GOT7’s Mark was given a pair of used chopsticks Back in 2018 when GOT7 held a Vlive broadcast
to send little farewells to fans after the LOOK promotion, fans got to see for themselves
how the oldest member of the group was given a pair of dirty chopsticks when he had no
utensils to eat. Since Mark asked the staff politely and the camera was still rolling,
fans speculated that such a mistreatment had been a norm between staff because they showed
no hesitation to mistreat him like that. What’s even worse is that though he showed clear
signs of anger and confusion, no one bothered to care and so he just ended up eating salads
with his hands for the rest of the broadcast.
While Mark kept his composure and didn’t cause a scene, Ahgases were still quick to
realize the disrespect and soon enough, they took it to Twitter, trended the hashtag #JYPPlzApologizeToMark
and demanded an official apology from JYP. From their point of view, there was nothing
fun about handing someone dirty chopsticks. Moreover, had it been true that the staff
were just playing around with Mark, they should have given him a new pair to eat instead of
letting him struggle like that. After the incident, some also believed Mark was treated
way worse behind the scenes and this was obviously just a low-level mistreatment that the group
had to suffer.
LOONA’s Chu was grabbed by the hair If you think a famous happy virus like Chuu
will deserve all the best treatment in the industry then well, so sorry, she was apparently
nothing more than another idol who is being mistreated based on the way she was treated
by ISAC staff.
Not long ago when LOONA attended ISAC in December 2019, one of her fancams went super viral
but sadly, it was for all the bad reasons. In the video, she was shown being grabbed
by the hair by one staff member. The thing was that, despite the shook and confused reactions
of everyone there, the man didn’t apologize to Chuu and only did so after being fiercely
criticized by netizens.
Though the organization crew of ISAC did issue an apology to Chuu and her fans soon after
the incident, they also justified by saying the staff member initially just wanted to
tap on her shoulder but since she was still so absorbed in conversation with other members,
he had no ways but to pull her hair. Of course no one bought those words because the video
they watched apparently told a whole different story.
Ironically enough, the opinions on the video were still polarized since some believed that
such a light hair-pulling should do no harm to Chuu and netizens were reacting so dramatically.
However, most people believed that the problem didn’t lie at whether Chuu was hurt but
rather the disrespectful action since no one had the right to pull others’ hair, especially
in case they are both strangers and he was a grown-up man. Similar to Mark, some were
also scared to think about what could happen behind the scene because if these were the
actions Chuu gotta face in public, what people can’t see might be ten times worse.
Things were so serious that on Twitter, fans not only demanded the staff and MBC to apologize
but also asked for his immediate removal from the company.
aespa’s NingNing was cursed at Despite being the member under one of best
monster rookies of 2020 and the most invested girl group of SM Entertainment, that apparently
didn’t guarantee NingNing a respectful treatment from the staff.
Back to November 2020 where aespa was promoting for Black Mamba at Inkigayo, NingNing e was
blatantly mocked by a staff member who was doing her fancam at the time. At the first
12 seconds of the video, you can hear a male voice laughing and saying “That is not f***ing
uncoordinated!”, implying how NingNing failed to do the choreography in sync with the rest
of the members.
However, you know what the weirdest part about this incident? Despite being one of the biggest
broadcast companies in the industry, SBS didn’t even bother to have any one check and edit
that insulting words out of the video. And yes, people had flocked to the video and criticized
how unprofessional the whole crew was.
After the incident blew up on the Internet, SBS issued an official apology saying that
the staff’s words were taken out of context and that he was just in another conversation
that had nothing to do with NingNing. Also for this reason, they just apologized if the
words came across as offensive to anyone and promised to be more careful with the editing
down the road.
So, do you think people would buy it? Of course not. On soompi, netizens said that because
this was not the first time SBS did something shady to SM’s artist, the apology was merely
inauthentic. On top of that, the work ethics of the staff
was also brought into question since though it’s true that everyone has the right to
speak their mind, he could just save it for later rather than blatantly mocked and cursed
at NingNing like that. Even when he didn’t mean to say so, some also demanded the staff
member to step down from his position for not doing his little job properly.
At the end of the day, he only had one job which was to record idols beautifully and
checked the audio well before uploading but as you see, he failed at both aspects.
Gfriend’s SinB’s gift was rudely taken While this wasn’t a super rude behavior
like the case of Mark and Chuu and there was also not much criticism aimed at SinB’s
manager, the fact he once blatantly took her letter away was already enough to raise the
question as to whether SinB got the respect she deserved or not.
Back when she was still active as a member of G-Friend, one fan had written her a letter
and sent it at the meeting. However, because the company generally didn’t allow it since
some content may include hate speech and inappropriate things, the manager came and took it away
without SinB’s consent and even crumpled it.
Of course, everyone can see that he just wanted to do SinB good but considering how the letter
was just grabbed from her hands without asking, and especially in front of her fan, that was
still a pretty rude action to do. At the end of the day, there are lots of ways
to solve a problem and the manager doesn't necessarily have to act aggressively like
that.
Though SinB also managed to ask for the letter back, the mood was totally ruined for everyone
at the meeting.
TWICE was compared to BlackPink If you follow TWICE, you’ll for sure know
that the girls’ latest stylist is the former coordi of BLACKPINK. However, do you also
know she onced accused of throwing shade at TWICE just to compliment the fashion sense
of BLACKPINK but eventually still agreed to come to JYP Entertainment and work for TWICE?
That’s hilarious but yes, she did what she did.
As you can see, through the comparison, the stylist made TWICE seem pathetic and inferior
when standing next to BLACKPINK. However, it’s also hard to understand why as a professional
stylist, she couldn’t see that TWICE’s sweet candy costumes completely suit their
concept, which is completely different from that of BLACKPINK, and making such a nonsense
comparison.
And to no one’s surprise, she was heavily criticized on Pann. According to netizens,
her words showed how she had zero respect for TWICE and tried to appear superior by
dragging other women down. Some also demanded YG Entertainment to dismiss this stylist because
of her thoughtless words, BLACKPINK was also dragged into the mess although they didn’t
even do anything wrong.
However, the thing here is that, the stylist then went ahead to work for TWICE just like
nothing had happened and even did the girls no justice when literally dressing Momo in
lingerie at Seoul Music Award 2019 and triggered thousands of fans.
Oh, and of course no one can forget how Jeongyeon was turned into a fashion disaster time after
time.
So, do you think these staff members didn’t intend to do things with bad motives or they
really wanted to make idols lose face? Comment down below to share your thoughts with us.
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