{"id":73229,"date":"2023-06-17T01:37:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T08:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=73229"},"modified":"2023-06-17T01:37:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T08:37:28","slug":"this-is-why-seventeens-management-agency-banned-fans-from-giving-the-boy-band-birthday-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/this-is-why-seventeens-management-agency-banned-fans-from-giving-the-boy-band-birthday-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"This is why SEVENTEEN\u2019s management agency banned fans from giving the boy band birthday cakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SEVENTEEN<\/strong> has become one of the most <strong>popular<\/strong> boy bands in the K-pop industry. Since their debut in 2015, they have gained a lot of attention around the world due to their charisma and incredible talent. However, their management agency<strong> banned<\/strong> the group\u2019s fans, the so-called CARAT, from giving them birthday cakes.<\/p>\n<p>K-pop fans are well-known for always demonstrating their <strong>support<\/strong> for their favorite groups with letters and gifts. However, PLEDIS Entertainment, SEVENTEEN\u2019s management agency, had to come up with a <strong>countermeasure<\/strong> to avoid receiving so many cakes as birthday presents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/This-is-how-SEVENTEENs-management-agency-prohibited-fans-from-gifting-them-birthday-cakes-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/This-is-how-SEVENTEENs-management-agency-prohibited-fans-from-gifting-them-birthday-cakes-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/This-is-how-SEVENTEENs-management-agency-prohibited-fans-from-gifting-them-birthday-cakes-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/This-is-how-SEVENTEENs-management-agency-prohibited-fans-from-gifting-them-birthday-cakes-1-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/This-is-how-SEVENTEENs-management-agency-prohibited-fans-from-gifting-them-birthday-cakes-1-750x469.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everything began on June 10, 2016, when Jun celebrated his 20th birthday and posted a photo with all the presents that were delivered to him. He got a lot of beautiful messages but what <strong>surprised<\/strong> everyone is that he got 65 birthday cakes. 5 days later, on June 15, 2016, Hoshi suffered the same fate, and a <strong>ridiculous<\/strong> amount of birthday cakes were delivered to him.<\/p>\n<p>Since that day, the CARAT noticed that both the company and the boy band\u2019s members stopped sharing pictures showing their birthday presents. <strong>The fans would later find out that PLEDIS Entertainment made the decision to no longer accept cakes as birthday presents, and, although they did not release any official statement, they stopped receiving the cakes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Even though cakes were banned as birthday presents, the fans of the boy band continued showing their <strong>loyalty<\/strong> and support through different means, proving that their love for SEVENTEEN is <strong>unconditional<\/strong> and nothing will ever change it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pledis_17\/status\/743089635006373889\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ko\" dir=\"ltr\">[17&#39;s \ud638\uc2dc] \uc6b0\ub9ac \uce90\ub7ff\ub5a8~\uc0dd\uc77c \ucd95\ud558\ud574 \uc8fc\uc154\uc11c \ub108\ubb34 \uace0\ub9c8\uc6cc\uc694~~ \ud56d\uc0c1 \uace0\ub9d9\uace0 \uc0ac\ub791\ud569\ub2c8\ub2e4! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HG0mbBrndG\">pic.twitter.com\/HG0mbBrndG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \uc138\ube10\ud2f4(SEVENTEEN) (@pledis_17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pledis_17\/status\/743089635006373889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEVENTEEN has become one of the most popular boy bands in the K-pop industry. Since their debut in 2015, they have gained a lot of attention around the world due to their charisma and incredible talent. However, their management agency banned the group\u2019s fans, the so-called CARAT, from giving them birthday cakes. K-pop fans are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":73230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,950],"tags":[1064],"class_list":{"0":"post-73229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"category-showbiz","10":"tag-seventeen"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73229","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=73229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}