K-Pop News Weekly Top 3: Sulli Becomes Inactive, Wonder Girl's Yeeun Goes Solo, Super Junior & EXO Members Get Hacked

What stories dominated the K-Pop headlines in the past week?

SM Entertainment Officially Addresses f(x) Sulli & Her Wish To Halt Promotional Activity

There had been all sort of rumors flying around prior to an official announcement, but SM Entertainment revealed this week that Sulli would be taking a break from her activities. Due to both health issues and verbal abuse from anti-fans, Sulli apparently was having an extremely hard time and needed a break from the spotlight.

Fans were not only disappointed about Sulli's move, but also that f(x) stopped all "Red Light" activities, despite the fact that the group was doing well this promotional cycle. People also started to worry about whether f(x) will disband in the near future.

Wonder Girls Yenny To Debut Solo As HA:TFELT

In a surprise that shocked many fans, the Wonder Girls' member Yenny (Yeeun) was announced to be debuting as a solo artist, under the moniker HA:TFELT. She joined the assortment of girl group members to have gone solo.

HA:TFELT released two teaser videos for "Ain't Nobody,"  one depicting Yenny in the nude while the other showed her dancing wildly on the street barefoot. She will release the mini album "Me?" on July 31, and release songs with Beenzino, and Wonder Girls member's Hyerim and Yubin.

Fans Try To Hack Some Super Junior and EXO Accounts, And One Succeeds

Attacks on idols' social media accounts are becoming more and more rampant, and this week Super Junior's Donghae was forced to delete his Instagram account because someone hacked his original username. After publicly posting about it on Twitter, Donghae made another account, but showed his disappointment.

EXO's Sehun came out in defense of Donghae, and also revealed that he was getting sick and tired of fans trying to hack into his Instagram account.  

Update: Donghae has regained control of his original Instagram handle and is using it once again.

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