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Where is Stray Kids' Hyunjin? Fans urge JYPE to bring back K-pop star after he was suspended over bullying claims

Stray Kids' Hyunjin was last seen on the first episode of Mnet's 'Kingdom: Legendary War' that was shot before the allegations

After a month and a half the absence of Hyunjin from Stray Kids filming, fans take it to social media to ask JYPE to bring the member back. Hyunjin was accused of school violence in February where an unknown classmate of the K-pop star complained of the member being verbally abusive in school days.

After the allegations, JYP Entertainment had put out a statement regarding Hyunjin’s bullying rumors claiming that the K-pop crooner had personally apologized to the classmates that he had unintentionally hurt. He was suspended from taking part in any group activities along with being removed from various advertisement campaigns.

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Where is Hyunjin?

Stray Kids' Hyunjin was last seen on the first episode of Mnet's 'Kingdom: Legendary War' that aired on April 1 and was shot before the allegations. The channel had notified earlier that for the subsequent episodes, Stray Kids will appear only with seven members excluding Hyunjin. The K-pop star also appeared in the latest episode of Stray Kids' variety show for which JYPE was slammed by many netizens for not 'excluding' his clips. Take a look at his latest Kingdom performance clips below.

'Bring Hyunjin back'

After almost 40 days of radio silence from the Stray Kids member, fans have taken to social media to urge JYPE to bring back Hyunjin. A fan slammed the entertainment house stating, "We just gone have to start rioting outside of jype and breaking they windows to get Hyunjin back I’m tired of being silent!" Another similar tweet read, "if hyunjin doesn’t come back by the end of april i need kstays to start ringing up jype’s hotlines again and cuss the ceo’s mother out once more there’s a limit to everything!" A fan appealed to the company saying, "Hyunjin, we miss you. Please come home soon. Jype, if he wants to, can you please please please let him come back now? "

While there is no confirmation when would Hyunjin be back in screen again, Stray Kids fans are surely hoping to see the member back on Mnet's 'Kingdom' screen. Fans had earlier praised the K-pop star's spectacular performance on the first episode. A fan shared snapshots of Hyunjin writing, "to be completely honest, after watching todays' episode if kingdom and seeing stray kids' performance, and the fact that i saw hwang hyunjin enjoying himself makes me tear up so much- STRAY KINGS HAVE ARRIVED!"

Check out more of Stray Kids in 'Kingdom' here.