Wife of Glen Check's Kim Jun-won accuses band's agency of sexual harassment, demands apology

Yoo Seung-eun, wife of Glen Check member Kim Jun-won, has publicly accused a senior executive at the band's agency EMA of sexual harassment, saying the incident left her deeply shaken and calling for an apology.

Yoo posted a lengthy statement on SNS on Tuesday, saying she was writing because EMA's chief executive had gone roughly six months without responding to emails and KakaoTalk messages from Kim. "I want to speak about something I personally experienced — one of several reasons Glen Check has been unable to carry out normal activities over the past year or so," she wrote.

Yoo said the couple had been raising multiple grievances with the company for about a year, including a request for an apology over two separate sexually harassing remarks made by a senior executive at EMA identified only as A.

She added that some current and former employees were aware of the incidents at the time, and that she had waited after being told the company would help secure an apology. "When the matter remained unresolved, we also sent a formal written demand for an apology," she wrote.

Yoo said she was particularly shocked by the company's response. She said she had worked without pay for more than three years on Glen Check's visual direction, design, slogans and merchandise, and had collaborated directly with company staff — only to be shut out of those duties after she requested the apology.

She also said that documents submitted in connection with the harassment complaint contained screenshots of her bikini photos, selfies and sexually explicit comments left by unknown accounts. "I felt as though the documents were meant to suggest that, because I ordinarily expose my body, I should have to put up with such remarks," she wrote.

"After seeing those documents, I was so deeply shocked that I began seeing a psychiatrist, and I am still getting through difficult days with the help of medication," Yoo said.

She said her goal was not to destroy anyone, but to ask that those responsible acknowledge their wrongdoing and offer a sincere apology. She also asked EMA's chief executive to contact her directly.

Yoo said several female artists in the music industry had come forward with similar experiences involving the same executive, and she posted supporting evidence on her Instagram story.

Meanwhile, EMA has not issued any public statement in response.