Yesterday, Section TV reported that Wang Sicong of Banana Culture gifted T-ara sports cars and essentially bought them from MBK Entertainment. The plain-as-day insinuation of the report is that Wang Sicong is essentially acting as T-ara’s sponsor. Well, the T-ara members didn’t seem so happy about that, so they asked Wang Sicong and Banana Culture to respond themselves.

Qri,Hyomin,Jiyeon Weibo update

[@WangSicong because I don't know how to connect to you so I only can do it in this way

Have Banana Culture ever send luxury cars to T-ara members?

And is it true that Banana gives MBK 900 billion won? Waiting for ur reply!🙏] pic.twitter.com/eCv1Z6FJjg — Hyominmmd (@hyominmmd) January 8, 2018

Banana Culture quickly released a statement affirming that the reports were bullshit.

Welp.

Hyomin Weibo update(reply to Banana Cultrue) [Okay, Thank you! What we need is your clarification, thanks for your reply!] — Hyominmmd (@hyominmmd) January 8, 2018

Jiyeon Weibo update(reply to Banana Cultrue)[Thank you for replying quickly! Really appreciate the time we spend together] pic.twitter.com/U1mOvXJ33n — Hyominmmd (@hyominmmd) January 8, 2018

manager of Banana repost[As the agency,I really hate some agency who always trick and media play,harm others and themselves. T-ara,thank you.As the your Chinese agency,cooperated with you for 2 n half yrs,we will remember every concert,activity,magazines, wish u all the best.] pic.twitter.com/iYgBXzXifk — Hyominmmd (@hyominmmd) January 8, 2018

T-ara then took to Instagram to post their own message about the report.

“Hello. This is T-ara’s Qri, Eunjung, Hyomin, and Jiyeon. We don’t have a company to act on our behalf, so after contemplating and gathering courage, we decided to inform you here. Regarding the articles reporting that the members received supercars and 9 billion won, we personally contacted Wang Sicong (Banana Culture) through Weibo and received a formal response that the reports are false and totally groundless. We hope that the agency and all of the employees who worked hard with us since our debut will not be negatively affected by this groundless rumor. The four members’ official position is that we hope we can continue to greet you with the name ‘T-ara’ and hope all of this can be peacefully resolved. Thank you for reading.”

Man, what coincidental timing that reports like this, rumors about Hyomin dating, and having the T-ara name trademarked are popping up days after their contracts with MBK expired. Sheesh!

the search results of 효민 on Naver are still about dating news and the sexy news,even one of them saying Hyomin's Lotus car which worth 20 billion won is bought by Mr.A😡 pic.twitter.com/wW9EAHt8lu — Hyominmmd (@hyominmmd) January 6, 2018