He understood. He knew just how difficult it was to prove the things that happened between family members exactly as he had suffered them.

“I won’t act rashly. Considering the tip-off was so deliberate, there’s a high chance of a follow-up, so I think I should hold back until I know exactly what they want. Though I definitely need to contact the Exclusive Report team and tell them it’s absolutely not true.”

The incident where our father showed up at my sister’s first workplace was a kind of trauma for both of us. Even though her colleagues pretended not to notice, my sister changed jobs not long after.

It felt like a shackle that would never come off, rolling closer and closer to wrap around me. That was how my sister described the feeling when she drank in front of me for the first time, talking about facing our father back then.

Since then, we had always lived prepared. We imagined a day when my workplace would suddenly be invaded. We prepared so that when they stood at the entrance of the company and denounced me as a child who didn’t know the grace of being raised, I could send them away without losing my composure.

When I joined Hanpyeong Industry, that didn’t happen. However, whenever I heard there was an outsider with unconfirmed identity in the lobby, or when a delivery man I’d never seen before visited, or when an outsider came for safety inspections, their faces flashed through my mind.

It was good that I’d trained myself for this. So that I wouldn’t be excessively flustered when the actual situation arrived. If I hadn’t prepared, I would have been in a panic, not knowing what kind of attitude to take.

“I really never did those things, okay? I have evidence. I won’t stab you guys in the back or disappoint the fans. So...”

I had to reassure the guys who had suddenly been burdened with colleague risk.

As I tried to pull the document box out of my bag, Jeong Seongbin stopped me.

“Hyung.”

He looked like he was about to cry.

“Can you... please not disclose this?”

Choi Jeho and Park Juu looked at Jeong Seongbin. But Seongbin’s eyes were fixed solely on me.

“We believe you, hyung. We saw your family too. If testimony is needed, we can do it... but...”

Jeong Seongbin spoke without even taking a breath, his voice trembling as much as his pupils. He looked desperate.

On the day I first brought that document folder outside, Choi Jeho and Jeong Seongbin were outside the door. Since I remember Choi Jeho coming in as the door opened, Jeong Seongbin must have entered the meeting room together that day as well.

“Seongbin.”

“......”

“Did you see it?”

The corners of Seongbin’s eyes were red.

“This isn’t right, hyung.”

“......”

“Just wait a bit. There must be a way. Just like last time, things can settle down with just your explanation. No, just ask the company to release a statement. It’s all a lie anyway. I’ll tell them we should take legal action.”

I grabbed the shoulders of the guy who looked more anxious than I was. Then, I spoke as calmly as possible.

“If you’re worried about image consumption, don’t mind it too much. I don’t want sympathy points either. I’m going to resolve this cleanly...”

“I don’t care about any of that.”

It was rare for Jeong Seongbin to cut me off. He was usually the kind of person who waited for everyone to finish speaking.

Jeong Seongbin shook his head. It wasn’t just a desire to stop me; it was as if he felt he had a mission to stop me.

“I saw the article too. It had nothing to do with me, but it still made me feel sick. I wasn’t the only one. Chanyoung hyung felt it, and Juu did too.”

“That’s because you guys are kind...”

“On the contrary, hyung, you’re too calm. That’s why I’m more worried.”

He bit his lip.

“If you’d been bracing yourself for something like this... if that’s why you’re acting so detached right now, then I’m even more against dragging up your past and putting it out in front of everyone.”

“Seongbin.”

Jeong Seongbin was worried that I might collapse at any moment. He probably thought that acting calm in a situation where one shouldn’t be okay was not a healthy reaction.

“...Alright. I won’t decide this on my own.”

At my words, Seongbin’s expression softened slightly, though he still didn’t let go of the hand gripping the document folder.

But time was always short for the innocent.

Less than a day after we warned Exclusive Report that this was false information and that we’d respond strongly...

≫ Spark, becoming a “group of unfilial children”? Choi Jeho’s father claims, “My family abandoned me.”

≫ All parents of Spark state, “We will arrange a venue to urge the admission of facts.”

...Choi Jeho was dragged into this.

Additional rumors targeting me were also added. A video of me taking a headache pill from the manager in the waiting room—filmed by someone unknown—was spread with titles like “The idol who gets away with blatant drug use.”

A personality controversy video was also released, created by collecting my expressionless faces from the drama or scenes where I was monitoring. Screenshots from that video were plastered all over various posts.

≫ Can’t we sue the channel owner? Who takes drugs in a waiting roomㅋㅋㅋ Unless they’re insaneㅋㅋㅋ

└ In the first place, do drugs come in pill form like that? Aren’t they powder or injected? I really don’t know.

└ They probably insist anything white is a drug, but if that were the case, the kids would have been called to the police station long ago... Die, trolls

≫ [Repost] Stuff coming out about Jeho’s family situation

Seeing fans worshiping Jeho’s blunt way of talking, I thought their sensors were broken, but seeing what he said to his own dad, it’s even more of a spectacleㅋㅋ. I guess it’s true he was ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) only nice to the fans. I acknowledge the relative fan service. Sparklers must be happy to receive special treatment from their “Oppa”

≫ Is this real? What do you all think?

└ Seeing how his dad was the only one missing from the family trip, it seems true they have a bad relationship, but I wonder if he really said stuff like that T_T

└ Anyone can see this is a hate post... let’s just ignore this

└ Guys, think about it. Jeho speaks bluntly, but he’s never been disrespectful T_T If we get swayed by these fabrications of things that never happened, they’ll become “facts” in an instant! I know all Sparklers are feeling unsettled right now, but let’s stay sharp!

≫ The so-called “bad attitude” clips are all either acting scenes or freeze-frames

At this point isn’t this just a personality smear campaign?

└ Kim Iwol is such a pro idol that there’s never been a day where he was just expressionless in front of the camera, so I actually like this. But I’m reporting the video

└ There were so few clips that his clothes are the same in all of them...

└ Is there actually anyone who falls for this?

└└ There are more people with 0 intelligence in this world than you’d think.

└└└ What is this country coming to...

It didn’t even take a day for the group image we had worked so hard to protect to turn into a mess.

I became a piece of trash who disgraced my parents, stole money, and ran away from home during my upbringing. Choi Jeho became a delinquent who pressured his parents into divorce and blocked contact between his father and the rest of the family.