Hearts2Hearts’ Ian Faces Viral School Violence And Sexual Harassment Accusations 

SM Entertainment‘s newest group, Hearts2Hearts, has finally made their debut.

The group is the company’s first girl group since aespa, so many eyes have been on them already. And, like other groups, netizens have dug into their pasts for more information about the members.

Recently, an anonymous post about member Ian‘s alleged past as a school bully has gone viral online.

A comment on the group’s debut shared the alleged information about Ian’s supposedly violent past. One incident mentioned involved Ian throwing a rock at a boy and breaking a fish tank.

Her parents were also allegedly involved in this specific instance.

Ian, so you finally debuted. I was really shocked when I heard you were debuting.

After living such a trashy life, you shamelessly decided to debut? I already feel sorry for your fans. I still vividly remember when you were in elementary school—you got into a fight with a boy just because you didn’t like him, then suddenly threw a rock in anger, breaking the school’s water tank and flooding the entire first floor. LOL.

And then, to play the victim, your mom came to school, flipped the teachers’ office upside down, and even made your family famous by forcing that boy’s mom to make him kneel and apologize. You probably don’t know this, but our entire grade—upper and lower classmates—still remembers that incident. The rumor even spread to the high schools our seniors went to.

— OP

The OP also claimed that Ian and her group of friends sexually harassed and bad-mouthed teachers, saying that the idol ran with a “bad” crowd.

“A single incident like that might be considered just an accident, but the people around you know very well what kind of terrible person you are. Remember when you hit your friend? Someone recorded it and uploaded it to the school classroom website. It got deleted quickly, but everyone who needed to see it already knew.

And in class, whenever you were in a group, you were so uncooperative that people tried to avoid you. Did you even realize that? Then in middle school, you and some of your friends talked badly about and even sexually harassed some teachers. Maybe you don’t remember since you did so many horrible things, but a lot of students who respected those teachers were really furious.

Honestly, watching you act like that made me realize that while some people go down the wrong path over time, others—like you—are just born bad. And thinking about how I had to attend the academy your mom ran makes me too embarrassed to even talk about it. If you read this, pass the message on.

I don’t know if you care, but after you dropped out, your friends got caught smoking at school, and one of them even got in big trouble for bullying a younger student. Seeing that just made me think, “Like attracts like.” If you hadn’t dropped out to become a trainee, that could’ve been you too.

If I said I wrote this calmly without any malice, I’d be lying. But you and the people who know you will agree—there’s no lie or exaggeration in this.

We’re in our first year of high school now, and unlike you, I actually need to study, so writing this is kind of ridiculous. But still, I wanted the people who like you to at least know what kind of person you are before they support you.

If this message spreads and causes you trouble, don’t blame me. It’s your life—you lived it this way. Out of all the people I’ve ever met, you are by far the worst.

Congratulations on your debut, Jung Ian.”

— OP

After this account was reposted to X, another user who claims to have been a classmate alleged that the information was true and shared pre-debut images of Ian as proof of their words.

2017년도에 초등학교 2학년 9살짜리가 핸드폰있는게 당연한건가요?ㅋㅋ 그때 애들 대부분이 학교 급식실입구쪽, 어항이랑 엘베사이에 있던 콜렉트콜 2개로 부모님한테 전화하거나 키즈폰 썼었는데요

— ; (@shame1ess9) February 24, 2025

Haha, this is all true, but what should I do when people refuse to believe it and blindly defend them? LOL. What kind of proof do you need? Should I have taken a picture of the broken fish tank at that exact moment and kept it all these years, even though it was rare for elementary school kids to have phones back then? Or should I have secretly recorded the gym class in middle school when they were sexually harassing the teacher, even though our school confiscated phones?

Was it normal for a 9-year-old second grader in 2017 to have a phone? LOL. Back then, most kids used the two collect-call phones near the school cafeteria entrance, between the fish tank and the elevator, or they used kids’ phones to call their parents.

— OP

One of the images appeared to show Ian sending images of herself to a chatroom, screenshotted from the POV of another person in the chat.

SM Entertainment has not responded to these claims as of writing.