June 14th, 2022
Koreabew

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The leader of the popular boy group Seventeen, S.Coups, was photographed by paparazzi at a local park in Seoul with former ROXI member, Kyungsook. They were spotted after dark in an empty parking lot near a park and seemed to be arguing between two dark-colored vehicles. In the photos, the two wore long hoodies to disguise themselves but their faces were recognizable.

[see the paparazzi photos below]

In one of the photos, Kyungsook was seen pointing her finger and extending her arms as she conversed with S.Coups, who appeared exhausted and stone-faced. These pictures come just days after Kyungsook Kim released a YouTube vlog where she alleged that her former member and current leader of Z10N, Seoyoon Min, used to verbally abuse her, further insinuating this was the reason for her leaving HYBE Entertainment. Just the other day, HYBE released a statement threatening legal charges for defamation of their artist by Kyungsook.

[read HYBE's response addressing Kyungsook's statements here]

In addition to these photographs, this morning, Kyungsook posted some text messages on her social media account that allegedly show Seoyoon calling her explicit terms and threatening to throw her out of their group [ROXI] if she was late to rehearsals and didn't improve her skills before their comeback. These text messages were dated 2021, the year that ROXI disbanded. Underneath the text messages, Kyungsook wrote: "It's not defamation if it's my truth... also, you can't take away my free speech." A comment that's most likely in response to HYBE's lawsuit threat.

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What are your thoughts on these pictures? Were S.Coups and Kyungsook truly arguing? And should Kyungsook's social media post be considered free speech?

Comments:

???: what does s.coups have to do with this? this is getting weird... why is he meeting with her in a park? are they dating? no way

???: in the picture, he looks really mad right? they're clearly arguing about something.

???: these seemed to drop at a convenient time, eh? amidst all this drama. something is fishy. it feels serious.

???: hear me out. let's say kyungsook is innocent... why would s.coups seem agitated while talking with her? if she was innocent, wouldn't he be comforting her?

______ ???: (in response) ^^^ that's what i was thinking and then - i mean, him and the ROXI girls trained together. it's no secret they were friends. maybe he feels like his friendship is betrayed after finding out she was bullying seoyoon?

???: no one would photoshop text messages, right? i mean we are in the 21st century but... she wouldn't be that stupid would she?

???: to be fair, the text messages say they're from Seoyoon... but they could be from anyone. all u have to do is change the name in your phone. kyungsook could've manipulated it somehow.

???: you can't fake text messages...