Last year, the Korean Love Bean Talent Show "Produce101" was exposed to large-scale voting fraud and black box operation debut position, do you remember this?
Recently, the incident finally followed up, and just yesterday, the South Korean court finally released the list of trainees who were victims of the Produce series of vote fraud.
From the first season to the fourth season of the show, there were exactly 12 trainees who did not have the opportunity to debut because of the black box operation of the ranking, and all four seasons of the show were ticket victims.
The first season of "Produce101", which was thought to be clean, was actually falsified in the first round of voting results, and trainees Kim So-hyun and Seo Hye-rin were eliminated.
In the second season of 202, the boy band Wanna One did the same thing, and in the 1st round of voting, he faked the practice generation Hyun Woo and eliminated the popular member of the current Korean boy group NU'EST in the 4th round of voting, Kang Dong-ho.
The third season 303, the season of the women's group IZ*ONE, the final round voting results were fake, and the popular trainees Li Jia'en and Han Chuyuan were directly eliminated, and the original final ranking of the two was actually the fifth and sixth, properly high-seeded members.
The most controversial fourth season, 404, is also the season with the most black-box operations, with a total of 6 trainees being manipulated to maliciously swap the rankings.
The results of the first round of voting were fake, eliminating Timothee; the results of the third round of voting were fake, eliminating Kim Kwok-hyun and Lee Jin-woo.
The results of the final voting round of the 4th round were falsified, and the popular players Gu Tingmo, Lee Jin Hyuk and Qin DongXian were eliminated in the final, and the original final ranking was actually 6th place in Gu Tingmo, 7th place in Lee Jin Hyuk, and 8th place in Qin Dong Hyun...
When I saw the results, I was stunned.
Although after the poll fraud incident was exposed last year, it was already known that some popular players may not have made their debut due to the black box operation, but I still did not expect that there would be such a large number of victims, and it was still so blatant to directly rotate in the final.
After the list of victim trainees was announced yesterday, south Korea's court in charge of hearing the case also issued another announcement, and the court decided not to disclose the trainees who benefited from fraud, that is, the members who successfully debuted because of cheating.
The reason is that many trainees do not know that their rankings are fake, and they also have a victim side. If exposed, they are in great danger of becoming scapegoats for defendants who commit fraud.
The trial of the incident was to convict the defendants who falsified the rankings, not the trainees who burned their youth.
Although it makes sense, it is still difficult to be calm.
Trainees who receive debut dividends are protected because they may not know it; but trainees who have become real victims, despite having the law to uphold justice, can no longer recover their original lives.
After the list was announced, li jiaen and Jiang Donghao, popular members of the victim trainees, and their respective companies also officially expressed their positions.
Li Jiaen's company said:
"After learning the relevant facts, we had a full exchange with Li Jia'en and held an internal meeting, and there is no special response measures at present."
Li Jia'en is now learning music herself, and if there is an opportunity to make music or if she herself is willing, our company will help her at any time. ”
Jiang Donghao's company said:
"Although the facts of the injury were announced later, it is fortunate that they have been clearly made public, and we will pay attention to the future measures of CJ ENM, and we have not yet received contact or discussion on compensation from CJ ENM. In addition, it is not true that Jiang Donghao, who was speculated on the Internet, voluntarily got off the bus. ”
Jiang Donghao's final voting session was maliciously manipulated, and he failed to debut with the Wanna One group in 202.
Although the popularity of nu'EST boy band activities under CJ is not low, if it can debut in the super popular Wanna One, it may be a different situation now.
Compared with Jiang Donghao, who was maliciously eliminated but can still be active under the company's arrangement, Li Jiaen, who failed to debut in IZ*ONE, is even more difficult to be calm.
Friends who have chased 303 know that in the third season of "Produce101", Li Jia'en was ranked 1st for the first time, and then although the ranking has risen and fallen, he has never fallen out of the debut position.
And it is such a Li Jiaen, when everyone thought that her debut was stable, did not expect that on the night of the final, the inexplicable ranking became the 14th place, and even the debut position could not be squeezed in.
I think at the beginning, since the beginning of the broadcast, the program team did not know how many topics were used by Li Jiaen.
The fifth term student of the former After School women's group group, but the group development is not good, the individual did not have a long time to move the group fell, debut is unemployed.
Coming to participate in "Produce101", as the oldest of the show's trainees, Li Jia'en's story of starting again and bravely chasing dreams has brought strength to many people.
In the show, he also played his outstanding dance strength as a member of the debut girl group, and also adapted the lyrics into Japanese, challenging himself and bringing a perfect stage.
Li Jia'en, a former Member of After School, participated in the third season of "Produce101", bringing countless topics and hot posts to the show, but such a hero was ticketed on the night of the final group, from the fifth place to the 14th place isolated by the debut position, angry, shocked, and mixed feelings.
The ridiculous ticket exchange stole the opportunity of 12 trainees who could have changed their fate.
Today, IZ*ONE, which debuted in the third season of "Produce101", has 12 members who have become the popular national sisters in South Korea; Lee Jae-eun, who has stolen his musical dreams, is unsustainable in popularity in the second year after the end of the draft, and has transformed into a YouTube blogger...
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The 12 trainees who failed to make their debut were the direct victims of the incident announced by the court, but the bad impact of the incident was far more than the 12 on the list...
The boy band X1, which debuted in the fourth season of "Produce101", has been disbanded because of the ticket storm, although most of them have taken their debut positions in name only, but they have to choose to disband due to controversy.
The first season of the I.O.I combination, which was originally planned to reunite last year, has now been shelved indefinitely due to the storm.
Those who debut in the name of the name become unworthy of the name, carrying the insult of making tickets; and those who should debut by virtue of their strength have been stolen from the bright star path that should belong to them.
The only consolation in the incident is that the court rejected the second-instance appeals of program producers An Junying and Kim Yong-fan the day before yesterday, and upheld the first-instance judgment.
The two masterminds of the incident who manipulated the vote and deliberately falsified the incident were still sentenced to two years' imprisonment and one year and eight months' imprisonment respectively in accordance with the judgment of the court of first instance.
Five years ago, in the noisy and fiery summer, no one thought that this "Produce 101", which set off a nationwide draft boom, would end up in the form of "social news" and "criminal cases" after four seasons.
The Product series, which swept Through Asia, went from MNet's ace show to the biggest scandal in the entire history of Korean variety shows. And the young girls who originally represented dreams and hopes have become puppets or victims of capital manipulation.
In this game, the last and most lamentable young people who are stolen from their lives, steal the future, and steal hopes from their debut positions.
Thinking that "the harder you work, the better you are", thinking that your efforts can be seen, thinking that you have caught the token of "changing your life against the sky", but you do not know the gift of your fate, you have already been secretly marked by others.
The draft can be repeated, but life is only once.
Who pays for the stolen lives?
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Edit: Meng Meng
Assistant: Candy