Accuser of BTS Jungkook's 'SEVEN' faces plagiarism claims involving Spice Girls song

The producer who accused BTS Jungkook's song 'SEVEN' of plagiarism is now facing his own plagiarism allegations. Yang Joon Young, a first-generation K-Pop producer, caused a stir in the K-Pop community by claiming that Jungkook's solo digital song copied Fin.K.L's 'Time of Mask', a song he had produced.

These allegations were met with doubt, as "Seven" was written by foreign producers and most listeners didn't hear any similarities between the songs.

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Adding to the confusion, on August 24, an article from the South Korean online media outlet Dispatch presented evidence that seemed to clear Jungkook of any wrongdoing.

To make matters worse for Yang Joon Young, listeners and BTS fans called ARMY carried out their own investigation and found Fin.K.L's song to have a striking resemblance to another iconic pop group's song: the Spice Girls.

Upon listening to the first 30 seconds of the Spice Girls hit 'Say You'll Be There', it's hard to ignore the similarities to the main melody of Fin.K.L's 'Time of Mask'. 

Notably, 'Say You'll Be There' was released in 1996, three years before 'Time of Mask'.

Talking about the plagiarism issue on SEVEN, in a phone call with Dispatch on August 22, Yang Joon Young told them, "The key of the songs might be different, but the four-bar scale system between the two songs is the same".