Lee Seok-cheol reveals CEO’s abuse
The East Light’s Lee Seok-cheol during a press conference on Friday said he was physical and verbally abused by Media Line Entertainment’s CEO Kim Chang-hwan and a producer, and vowed to take legal action.
The 18-year-old leader and drummer of the teenage boy band gave a full testimony with his legal representative by his side and informed the press that from 2015 through 2017, the members, including himself, had been assaulted or connived. The artist went on to give detailed descriptions of the abuse they received from the agency’s chairman Kim Chang-hwan and an unnamed resident producer, before and after the band formed in 2016.