Agar tidak terjadi kesalahpahaman dan meminimalisir adanya tanggapan berlebihan, berikut ini adalah full press release pengumuman resmi Core Contents Media atas dibatalkannya kontrak Hwayoung..
Press Release
(bahasa Indonesia)
Untuk T-ara, jika salah satu anggota mempunyai kelebihan atau jika dia bersikap berbeda, warna dalam grup tersebut akan berubah dan anggota yang lain akan terguncang.
Saya, sekali lagi berkata bahwa rumor tentang penghinaan dan perselisihan di grup T-ara itu tidak benar.
Ketika T-ara pertama kali debut, mereka menghadapi banyak kesulitan termasuk dengan kasus penghinaan member yang melibatkan Eunjung, Soyeon dan Boram. Tetapi, itu hanyalah rasa iri dari anak muda yang menyebabkan pertengkaran kecil yang kurang dari sehari permasalahan ini terselesaikan dan mereka berdamai kembali.
Sekitar 230 staff ikut di konser ini. 'Perbedaan determinasi' yang anggota T-ara bicarakan itu bukan tentang 'Bisakah mereka tampil di atas panggung atau tidak?'.
Jika salah satu dari mereka malas, atau tidak berhati-hati atau egois, konsernya tidak akan berjalan lancar. Konser tersebut mungkin terlihat megah, namun itu hanyalah akan menjadi konser untuk publisitas. Member membicarakan tentang determinasi itu berarti bahwa semua bintang dan staff harus bekerja lebih keras dengan determinasi yang tinggi.
Hal terpenting bagi staff dan penyanyi adalah kesehatan.
Untuk tampil baik saat di atas panggung, tentu mereka harus memiliki kesehatan dan kondisi yang baik pula.
Eunjung tergelincir di jalan yang licin dan otot ligamennya robek, lalu kaki Jiyeon cedera saat shooting drama sampai harus menggunakan gips. Dan juga Jiyeon menabrak tiang lampu saat konser di Osaka pada Tur Jepang yang menyebabkan hidung patah. Pihak rumah sakit menyarankan operasi sesegera mungkin dan perwakilan agensi juga para staff konser melarang keras Jiyeon untuk tampil di atas panggung, namun Jiyeon bersikeras untuk tampil. Dia menyelesaikan konser, kembali ke Korea, dioperasi dan dirawat selama 3 hari.
Alasan mengapa Hwayoung tidak tampil di atas panggung pada saat konser, adalah untuk melindungi sang bintang dari cedera serius, mengingat kakinya yang saat itu cedera. Ia ingin tampil di panggung, namun seluruh staff dan member T-ara tidak setuju, dan ia hanya tampil saat membawakan 'Day by Day' sesuai dengan keinginannya.
Ada banyak staff dan manager yang bekerja banting tulang demi sang bintang, meskipun dengan gaji yang relatif rendah.
Meskipun dengan gaji yang rendah, para staff tersebut rela melewatkan malam demi malam tanpa tidur, menunggu bintangnya selama 24 jam, memeriksa riasan mereka dan kostum pangung mereka dan membuat penampilan luar biasa agar bintangnya bisa naik ke puncak.
Sebagai tambahan para staff tersebut tinggal di sebuah rumah kecil atau asrama dan berbagi tempat dengan 3 hingga 7 orang yang lain.
Jika staff-staff tersebut terluka dan menangis karena seorang selebritis, menimbulkan keraguan akan pekerjaan mereka dan sampai berganti tempat bekerja, maka T-ara yang dikenal sebagai T-ara yang memberikan kebahagiaan dan tawa pada banyak orang akan menjadi T-ara dengan topeng yang mereka pakai saat mereka berhadapan dengan orang banyak.
Kedelapan member T-ara yang terkenal di hadapan publik percaya, bahwa kerjasama itu lebih penting dibanding dengan kegiatan individual 8 member, dan mereka menghormati opini dari para staff. Dan saya sampai pada keputusan dimana tidak boleh ada lagi staff yang mengalami hal-hal sulit.
Saya juga berpikir cukup lama, apakah hal ini benar. Saya tahu bahwa ini merupakan hal serius, tapi saya memutuskan hal ini demi masa depan T-ara dan demi kelanjutan mereka. Saya berunding T-ara bersamaan dengan staff sampai pukul 7 pagi ini.
Sekali lagi, rumor mengenai penghinaan dan pengucilan yang dilakukan T-ara terhadap Hwayoung itu tidak benar.
Sebelumnya, saya berkata bahwa T-ara akan berganti dari 7 member menjadi 9 member, jika ada anggota yang tidak bekerja keras atau melukai anggota lain, T-ara akan mengalami pergantian anggota atau penambahan anggota.
Jika dari awal T-ara berpikir sebagai seorang bintang dan bermalas-malasan, mereka hanyalah sebuah grup kosong yang hanya memiliki nama. Oleh karena itu, saya yakin bahwa mereka akan selalu sopan, pekerja keras dengan sikap yang santun.
Saya percaya bahwa hal inilah yang membuat mereka bisa pergi keluar negeri dan menjadi Hallyu T-ara.
Karena Hwayoung adalah seorang rapper dengan potensi yang besar, CCM memutuskan untuk mengakhiri kontraknya tanpa syarat dan kami yakin bahwa ia akan menjadi seorang penyanyi yang sukses.
Saya mohon maaf pada semua orang yang mencintai T-ara, yang telah khawatir karena berbagai alasan, dan saya mohon maaf karena mengabarkan hal ini pada saat T-ara berulang tahun yang ketiga.
Dan juga, staff CCM dan saya meminta maaf pada anggota T-ara karena kami tidak bisa mempertahankan Hwayoung seperti yang mereka minta, karena saya sendiri tidak bisa mengesampingkan pendapat para staff yang telah bekerja keras untuk mereka.
Terakhir, saya sungguh-sungguh minta maaf pada anggota T-ara dan saya harap Hwayoung akan menjadi seorang rapper yang sukses.
Credits: T-araforIndo
Indonesian trans by R.and.I @ T-araforIndo
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Press Release
(in English)
For T-ara’s group activities, when one member thinks of herself highly or when a member is moving differently than the group, I believe the team’s entire color and the entire team structure begins to shake.
I would like to inform you that the currently growing talks of making a T-ara member an outcast and discord within the group is not related to the truth.
Even from T-ara’s debut days there were talks of Eun Jung being an outcast, So Yeon being an outcast, Boram being an outcast and others, but these were all stemmed from jealousy at a young age which were quarrels that passed over one or two days before quickly being reconciled.
For [T-ara’s Budokan concert] we moved with some 230 staff members. The difference in will that the T-ara members were referring to was not about coming on and off stage.
If a member is just moving along, being careless and only thinking of one’s self, a performance can only squeak along leading to a performance that only seems fancy on the outside and make it impossible to hold a performance that focuses on the performance’s internal aspect which is what [the T-ara members] meant by saying all the stars and staff would have to hold the performance with their will.
The most important thing to staff and to stars is his or her health.
The reason being that the body has to be healthy and one’s condition good in order to show a great performance on stage.
Eun Jung once had a time she slipped and fell on an icy road and tore a ligament while Ji Yeon once injured her leg during a drama shooting leading her to be in a cast.
Additionally during the recent Japan tour, during the Osaka concert Ji Yeon crashed into a lighting equipment leading to a fracture in her nasal bone and though the hospital recommended emergency surgery and though our staff and the concert attendees were against her standing on stage, Ji Yeon would not let go of her intent to go on stage leading her to finish her performance and, upon returning to Korea, be admitted to the hospital for three days to receive surgery and treatment.
Hwa Young injuring her leg and unable to stand on stage was done for her protection. Despite her insisting she wanted to go on stage, all our staff and the T-ara members stopped her and Hwa Young followed her will to only stand on stage for Day by Day.
Therefore, the talk of differences in will by the T-ara members were not about coming on, and off, stage.
There are countless staff and managers who are giving their all for these stars while receiving a relatively low pay.
Even with the low salary these staff members are driving through the night without sleep, waiting on the stars 24 hours, checking their makeup and wardrobe behind the stage and creating the star’s wonderful appearances and doing so with the goal to create a top star one day sooner.
Additionally, the managers and most staff members are living in small-sized houses or dorms shared with some 3 to 7 other individuals.
If these staff members are being hurt and crying because of a specific star, feeling skepticism over their career path and even coming to switch careers, the T-ara members, who provide the public laughter and joy, are being pretentious and unreal.
The eight members of T-ara who live on the popularity provided by the masses believe in the importance of teamwork over the individual T-ara and because of this we took into respect the opinions of 19 staff members and believing that we shouldn’t have staff members who are having a hard time, I am informing you of a decision made after much contemplation.
I, and many others, believe this is the right decision and know this is a pain like that of tearing a piece off one’s own flesh, but decided this thinking of T-ara’s future and for T-ara’s continued existence and with the staff members, until 7 this morning, we helped the T-ara members to understand and persuaded them.
I’d like to add once more that there never was discord between the T-ara members and Hwa Young, nor any acts trying to make a member an outcast.
Previously I stated that members who did not work hard in the growth system for T-ara from 7 to 9 members and those who gave damages to another member could be replaced or be reinforced with additional members for T-ara’s future.
If T-ara thinks of itself first, become idle and move passively, T-ara will become T-ara in name only and with its insides empty. This is why I believe one should always be humble, strive hard and be refined in their feelings and character.
This is the only way I believe T-ara will move beyond Korea and to become a hallyu T-ara.
As Hwa Young is a rapper with much potential, Core Contents Media has decided to allow [Hwa Young’s] contract to be cancelled without condition and believe as the status of a free agent singer she will be able to find a good place and develop further as a singer.
We are deeply regretful and apologize for the concern we have given to T-ara’s many loving fans and can only say we are sorry to deliver an unfortunate and unsavory bit of news on T-ara’s third anniversary since its debut.
Additionally, myself and the Core Contents Media staff members are sorry we could not listen to the opinion of the T-ara members who wanted to find a way to continue with Hwa Young as I could not go against the feelings of the many staff members who had been experiencing hardships.
Lastly, I want to express my apologetic feelings to the T-ara members and pray Hwa Young will become a superb rapper.
Though the press release revealed the fate of T-ara and former member Hwa Young, many fans were left dissatisfied with the vagueness of the announcement. Such questions that lingered included why member Hwa Young was leaving the group if there was no discord, who the series of Tweets by the T-ara members was referring to if not Hwa Young and also the fate of Hwa Young’s twin sister Hyo Young who is also signed with Core Contents Media.
Credit: enewsworld.mnet.com
