Rapper Yang Hong-won, caught at a Hongdae club amid 'affair controversy'… Smiled and grabbed the mic [Star Issue]

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Rapper Yang Hong-won, who has been embroiled in an affair controversy, was spotted at a Hongdae club on Halloween.

On the 31st, photos and videos claiming that Yang Hong-won appeared in the Hongdae area of Mapo-gu, Seoul were released through online communities by those making the claim.

In the photos, Yang Hong-won was wearing a khaki jacket and black pants as he walked down the street with his companions. He also exchanged smiles and greetings with people who recognized him and engaged in conversation.

Yang Hong-won subsequently took the mic at a club in Hongdae and even performed a rap himself. However, it appears that Yang Hong-won was not an official guest on this day, but rather took the stage spontaneously.

Meanwhile, Yang Hong-won held a wedding ceremony with former model Won Hyeon-ju at a location in Seoul on the 18th. The couple has a daughter born in 2024.

However, Yang Hong-won was engulfed in an affair controversy just five days after his marriage. Person A, who had raised allegations of an affair involving Yang Hong-won, revealed on the 23rd that Yang Hong-won had accompanied another woman to a motel after drinking with her. The controversy intensified as Person A disclosed the face and personal information of the woman believed to have accompanied Yang Hong-won to the motel.

In response, Yang Hong-won's agency acknowledged the fact that he accompanied a woman to a motel but stated, "The whistleblower demanded that we go to a motel she designated." The agency explained, "He went to the motel to find a place to sleep while heavily intoxicated, and the woman, who had nowhere else to go, was forced to accompany him out of necessity." It further claimed, "The artist fell asleep as soon as he entered the room. The woman tried to wake the sleeping artist but asked the whistleblower for help, after which she went home with the whistleblower."

Subsequently, Person A appeared in a video titled "[Exclusive] Interview with Whistleblower of Yang Hong-won Affair Allegations," released on the YouTube channel Grey News on the 29th, and stated, "Yang Hong-won is a friend I played with when we were young. It wasn't like we were friends in school or anything like that. My feelings were more of respect than malice." Person A continued, "At that time, I urgently needed money, and the friend who came to mind was him (Yang Hong-won). When I said, 'I'm sorry for saying this after so long. I'm really sorry, but could you lend me 300,000 won?' his reaction was absurd. Immediately, contact came from the company side, and a lawyer put me down. They belittled me. That really provoked me. At that time, the lawyer said, 'Do whatever you want, we will respond.' So I posted (the exposé)."

Person A added, "I have a time to take my medication. I suffer from bipolar disorder and severe sleep disorders, so I took the medicine and just slept and woke up, but it started to blow up around 1 p.m. Lawyers also kept contacting me."

Person A said, "I've taken all the abuse one could expect in a lifetime. I didn't think things would get this big. My follower count isn't high, and I'm not an influencer either, so I did it thinking 'who would even see this,' but my thinking was short-sighted." Person A continued, "Honestly, I don't really know if it went as far as an affair. I didn't see any scene of them having an affair. I'm sorry because I didn't think things would get this big," and also apologized to Yang Hong-won's wife, Won Hyeon-ju, and their daughter.

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