Lee Hwayoung
I bet the thought that some idols don’t truly love their fans and just treat them as cash cows has at
least once crossed your mind. Of course, while this way of thinking doesn’t apply to every star
and there are probably some that genuinely appreciate their fans, it’s sadly 100% true in
the case of Boy24’s Lee Hwayoung and hell yes, there was hard evidence for what he has done.
Back in 2017 when he was still a little rookie, Lee Hwayoung had literally stirred
the whole Internet up with the scandal that has never happened in KPOP history:
blatantly humiliating and disgracing his fans with his girlfriend.
The whole beef started after the girl got into an unsolvable fight with Hwayoung
and guess what, she went on the Internet and exposed him with this recording.
Roughly translated, his ranting went like this: “I love being called ‘oppa’ but not from those fans.
I fucking hate them. Damn it. The hi-touch event is even more irritating. We do the hi-touch thing,
you know? Like I have to greet fans and hold their hands after the concert ends.
Doing that with 700-800 people a day can make me throw up,
and their breath smells like shit!” Needless to say, his fans were shook to the root.
Soon after the post got posted on Youtube, lots of people, including Hwayoung’s fans of course,
flocked into the comment section to express their irritation. Though there goes a saying “time will
erase everything”, his leaked video trashing fans still had new people coming in until recently.
Besides comments saying that they felt bad for BOYS24’s fans, especially those who had
Hwayoung as a bias, netizens were also glad that he was cancelled so no one had to suffer
from his malicious words and he himself also wouldn’t have to suffer from the bad breath.
Right after the recording went viral online, CJ Entertainment immediately
released a preliminary statement apologizing to fans, and said that though they had given him
multiple chances to redeem himself, he failed everyone again and again.
And as what is supposed to be will be,
on February 13th, 2017, the company released an official statement saying that Hwayoung
will be kicked out of the group to not let the image of BOYS24 be tarnished.
Yong Guk
Coincidently, just one year after the shaking scandal of Hwayoung got exposed, the former
member of JBJ—Yong Guk, was also caught up in a controversy where he blatantly treated fans as
cash cows, being lazy, hanging out at adult clubs and constantly whining about his idol career.
So how can all these beefs get exposed? While it was at first rumored that someone
hacked his private Instagram account and tried to downgrade his image,
Yong Guk himself admitted that the account wasn’t hacked and posted an apology letter to fans.
So exactly what happened that he had to write this darn long letter?
Well, you’ll see the reasons soon.
Around the November of 2018, all the posts in Yong Guk’s private account got exposed and
besides these cute little posts like this [chèn 2 cái ảnh chụp mặt nó - ảnh bên dưới nhé], his wall
was filled with tons of pictures that were nothing but a disappointment to his fans.
After the picture where he complained about how filming was so darn hard,
the next photo was where he took piles of albums and instead of expression appreciation for fans,
he wrote “Delusional” with a whining emoticon, implicitly telling how his
fans were delusional that he truly loved them and how he wasn’t happy about his work.
Though there was also another post about him implying he didn’t want
to film the second season of JBJ’s show—Uniform King, right after that
picture was the one he got excited when asking for expensive gifts from fans.
However, the disappointing saga didn’t end there since besides his Instagram posts,
multiple fans have claimed that they picked up gifts that they gave Yong Guk from the trash.
Of course, only the cheap ones.
Later on, people found out that his disgust attitude towards fans didn't only show in
such private little events since in the past, he even dissed other fans in his own fansign.
For example this time, he complained how all the people he met were nagging so much
like mothers-in-law and this time, he blatantly criticized how thick the makeup of one fan was.
Though he didn’t say anything too much like Hwayoung, the fact that he disgraced his
fans for so many times has also made him bear the same fate as the former member of BOYS24.
After the scandal blew up online, lots of fans went to Twitter to express how
disappointed and disturbing the experience was. Among them, some had already been fans
since the Produce 101 era and though they hate the “cancelled culture” for its toxicness,
they couldn’t help but let Yong Guk be cancelled for good.
You know what that means? He surely can never go back to the entertainment industry.
Yoochun Back in 2017 when Yoochun was caught up
in his series of scandals, netizens coincidently dug up an old fancam recording him blatantly
looking down on the not-so-expensive gift of a fan in front of hundreds of other people.
While it may sound too rude, and kinda too foolish, to be true,
it was actually what he did in one fansign. After flipping back and forth to roughly assess
the value of the present, his friendly smile completely turned off and right at that moment,
he literally stared at his manager and ordered him to trash the gift.
In case you’re not Korean fans and can’t read his lips language,
then well, he was whispering: “boryeo (버려),” which is “toss it” in English,
and immediately switch back to the happy, friendly mode of few seconds ago.
After the clip went viral online, netizens on Nate believed that even when some mindless fans still
tried to defend him this time, nothing could be saved since the proof was right there in the broad
daylight. They also said Yoochun was nothing but an arrogant jerk when treating fans like trash
since had it not been for their support, he could never drive his supercar around the town.
As Yoochun was also deep inside the hole of scandals that he dug himself,
many fans have also turned their back and told him to end his career soon
so that they wouldn't have to waste time supporting a terrible person like him.
GOT7’s Jackson
Earlier this year, a video clip of Jackson getting offensive when fans greeted him in Korean
resurfaced the Internet and needless to say, South Korean fans were not only triggered but also kinda
heart-broken since they have always thought of Jackson as the warmest and kindest idol on Earth.
People were so mad that though nearly two years have passed, some latest new comments that were
just posted three months ago were still seen under the video recording his alleged rude behavior.
Okay, so the video we’re talking about is this 12 seconds long clip that was recorded in August 2019
when Jackson went to a Fendi event in a foregin country. While he was standing outside waiting
for the in-store staff to prepare the launch, one fan tried to interact with him by saying:
“Annyeonghaseyo”, which was basically “Hello” in English.
However, instead of smiling or giving back a small nodding like all other idols,
you know what he did? He stared at the fan and replied with a straight face: “I’m Chinese, OKAY?”
Yes, you’re not hearing it wrong. He literally put that “OKAY” thing at the end of his words.
And you can also hear the fans awkwardly laughing as he saying that
While this video used to cause quite a lot of noise when being posted two years ago,
this time when it was dug up again, netizens and especially many Ahgases still found it hard to
accept. They believed that Jackson’s sudden being offended when foreign fans greet him in Korean
was nothing but a big slap in the face of Koreans in general and domestic Ahgases in particular.
Why a big slap? Well, it’s pretty much like a sign of “biting the hand that feeds you”
because for many K-netizens, Jackson rose his reputation by being a KPOP idol,
by starting out in a KPOP company and benefited from the Korean fans in the very place.
People believed that he didn’t even show a tint of appreciation to the place helping him succeed
and asked him to go back to China with the hashtag #JacksonWangGobacktoChina
A lot of people said that though they understood Jackson’s patriotism, they couldn't stand how he
was in fact a Hongkongnese and said that “okay” thing with a big attitude. Others also found it
ridiculous since at the end of the day, it was just a warm little greeting in Korean
and there was no discrimination intention so he didn’t need to be so extreme like that.
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