{"id":130394,"date":"2024-10-14T12:28:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T19:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=130394"},"modified":"2024-10-14T12:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T19:28:06","slug":"bighit-music-confirms-bts-jimin-was-scammed-by-a-korean-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bighit-music-confirms-bts-jimin-was-scammed-by-a-korean-comedian\/","title":{"rendered":"BIGHIT Music confirms BTS&#8217; Jimin was scammed by a Korean comedian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few hours ago, some news emerged that worried fans around the world, and his agency <strong>BIGHIT Music<\/strong> responded to the rumors and confirmed <strong>BTS<\/strong>&#8216; <strong>Jimin<\/strong> was really scammed by a Korean comedian who asked him for a huge sum of money.<\/p>\n<p>In recent declarations, the comedian <strong>Lee Jin Ho<\/strong> confessed he has a gambling addiction and scammed celebrities, including the BTS member. Later, South Korean media outlets revealed the idol lent him \u20a9100 million KRW or about $74,100 USD in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>When this news arose, the agency behind Jimin told the media, <strong>News1<\/strong>, that this report was true, stating, &#8220;<em><strong>Jimin indeed suffered financial damage. All he did was write a promissory note and lent it to Lee Jin Ho<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, shocking fans and netizens worldwide.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/1845742341157470497\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Back in 2022, Jimin made a loan agreement with Lee Jinho after he said he needed it urgently, and will pay back in a week, though he never did. It was reported that multiple celebrities were affected financially by the comedian.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kcs5fCUkHx\">https:\/\/t.co\/Kcs5fCUkHx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; About Music (@AboutMusicYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/1845742341157470497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On social networks, many have shared comments like, &#8220;<em><strong>What is this? He didn\u2019t pay him back even though he wrote a promissory note<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, &#8220;<em><strong>Scammers don\u2019t discriminate against celebrities\u2026Jimin is a victim of the scam<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, &#8220;<em><strong>Wow that\u2019s a lot of money<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, among many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few hours ago, some news emerged that worried fans around the world, and his agency BIGHIT Music responded to the rumors and confirmed BTS&#8216; Jimin was really scammed by a Korean comedian who asked him for a huge sum of money. In recent declarations, the comedian Lee Jin Ho confessed he has a gambling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":130450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[49,931],"class_list":{"0":"post-130394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-bts","10":"tag-jimin"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}