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Mnet to Refrain from Producing Audition Shows amid Vote-rigging Scandal

SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean cable channel Mnet said Wednesday that it will launch no new K-pop audition shows in the future amid a widening police probe into a vote-rigging scandal involving its popular competition series “Produce X101.” “We will refrain from producing audition programs,” Kang Ji-hoon from Mnet said in a [...]

Vote-rigging Suspicions Undermine Reputation of K-pop Audition Shows

SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — As police have been speeding up a probe into snowballing allegations of vote rigging at a popular K-pop TV series of “Produce 101,” South Korean cable channel Mnet is seeing its sensational competition show lineup lose its decadelong reputation on the entertainment scene both at home and abroad. Launched [...]