{"id":2510556,"date":"2026-07-21T07:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2510556"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:09:21","slug":"ateez-agency-kq-entertainment-pursues-legal-action-over-malicious-posts-and-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ateez-agency-kq-entertainment-pursues-legal-action-over-malicious-posts-and-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ateez agency KQ Entertainment pursues legal action over malicious posts and sexual harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div data-element-guid=\"879f613b-8520-4988-be2d-046c8e67c76b\" class=\"articleHeader column hasCaption\">\n<p class=\"subtitle \" style=\"\">KQ Entertainment is tracking online posts and accounts that defame Ateez members, sexually harass them, invade their privacy or otherwise violate their rights.<\/p>\n<p><figcaption itemprop=\"caption\" class=\"\">Boy band Ateez<\/figcaption><figcaption itemprop=\"author\" class=\"\" data-byline-prefix=\"\">KQ ENTERTAINMENT<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-element-guid=\"c5302b6a-7f22-43e4-a525-0f66340cf72b\" class=\"bodytext large-12 small-12 medium-12\">\n<p>Boy band Ateez\u2019s agency, KQ Entertainment, announced that it is pursuing legal action against people who defame, insult or sexually harass the members online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been monitoring posts that target our artists [\u2026] and have already started legal proceedings for cases that have enough evidence,\u201d the agency said in a press release on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KQ Entertainment is tracking not only posts that defame or sexually harass the members but also those that make false claims involving them, invade their privacy or otherwise violate their rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether a post is deleted or an account is made private or closed, the materials that we have already secured are subject to legal review,\u201d the agency said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor confirmed violations of the law, we will take strict legal action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KQ Entertainment also asked fans to report such posts or accounts to protectkq@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>Ateez debuted in October 2018 with its first EP \u201cTreasure EP.1: All To Zero.\u201d The band recently held its \u201cAtiny\u2019s Voyage: Tiny Mystery\u201d fan meet and greet at Korea University\u2019s Hwajeong Tiger Dome on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BY CHO YONG-JUN [cho.yongjun1@joongang.co.kr]<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.koreajoongangdaily.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KQ Entertainment is tracking online posts and accounts that defame Ateez members, sexually harass them, invade their privacy or otherwise violate their rights. Boy band AteezKQ ENTERTAINMENT Boy band Ateez\u2019s agency, KQ Entertainment, announced that it is pursuing legal action against people who defame, insult or sexually harass the members online.\u00a0 \u201cWe have been monitoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2510557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Ateez-agency-KQ-Entertainment-pursues-legal-action-over-malicious-posts.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2510558,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510556\/revisions\/2510558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2510557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}