Banners showing support for RIIZE‘s Seunghan have reportedly been confiscated.
Since Seunghan’s hiatus began, fans have continuously found ways to demand his return to activities. This has continued in Belgium, where RIIZE are currently slated to perform during KBS‘s Music Bank in Antwerp concert.
Ahead of the event, the group spent time outside exploring and took time to film a dance challenge in public. While they were filming, a fan loudly proclaimed that “RIIZE is 7.”
Another fan was spotted holding a sign with a similar message.
Fans also organized projects to support Seunghan and the other members during the concert, including passing out individual banners and one featuring a photo of all seven members.
On the event day, the fanbase responsible for passing out these banners posted a tweet claiming that the banners that included Seunghan had been confiscated by management. A follow-up tweet stated that the “organization and the venue” apologized for taking this action.
┍ 📃 – BANNERS ┑
Hello.
This is the Riize Belgium team.
We regret to inform you that the Riize ot7 banners and the seunghan banner are not accepted by the managers. They are confiscated until the end of the show.We’ll see what we can do with the stock after the Music bank.
— RIIZE Belgium 🇧🇪 RIIZE IS 7 (@RIIZE_BELGIUM) April 20, 2024
All we can say is that the organization and the venue were in agreement at the outset and apologized.
— RIIZE Belgium 🇧🇪 RIIZE IS 7 (@RIIZE_BELGIUM) April 20, 2024
The fanbase also said that the venue and the organization had previously given them the “OK” regarding the project, consisting of over 2000 thousand banners, months ago.
But unfortunately we’re out of banners for the event, so we’re sorry. We checked with the venue and the organization a few months ago and everything was ok… #RIIZEis7
— RIIZE Belgium 🇧🇪 RIIZE IS 7 (@RIIZE_BELGIUM) April 20, 2024
While the fanbase did pass out some of the banners, and some fans managed to sneak them in…
It was fake news pic.twitter.com/Samr8aDJL9
— Chloë is seeing riize (@jschrtz) April 20, 2024
I FOUND A SEUNGHAN’S BANNER MY DAY IS BLESSED!!!! pic.twitter.com/3PnO7Qh81m
— nyu 1y w/ ZB1🌹 (@jbw9hbn) April 20, 2024
…many are outraged by this turn of events and still plan to show support in any way they can.
lee sangmin head of center 5 reposting sasaeng pics of riize, and sm confiscating only banners with riize as 7 and seunghan on it, isn’t there something majorly wrong with their priorities? 😭
— ☆ (@riizedotcom) April 20, 2024
no bc all these banners and chants in support of seunghan today really set an example for what is to come once riize start touring internationally. if sm knew any better, they’d scrap whatever nonsense they’re cooking and announce his return right before the fancon. just saying pic.twitter.com/0LAcvRRuk6
— ً (@ttorimeal) April 19, 2024
anyways they can control what banners go in the venue but they can’t control what you say. Chant RIIZE IS 7 the loudest. Might as well chant seunghan as well https://t.co/nyO5gsBuy8
— hanny ꨄ 🦕🫧 (slow) (@hannyhwa_) April 20, 2024
