The K-pop industry has always been well-known for its standards of behavior among idols.
Although entertainment companies have always built a good and amiable image of their artists
in the public eye, some idols have lately been caught up in controversies regarding
their allegedly disrespectful attitudes, thus receiving tons of criticism and even malicious
comments aimed at their personalities.
1.
Shuhua’s allegedly nonchalant attitude in response to NewJeans’ greeting and Taeyeon’s
passing by
Lately, G-IDLE’s Shuhua has one more time stirred up a heated debate all over online
forums due to her controversial attitude toward NewJeans and her senior, Taeyeon.
To be more specific, many eagle-eyed netizens spotted that at MMA 2022 when NewJeans constantly
bowed at G-IDLE, Shuhua was said to put on an indifferent face and just slightly smiled
back before quickly turning away and tossed her hair over her shoulder.
In contrast, the other members drew praise for friendly greetings back at NewJeans.
Well, you all can guess what happened to Shuhua after that.
She was immediately flooded with tons of criticism from netizens who believed that Shuhua was
too arrogant and self-absorb that she blatantly ignored NewJeans’ greeting despite sitting
right next to them.
Some also added that the female idol indeed has such a low EQ and was so uneducated as
this is not the first time she asks for trouble due to her attitude, and said that at least
she needs to observe and learn from her fellow members to behave appropriately.
Thus, many claimed that if Shuhua doesn’t make any change regarding her attitude, she
will gradually lose brownie points in the eyes of netizens and also her juniors.
On the contrary, Shuhua’s fans couldn’t stand the criticism toward their idol, so
they soon uploaded a video, which is said to be the evidence that proved the female
idol had greeted back to NewJeans.
They firmly claimed that before Shuhua settled down on her seat, she had slightly nodded
a couple of times in response to NewJeans, but antis had maliciously cut this part out
of the video to make her under fire.
Well, the controversy around Shuhua’s attitude didn’t seem to stop there as some netizens
also pointed out that she was allegedly disrespectful toward Taeyeon at GMA 2022.
When Taeyeon was announced to win the Best Female Solo Artist Award, while many idols
stood up and clapped to congratulate her on her achievement, Shuhua was a total contrast.
Many pointed out that she just stood up only without clapping like other idols.
Not only that, when Taeyeon passed right in front of her, she was even seen busy adjusting
her outfit without bothering to look at her senior.
The video soon reached netizens and made them extremely angry as they believed that Shuhua
was clearly showing disrespect to Taeyeon.
Many said that the female idol could totally put the blanket down and applauded, which
wouldn’t take her too much time, but she didn’t.
Some even mocked Shuhua, saying that her fans must be so tired and bored of constantly defending
her for the unacceptable attitude over and over again.
However, Shuhua’s fans protect her by saying that she didn’t look down on Taeyeon because
she did clap for the female idol while holding the blanket, but due to wearing a short skirt,
she couldn’t put her blanket away to support Taeyeon properly.
The thing is, some malicious netizens took advantage of it to edit the video in order
to lead others on and create a bad impression of Shuhua in their minds.
Fans, thus demand these people stop feeding the troll to throw dust on the young female
idol’s image.
2.
Alice’s Sohee and Yeonje bashed for allegedly mocking Wonyoung’s strawberry eating
You guys must remember that not long ago, Jang Wonyoung received loads of criticism
for eating a strawberry with both hands, mustn’t you?
Well, the moment has gone viral again recently when 2 members from Alice, Sohee and Yeonje,
imitated the way Wonyoung eats a strawberry, which made them under fierce criticism from
netizens, especially from Wonyoung’s fans.
For further detail, in a behind-the-scenes video of Alice, there is a part where the
group members eat strawberries.
When seeing the strawberries a bit bigger than usual, a member behind the camera said,
"So we have to eat with two hands, right?"
and the whole group burst into laughter.
While eating the fruit with two hands, Sohee even turned to ask Yeonje whether they should
have a small bite or a big one, and Yeonje then suggested having a small bite and laughed
again with a factious attitude.
The video immediately took over many social platforms and triggered the anger of Wonyoung’s
fans.
They said that it is so disrespectful of these girls when doing exactly what Wonyoung did
to mock her.
While people don't understand why Sohee and Yeonje have to make fun of Wonyoung like that,
some believed that the girls did it because they are jealous of Wonyoung who is now gaining
massive popularity despite being at a young age, so they tried hard to imitate her on
purpose to tarnish her image and also to seek attention.
However, others view their actions as really funny and harmless.
They said that Wonyoung’s fans need to stop assuming that everything is about their idol
because in fact, Sohee and Yeonje actually didn’t have any mal intention toward her,
they were just having fun and enjoying food.
Even some DIVEs also admitted that they didn’t see Alice’s members’ actions as offensive
and disrespectful at all.
So they hoped that some of Wonyoung’s fans could calm down and stop being overly protective
toward the female idol as well as being so toxic toward others.
3.
Jang Wonyoung criticized for not applauding IU at Melon Music Awards 2022
MMA 2022 which gathered favorite artists such (G)I-DLE, LE SSERAFIM, and NewJeans wrapped
up many days ago but not without the ongoing hot topics on social media.
And one of them was the debate revolving around the alleged disrespect from Jang Wonyoung
to her senior IU.
In particular, on November 27, in a circulated gif on Pann Nate, when the broadcast VCR of
IU’s speech ended, all artists in the frame were seen clapping their hands politely to
support IU except for Wonyoung who was sitting still and putting on an emotionless face.
As soon as the post was published, it amassed more than 107.000 views and about 500 comments.
Undoubtedly, Wonyoung was again under negative reactions from netizens who were talking bad
about her and criticizing the female idol for such a nonchalant attitude toward her
senior.
They assumed that it was Jang Wonyoung’s characteristic that she would not show any
interest in anything if she was not the main character and pointed out that the female
idol was so arrogant as she insisted on not clapping until the end of the VCR.
Besides, some even suspected that Wonyoung didn’t like IU as when she had covered IU’s
songs in the past, netizens were always talking about how she ruined those songs.
Thus, more internet users continued to compare Wonyoung to IU and accused her of being seriously
infected with “celebrity disease."
However, it wasn't long before many fans spoke up in defense of Wonyoung and refuted the
claim she didn't clap for IU.
Accordingly, many stated that there was editing involved that distorted the truth.
Providing the longer version of the gif posted before, DIVEs pointed out that Wonyoung actually
did applaud IU but then was quick to put down her hands about two seconds before the other
idols.
However, in the edited gif, only the scene where Wonyoung was seen not clapping was shown.
To this point, fans are extremely fed up with haters' jealousy and demeaning tricks aimed
at Wonyoung just because she is young, pretty, wealthy, and an A-list idol.
This is so ridiculous that even IU's fans also defended Wonyoung to some netizens who
left toxic comments about her, saying that there's nothing serious about her not clapping
as no one can be attentive to a situation at all times, and some should stop using IU
as an excuse to throw shades on other idols they don't like
So, which of these idols do you think are really worthy of criticism and which ones
do not deserve to be dubbed disrespectful?