On March 28, MAJOR9, Kim Dong Jun's agency, clarified several issues regarding his social media accounts.
Kim Dong Jun starred in the SBS drama “Joseon Exorcist,” which was permanently canceled after two episodes due to a controversy regarding historical distortion. Kim Dong Jun, along with the other cast and crew members, apologized for his decision to appear in the drama.
“Joseon Exorcist” premiered on March 22nd and the premiere episode was immediately criticized for certain controversial scenes. Netizens noticed that on March 23, Kim Dong Jun's social media accounts continued to promote the drama with photos of Kim Dong Jun's character and captions asking fans to watch the next episode. The post was later deleted because people criticized such promotions during a sensitive time.
In their March 28 statement, MAJOR9 clarified that agency staff running the official social media accounts in question, not the actors themselves.
"This is MAJOR9. We apologize for the post made on March 22 promoting the broadcast of “Joseon Exorcist” on Kim Dong Jun's official SNS (Twitter, Facebook) run by MAJOR9.
After the agency staff who run Kim Dong Jun's SNS account uploaded a post promoting the second episode of “Joseon Exorcist,” they realized that this was inappropriate during the current situation and deleted the post.
This incident was mistakenly reported in the news as a post uploaded by Kim Dong Jun himself, causing concern for him and his fans. We sincerely apologize for not caring too much about the posts uploaded on the official social media accounts.
We realize that there may be confusion due to the names of the social media accounts, so we will differentiate between the accounts run by the actor himself from those run by the agency. Accounts run by MAJOR9 will now carry the label “OFFICIAL” and will mention that they are run by agency staff in the description.
We will also do our best to ensure that official social media material is written so that it is not mistaken for the actor's private posts.
We will work hard to be more careful and responsible for posts uploaded on official social media accounts run by MAJOR9, as well as with the promotions of other actors.
Once again, we apologize to Kim Dong Jun and his fans for not being careful with his social media management. " (koreanarea.com)
