Ex-AOA Youkyung's Clarification About Her Ambitious Posts On Instagram

Former AOA member Youkyung (Instagram @ drrrr.youkyung)

JAKARTA - Former AOA member Youkyung clarified the meaning behind his post on Instagram last Friday.

On July 3, former AOA member Mina shared a number of posts on Instagram. He said, Jimin continued to bully and torture him for years when he was still in AOA.

After sending an apology, Jimin has now also left the vocal group.

Following Mina's initial post, Youkyung shared a photo on Instagram with a caption on it that reads, "The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is give up on today."

Youkyung wrote in the text in Korean, "To be honest, everything looked exactly the same as me then."

He continued in English, "I can't forget the eyes of the observers."

He then added the lyrics of the song Leave It All Behind from Sleeping with Sirens, “I want to kill the pain I feel inside. But I will not stop for the people I love. So I'll say I'm fine until one day I see the light. "

He added in Korean, "Like the song lyrics I heard yesterday, I have to go through it all again."

There has been much speculation about the content of the message and its possible connection to Mina's story. However, Youkyung then edited his post to remove the first part before the lyrics, and he added clarification that the photo wasn't him.

Last Monday, Youkyung again appeared on Instagram to clarify the previous post. The following is Youkyung's complete explanation, which has been translated into Indonesian.

"Hello. This is Youkyung.

I thought the ambiguous post I uploaded on my feed had caused some confusion, so I wrote again.

I apologize for uploading posts that are too ambiguous. A memory that I wanted to bury and that I had been forgetting little by little suddenly came back to me, and so it was in that heated situation that I became angry.

So I thought that I had a childish feeling of wanting to shyly express all the hardships I was also going through.

It seems that in the past, I had such hardships even on myself that I couldn't even look around myself. So I think others only see myself struggling. I couldn't even guess that anyone else was in the same situation. So I want to sincerely say that I'm sorry. And I want to share my support and say that you held up well.

I am fine now. Because I have a voice that always supports me. Until now, I lived life thinking that there was nothing to protect me and the only thing I had were my drums in my studio.

However, that was not true. I realized that there are so many precious people who love me. That's all I need. That's enough.

I would like to once again take this opportunity to sincerely apologize to everyone who was hurt by my impulsive actions and posts. I also want to show my support by saying, "We've all done a great job going through difficult times, let's build up courage again and have strength."

I ask you to refrain from saying hurtful things that make me and everyone unhappy. Also, I always sincerely thank everyone who supported me. "

2020.07.06 - Youkyung