Hello. This is SOURCE MUSIC. Our company regularly initiates legal proceedings against perpetrators of malicious activities related to LE SSERAFIM, including defamation, personal attacks, sexual harassment, the spread of groundless information, and ill-intentioned criticism. We would like to provide an update on these activities. To strengthen the protection of artist rights, we have recently upgraded the system we use to monitor and collect evidence of malicious postings in real time. We have filed several criminal complaints with law enforcement agencies against the authors and disseminators of malicious postings, based on evidence submitted by our fans as well as collected through our internal monitoring system. In the criminal complaints, we included postings and comments involving sexual harassment on the account of their violation of Obscene Acts by Using Means of Communication. We also recognize the gravity of malicious acts involving the creation and dissemination of digitally manipulated explicit materials incorporating the artists’ photographs, which we are addressing via legal measures. All types of malicious slander, violent and vulgar comments that arouse aversion, and postings that engage in habitual name-calling and ridicule are also subject to legal action. We would like to inform you that we will continue to take strong legal measures against malicious postings that violate our artists’ rights. Our policy of no settlement and no leniency under any circumstances during the legal proceedings against such invasion of artists’ rights remains in effect. We would also like to inform you that we secured the identity of a malicious poster whom we had previously taken legal action against. Upon the prosecutor’s investigation, the poster was found guilty of defamation and received legal punishment. We will regularly collect information on malicious postings regarding LE SSERAFIM, report them to the authorities and take legal action. We ask that our fans make continued use of our hotline (protect@sourcemusic.com) to report any cases of abuse. We are always grateful for the affection and dedication shown by the fans of LE SSERAFIM. SOURCE MUSIC will continue to work to ensure that the rights of our artists are fully protected. Thank you.
