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Blackpink label to take legal action after Jennie photos leaked and widely shared on social media, fuelling rumours she is dating V of BTS
- Private and personal photos of Jennie from Blackpink have been circulating online that fuelled rumours she is dating V from BTS
- Blackpink’s label, YG Entertainment, says it will take legal action against the sharers of the photos and those who have spread malicious rumours about Jennie
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Photos shared online allegedly showing moments from the private life of Jennie from K-pop girl group Blackpink have led the group’s South Korean music label YG Entertainment to announce it will be taking legal action.
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The action would target people who have shared photos of Jennie, and those who have spread malicious rumours about the star, YG Entertainment said.
In August this year, images of Jennie began circulating that she had not shared on social media, including several that fuelled rumours she is dating V from K-pop boy band BTS. This led to rumours that her cloud storage had been hacked.
YG did not refer directly to the hacking allegation, but said it had contacted South Korean police in September in a bid to stop “excessively malicious posts” that were showing up on social media.
In South Korea, any malicious statement, true or false, counts as defamation as long as it can be proven to have harmed its target.
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