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Yoo Joon-won, who is in dispute over violating an exclusive contract with Funky Studio, the production company of MBC's "Boy Fantasy-After-school Excitement Season 2" (hereinafter referred to as "Boy Fantasy"), eventually postponed his schedule ahead of the opening of the ticket for the Japanese fan meeting.
Yoo Jun-won posted an apology on his official SNS on the afternoon of the 1st, saying, "I would like to inform you that the ticket opening scheduled today has been postponed to confirm the report of related articles and all matters." The decision came shortly after Funky Studio distributed a press release that signaled a legal response to unauthorized activities and strong responsibility for its host company, My Entertainment.
Funky Studio said, "This is the second postponement of ticket opening after Yoo Joon-won was caught preparing for an unauthorized fan meeting in 2024 and canceled. Yoo Jun-won is the only member who has been selected through numerous audition survival programs at home and abroad to pursue arbitrary activities," he stressed.
In fact, even though it is a long-standing practice in the Japanese entertainment industry to refrain from activities if legal proceedings between artists and agencies proceed, Yoo Joon-won and organizers, who tried to push ahead with the fan meeting ignoring it, were once again blocked by the production company's strong legal blockade and reports from fantasy boys fans.
Funky Studio expressed regret about the situation, saying, "It is a natural result of the judiciary's judgment and attempts to engage in unauthorized activities that ignore the commercial morality of the industry."
Yoo Joon-won was confirmed as the debut group of Fantasy Boys by ranking No. 1 in "Boy Fantasy," but he was in conflict due to demands for an increase in the profit distribution rate and the team's unauthorized departure. Yoo Joon-won then filed an injunction against Funky Studio to suspend the validity of the exclusive contract, but lost.
In this regard, Funky Studio said, "We will take a strong legal action against Yoo Joon-won, who is preparing for a fan meeting secretly in violation of the contract." Funky Studio said it will also search for Yoo Joon-won's fan meeting production company, and will apply for proof of content and provisional disposition for performances to planners and production companies. He also strongly criticized the move, saying it was a form of conscience in a handful of fantasy boys members.
Afterwards, Funky Studio said in a statement again, "We have confirmed that Yoo Joon-won violated the contract and secretly prepared for a Japanese fan meeting with Japanese performance producer Huckleberry (ハックルベリー), and expressed his intention to take legal action," adding, "We recently confirmed that the domestic production company preparing for the fan meeting between Huckleberry and Yoo Jun-won is an Apple Monster." "As Yoo Joon-won lost his application for an injunction to suspend the validity of the exclusive contract, it is a clear violation of the contract to hold events such as fan meetings without our company's knowledge," he said. "We will never sit idly by about this situation, and we ask the production company 'Apple Monster' to explain accurately and express its position." We also plan to submit a petition to the Korea Entertainment Management Association and the Korea Entertainment Producers Association.
In response, Kim Kwang-soo, CEO of Pocketdol Studio, an agency of Fantasy Boys, said earlier, "If Yoo Joon-won returns, I will discuss it with the members and go with him. There is a legal problem, but I will persuade the production company Funky Studio," he said, reaching out to Yoo Joon-won to the end. Nevertheless, Yoo Jun-won responded unresponsively to the end, and Funky Studio, which judged that it had no intention of returning, filed a lawsuit for 3 billion won in damages against Yoo Jun-won.
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