Popular idol group 2PM’s leader, Jaebum who has caused an outrage as captures of his negative comments on his personal website about Korea announced his resignation.
Jaebum posted a message on 2PM’s official fan cafe on 8th September, with the title to the post “This is Jaebum.” informing fans about his leaving of the group. He expressed his feeling out “I think it will be difficult for me to see you on stage because I am so sorry. I will be leaving 2PM as of today. I am so sorry because I have been a leader hyung who not only did not give vigor but became a burden.”
It was later discovered that Jaebum, a U.S. citizenship, posted Korean-offending messages on American networking website ‘MySpace’ between 2005 and 2007 while he was a trainee at JYP Entertainment. After that, it has caused an outrage. He wrote derogatory comments with curse words such as, “I hate Koreans. I wanna come back,” “Everyone thinks I’m like the illest rapper when I suck nuts at rapping.” Even if he posted a statement of apology immediately and left all TV programs where he was a regular member of the panel, netizens are still blaming him.
There are two different opinions among netizens. One is that “it is a natural result” and another is that “he is pitiful.” Jaebum left Korea on a flight at 6:30PM to be with his parents in U.S. for the time being.
*Here is a related article about Jaebum.
