Ok-pop boyband OMEGA X have formally terminated their contracts with SPIRE Leisure.
At present (Might 8), the 11-member group took to their official Instagram account to announce that they and SPIRE Leisure have mutually agreed to terminate the boyband’s unique contracts.
The choice comes after a months-long dispute over OMEGA X’s contracts, following allegations that SPIRE Leisure’s ex-CEO Kang Seong-hee had verbally abused and manhandled members of the boyband.
“OMEGA X and SPIRE Leisure reached an amicable and mutual settlement to terminate our unique contract after cautious and prolonged discussions,” the boyband stated in its assertion, as translated by Soompi.
OMEGA X added: “Because of this, [we] determined to finish all disputes with our former company SPIRE Leisure, and we agreed to work for the event of Ok-pop in our respective positions.”
The official termination of OMEGA X’s contracts comes practically 4 months after the boyband had received their lawsuit in opposition to SPIRE Leisure to droop their contracts with the company.
OMEGA X’s authorized counsel had beforehand acknowledged plans to press prices in opposition to SPIRE Leisure’s former CEO Kang for allegedly “threatening, assaulting and exploiting the members”.
Allegations that Kang had abused OMEGA X first surfaced in October 2022, when SBS Information printed quite a lot of video clips stated to depict Kang verbally abusing and manhandling members of the group.
Shortly after these clips went viral, the band launched a brand new, impartial Instagram account, the place they claimed they have been topic to “unwarranted therapy” from SPIRE.
Kang nor SPIRE Leisure have but to touch upon OMEGA X’s announcement that they’ve terminated their contracts with the Ok-pop company.