Recently, an image of HYBE Chairman Bang Si Hyuk was spotted walking in the street with two girls in Beverly Hills, California (USA) in July, which has been widely shared on social media.
One of the girls is female BJ (a person who specializes in live streaming to earn money on the internet) Juice Seyeon, born in 2000, 24 years old. She started her first live broadcast in 2019 and is known for being an influential person who operates not only on Afreeca TV but also on YouTube and TikTok.
This has sparked rumors about a romantic relationship between HYBE Chairman and the aforementioned female BJ. Public opinion was also stirred when it was known that the age difference between the two people is 28 years.
Later, another person passing by shared an image of Bang Si Hyuk enthusiastically taking photos with the girl accompanying him.
As the controversy continued, HYBE issued a statement explaining the reason: “HYBE Chairman Bang Si Hyuk accidentally met an older person among the two at a gathering of acquaintances and advised her on how to deal with impersonators in the entertainment industry.
Later, when both girls came to Los Angeles, they asked about tourist attractions and restaurants. Bang Si Hyuk booked a table and served as a tour guide for them.”
However, this statement from HYBE continued to make Bang Si Hyuk the subject of ridicule. A post on the online community theqoo attracted attention with the title: “It seems Bang Si Hyuk has recovered from his face recognition disorder already.”
The post explained that at a meeting at HYBE, when the parents of the group NewJeans expressed their opinion about Chairman Bang Shi Hyuk deliberately ignoring NewJeans, the HYBE representative said: Chairman Bang was suffering from face recognition disorder, so he could not respond to the greetings of the NewJeans members in the elevator.
The post jokingly asked: “A patient with a serious illness, who does not even bother to greet because he does not recognize the artists who have debuted in his company, but still remembers the face of the BJ he has watched, so he must be cured already, right?”
Under the post, Korean netizens left hundreds of comments in agreement and reminded everyone that Chairman Bang Si Hyuk deliberately ignored NewJeans is a fact.
“This means that Chairman Bang is closer to these two girls than anyone else in his own company.” - some comments from netizens on theqoo.
On August 8-9, all posts about HYBE Chairman Bang Si Hyuk on theqoo attracted massive engagement, with tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of views.
