Singer Baek Ji Young sued dozens of malicious netizens to protect celebrities from getting hurt through poisonous words.

On October 3rd, Baek Ji Young's agency WS Entertainment gathered evidence of netizens who posted malicious comments about Baek Ji Young's miscarriage. Baek Ji Young had to suffer not only the emotional pain of a miscarriage, but also the comments these thoughtless netizens uploaded.

WS Entertainment revealed that there is an ongoing police investigation, and said, "As soon as the investigation is over, we're going to prosecute all the netizens that made false and defamatory comments. We have no intention of granting them leniency, and plan to ask that strong penalties are given to these people."

The agency also explained the reason why they were doing this, and said that in part it's to protect other celebrities from becoming victims. They said, "We will also exploit all the netizens who hide behind anonymity. We will charge them so that we can protect not only ourselves, but other celebrities who get hurt by their words. We hope to prevent any more potential criminals from arising, and hope to correct them in this matter. We hope you understand our position."

According to the agency, Baek Ji Young filed a charge against these slanderers in July. They said, "In the face of these rumors and malicious comments on the internet, celebrities put up with netizens just based on the fact that they're celebrities. Also, we wanted to preserve the netizens' freedom to express their freedom of speech, so at first we did not respond aggressively. However, before she is a celebrity, Baek Ji Young is first and foremost a woman. And to think that a married woman who recently went through a miscarriage would be cursed and have to bear insults and libel is outrageous. Not only that, these people did the unthinkable when they uploaded gruesome photoshopped pictures of the baby that was miscarried. We decided to charge these people as a last resort."

Baek Ji Young married actor Jung Suk Won earlier this year, and conveyed the news of her pregnancy. However, in June, 4 months into the pregnancy, the unfortunate news of miscarriage was delivered to the fans, who were worried about Baek Ji Young.