One of the factors that contributed to the problem was the lack of
leadership resulting from the unusual practice of changing the leader
very frequently. This is yet another example of bad management by KKS.
At the time of T-ara's debut in July 2009 the leader was Eunjung, who
was followed by Boram in 2010, Hyomin in 2011 and Soyeon at the
beginning of 2012. Part of the leader's job is to prevent situations
like this developing, but when the problem arose Soyeon failed to deal
with it and even joined in the tweeting when she should have stopped it.
She should have been thinking of what was best for the group and the
members, not indulging in petty bitchiness on Twitter. Because half the
original members had already been leader before her it's likely that
Soyeon lacked authority and she certainly didn't have the experience
that someone who had been leader from the beginning would have had.
Being the leader isn't easy; it requires vision, a strong sense of
responsibility and commitment to taking care of the members. If the
right person, probably Qri, had been given the position from the start
and been allowed to develop her leadership skills over the course of
three years she might have been able to prevent the whole
disaster.
An extra job for the leader in this case was to ensure that Hwayoung was
properly integrated into the T-ara family, but whose responsibility was
that? T-ara were just finishing their third year and Soyeon was their
fourth leader and the third during Hwayoung's time in the group.
Hwayoung once said that because she joined the group late she didn't
think she should bother the unnies. That's part of the problem. She
wasn't sure that she really belonged there, and if I'm right about the
staff (unproven but credible) they were trying to make her feel that she
didn't. The other members may have been unaware of how she felt and
with all those changes of leader the sort of relationship between leader
and new member that would help to prevent the problems didn't develop.
Is Hwayoung to blame for that, or Boram, or Hyomin, or Soyeon? I would
say the responsibility lies with KKS, who would appoint a leader and
then replace her when she started to gain some understanding of what was
required.
This is an extremely biased take on the Hwayoung situation.
ReplyDeleteAll of the valid arguments people had against Hwayoung, you deflected or misconstrued
Stop spamming this on AKP
It is not biased. It is a proper examination of the evidence that considers all points of view and treats everyone fairly.
DeleteI didn't even know T-ara existed until the summer of 2017, and when I read about the scandal I wanted to find out whether Hwayoung had ever said she was bullied. My aim was not to clear her name but simply to learn the truth.
I have faced the arguments against Hwayoung head on and shown why they are either wrong or unreliable. If you think there are some that I have not dealt with properly please tell me what they are.
Over 20 staff members wanted Hwayoung gone, not Aruem, not the other members, and you're really trying to make excuses for her.
ReplyDeleteNo one in this situation was innocent. Definitely not Hwayoung
What a pathetic response. You ignore every point I have made and try to prove me wrong by virtually quoting me, as if I didn't know that the staff wanted to remove Hwayoung.
DeleteWhere did you find that number? In 2)Summary I wrote that Hwayoung was dismissed after complaints from 19 staff members, and that figure comes directly from the boss himself, Kim Kwang Soo. That in itself does not prove anything; it is the end of a story without the beginning and the middle. How did things between Hwayoung and the staff get so bad? Why was nothing done about it until rumours of bullying started? Probably because it wasn't as one-sided as the company tries to make it look. Don't forget that Areum was very complimentary about Hwayoung, but said that she was hurt by the staff. If the staff were partly responsible for their problem with Hwayoung then they have a motive to hide the truth, and if any of them actively tried to split her from the others then they directly caused the crisis which led to T-ara's long ordeal.
Fans claim that KKS protected Hwayoung instead of T-ara, but he blamed Hwayoung for all the trouble from the beginning and lied in the CCM press release to make the other members appear more sympathetic to her, saying "Although she wanted to stand on stage, all the staff and T-ara members argued against her and she eventually took the stage only for her “Day by Day” performance..." This is the man whose response to the tweets was to claim that the members' accounts had been hacked, and who is hated by many T-ara fans for his deceitful, bullying ways and his appalling mismanagement of T-ara and other CCM/MBK artists, but when he says something about Hwayoung he suddenly becomes as a reliable source of truth despite having an obvious motive to deflect blame from T-ara, the company and himself.
Do I make excuses for Hwayoung? Yes, to some extent, but I also make excuses for the other members. Their treatment of Hwayoung in Japan was wrong and hurtful, but I don't condemn them as bitches, bullies and snakes like so many fans do to Hwayoung. They were under a lot of pressure and being fed misleading information, which may have been a misunderstanding or deception. They faced up to what they had done wrong and tried to put it right, and I genuinely respect and admire them for the way they have conducted themselves ever since they returned from Japan.
I don't claim that Hwayoung is completely innocent, but it is very clear that she is only one of many people who contributed to the problem and nothing that she did would have created so much trouble without others doing things that were wrong.
This seems a bit biased... for example claiming "why would hwayong want to miss the concert" is an assumption.
ReplyDeleteNice post though as it offers varied points of view. However, some of the opinions/speculation/assumptions conflict with the purpose of the post which trying to find out the truth.
In all honesty though, does the truth really matter to us? I think we should just let this issue be forgotten. It's been years and these girls have suffered enough and dealt with it. Why should we outsiders keep poking at the issue? I think the girls just want to move on more than anything.
Does the truth really matter? Yes, because there is still so much hate. Had T-ara's fans let the issue fade away I probably wouldn't have bothered to write this, but some of them are still very keen to stir it up whenever Hwayoung is mentioned. The whole point is that it's not just a goodies and baddies story and none of the members deserved the hate.
ReplyDelete"Why would Hwayoung want to miss the concert" is more neutral than the words I actually used. I do think she wouldn't want to miss it; all the hard work had been done and the concerts were the fun part, so laziness, which is the standard accusation, seems an unlikely reason. If you saw that live Lovey Dovey you will be aware of how much she enjoyed performing.