After publicly accusing Blackpink’s Jisoo and her team of “stealing” their fashion pieces loaned for a shoot, Belgian designer Benjamin Voortmans said Wednesday that the issue was “getting fixed” and arrangements were being made to retrieve the items from Korea.

“Jisoo from Blackpink basically stole my stuff,” Benjamin Voortmans, founder of fashion brand Judassime, said in a video uploaded on Instagram recently. Jisoo’s official account was reportedly tagged in the accusatory video.


“It has been six months that I sent a lot of things to her and her team in Korea for her album cover […] Six months forward, no one has been responding,” Voortmans said.

Voortmans said the issue was not that the items had been borrowed, but that his team received no response regarding their return for six months.

As public attention grew, on Wednesday, Voortmans posted another video, saying that “the Jisoo situation is getting fixed.”

“I just got a call from America, and someone is gonna be sent to Korea to get all of our stuff back,” Voortmans said. “I just wanted to have my things back.”

The brand’s pieces were sent to the Korean and American teams managing Jisoo, both of which have been “postponed” and “not responded” to for the last six months despite his sending invoices and contracts, according to Voortmans.

The designer noted that among the parcels to Jisoo were “three very important pieces from the last collection, which cost a lot.”

“Even the American team [involved in] the shoot stopped working with them,” Voortmans said. “I never see that happening, [and I] would not expect to see and happen from A-listers and pop stars that are that big.”

Voortmans, who said to have been receiving online hate for speaking out, said they would not apologize. The designer clarified that the video was not intended to attack Jisoo personally.

“I used her name to have a response from anyone from the team whatsoever,” Voortmans said. “Six months of not responding is little crazy. The whole team should be aware to treat people better next time and to address if there is any problem.”

Calling Jisoo “a boss of the whole thing,” the designer said they used the singer’s name because it was part of the shoot and her name was everywhere, including emails.

“As a young designer, we are putting a lot of time into our pieces and take care that everything is going well for people on the other side,” Voortmans said. “Not getting a response for six months and not respecting us is terrible.”

Voortmans later said in another Instagram video that their action was not to project “hate toward her.”

“I love what she [referring to Jisoo] and does and stands for,” Voortmans said, adding that there must have been some misunderstanding between themselves and fans as things get twisted in online space.



This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.
BY SHIN HYE-YEON [lee.soojung1@joongang.co.kr]