An official from Lim Chang-jung's agency, YES IM Entertainment, said on the 27th, "The final audition scheduled for the 30th has been postponed."
YESIM Entertainment recently began recruiting applicants for a large-scale audition to select global idols and pop artists, and as a result of the recruitment, a total of 2,000 applicants came in. Applicants who passed the first online document screening will be held at the Yes I Am Entertainment Paju headquarters on the 21st and 22nd for a second physical audition. Applicants who passed the second audition will be held on the 30th for a final audition. Until the final hurdle. A prize of 100 million won per person was scheduled to be paid to the final successful applicants.
Lim Chang-jeong recently complained that he had suffered damage from a stock price manipulation gang. Early this year, he sold 5 billion won of his entertainment company's shares and reinvested 3 billion won of that into a stock manipulator. He made a profit in the first month and a half when the stock price rose to 5.8 billion won, but suffered losses due to a series of stock price crashes. .
In addition, he was known to have handed over not only the investment money but also the names of himself and his wife, Seo Ha-yan, to a group of market manipulators, and he was also involved in illegal trading. An investigation is inevitable depending on the extent to which the group was involved in the crime of manipulating stock prices through large-amount trading.
Ryu Ye-ji, Ten Asia Reporter ryuperstar@tenasia.co.kr