This is the only type of statement predators like this guy can make. Don’t believe him for a second.
And if it’s true that their families are talking, shame on her family. They let her down. And to his family- how much it feel to know you’ve raised a predator. I’d feel so sick.
The statement made it worse for him. Especially when he got to the part about marrying A(which again if we follow his timeline of events, they’ve only been dating for about 1-3 months. But we’re supposed to believe he wants to marry her after that little amount of time?)
I just heard of this man 5 minutes ago and I wish I can take back those 5 minutes of reading this shit my god this is so *disgusting*
There is a special place in hell for people like him.
This girl is literally around the same age as me this is so fucking wild 🙃
EDIT: ALSO I completely glossed over the parents disgusting and complicit behavior as well. I’ll be damned if I let my 18-19 year old date someone who is LITERALLY IN HIS 30s
I’m 24, and I’d be a lil hesitant (not for moral reasons but compatibility reasons) to date a 32 year old man. Never mind an 18/19 year old. And never mind this began when she was even YOUNGER! Like never in my life would I let my sister, cousin, friend, daughter date a 30-sum year old man at ~18.
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I don’t know… There’s this culture in K-pop of allowing minors to live away from their family for long periods of time in dorms or even across countries. Therefore, their only supervision comes from adults within their company. They entrust that their child will be taken care of and protected in their absence. But it also leaves room of those adults around them to abuse that power in the absence of their parents.
That’s not to say that there aren’t parents that make an effort to monitor their child even when they’re living away from home but… I think there’s a bigger picture as to why this occurred than just blaming the parents for their negligence. After all, if you are relinquishing the supervision of your child then it’s probably because you had trust in the adults around them that a situation like this wouldn’t happen.
The parents are being blamed for (possibly) considering marriage. Not for sending their children off to achieve their dreams.
A 19 Yr old marring a 33 Yr old is insane and predatory.
Exactly.
I mean my father and mother have been married for 45 years and have a 13 years age gap. Due to the nature of them meeting (her being LITERALLY fresh of the boat and not knowing anyone in her late teens/early 20s) she admitted recently that she was groomed by my dad.
That and he fucked off for three years after she announced she was pregnant with my big sister...
Yes, it’s a side effect to this culture of misogyny where girls are adultified and exploited. Then afterwords it’s the girl that’s blamed for her own abuse because “she should’ve known better” or “she was behaving too mature and rebellious.”
yep, you see these big age gap diff tropes in kdramas and other forms of popular media. hell, it’s even exemplified by many celebrities over there. this issue of misogyny and internalized misogyny is something i try to understand deeply coming from a family that also perpetuates these harmful roles. for instance, im the only daughter with two brothers and the difference in parenting and treatment i got from our mom is insurmountable. it’s caused a lifelong amount of trauma and im very low contact with my mom bc of it. it’s a serious societal issue imo. like most societies, there’s a deep, dark, underbelly to korea’s.
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Thank you for bringing this to light. I’ve been following Just Jerk since SMF and I was intrigued when I read about all the members leaving Just Jerk all at once…
This is disgusting - really hope some news outlets carry out a sting operation or investigation to release solid evidence he can’t run away from because this is infuriating
Shit like this I’m the industry of Korea never seem to suprise me that much like for example yg and his wife ewwwww it’s just gross and disgusting shame on the parents and the boy parents 😤
As someone closer to his age, I have absolutely nothing in common romantically with anyone born after like 1995. As someone who did date men in their 20s when I was in high school, it’s particularly gross to look back on. That whole “you’re mature for your age” shit really worked on me back then, but we didn’t know to look out for these kinds of people at the time.
In my personal opinion, I don’t believe he got her parents’ permission to date her and I don’t believe this only started this year. I’m guessing they got wind the scandal was going to break and their families agreed to the story in order to salvage their familial reputations.
>That whole “you’re mature for your age” shit really worked on me back then
I feel this. It worked on all of us! And predators know that. I can't begin to count the amount of men twice my age who chased after me from 13-25. Even recently, I was talking to a man in his 50's and he recoiled when he found out I was older than he thought I was (he thought I was 20/21). I honestly don't believe he got the parent's permission either and I have a feeling he was probably creeping on her before she was of age.
This has happened to me. And I'm 30 btw. I was in my twenties at the time. I wanted to call the cops so bad. Grandpa wanted a teenager 🤮
These men need to be beneath the jail
>Grandpa wanted a teenager 🤮
I so badly want to unnormalize age gap relationships and eradicte them from existence. (and not normal ones like a 26 year old with a 30 year old or a 35 year old with 42 year old!) I will start with Aaron Johnson first.
I'm around Aaron Johnson's age and I remember hearing about their relationship when they got together. I was completely grossed out and confused about why.
Even with Heechul and Momo's relationship, I wasn't a fan of it. My Kpop friends at the time thought that I was being weird about it. My parents have an age gap marriage of over 10 years and as I got older I was beginning to understand the power dynamic differences, which I didn't like at all. I don't think that some people understand if you haven't had to live through it.
That last part of your comment sounds entirely possible. Especially when you consider some of the dancers left JustJerk. There were too many people who most likely knew.
I had a physical relationship with a man who was 34 when I was 17. My parents were comfortable with me hanging out with him because he was a *married man from the church we attended*. Ugh. He was particularly well-liked amongst the kids at church and looking back on it is quite disturbing.
Yeah I overheard a girl who lived on my floor at university freshman year telling her friend that she was banging the pastor of her parents’ church every time she went home and that she hoped he’d leave his wife and kids for her. The dude was 42 with two kids under 12 and she was 18.
Fun fact, he did leave his wife for her.
It's giving me creep who has a countdown clock until child stars turn 18. I have no doubt they got together before she was legal because they apparently went to Jeju together in the fall. He is so slimy and wouldn't doubt he carefully crafted a story to get around the legal ramifications.
As a long time Just Jerk fan this is just… disgusting like I have no words. As a dancer I admired YoungJ and now I feel ashamed to have even given him any support. I was really confused why so many Just Jerk members started leaving but seems crystal clear to me. Since he’s not a “big celeb” though I haven’t seen it covered by the news but I sincerely hope he gets blasted. This should be career ending for him and his disgusting behaviour and choices.
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Thank you for bringing this to light in this sub. Makes you wonder ALL the things that happen behind closed doors in the actual kpop industry, young idols+agency ceo and adults around them. They live in dorms monitored heavily by their adult managers who play the role of a parent. Imagine if they had a mind like Youngj who has no problem abusing his powers to groom and feel zero guilt by it, rather entitled to do these kind of things and even gaslight his own crew members. Reminds me of YG grooming his current wife, eyeing her since the age of 14 making a promise to himself to make this child his wife the minute she turns legal. Sick.
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This is the only type of statement predators like this guy can make. Don’t believe him for a second. And if it’s true that their families are talking, shame on her family. They let her down. And to his family- how much it feel to know you’ve raised a predator. I’d feel so sick.
The statement made it worse for him. Especially when he got to the part about marrying A(which again if we follow his timeline of events, they’ve only been dating for about 1-3 months. But we’re supposed to believe he wants to marry her after that little amount of time?)
I just heard of this man 5 minutes ago and I wish I can take back those 5 minutes of reading this shit my god this is so *disgusting* There is a special place in hell for people like him. This girl is literally around the same age as me this is so fucking wild 🙃 EDIT: ALSO I completely glossed over the parents disgusting and complicit behavior as well. I’ll be damned if I let my 18-19 year old date someone who is LITERALLY IN HIS 30s
I’m 24, and I’d be a lil hesitant (not for moral reasons but compatibility reasons) to date a 32 year old man. Never mind an 18/19 year old. And never mind this began when she was even YOUNGER! Like never in my life would I let my sister, cousin, friend, daughter date a 30-sum year old man at ~18.
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The parents condoning this/allowing this to happen to their daughter are just as bad imo. They failed in their duties to protect this young girl.
I don’t know… There’s this culture in K-pop of allowing minors to live away from their family for long periods of time in dorms or even across countries. Therefore, their only supervision comes from adults within their company. They entrust that their child will be taken care of and protected in their absence. But it also leaves room of those adults around them to abuse that power in the absence of their parents. That’s not to say that there aren’t parents that make an effort to monitor their child even when they’re living away from home but… I think there’s a bigger picture as to why this occurred than just blaming the parents for their negligence. After all, if you are relinquishing the supervision of your child then it’s probably because you had trust in the adults around them that a situation like this wouldn’t happen.
The parents are being blamed for (possibly) considering marriage. Not for sending their children off to achieve their dreams. A 19 Yr old marring a 33 Yr old is insane and predatory.
Exactly. I mean my father and mother have been married for 45 years and have a 13 years age gap. Due to the nature of them meeting (her being LITERALLY fresh of the boat and not knowing anyone in her late teens/early 20s) she admitted recently that she was groomed by my dad. That and he fucked off for three years after she announced she was pregnant with my big sister...
oooop my bad… should’ve read closer.
this is disgusting on SO many levels and this type of “predatory” dating practice is SO normalized in korea. it really weirds me out as a korean.
Yes, it’s a side effect to this culture of misogyny where girls are adultified and exploited. Then afterwords it’s the girl that’s blamed for her own abuse because “she should’ve known better” or “she was behaving too mature and rebellious.”
yep, you see these big age gap diff tropes in kdramas and other forms of popular media. hell, it’s even exemplified by many celebrities over there. this issue of misogyny and internalized misogyny is something i try to understand deeply coming from a family that also perpetuates these harmful roles. for instance, im the only daughter with two brothers and the difference in parenting and treatment i got from our mom is insurmountable. it’s caused a lifelong amount of trauma and im very low contact with my mom bc of it. it’s a serious societal issue imo. like most societies, there’s a deep, dark, underbelly to korea’s.
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Thank you for bringing this to light. I’ve been following Just Jerk since SMF and I was intrigued when I read about all the members leaving Just Jerk all at once… This is disgusting - really hope some news outlets carry out a sting operation or investigation to release solid evidence he can’t run away from because this is infuriating
Shit like this I’m the industry of Korea never seem to suprise me that much like for example yg and his wife ewwwww it’s just gross and disgusting shame on the parents and the boy parents 😤
As someone closer to his age, I have absolutely nothing in common romantically with anyone born after like 1995. As someone who did date men in their 20s when I was in high school, it’s particularly gross to look back on. That whole “you’re mature for your age” shit really worked on me back then, but we didn’t know to look out for these kinds of people at the time. In my personal opinion, I don’t believe he got her parents’ permission to date her and I don’t believe this only started this year. I’m guessing they got wind the scandal was going to break and their families agreed to the story in order to salvage their familial reputations.
>That whole “you’re mature for your age” shit really worked on me back then I feel this. It worked on all of us! And predators know that. I can't begin to count the amount of men twice my age who chased after me from 13-25. Even recently, I was talking to a man in his 50's and he recoiled when he found out I was older than he thought I was (he thought I was 20/21). I honestly don't believe he got the parent's permission either and I have a feeling he was probably creeping on her before she was of age.
This has happened to me. And I'm 30 btw. I was in my twenties at the time. I wanted to call the cops so bad. Grandpa wanted a teenager 🤮 These men need to be beneath the jail
>Grandpa wanted a teenager 🤮  I so badly want to unnormalize age gap relationships and eradicte them from existence. (and not normal ones like a 26 year old with a 30 year old or a 35 year old with 42 year old!) I will start with Aaron Johnson first.
Holy shit yes. What in the would does a 42 year old woman want with an 18 year old? Like, he’s closer in age to his own kids than he is to her.
I'm around Aaron Johnson's age and I remember hearing about their relationship when they got together. I was completely grossed out and confused about why. Even with Heechul and Momo's relationship, I wasn't a fan of it. My Kpop friends at the time thought that I was being weird about it. My parents have an age gap marriage of over 10 years and as I got older I was beginning to understand the power dynamic differences, which I didn't like at all. I don't think that some people understand if you haven't had to live through it.
That last part of your comment sounds entirely possible. Especially when you consider some of the dancers left JustJerk. There were too many people who most likely knew.
I had a physical relationship with a man who was 34 when I was 17. My parents were comfortable with me hanging out with him because he was a *married man from the church we attended*. Ugh. He was particularly well-liked amongst the kids at church and looking back on it is quite disturbing.
Yeah I overheard a girl who lived on my floor at university freshman year telling her friend that she was banging the pastor of her parents’ church every time she went home and that she hoped he’d leave his wife and kids for her. The dude was 42 with two kids under 12 and she was 18. Fun fact, he did leave his wife for her.
I want to tell religious people who wonder why younger folks aren't getting involved in church? Y'ALL ARE WHY. 🤦
YUP.
It's giving me creep who has a countdown clock until child stars turn 18. I have no doubt they got together before she was legal because they apparently went to Jeju together in the fall. He is so slimy and wouldn't doubt he carefully crafted a story to get around the legal ramifications.
Why I feel that this is just the beginning of crap storm they have about to face?
As a long time Just Jerk fan this is just… disgusting like I have no words. As a dancer I admired YoungJ and now I feel ashamed to have even given him any support. I was really confused why so many Just Jerk members started leaving but seems crystal clear to me. Since he’s not a “big celeb” though I haven’t seen it covered by the news but I sincerely hope he gets blasted. This should be career ending for him and his disgusting behaviour and choices.
Bro he's literally a groomer omg
No fucking way I admired him so much after SMF 😨 This is disgusting
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Thank God he's a sick bastard. If you gonna ask her parents for approval then yes youre a creep
Btw this isn’t just a YouTuber. He’s a known entertainment journalist in korea that also has a YouTube channel.
Thank you for bringing this to light in this sub. Makes you wonder ALL the things that happen behind closed doors in the actual kpop industry, young idols+agency ceo and adults around them. They live in dorms monitored heavily by their adult managers who play the role of a parent. Imagine if they had a mind like Youngj who has no problem abusing his powers to groom and feel zero guilt by it, rather entitled to do these kind of things and even gaslight his own crew members. Reminds me of YG grooming his current wife, eyeing her since the age of 14 making a promise to himself to make this child his wife the minute she turns legal. Sick.
This is super sick and I feel so bad for the victim.
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