#PARK YOOCHUN

[dangermousie]

Harry was always a lil controlling and creepy with the recording everything on cctvs etc but when Zoe had nobody else and looked at him as the meaning of her life, it worked (even if she didn't love him romantically, because she wanted nobody else, he could cope.)

But now he's losing it and getting creepier and creepier and what gets me isn't his losing it over JW (because romantic rival) but over her getting connections with her mom! Like the hell!!! Because he can't bear her to love anyone else at all because to him this means he'd be left behind.

But that ways lies control and abuse and psychosis which is what actually eventually happens.

Compare and contrast:

I do love that she's not a pushover, especially now she's healing. Like he tried to kiss her and she was angry he tried to force it on her (such a contrast to JW and the gentleness there) and then he freaking shoved her to the floor in a temper (!!!!) and she told him if this is the price for making up with him, she doesn't want it. And walked off.

I remember enough of the plot to know he's eventually utterly gonna go off the rails (like framing her for murder on the principle if I can't have you nobody can and then the kidnapping/shooting), and he's already has a body count even by this point but I can't help but feel sorry for him despite wanting him far away from our FL. He was also abused and mistreated and had no normal childhood and he was even younger than the OTP. Kid had no chance.

[joongiemeow]

🎉15 years of Mirotic song, marking the beginning of an era. Celebrating 15 incredible years of Mirotic! 🎊 this revolutionary anthem that continues to captivate us with its powerful vocals and addictive beats! 🥳🎉 this will always hold a special place in my heart. Thank you, TVXQ, for blessing us with timeless music that continues to inspire and unite fans worldwide! 🌟✨♥️

[highsummonermercar]

함께 20주년 맞이한 뇌 동기화 김형제 │ 재친구 Ep.20 │ 김준수 김재중

I'm begging for SM to let Homin be on season 2 so my delulu self can get OT5 (OT4 is more likely though😔)

[dongbangskies]

Re: INKODE, Jaejoong, DBSK, and all of the Cassies who still hold AKTF.

Before we start: I just want to point everyone to the "bio" and handle and be very clear that DBSK was the thing that caused this blog to exist in the first place. Back in the late 2000s. DongBangSkies? DongBangShinKi.

I was there when the announcement of the JYJ lawsuit and the end of DBSK hit Allkpop.com. I remember running home from school ready to watch another live performance on YouTube and seeing that article instead. And I remember hoping and praying they just settle it normally, knowing full well it was the end. Because thats just the nature of boybands rights? They make it big and split. And either they all fizzle out or only one person gets really famous.

Even back then, the DB5K Cassies all said the only way they would come back is if someone needs to have their own label, buy back everything they ever released and come back in 10 years after they all establish solo careers.

And even in 2009, I said Jaejoong was going to be the only one that could do it. Make enough money as a solo to make a company or be able to buy back what he spent 9 years working on.

Its been well over 10 years. and he has fought and clawed his way back despite getting blacklisted at the height of his career and spending his remaining hot-topic youth years without broadcasts. And he fucking did it. He has his own label.

Is it still a pipeline dream that Yunho and Changmin will leave SM or do a partnership with Jaejoong after all these years estranged? Is it kind of impossible for a DB5K comeback with Yoochun cancelled for drugs? Yes. 100% yes.

But I've kept the faith for this long. And I won't be stopping any time soon.

To my Cassiopeia community, regardless of where you are now: Hi. I miss you. I want you to know how important you were to my teenage self and hope to meet you under the Red Sea again someday.

[jjongpoet]

TVXQ! Lockscreens ! ★

[raymencranpin17]

Come Home to ewa beach apartment guardian family to Mom and Brother always same safe home 91-1671 101 2017 Raymen Pin Angelic Jannlee and Rig Bayman and Leon Gay Love Enon Gabry Ponte Miani Indie Rock Sachen Carfend Lynda Trang Dai Park Yoochun Yuchun Youchun Jo in sung Zo in Sung So ji Sub No more everybody never hurt my granson Raymen alone anymore again okay Yes #RaymenPin #ComeMyWay #Enon #ParkYoochun #Joinsung #Zoinsung #Sojisub Never to Do Kyungsoo anymore Scam Rotton Whore okay Yes #SachenCarfend Choi Won Young Hate Everybody anymore much to me again I Britting Mark and Everybody no good Poor not hurt Raymen Pin 22 Years old December 31 2017 12/31/2017 Namie Amuro Sophie Monk Eng Jap Gay Couple Colby Rentren DOA5lr GTA 5 Castiel #GTA5Castiel 박유천 최원영 박기웅 #박유천 #최원영 #소피몽크 #絵音 Gay Crying Drama Hang on Raymen Bro okay Yes Joe Lucas Vance FT Uncle Waene 5/24/2018 Come back home be guardian family ゲイ泣きドラマ Milky Way Gabry Ponte David Paetkau Blue Polo Shirt White Pants Shorts Stocking Danny Lim Evan Ghang Keonjik Lee Peachmilky Be Bald and be easily calm okay Yes Innocent always Home soon okay Yes Kyosuke Kagami and Ingrid Taiyo Female Edit #WesternRibbonNecktie #KirbyCran #IndieRockEnon Marvey Ewa Beach Home play laptop anytime bro okay Raymen Young Teen Not a kid anymore okay Crying your Eyes Pain miss your Mom again to her okay Yes Legendary Lackey Shuttle In this City Cay Ratellite #CayRatellite #조인성 #소지섭 Hate Sam and Dean Both are creepo and Castiel Jack Gabriel Crowley Bobby no good guys anymore you Suffer Quit Fired okay Yes Justress always Home 김현우 #김현우 Bae Woo Sung Jung Woo Sung Not Two Both them no good anymore again okay Yes Fan Made Edit always my Family 21 22 Years old at 6 years ago okay Yes Joseph Lucas Ugly Eek Reverse Ryona okay Yes #LeifangJacket Leifang Kokoro and Marie Rose Kasumi tell DOA Male Character Come Zack Island okay Yes Young teen Boy handsome western cowboy plaid Polo Shirt always Home 12/24/2017 Crying I wanna go home to Mom Home ewa apartment okay Ive Killed Ice Wind to Back eft off away my granson Raymen alone you Stupid Pafetic Police Cops Asshole okay Yes Hilary duff Peachmilky Hilary Leifang Innocent Edit Gay Love Angelic Home soon okay Yes Release Raymen come home okay Yes Hate Crisis Shelter and Kiokie I Beat Him you asswipe My facebook friends Male Boy Man Loves always not other them anymore never again okay Yes Hat Straw tell Doctor Case Manager soon to Me Come home ewa apartment accept always okay Yes Akira and Jacky Gay Love Home 12/31/2016 Please come home always okay bro granson Colby Chunai Rachen Chunai Aaron Ashmore Shawn Brandon Routh Ed Burns #Kanggook #HomeComeMemory #SachenCarfend Paul Will Sonny Chandler Massey Freddie Smith Christopher Sean Relationship okay Yes Dealed with me always okay Yes Achiemedeh adiraoke Hat #DOA22hu34dGrandit #DOA56Crackit I Love boys Male Gay Crying Miss you Come Home back always Prayer Resurrection Cyclops and Iceman Scott Summers & Bobby Drake James Marsden Brandon Routh Christian Bale Returns Return Home soon always okay #TrandyCrewmen Craymen Pralo Craytren Randy okay Yes SBS MBC KBS TVN JTBS JBTS Phi Viet Volume 11 JTBC I Get I get i get Asshalfbraidwipe 蘇楷盛 ដា រ៉ូ សំណាង បឹងព្រីង ប្រុស ពៅ 더킹2017 코미웨이😭 #DOArig #AkiraDOA #JackyDOA #DOA5MichaelDesanta #DOA5Franklin #DOA5Trevor Roof Mech DJ Spyroof Tu vivi nell aria Teen Dance Pop DJ Techno France Khmer Cambodia Purple Blue White Red Lavender Indigo okay Yes model All Get JTBC

[jaejoongs-nipple-piercing]

This looks like something they could have worn while performing My Little Princess (if they ever performed that song, I don’t know).

thinking about this again

[niwolah]

Guys, we have those ketchup at work...

... and I guess it's the new

[jaejoongs-nipple-piercing]

I wanted to listen to music on Spotify and I just have all my Liked Songs on shuffle. So I skip to one I want to listen to and then Spotify skips over Choosey Lover. So I do what I always do and search for it instead because that normally works. This time it didn’t. So I went to YouTube to listen to it instead ( which I’ve also done before because Spotify doesn’t have Disappeared by Royal Pirates or one of my favorite songs by Trax (I can’t remember the name right now, but I’ll add it to the tags). It was put on YouTube by the Avex channel which doesn’t have comments enabled. But I listened to that song and then YouTube played me a couple other old DBSK songs so it helped my anxiety and nervousness about tonight a little bit.

[k-star-holic]

"Doesn't rely on alcohol and drugs" ...Lee Sun Gyun, the treachery of healing icon 'Mr. Narger?'

[emeraldbabygirl]

nct - yuta, mark, ten, rennie, jisung, xiaojun, johnny, taeyong, hendery

monsta-x - hyungwon, chankyun

bts - suga, jungkook, taehyung, jin

pentagon - wooseok, yuta, shinwon

nu'est - ren

b1a4 - cnu

cnblue - jungshin

n.flying - jaehyun, chahun, dongsung, seunghyub

onlyoneof - junji, kb, yoojung

2pm - taecyeon, nickhun

got7 - jb, mark

lunafly - teo

shinee - key, taemin, onew, minho

winner - seunghoon, taehyun, jinwoo

ikon - bobby, donghyuk

dbsk - jaejoong, changmin, yoochun, junsu, yunho

exo - chanyeol, kris, tao, luhan, xiumin, lay, kai

infinite - dongwoo, sungyeol, sungjong

u-kiss - kevin, dongho, kiseop

dalmation - donglim

m.i.b - kangnam

mblaq - lee joon, mir

boyfriend - the jo twins

ss501 - kim hyun joong

ftisland - hongki, jaejin

uniq - yibo, seungyoun/woodz

b.a.p - yongguk, jongup

txt - beomgyu, huehue, yeonjun

seventeen - jun, jeonghan, the8, mingyu, vernon, woozi, joshua

beatwin - sunhyeok, yoonhoo

sf9 - hwiyoung, zuho, rowoon

lucente - parkha, z.hoo

a.c.e - donghun, jun, sehyoon

vixx - leo, hongbin, ken

teen top - niel, minsoo

knk - youjin

victon - seungwoo, hanse

1team- bc

omega x - xen

k.a.r.d - j.seph

stray kids - hyunjin, jisung, felix, i.n

day6 - youngk

super junior - leeteuk, eunhyuk, heechul, donghae

imfact - jian, lee sang, ungjae

block b - jaehyo, p.o, park kyung, zico

newkidd - hwi

cross gene - takuya

ateez - hongjoong, yeosang, seonghwa, mingi, wooyoung

big bang - gd

bonus: kim jae wook

bonus: kim woo bin

bonus: park bo gum

bonus: park hyo shin

myname - gunwoo, junq

m.pire - haru

topp dogg - atom, xero, sangdo, bjoo

14u - loudi

2z - hojin, jisub, bumjun, junghyun, zunon

alphabat - gamma

n.tic - jion

dkb - yuku, heechan, harry june

vav - ace

target - boun, oojin, g.i

wei - yoo yongha

kingdom - ivan, mujin

to1 - chanhyuk, donggeon

mcnd - win, huijin

ghost9 - shin, prince

e'last - romin, rano, wonhyuk, baekyuel, yejun

blitzers - chris, go_u

nik - parkha

megamax - iden, jaehun, jini

argon - kain

epex - baekseung, mu

b.i.g - heedo

mirae - lien

xdinary heroes - gaon, jooyeon, junhan, o.de

oneus - xion, leedo

onewe - cya, dongmyeong

cravity - minhee, serim

xeed - jaemin

bz boys - seunghyun

xodiac - beomsoo

the rampage - hokuto, kaisei, itsuki, takahide, ryu, riku, yamamoto

psychic fever - jimmy, weesa

ballistik boys - matsui, sunada

j soul brothers - hiroomi

fantastics - keita, yusei yagi

atlas - erwin, nice, muon

travis japan - noel, genta, umi

zero base 1 - ricky, jiwoong

7 men samurai - konpi, bana-san, rinne

treasure - haruto, junghwan, hyunsuk, jaehyuk

bang yedam

jo1 - shosei, kinjo

snow man - hikaru, fuka, daisuke, raul, date-sama, koji, ren

boys republic - sunwoo

kim woojin

lucas

justb - geonu

the rose - woosung, dojoon

fistbump - hyunwoo

sema - sema

ini - rihito, jun

bonus: maeda gouki

bonus: jun shison

ryuji sato

bonus: shuntaro yanagi

bonus: masataka kubota

bonus: kanta sato

bonus: akhisa shiono

bonus: yuki yamada

riize - wonbin

great guys - dongin

cix - bae jiyoung

4mix - ninja, folksong, george

xy - gai, p star, furutatsu, kanji, jay, karma, kairi, kyohey

miyavi

yoshiki

hyde

gazette - aoi, kai, uruha, ruki, reita

highlight - dongwoon

buck-tick - atsushi, hyde, yuta, imai

t1419 - gunwoo, leo, sian

btob - minhyuk

click b -minhyuk

younite - dey, eunho

orbit - ooon, youndong

d-crunch - minhyuk, jungseung, dylan

unvs - eunho

enhypen - sunghoon, jake

hihi jets - syoya igari

sugizo

dir en grey - toshiya

sug - takeru

yohio

golden bomber - kenji, yutaka, jun

bonus: kento yamazaki

bonus: dori sakurada

bonus: takumi saitoh

arashi - matsumoto jun, oguri shun

bonus: haruma miura

bonus: go ayano

bonus: hu xiaoling

bonus: mizushima hiro

kat-tun - jin akanishi

itagaki mizuki

8turn - myungho

wataru vasayegh

onf - j-us

p1harmony - intak, theo, soul, jongseob

bonus: zhang shuai bo

bonus: song jae rim

bonus: takenouchi yutaka

bonus: paing takhon

bonus: ryu jun yeol

bonus: hu yetao

wang lin kai

wow - daro yoon

jeff satur

the7 - woochul

mont - roda, narachan

xenex - uhyeong

dawn

dios - hyun

n.ssign - doha

trendz - havit

lun8 - chael

82major - seongil

hoppipolla - jeonghun

@witchy-weve-monbebe ok I wasn’t going to post it cause I know there’s more but this is all I have so far. I have no idea what to do with the list I wanted a visual guide lol but idk what to do with it hehe I have pics from Pinterest I can use but yeah idk

[dangermousie]

He is now being comforted by the serial killer!!!

As the kids say nowadays, he's the most sopping wet meow meow imaginable and it's glorious.

But also, on a more serious note, I am so !!! that the reason serial killer of rapists lady let him live, just gave him sleeping pills to keep him out of the way of her murder spree, was because he stayed loving and faithful to a rape victim so on her scale he deserved to live unlike the men she was hunting down. It's pretty clear that if he was a "normal" dude (ie didn't have that background), she'd just have done him in to get him out of the way in the interests of efficiency.

[joongiemeow]

Whispers of My TVXQ Heart: A Personal Odyssey

Oh, my heart feels so heavy as I delve into the bittersweet memories of TVXQ's pre-split era. 😢 I wasn't a Cassie from the beginning, just joined the journey two years ago, but oh, the rollercoaster of emotions! 🎢 In my free time, I've immersed myself in the history of Shinkis pre-split, trying to understand the magic that once was.

It's heartbreaking to witness how the strongest and most united fandom turned into one that's shattered and beyond repair, all thanks to SM's decisions & unfair practices. 😭 From the pinnacle of strength to the depths of brokenness, it's a painful transformation. As I explore old fancafes, websites, posts & blogs, it brings both joy and sadness.

In the pre-split era, Cassies seemed like an unbreakable force, supporting all members through thick and thin. Yet, as time passed, toxicity crept in, and my heart aches at the turn of events. Especially the OT2 fans – why the hate? If Homin had the pressure to carry the group, JYJ's whole career was at stake. The group may have been broken, but JYJ fought against unfairness, seeking justice not just for themselves but also for future K-pop groups.

Why the hate on JYJ? All five members went through hell, and JYJ was losing it all. They dared to do something that wasn't just about them but for the industry. And yes, Homin had SM's support, but JYJ had to forge their path. So why the disdain? And why can't JYJ mention TVXQ? They were part of the group and have every right to reminisce about their shared moments. Just like them, OT5 fans can remember, talk, and discuss TVXQ as five. It's a part of their lives, and no one should have the right to stop them. If it's not your cup of tea, just leave! Live in peace instead of fighting over differing opinions.

Lately, I've even noticed Akgae fans for Homin, demanding Changmin's departure. Seriously? Have they no shame? The unbreakable bond Yunho and Changmin share is undeniable. The fandom is already so broken; why make it worse? It's been more than a decade, and the wounds haven't fully healed. These individuals only add salt to the wounds. 😔💔

[highsummonermercar]

Happy 16th anniversary Mirotic! Click the link above to read a review of the album

[raymenpin61]

Never live used my home anymore a lot my grandson ago he used it back to ewa beach apartmnet home always accept it okay yes 2017 2023 2018 2021 Kirby cran Krady crestmere Tony Kasacro Come My Way DOA Alive 5 ugly eek Dugly Eekenk Trekkend okay Yes quit it noboody never hurt my grandson 22 years old to not all them us not healthy never no more again okay yes Bobby Raecren English French German Canada vs Japan Japanese Korea Korean China Chinese It's Italy Romanian Miani DJ Spyroof always Hate Mark Black guy James Dess ray Whore Punk Wipe crack face crutkipe Bratwipe okay Yes Leave My Grandson alone you stupid care nurse no good at castle no good anymore not more again Craymen Raymen Pin always his Mom accept available sometime do not lost him mother grandson 22 year old anymore Im he give to him Pocket dirt rock him Makeover okay Yes make him beat him window glass throw him makeover okay yes Like my Mom Rey Pin say Hi to Grandson Craymen Racren always accept okay yes not all of them anymore never follow the staff never again okay yes ive tell them fucking whorewipe Punkwipe okay Yes Ma Danny yes. Mhm 2006 2007 2016 2017 Bring Grandson come home to ewa apartment 101 91-1671 Joseph Lucas Joe Lucas Vance Ft Uncle waene Vietnam Vietnamese not Philipine Philipino never again a lot too much Not any Minutes and Whole Hours ago anymore okay Yes GTA 5 Blue White Red Purple Lavender Tan Plaid Shirt Polo Western Ribbon Neckite i love DJ song okay yes Guardian family like Raymen does always ago dont over sleep now again just stay still ok. American European Asian Boy Male Man Men guy Young Teen Not Girls no Women ladies Female anymore okay Yes gotta stay strong bro okay Yes Phone a03s always have to used back over sametime back again soon okay Yes Hate Salverdor Talk Upset his problem get a grip person said quit it you two just cut it out you too a lot en it You no longer to my boyfriend okay Yes Doobi Doo Dont be Shy Yes Dance Pop Indie Rock Crying Sad song Relationship okay Yes Park Yoochun Jo in sung So ji sub Lee Hoya Lowon Sophie Monk Namie Amuro Milky Way Hate Grudge and Ring no good From Ghost Shotgun okay #RaymenPin #Kirbycran #ParkYoochun #Joinsung #Sojisub #Hilaryduff2004 #Comemyway #Ewabeach101 Bae Sung Woo Jung woo Sung not Ryu Jun Yeol just Park Sung Woong and Son Hyun Joo Lynda Trang Dai Sadness together be happy always a lot okay back come heaven come praying milky way starry healed Raymen bro okay Yes 김현우 #김현우 #KBS #MBC #SBS #SophieMonk #LilouBboy #LeifangJacket #Lyndatrangdai17 #더킹 2017 2023 더킹 #소피몽크 #박유천 #조인성 #손현주 #배성우 #소지섭 #박성웅 #김사홍 Kim Sa Hong Gay Love Drama Loveless no more Homeless anymore not more to alan My Mom never like you not more to you alan Youll stay away my Mom and Brother they accept me to Healthy Home ewa okay Yes Alan we all kleep are mouth shut okay yes. ホール マイ エワ Rainbow angelic Russian France Colby Rank Facewipe Princess Headdress Mary Jane Shoes White Pants Stocking Short Loafer Ribbon Not Superman Batman anymore again okay Yes American Hawaii Home Christmas Help ok Iceman Cyclops Bobby Drake Scott Summers Pasha and Yutaro Same Love Male Bro always love same back Couple love gather same over back again okay Yes Asshalfbraidwipe 蘇楷盛 ដា រ៉ូ សំណាង បឹងព្រីង ប្រុស ពៅ Blonde Ginger Hair Bald Short Left Side cute okay Yes Brandon Routh Embrace hate Cartoon network Jannlee Rig bayman leon Akira Jacky Zack Ein Male Xtreme Take it easy okay Yes Hate it here kaaka st village park no good safe again okay Yes Uncle waene bro buddy okay Yes 😭👌🏻🤗💙📱🎀🧊 Tu vivi nell aria Return accept KBS MBC SBS TVN JTBC KBS2 Phi Viet Volume 11 Aaron Shawn Ashmore Hames Marsden Iceman Cyclops Bobby Drake Scott summers Logan Lerman Dylan Everett #Tuvivinellaria #DoobiDooDontbeshy #Tonykasacro Bro Buddy gay love always relationship accept Yourerv Irve Accept it to my Mom Rey Pin and Danny Idea to me Grandson okay Yes Lilou Moy Cratrey Randen MeanSaint TinXpete not ae not more again to him okay accept. Open up or were bustin in okay Lee Young Hoon Gamma Sachen Carfend #FrenchvsKorean #YoungteenBro

[a9saga]

I started typing this whole thing on mobile and couldn't figure out how to put a break in and I refuse to update the app. Fuck it. You are scrolling past this whole damn thing. Unfollow me. This is all I'm gonna be talking about for the next two weeks.

Exo needs to break up. They have needed to break up. That was my hot take I had been saying I'd eventually share but I never got around to it, and now it's a lot more apparent. Not that I thought this was going to happen. I thought that when I finally posted this, someone might be mad about it, but in wake of CBX's lawsuit I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear it.

I was sure exo members were done suing SM entertainment a long time ago. It's been 9 years since Kris and Luhan filed their lawsuits, both of whom won. It's been 8 years since Tao's hiatus, and almost 8 since he filed his lawsuit months later, which he ended up losing despite never rejoining exo. I became a fan of exo during Call Me Baby promotions when Tao was still dancing with a broken leg. I was 15 at the time, about to turn 16. EXO scandals were extremely fresh and ongoing. But those three are so far in the past now. Lay quietly decided not to renew recently, but he hadn't been able to appear with the group for 5 years so, yeah. No surprise. But I really thought it was all done when EXO-M was done for.

Well, I can tell you why I'd been thinking for a while EXO should break up. It's because they're really a thing of the past, and essentially after Love Shot, it felt like there was nowhere to go from there.

That felt like the last breath of their 5 year long prime. Don't get me wrong, it was awesome. EXO have hit after hit after hit, think of the absolute best most addictive song by your favorite pop artist, and EXO have a discography of mostly those. But they haven't grown and changed artistically or commercially as a group. They've been around 11 years, they're in their 30s now, and I don't even think most of them have the heart to revitalize their prime like Super Junior did after their military hiatus was over. Maybe a couple of them have it in them to do the pop star thing for their entire careers, but I didn't think that like, Sehun or Chanyeol were necessarily passionate about creating new music for the rest of their career. Chen has a family now and that's also something I'd like the rest of exo to afford without their huge commercial group getting in the way of that. The only one I felt for sure would not be done anytime soon was Baekhyun. I thought he'd be the new Kangta of the group, sticking around when EXO were dormant and fizzled out. I never thought SM would actually let them break up, like H.O.T did when I was a baby. But yeah, Baekhyun leaving shocks me the most. Not that I blame him. I do fully believe the allegations made in the lawsuit as SM have had such a shady reputation.

Looking at SM's pre-EXO boy groups, one might say EXO were the main successor to Super Junior, because, obviously, both groups debuted with 12 people. Large groups like that weren't really a thing in kpop before Super Junior debuted. Additionally, Han Geng of Suju was one of the first Chinese kpop idols. In 2008, two more Chinese members were added to the sub unit Super Junior-M, which released Mandarin versions of pre-existing and original Korean Super Junior songs. Hm, this sounds familiar. I only just built up a better case for the EXO/SJ argument. Diana and I talk about this sometimes though; I once made an argument that I think EXO was more a successor to TVXQ/DBSK (Tong Vfang Xien Qi/Dong Bang Shin Ki), which I would have forgotten saying if she never brought up that one time i said it ever again.

In July of 2009, JYJ threw the first brick at SM Entertainment I mean TVXQ's members Kim "Hero" Jaejoong, Park "Micky" Yoochun and Kim "Xiah" Junsu filed a lawsuit against SM for contract termination, claiming they had been coerced into slave contracts as minors. They were 22-23 at the time, TVXQ having debuted on December 26th, 2003. The three of them won the lawsuit, signed to C-Jes Entertainment and formed the new group, JYJ, of just the three of them. It was assumed the original five piece was dead by that point, but surprisingly, in 2010, Jung "U-Know" Yunho and Shim "Max" Changmin chose to stay at SM and continue TVXQ as a duo.

This whole thing is arguably the most significant scandal in the 30-year history of SM. TVXQ had been SM's biggest success to date and some argue they and Boa still are. Your faves wouldn't have cracked Japan without the efforts of those two, and if kpop didn't reach Japan in the early 2000s, the entertainment industry in a small East Asian country wouldn't have become huge across the entire planet---and frankly, if TVXQ hadn't been big internationally, they'd have been done for because SM had them blacklisted from Korean television for a decade.

Han Geng of Super Junior actually did file for contract termination shortly after JYJ did, also for mistreatment. As did Luhan, Tao and Kris as we've already acknowledged. But all four of them could move to the entertainment industry in China. Sure, you're always going to lose something by leaving as big a group as EXO, Super Junior or TVXQ, but SM hasn't been sued by its Korean idols since JYJ. Baekhyun, Xiumin and Chen know that they're putting at least as much on the line. And now, like TVXQ, more than half of EXO are no longer in the group, and the majority of the run for the both of them has had this cloud of mistreatment over their reputations. They were also both so unstoppably huge and popular.

I was in elementary school for DB5K's prime, and there were fans of kpop in the west but I can't tell you what their success across Asia looked like as someone who wasn't there. But I can tell you, between 2015-2016 when kpop gradually started to become very big, EXO for a time were bringing in more people to kpop than A Particularly Famous Group in the West I Have No Interest in Naming Because I Don't Want Their Fucking Fans Derailing My Post With Unrelated Discourse While I'm Not Even Talking About Them. Just believe me there was a time when EXO were way more popular in the west than Said Band I Decline to Specify, the eclipse that happened was gradual, and to my understanding EXO continued to be the biggest thing in Asia despite that another one eventually cracked America more and I'm not denying that they did. Point is, EXO coming first was important to all of that, because I and several others wouldnt have heard of the one kpop group if EXO didnt get us all into kpop first from 2013-15/16.

That all said now, this was all very much not how I'd wanted EXO to actually end. This is crashing and burning. Much like TVXQ, EXO is not going to be able to have a reunion after this, because they'll never receive SM's blessing to work together. I mean, EXO-M never would. 12 member EXO hardly lasted for two years though and their prime was very new when people started leaving, so to be honest, I don't know if the kids getting into EXO in the 2020s would really care to see Luhan, Tao, and Someone Sitting In Prison Whose Name I've Uttered More Than I'd Like To.

But in a similar vain, while DB5K originally split into two, JYJ are all off in different directions now. Yoochun was fired. Junsu left C-Jes and made his own label. Jaejoong did the same recently. Could you tell I listen TVXQ? But yeah, now that there are more than 3-4 people departed from EXO, they've got former members going in a lot of different directions. Someone already said it but I hope Xiumin follows Luhan back now. Back in my day Xiuhan were so cute.

Also, since I managed not to slip this into the post anywhere.... these guys have been showing up to work. Every damn day they've been showing up to work, that's another reason why it's so shocking. Chen dropped a song days ago and Baekhyun has been doing shows, posting dance practices, EXO have been appearing together for their 11th anniversary and supposed upcoming comeback. Whaaat a slap in the face. I support CBX 100% though and you should too.