Earlier this week, Daniel Gauss, the former English tutor of the Wonder Girls, made waves when he released a statement claiming that the management of JYP Entertainment had mistreated the pop quintet during their stay in the United States. Amongst his claims, Gauss stated that the girls hadn't been receiving proper health insurance and medical care, and were living illegally in New York City. Since this statement, Jung Wook (the CEO of JYPE), Yeeun and Sunye all spoke up against these claims and explained their side of the matter, and now JYPE has released an official statement regarding the matter on their website jype.com.

Hello, this is JYP Entertainment. We want to apologize first for the fans who have been hit with this bad news while waiting for their big album release party. On May 11th, the Wonder Girls' former English tutor revealed information in an interview and upset many of you all. We want to clear up some rumors for those of you that are worried. There are many things that were in the interview that are far from the truth. The Wonder Girls have had perfect health insurance this whole time and we have all records of that. Controlling the members' curfews, access etc in their dorm is illegal in both Korea and America. This can't happen and shouldn't happen. The members have been enjoying their freedom by themselves and they have absolutely no chaperone in their dorm. It's also false that the company made Sunye continue her promotions after her father fell ill. Sunye stopped her schedule and went to Korea to visit him. When he got better, she returned to America willingly and continued going by her schedule. The contract is written so that we can't force anyone to do something against their will. The reason we didn't pay the building fines is because the American contractors of the building appealed the fines. There are also people who are worried about the Wonder Girls' visas. Since they wanted to start working in America as entertainers, they have acquired artist visas. After they received it, they started their promotions as singers. There is no need for anyone to worry. Lastly, the Nobody single CD is a CD that has only one song, Nobody. American singles usually sell for $0.99. We thought it would be unreasonable to sell a single for more than how much it would cost to buy it online. All we did was match up the prices to what it would be online after we discussed it with the distributors. This is reasonable and contrary to what the people at the Billboard charts think. We have even received compliments from the American press. The Billboard Hot 100 single chart determines first place by taking in the number of times the song played on the radio. (Bing Song count 50%, digital sales and CD sales 40%, streaming count 5%). The CD sales count for only 20% (since it's split with digital sales) so it's impossible to enter the single chart HOT100 with just good CD sales. As the Girls toured 54 cities in America, their digital sales and streaming count rose and their music played on radios in various cities, which seemed impossible for Asian singers. These young girls earned this outcome by working as hard as they could and to hear that they achieved this only because of cheap CD prices is an insult. The interview with the former English tutor, Daniel Gauss, was held on May 2nd. He sent an email to the company and announced his resignation. His email talked about how his tutor fee was too little, how we hired another English tutor without discussing it with him, and how he felt displeased that the new tutor's pay was higher than his . To clearly reveal the truth to this issue, we will deal with it through the law and have the person responsible for revealing this malicious content undergo investigation. I want to honestly apologize to the Wonder Girls' fans for concerning them, and I promise that I will do my best to prevent this kind of situation from happening again. I want to sincerely thank the Wonder Girls who are working hard for their concert even in this situation, and to the fans who are cheering them on. Everyone, please set all your concerns aside and comfortably enjoy the Wonder Girls' new image today. If you look below, there is an URL leading to a fan-made video of the fans cheering on the Wonder Girls' comeback, so we hope that you will all cheer with us.