Sadden by the news. JYPE had given us false hope.
After Jay sudden departure to Seattle last Sept,
all activites or news regarding abt Jay had been void.

2pm came up with an new album 1:59 (instead of 2pm)
songs with "Heartbeat" and "I'm so tired of waiting"
The members knew that Jay would be back for sure.

JYPE mentioned that during the discussion Jay had agreed
to return in April 2010 for next album comeback.
The discussion took place in Nov 09.
(All these have been kept in silence)

But the news breakout ytd that Jay wanted to quit 2pm
bcos he said he had done something worse
than the things written on myspace controversy
and it was a private matter that will not be revealed.
(Are you sure is Jay said, or JYPE anyhow come out with an excuse
to prevent him from entering 2pm??)

I've checked the wikipedia, with effect of 25th Febuary 2010 (ytd),
Park Jaebeom will be officially expelled from 2pm.
Fans had been protesting abt the sudden news.
Wikipedia updated him as former member so fast! (WTF!!)

Yea!! JYPE had gaven us false hope. A hope that Jay would return.
Are they using Jay as a tool of advertisment for 2pm activities
so that fans will continue to support them??
(Due to the fact that their album promotion has officially ended)
I wonder how will the offical fans conference with
the rest of the other six 2pm members shall react tmr.

Fans like me have shown protest by withdrawing
from 2pm offical fans website.
News even broke out that a few thousands fans
have left many of the fans website since ytd.
Ytd fans even gather at JYPE building as a form of boycotting.

Jay contract has been terminated.
2pm will be incomplete without Jay Park.
The clock will always stop at 1:59pm.


pic show Jay's departure to his country, Seattle at airport in Sept'09


Here's the offical letter written by JYPE, posted on company website.


Hello, this is JYP Entertainment.
Last September, 2PM’s member Park Jaebeom announced his withdrawal from the group and returned to Seattle after a message he wrote on the internet during his trainee days caused backlash. We will now reveal what course of action will be taken.

Although the message that became an issue last September upset many people, it was written during Jaebeom’s tough trainee days on his personal page. At the time, the company agreed with Jaebeom when he asked to take some time for self-reflection. We did not think that this meant that he would stop all activities in the entertainment industry or that he would leave 2PM.

The company had the option of forcing Park Jaebeom to stay and continue promoting with a 7 member 2PM. However, although netizens exaggerated Jaebeom’s words through mistranslations, his words still had the potential to hurt many people. Because of this, we did not want to endorse Jaebeom and force him to continue promotions because it might have damaged his image permanently in the public eye, and so we agreed with his decision to return to the States.

When a celebrity makes a mistake and does not apologize for his / her mistake or if the company endorses that celebrity, the public view of that celebrity becomes more negative and it was in the company’s thoughts that letting Jaebeom withdraw from the group for self-discipline would be good.
Thankfully, after Park Jaebeom left the country, an outpour of support gave him another chance.


After Jaebeom’s leave, we did not release any additional information because we did not want the public to be influenced by malicious sources. Since Park Jaebeom’s return to Seattle, the company has searched for vocal, dance, and acrobatics teachers, and the company producer JYP went personally to Seattle to talk to these teachers and formulate a program.
All recent CF’s, performances, promotions and contracts that have involved 2PM have been made with the mindset that the group would eventually have all 7 members present after Park Jaebeom’s return and so we waited for his comeback.

In November, 2009, the company proposed that Park Jaebeom make his comeback through an album that would have been released this year in April, and Park Jaebeom had agreed to these plans. The plans called for Jaebeom’s return to Korea on the third week of February and a press conference would have been held before promotions as a 7 member 2PM began.
Because of the support he received from the public after his withdrawal from 2PM, Park Jaebeom’s return would have improved 2PM’s efforts and most importantly we would have been able to receive the complete support of the fans once again. The company and the group had high hopes.
However, if the news of Jaebeom’s comeback were revealed too quickly, we felt that the public would once again be negative. Although the fans criticized the lack of information from us, we did not reveal any plans for the comeback.

On December 22nd, 2009, Jaebeom confessed to Jung Wook, a representative, that he had done something wrong during the Again and Again promotions. Apparently, it was far more serious than his MySpace controversy.
The six other members were not notified then as they were busy with year-end activities. On January 3rd, 2010, we all sat down for a discussion and came to an agreement 3 days later that it was no longer possible for Park Jaebeom to continue activities along with 2PM.
We thus decided to terminate our exclusive contract with Jaebeom.
Although we wanted to release this information as soon as possible, Park Jaebeom’s personal situation prevented us from revealing this information until now and we hope you understand.
We would like to emphasize that all the information above is true in its entirety.
We are revealing these details through this message now because if we had lied and gave false information, we would have lost any trust that we held with the fans.
To 2PM and all the people who waited for Park Jaebeom’s return, we apologize deeply and are sorry to have to reveal this sad news to everyone.
The company and the remaining 6 members will prepare even harder and greet you with a better image.
Thank you.