{"id":153779,"date":"2025-12-10T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=153779"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:03:07","slug":"bts-jungkook-and-aespas-winter-dating-rumors-spark-protests-and-legal-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-jungkook-and-aespas-winter-dating-rumors-spark-protests-and-legal-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS\u2019 Jungkook and aespa\u2019s winter: Dating rumors spark protests and legal drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>SM Entertainment will protect aespa&#8217;s Winter through legal means<\/h2>\n<p>The KPop universe turned into a full telenovela after dating rumors involving<strong> BTS\u2019 Jungkook<\/strong> and <strong>Winter from aespa<\/strong> blew up online. Things got so heated that on December 10, 2025, <strong>SM Entertainment<\/strong> (aespa\u2019s company) published an official notice titled &#8220;Updates on Legal Measures to Protect Winter\u2019s Rights.&#8221; The company said it was tracking malicious posts involving harassment, defamation, personal attacks, privacy violations, and even deepfake content, and confirmed they were preparing expanded criminal complaints.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sunshine_080507\/status\/1998597810107932917?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SM Entertainment has finally released a legal action notice to protect Winter. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4Na9V092U4\">pic.twitter.com\/4Na9V092U4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sunshine (@sunshine_080507) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sunshine_080507\/status\/1998597810107932917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cWe are fully aware of the seriousness of ongoing malicious posts and comments related to the artist, including sexual harassment, defamation, personal attacks, insults, privacy violations, and deepfake content,\u201d the agency revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have secured extensive evidence and will proceed with zero leniency. We ask everyone to refrain from becoming involved in any unlawful activity,\u201d they concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<h2>The dating rumors with BTS&#8217; Jungkook go out of control<\/h2>\n<p>Their announcement lined up perfectly with the sudden wave of hate against Winter that followed the dating rumors with Jungkook, which started on December 4, 2025, after fans pointed out matching tattoos, rings, accessories, and even similar nail designs. Neither<strong> HYBE<\/strong> nor SM has confirmed nor denied their relationship, which has only fueled the fire among many fans.<\/p>\n<h2>Fans send protest trucks to HYBE&#8217;s headquarters following the romance rumors<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/forjungkooking\/status\/1998242436900876586?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jungkook&#39;s largest Chinese fanbase has sent trucks into hybe building <\/p>\n<p>Period: From December 9 to 12, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (KST)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 First message:<br \/>Jungkook\u2019s fans have always believed in him and supported him,<br \/>but the company\u2019s attitude this time is ambiguous&#8230; + <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0SDqayCPY2\">pic.twitter.com\/0SDqayCPY2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud835\ude76\ud835\ude92\ud835\ude98 \u22b1\ud83e\udeb7\u22b0 (@forjungkooking) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/forjungkooking\/status\/1998242436900876586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Adding to the controversy, some fans took their outrage over the rumors to real life. Outside HYBE headquarters in Yongsan, a <strong>truck protest<\/strong> appeared with screens demanding that he remove the alleged couple tattoo and accusing him of betraying fans. Meanwhile, Winter returned to a fan signing event two days after the rumor and comforted a crying fan, telling them not to cry. Jungkook played it cool by posting a photo of himself eating ramen with RM on December 10, showing he is living his best life despite the controversy regarding the rumors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SM Entertainment will protect aespa&#8217;s Winter through legal means The KPop universe turned into a full telenovela after dating rumors involving BTS\u2019 Jungkook and Winter from aespa blew up online. Things got so heated that on December 10, 2025, SM Entertainment (aespa\u2019s company) published an official notice titled &#8220;Updates on Legal Measures to Protect Winter\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":153780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[1019,49,933],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153779","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-aespa","11":"tag-bts","12":"tag-jungkook"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153779","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\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153779"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=153779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}