Former T-ara member Hwayoung, "If I were to meet T-ara again..."

[qripretty.livejournal.com]

In an exclusive interview for Korean media outlet TV Daily, Former T-ARA member Hwayoung shared how she would react if she were to see her former team members at the station.

"They say that clapping only makes a sound when both palms meet. There's definitely things I did wrong, and there were some times when we clashed. But now everything's okay. While I rested, I thought about how we suffered together during practice, and how we would perform on stage. I hope that someday I'll be able to meet them again." She also commented that the manipulated photos and "evidence" by netizens was absurd and frustrated her as well.

We were hesitant to ask the question, but Hwayoung answered it very casually. She knew that conflicts could arise at any moment, and that reconciliation could happen just as easily.

"Although we're on different paths now, there will be a chance that I'll meet the T-ara unnis on a variety or drama, right? I want that to happen because when it does, I'll tell them 'find strength.' I know how much they've suffered/how hard they're working. And I'll say let's meet again at the top together."




1. [+3,873, -289] I think people hate T-ara but don't necessarily like Hwayoung, right? She looks quite beautiful in those hanbok.

2. [+3,144, -755] Imagine how pissed T-ara is if, on the very off chance, that bullying scandal was all fake.

3. [+2,672, -297] You've endured great hardship so I hope you do well

4. [+3,043, -1,449] The unnis who bullied a new dongseng... or the dongseng exiling the unnis from the industry... They seem the same to me.

5. [+864, -184] I don't like T-ara but I don't like her either. I don't think she did anything to be proud of, you know?

6. [+734, -94] She said she only wanted to study rap... now she wants to go into acting? I don't really want to support that.

7. [+698, -74] Ryu Hwayoung got into Kyunghee University on special treatment

8. [+623, -74] Well... good luck on your acting endeavours. I guess that's all she can do now that she's on her own since she can't sing. Even if she goes into acting, she'll only be able to land roles like the lead's dongseng or something because of her visuals.

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Comments

[curioustaiyo.livejournal.com]

That's sweet of her. It seems that both sides have moved on and grown. It's too bad a lot of other people can't seem to do the same.

It's also interesting that now that she's back in the public eye and actually has positive things to say about T-ara, she starts getting negative comments as well. I always felt that the netizen support she got was more out of spitefulness than anything else, and once they realized she didn't have any sort of twisted vendetta against T-ara like they do, they'd start feeling differently about her. It's a shame!

It's hard to be a fan of both parties and still see so much mudslinging coming from fans in all directions. I hope they'll both do well!

This is probably unwise...and kind of doesn't clarify like that tweet did that she wasn't bullied

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

This is sweet but it's just going to cause her trouble. I suppose if you're doing something you believe in the trouble is worth it but...

The netizen "support" for Hwayoung was always just an excuse to hate T-ara. The sudden championing of the member that the netizens previously always ignored or commented on coming in late was pretty obvious.

They just want to hate T-ara so that even when the fabricated evidence was disproven they still carried on. Since Hwayoung is voicing her support for T-ara and her frustration at all the lies they'll soon turn on her too so I'm pretty sure T-ara would prefer she just avoid the issue.

I'm pretty sure they don't want anyone else to share their negative experience with netizen hate.

[juweel.livejournal.com]

this kind of projection can't be healthy

[juweel.livejournal.com]

if u so concerned about being hurtful u should stop spreading misconceptions about the situation and projecting ur own issues onto them. hwayoung herself said it was hurtful to her. sorry for implying u were unhealthy BTW. i didn't mean it and i shoudn't have said it to u. i'm hwayoung's fan too and i get worked up over it. if she said that it's not true and it hurts her when people still say things like that then i don't want it to happen.

[deftbones.livejournal.com]

what in the world

[hitthoselightz.livejournal.com]

lol

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

Umm...did we read the same comments?

LOL...Hwayoung said it wasn't true and this is what you took from it?

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

Say nothing babe and I'll do the same for you

[juweel.livejournal.com]

T-ara and Hwayoung HWAITING! Let the love in

[devilsatin.livejournal.com]

i'm letting it in!

[liutgard-845.livejournal.com]

I don't understand the comment about "lacking visuals" when she looks so much like Park Shin Hye (who obviously manages to get lead roles)

[skonka.livejournal.com]

Has she ever said 'I was not bullied'?
And why not have a grand reunion? Not sure how Korea works but in any other universe the publicity and income would be worth it.

[ilovekonkon.livejournal.com]

yes, but everyone chooses to ignore that or says she was forced

[skonka.livejournal.com]

Oh she did?
They need to get them back together, do a controlled interview then perform and roll in the money.

[skonka.livejournal.com]

Seems like she went out of her way to not say she wasn't bullied.
How was that viewed at the time because it doesn't seem all that helpful to me.

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

i just want to slap that bitch hard
if she wanted to, she could just let clear if she was or wasnt bullied but she's loving the attention.
"i wasnt bullied... but maybe i was, you know... i just want everyone to be happy but ill keep bringing this up and pretend i was the victim and now a survivor of the mean girls who bullied me!!111".
she's playing the victim very well. really should go into acting.
i decided not to give a damn about this t-ara scandal because no one knows what happened besides the girls themselves but after seeing hwayoung being like this i just cant help but dislike her. i just hate people playing victim. (i do think they were stupid when they tweeted about hwayoung, tho)

[oppameansit.livejournal.com]

lol

[gigabytexx.livejournal.com]

I do think it's vice & versa. For bullying case there's always cases where someone who played victim were actually did something wrong & probably didn't even try to fix it (or being a bitch), the other people got fed up & eventually got lazy to deal with these 'victims' and made it looks like bullying. But lol victims are never wrong so congrats hwayoung

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

hmmm, i dont think so. you don't know why she was kicked out and there's absolutely no proof that she was threatened. dont pretend to know what you don't.
i'm ignoring the bullying thing, because nobody knows shit, and saying my opinion about her statements only. and based on that, she really looks like shes trying to make herself a victim just for the attention. anyways, my opinion.

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

wait. you're trying to say ccm and kks are shit because of what they did that to her, right? i agree with that!
kks and ccm are shit, kks is stupid, no complain about that. but if we were going to talk about how bad and unfair ccm/kks is to someone, then we would have to include t-ara as well. he made this scandal much worse and helped t-ara to get more and more hate. even before, ccm was already a horrible agency to t-ara. the members used to faint during events.
my point is that shes a bitch for not making things clear. cause she seems to not want people to forget about it cause then she will keep on getting attention as long as people are curious to know what "really" happened.
meanwhile, t-ara will keep on getting hate anyways. that's all.
she did speak well of them but not enough. is like she speaks well to make people think shes being forced to do so. she doesnt go all out to say if they are or not bullies. if someone i like is getting a lot of hate for something they didnt do, i would make everything to show that they didnt do it. and if its the other way around, they indeed being guilty, then i would just let it clear and then case closed, people would forget about it.
but she doesnt do any of it. cause she knows once the case is solved, she's done. people would just forget about it. that's just my point of view. i may be wrong but its my opinion right now.

(sorry my bad english)

[devilsatin.livejournal.com]

i forgive her but she's still on probation

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

She's probably just extremely happy to have gotten away from CCM.

[snoaz.livejournal.com]

I really love T-ara's songs but don't know much about the members except this scandal (sadly). Could someone who has followed them for a while please explain to me if the bully rumours contain some truth or are blown up like a lot of these netizen scandals? Because if they did really treat one of their members ill, that's very off-putting and would make it hard for me to like them as a group, apart from the music. I'd like to look at them with an open gaze first, though. Thanks in advance!

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

blown up rumours. the only "bullying" in it was t-ara tweets about hwayoung being a lazy bitch. they all (minus qri i gueess) tweeted about her indirectly. netizens searched who and why they were tweeting about it and found out it was abt hwayoung. and suddenly they started to say she was a bully victim and searched up the internet to look for "bullying proofs" which were just videos, gifs and quotes out of context.

i do think they were stupid when they tweeted abt it but idk maybe they were just pissed.

[snoaz.livejournal.com]

They called here a lazy bitch?! Or indirectly anyway. Well, that doesn't sound very friendly to me. Perhaps this really was one incident and the rest of the evidence is made up (as she also said in the interview). I know these kind of scandals can get a life of their own and things start getting taken out of context etc.

Still, I can't imagine the relation between her and the members to have been very good if this happened. You can find someone lazy and like them at the same time, but if everyone at once (indirectly) starts saying it, in public even, that indicates some kind of strain. idk. how was her relationship with them before that, did this come completely out of the blue or was she already a bit of an outsider? And how did the decision of her leaving the group come about?

Thanks!

[iigoru.livejournal.com]

LOL NO they didnt. sorry, i didnt mean literally. they just were pissed that she didnt give her all, you know? because her foot was hurt. but eunjung once performed lovey dovey despite a serious ankle injury. thats why they said she didnt have enough determination.
i think their relationship was professional and just fine. like friends who end up fighting sometimes. i dont know exactly but i think kks just kicked her because she wasnt giving her all (he's famous for putting t-ara to work in extreme conditions)

[snoaz.livejournal.com]

I see, I see. Thanks for explaining! (but their company sounds a bit awful).

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

All the "evidence" wasn't real and was taken out of context for malicious purposes...basically some childish "subtweeting" spawned the entire debacle

[snoaz.livejournal.com]

If there really is no real basis for the scandal that sucks enormously for T-ara though, because their name has been dragged through the mud and they've had a fall-out. Man.

I don't understand why there is not a stronger denial, though, either from them or from this girl; because now there seems to be this vague grey area where it is said that the evidence is fake yet with no strong denial. Obviously this leaves room for the rumours to persist and it makes you yourself wonder, too, how much of it is true or not.

[xoxlizzi3xox.livejournal.com]

does anyone know if popularity wise t-ara was able to recover in korea especially the main trio responsible for teasing hwayoung??

[ilovekonkon.livejournal.com]

they're still doing fine, but nowhere near what they used to be. jiyeon has basically stayed out of the spotlight aside from t-ara's group activities but recently hyomin and eunjung are doing a lot more. it's very slow but i think eunjung will have the easiest time recovering from it in the long run since she's always been the most well-rounded member and most likable/popular for the public (jiyeon was very popular as well but she didn't have the best image and it was a very "love her or hate her" type of situation). the other members all had various other personal/pre-debut scandals dug up during that time but eunjung's record is basically clean aside from the ricecake thing which has already been cleared up by the host of that program. right now she's the main one who's slowly getting more and more solo work again

[curioustaiyo.livejournal.com]

Yup, plus Eunjung seems to have more industry support as well. Almost every director/producer/actor/staff member/etc. she's worked with has had nothing but good things to say about her, both before and after the incident. Fellow actors will still say good things about her knowing they'll most likely get hated on for it. She's been an actress since she was a child and that's her true calling IMO so hopefully in time her acting career will be back on track.