{"id":138934,"date":"2025-03-07T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=138934"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T18:02:06","slug":"kbs-and-sm-entertainment-executives-allegedly-met-after-allegations-of-exos-xiumins-music-bank-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/kbs-and-sm-entertainment-executives-allegedly-met-after-allegations-of-exos-xiumins-music-bank-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"KBS and SM Entertainment executives allegedly met after allegations of EXO\u2019s Xiumin\u2019s \u201cMusic Bank\u201d ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EXO<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Xiumin<\/strong> is gearing up for the release of his album, <em>\u201cInterview X\u201d<\/em> and the announcement of his upcoming Asian tour. However, the idol hasn\u2019t been able to make a heavy promotion because of an alleged ban at KBS\u2019s <strong><em>\u201cMusic Bank.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An anonymous source told Munha Ilbo that several SM Entertainment executives visited KBS on February 28 and met with KBS\u2019 Entertainment Center\u2019s head, Han Kyung Chun. <strong>Shortly after, Munha Ilbo reached Chun for a brief comment<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-138935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/exo-xiumin-is-alleged-banned-on-music-bank-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/exo-xiumin-is-alleged-banned-on-music-bank-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/exo-xiumin-is-alleged-banned-on-music-bank--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/exo-xiumin-is-alleged-banned-on-music-bank--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/exo-xiumin-is-alleged-banned-on-music-bank--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/exo-xiumin-is-alleged-banned-on-music-bank--1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/exo-xiumin-is-alleged-banned-on-music-bank--680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/exo-xiumin-is-alleged-banned-on-music-bank--200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s completely untrue. In the morning, I was at a hospital for post-surgical stitch removal. At noon, I had lunch with a retired senior colleague, and in the afternoon, I was with the cast of &#8216;2 Days &amp; 1 Night&#8217; throughout their filming. You can verify this in next week\u2019s broadcast. Out of the 20 programs in our entertainment division, <strong>&#8216;Music Bank&#8217; has significance as a K-pop show but is one of the lowest-rated, so we don\u2019t have the time to pay much attention to it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>The tensions rose as SM Entertainment and KBS have not reached <strong>any kind of agreement<\/strong>. Some K-Netizens have stated that SM\u2019s influence played a role despite broadcasters having the right to decide who appears on their variety shows. What do you believe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXO\u2019s Xiumin is gearing up for the release of his album, \u201cInterview X\u201d and the announcement of his upcoming Asian tour. However, the idol hasn\u2019t been able to make a heavy promotion because of an alleged ban at KBS\u2019s \u201cMusic Bank.\u201d An anonymous source told Munha Ilbo that several SM Entertainment executives visited KBS on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":138936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[939],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-exo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138934","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\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138934"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=138934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}