The Korea Times
A Japanese idol trainee who disappeared just months before debut is now being tracked by Korean police, with investigators imposing a travel ban as suspicions of repeated “double contracting” surface. According to Yonhap News Agency on Sunday, the Yeongdeungpo Police Station in Seoul placed the trainee, identified only as A, under a travel ban on fraud charges while attempting to locate him after receiving a complaint from a K-pop agency. An exit ban is a measure applied to foreign nationals to prevent them from leaving the country. The case has drawn attention online for its unusual timing. A had been preparing to debut as part of a six-member boy group, but abruptly vanished in December last year, about two months before the group’s launch. He reportedly left behind a message saying that “trust had been broken,” before cutting off contact. At the time, the group had already completed a music video shoot, and its songs and members’ faces had been revealed to the public. Following A’s disappearance, the group proceeded to debut as a five-member act and has continued promot
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