Female duo Davichi exposed a phone number actually used in concert staging, and damage continues. Despite several similar cases in the past, netizens poured criticism over the situation in which the same mistake was repeated again without vigilance.
On the 27th, Davichi's agency, CAMWITHUS, announced via its official account, "We inform you regarding the number listed on the business card used in the production process of the 2026 Davichi solo concert 'TIME CAPSULE: 시간을 잇다.' The number was used for production purposes and is not a phone number for actual contact," the agency said in a notice.
Earlier, Davichi held the 2026 Davichi concert 'TIME CAPSULE : 시간을 잇다' on the 24th and 25th at Seoul KSPO Dome. At the time, illusionist Lee Eun-gyeol, who took charge of the opening performance, handed out business cards on the floor, and the cards contained the phrase "Do you know the time capsule" and "If you want to connect time, call now" along with a phone number.
The number had been created for production by combining Davichi's debut year and this year, but it turned out that an actual user existed, sparking controversy. As some audience members attempted to contact the number and harm spread to the number's user, the agency belatedly moved to contain the situation.
The agency urged, "Currently the owner of the number is experiencing harm due to contacts, so please refrain from contacting that number."
Netizens criticized the agency's complacent judgment. Problems from phone numbers exposed in mass media have occurred repeatedly for several years.
In the 2021 released Netflix Squid Game Season, the business card received by the protagonist Gi-hun (played by Lee Jung-jae) included the eight digits excluding '010,' and some viewers of the work controversially tried calling by arbitrarily adding '010' to those digits. The victim who actually used the number said to a media outlet, "Since Squid Game was aired, texts and calls have come nonstop 24 hours a day to the point that daily life is difficult," and lamented, "I have deleted more than 4,000 phone numbers recently. Contacts arriving out of curiosity with no regard for time drain my phone battery in half a day," expressing the pain.
In response, Squid Game Season said, "The number owner and the production company are continuously communicating by phone and meeting in person to resolve the issue," and director Hwang Dong-hyuk also apologized in an interview, saying, "We used a number thinking it did not exist, but the production team did not anticipate that adding '010' would make it automatically connect. I am sorry we did not check properly until the end," and added, "I apologize again to those who were harmed. I understand the production team plans to provide proper compensation. We will take responsibility until the end."
A similar case occurred recently. In November last year, Cha Eun-woo's agency Fantagio ran an event during an album promotion where calling the number '070' would play a prerecorded message Cha Eun-woo recorded before his enlistment. However, during the event some fans dialed incorrectly by changing it to '010,' causing similar numbers to be called and harming members of the public using those numbers. The agency said, "Some users entered the number incorrectly, resulting in calls to other places. We sincerely apologize to those inconvenienced," and again urged people to enter the correct number.
Amid this, Davichi was also swept up in the phone number exposure controversy and has been heavily criticized. Critics say that given the many similar harms, the verification process should have been more careful. Separately, there is also criticism that the act of calling numbers exposed in the media itself is incomprehensible and should be refrained from.
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