China Xiaokang Net News Haoran
YG’s men’s team IKON is currently performing in five cities in Japan. Recently, YG announced that MINO, another member of YG’s men’s team WINNER, will be a special guest in IKON’s second Japanese tour, and MINO and IKON member Bobby will show the team’s stage performance for the first time. However, this decision triggered strong protests from fans of IKON and WINNER.
IKON fan club posted a poster of public statement, "ONLY iKON IN iKONCERT.
JAPAN ",opposing MINO to join the tour as a guest. Fans said: Except Bobby and B.I, the other IKON members have never performed a solo or small team stage, so it is unreasonable to add a small team stage with other singers now. YG didn’t consider the feelings of the fans of the two groups as a guest of iKON’s solo concert.
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The official fan club of WINNER also issued a statement criticizing YG. Fans said: MINO’s participation in IKON’s tour this time is to fill the vacancy of IKON’s concert with the money of Japanese WINNER fans, which is an act of deceiving all WINNER fans.
In addition, in January, WINNER released the new album "EXIT:E", at that time YG said that it would release the new album plan again within this year. But until August, YG had not made any speech related to WINNER’s follow-up album, which made WINNER fans very angry.
WINNER’s official fan club also said: I hope YG can give a specific explanation for the "EXIT" plan. WINNER’s 2016 plan "EXIT" has not been carried out since the release of E album, so if there is no agreed delay, please make a reasonable decision to convince fans in future team activities.