MYTEEN’s Song Yuvin - IBI’s Kim So Hee On August 24, 2019, the romantic kissing photo
between Yuvin—the former contestant in Produce X101, and Sohee—also the former contestant
of Produce 101 Season 1, suddenly surfaced on the Internet.
Soon enough, more evidence showed up out of nowhere and from Instagram’s posts, the
couple was seen to have taken a trip to Sweden around the same time in 2018. From online
shows, people also saw how Yuvin once implicitly confirmed his relationship by drawing his
ideal type as the one with a soft visual, big eyes, and most importantly, having a mole
on the nose.
However, what shook people more was that instead of being exposed by Dispatch or any other
news outlets, the couple was made to suffer by Yuvin’s engraved sasaeng who leaked the
photos out of envy. On Twitter, a screenshot showed how this person just calmly exposed
his kissing picture and seemingly, she was triggered since Yuvin enjoyed a happy dating
life with Sohee.
This sasaeng also posted another one but soon deleted when the company promised to take
legal actions. Here, the girl wrote:
While Yuvin’s agency soon released a statement that the couple had split ways and would sue
the person for privacy intrusion, that obviously couldn’t save the image of Yuvin from being
adversely affected, especially when he just started to draw attention after the participation
on Produce X101 and about to debut with Kookheon.
Formerly JBJ’s Yongguk - SONAMOO’s Nahyun Not long before the incident caused by Yuvin’s
sasaeng fan, Yongguk and Nahyun also suffered from the same situation and guess what, the
whole hot mess was also created by fans of the male idol rather than anyone else. Seems
like some sasaengs just couldn’t accept that their idols are also humans with feelings.
Everything started in November 2018 when Yongguk was spotted by his sasaengs fans when hanging
out with Nahyun. This person followed Yongguk around and found that after the couple went
to a restaurant, they also had a walk and used a lot of couple items. To prove her words,
she showed how Yongguk and Nahyun have often worn the same shirt, used the same phone case,
and hung out multiple times in the past. She was also triggered to constantly see the couple
acting intimate out in public “as if they weren’t idols and didn’t live by the support
of fans”.
Then another sasaeng fan of Yuvin decided to fuel the fire, sharing two pictures of
the couple and claimed it was the time Yuvin went to have dinner with Nahyun right after
his fan meeting ended.
If you’re interested in KPOP, you must have known to some extent about the fanservice
where idols sometimes say romantic things to fans, right? Since they often do that in
fan meetings, the fact that Yuvin went straight to a date with Nahyun after that inevitably
made lots of fans angry though to be honest.
Plus, fans also claimed to have asked Nahyun to tone down her "obvious" love story on SNS
[chèn 1 số comment bảo Nahyun tém tém lại] since as early as October 2018, she
was seen interacting with fans in Chinese and randomly using dragon emojis in her posts
(FYI, "Yong" in Korean means dragon). Not long before that, she was also spotted attending
Yongguk’s fan meeting and while you may wonder how could these fans have all this
evidence, please bear in mind they would have eyes on idols 24/7 and probably even know
about their idols more than themselves.
PENTAGON’s Hui and (G)-IDLE’s Soojin Three months before that, another dating news
between Hui and Soojin also surfaced on the Internet and similarly, they were exposed
by their own fans rather than any news outlets.
In August 2018, the picture capturing Hui and Soojin hanging out at a shopping mall
was widely shared online and according to fans, since the photo was taken long before
(G)-IDLE’s debut, they didn’t know who the girl was until Soojin was announced to
be a member of the group.
After these photos went wild online, more evidence was dug up to further confirm the
girl was Soojin. Based on the outfit of Soojin when she hung out with Hui that day, people
found out she indeed wore the same black sandals when she was at the airport and also reused
the same black bag not long after that.
While the whole exposing thing out of ency happens a lot among sasaeng fans, this person
seemed to really do that with a clear malicious intention of destroying the couple’s career.
You see the timing? While PENTAGON was heavily criticized at the time for having Dawn dating
with HyunA, (G)-IDLE at the time was a three-month rookie that just started to draw some public
attention. Though the person could have published the
photos earlier, she still chose the most vulnerable time to expose them, which obviously proved
how she couldn’t stand seeing the couple being lovebirds behind the scene.
SEVENTEEN’s Dino - Minkyung On this list, Dino is one of two rare cases
that chose to date a person out of the industry. The thing is, while you may think this helps
his dating easier because at least the girl wasn’t famous and wasn’t lived by the
support from fans, things were actually just as terrible.
In August 2017, a six-second long video where Dino was seen shirtless while saying “Minkyung,
I love you very much too” and sending her a kiss took the Internet by storm. While it
was unclear who posted the clip in the first place, there were two arrays of opinions speculating
about this mysterious person. The first was that the phone of some Minkyung
girl was lost, then the person found her phone and saw some good tea in it; the second was
that sasaeng fans of Dino hacked his Kakaotalk and decided to do him dirty.
Of course I can say nothing for sure because even until now, Pledis Entertainment still
released no statement about the incident but taking a rational stance, the second case
sounds way closer to the truth. I mean, who wouldn’t set up their phone with a password?
After the video was widely shared online, fans also discovered that Minkyung was very
likely a staff member of Pledis Entertainment, because in one album of SEVENTEEN, they used
to give a big shout out to “Minkyung noona” in the “Thanks to.” This also explained
why the company commented nothing about the dating incident.
Not long after that, another post also found out the identity of one staff member with
the same name working for Pledis.
Though his love story with the alleged staff was never verified, the frustration in Dino’s
fansites still escalated and until November 2017, the whole thing reached its peak when
his greatest fansite @Michan_0211 announced their shutting down. According to this admin,
she stopped supporting Dino since he was “childish, indifferent and doesn’t appreciate fans.”
GOT7’s Bambam - TWICE’s Mina Around five months before the dating story
of Dino broke out, fans of TWICE and GOT7 also had a big surprise when seeing the intimate
picture between Bambam and Mina surfaced online.
While the photo wasn’t so shocking like the raw kissing scene between Yuvin and Sohee,
many still found it hard to accept as the two were lying on bed while Bambam had probably
just taken a shower since his hair was still wet. Also because this photo provoked so many
sensitive things that might have happened behind the scene, fans of the couple also
tried a lot to prove it was photoshopped with malicious intentions.
As you can expect, the discussion just became more and more heated from then and to prevent
the reputations of both idols from being severely damaged, JYP Entertainment eventually released
a statement saying that while the photo was real, but Bambam and Mina were nothing more
than close friends. Alongside, the agency also said they would take legal actions against
the one spreading false rumors and defaming the idols.
About how this picture was leaked, many said that it was from a Chinese sasaeng of GOT7.
Though the picture was the only thing exposed until now, they believed the person had hacked
the SNS of Bambam and actually got much more confidential information in her hands.
Red Velvet’s Joy - Crush Yes, I’m aware that this relationship wasn’t
exposed out of any envy of sasaeng fans but still, I’ll put it here as a little bonus
because the conspiracy theory behind this story was so shocking.
On the morning of August 23, Sports Chosun released an exclusive article confirming Joy
is dating rapper Crush and stated that the two grew on each other after the collaboration
on Mayday. Though both SM Entertainment and P Nation were quick to confirm the news on
the same day, and in fact, not only Redveluvs but also netizens were super cool with the
dating news, Joy somehow took it quite seriously. In the letter to fans, Joy apologized up to
four times and continually emphasized how she and Crush were “still getting to know
each other”.
The thing is, later that day, a scandal series about how Lucas was being an alleged gold
digger and a jerk was exposed online. Because of such a weird coincidence and the
extreme reaction from Joy, netizens speculated that SM Entertainment had used Joy as bait
to cover up Lucas’s scandal.
While this conspiracy theory received polarized opinions and the most liked comment on Pann
also agreed with this idea, many others believed that it’s not business-wise for SM to do
so.
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