Seunghan leaves RIIZE: Album and merch sellers worldwide join fans’ boycott plans; Halt restocking as a protest

Seunghan’s sudden exit from RIIZE has sent a shockwave to the Okay-vow material world. On the the same time, it has over all as soon as more shed the highlight on the ‘toxic fan tradition’ that in total endangers the Okay-pop idols’ careers and effectively-being. Following his departure, world fans were protesting in opposition to SM Entertainment for ‘supporting’ bullying. They’ve also launched boycott plans with trending hashtags on social media platforms. Global Okay-pop item sellers are finally joining the fans to oppose Seunghan’s exit from RIIZE.

Recently, many stores worldwide took to their respective social media handles and introduced that they hold got briefly halted restocking and importing RIIZE’s albums and other merchandise to conceal attend to the fans who were protesting. Sellers in Asia, Europe, and The usa hold joined the boycott plans opposing the ‘toxic fan tradition’.

A Dutch Okay-pop store Hello!Hallyu penned on their X, “Ensuing from the focused harassment of some Korean fans in direction of Seunghan, he will not be any longer a member of RIIZE. We regret that SM Entertainment, over all as soon as more, has not been ready to guard their artist.”

One other European store Nolae wrote, “We firmly stand in opposition to any form of bullying and defective conduct including toxic fan tradition. We procure in fostering a secure and supporting ambiance for all artists and fans alike.”

A majority of these stores hold made up our minds to take away all items connected to RIIZE from their stocks while others hold made up our minds to discontinuance resticking and only promote pre-orders. Though basically the main retailers are joining in for the monetary facet, provided that fans hold started boycotting the team’s albums, main to deflation, many procure that this circulate will ship an even stronger message to the agency.

Within the period in-between, the anguish regarding Seunghan has escalated quick in a pair of days. Closing week, SM Entertainment introduced that he’ll be returning to RIIZE starting in November. Followers had been chuffed as he changed into as soon as situation to complete his 10-month-prolonged hiatus which he went on as a result of some controversies round his alleged pre-debut activities. However, unlike world fans, Korean netizens didn’t welcome him with open palms. As he continued to face backlash and malicious comments, Seunghan permanently left the team accurate two days after the announcement of his return.