Kim Garam

HYBE has released an additional statement regarding ongoing school violence rumors about LE SSERAFIM's Kim Garam. As soon as Kim Garam was announced as a ...

After meeting with her homeroom teacher, Kim Garam went to get a nicotine test with her parents in order to clear herself and submitted the results to her teacher, and she directly explained the false rumors about her smoking to her friends. However, at the time of her debut, the situation became one in which we had no choice but to take action as groundless false information regarding Kim Garam spread extensively and the contents related to the school violence committee meeting with one-sided claims were also disclosed through a law firm, so we feel regretful for having to explain the sensitive issues regarding her fellow peers. All of these rumors are false, and Kim Garam was harmed by such rumors when she was in middle school also. At that time, “D” was very mentally shocked, and a total of five friends, including Kim Garam, confronted Yoo Eun Seo about her wrong behavior on behalf of “D.” Kim Garam and her friends, who were angry about the spread of illegal photography of their friend “D,” met Yoo Eun Seo separately to complain, and in the process, they cursed at her. Besides the distinction of the student perpetrator and student victim as indicated on the surface by the school violence committee, there are several students who recognized Yoo Eun Seo’s actions of requesting a school violence committee and claiming herself as victim despite her great wrongdoing as being problematic. Not only classmates, but several students from other schools who were complete strangers to Kim Garam came into the chat room and verbally attacked Kim Garam and her friend. After being swept up in the unfortunate situation with the school violence committee, ridiculous rumors about Kim Garam were spread throughout the school. However, there was an argument for about three hours at the retreat they went on during the beginning of the school year when it was revealed that Yoo Eun Seo had bad-mouthed Kim Garam and her other friends, and it came to a close after they apologized to each other. Ultimately, the school violence committee’s measures were given to two students, Kim Garam and “B,” who had been pointed out [as perpetrators] by Yoo Eun Seo who left the school. In this case, the perpetrator, who first did something terribly wrong against her fellow students, requested a school violence committee, and Kim Garam, who was taking action for her friend, was deemed the assailant. Rather, she pointed out the classmates who had confronted her as perpetrators, referred them to the school violence committee, and then transferred to another school. Earlier this week, Source Music and Kim Garam’s former school issued brief statements in response to alleged new evidence of her school violence.