MC Mong denies alleged affair, vows legal action
MC Mong / Hankook Ilbo file
Singer MC Mong has denied allegations of an extramarital relationship with Cha Ga-won, chair of P-arc Group and CEO of One Hundred, an entertainment company, and said he plans to take legal action over the reports.
On the 24th, MC Mong issued a statement on his social media account in response to a report alleging that he had been in a relationship with Cha, who is married. The report also claimed that Cha gave him large sums of money and luxury vehicles on several occasions and published what it said were private conversation records between the two.
MC Mong said the messages were fabricated, saying the person “did not simply edit messages but created them from scratch” and “came to my home, threw things, slapped me, and threatened me like a gangster to force me to sign a contract.” He added that he left the company because he wanted to “protect it,” rejecting the affair allegation and suggesting he would take legal action against the media outlet that published the article.
One Hundred also moved quickly to deny the allegation, saying its internal fact-checking found that both the article and the chat messages were not true. The company said the messages were “something MC Mong sent after being threatened and manipulated by a relative of Chair Cha.”
The agency added that the relative tried to force MC Mong to sell his shares to seize control of Big Planet Made entertainment company, and that the manipulated chat messages were delivered during that process. “We will respond under a zero-tolerance principle to malicious slander and the spreading of false information targeting our artists and management. We ask the public to refrain from baseless speculation and criticism,” the company said.
MC Mong co-founded One Hundred with Cha in 2023 but stepped down from his position in June this year.
This article from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Times, is translated by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Times.