Oops There it is: K-Pop's newest problematic idol

[agoongprincess.livejournal.com]

Hint 1: A nugu boy group member

Hint 2: From the biggest label (currently) in Korea

Hint 3: Their debut dominated every chart and made Green Fleece look sadder in comparison

Hint 4: The main dancer/choreographer and rapper in his group



I think it's pretty obvious by the clues I gave but it's......


LEE SEUNGHOON





Recently he opened his damn mouth and came for Mino about being fat/dark when they first met in KBoy Magazine



SH: "My real impression of Mino is... He had a little more physique as compared to now. The time when we met, Mino was rebellious."

MH: Euk (laughs) (unconsciously lowers his head)

SH: "He doesn't self manage and his skin was a lot darker than now... What should I say, it was horrible, horrible~ you started to diet from then on. How many kilograms have you lost?"

MH: "From the first time I met SH, I lost 5kg. But I had a diet where I lost 30k before."

SH: "So you were 90kg?"

MH: "yup"

SH: "When you were a high schooler?"

MH: "High School year 1"

SH: "Wow, incredible"

MH: "yeah"

Take is as you will but it seems pretty clear cut he called Mino's dark skin/weight horrible and even though I was just getting into Winner and liked him, Taehyun and Mino alot. This shit doesn't fly and he's just landed himself on the problematic list.

Ace_Hoon

KBoy Magazine

Comments

[rey.livejournal.com]

you know what....

[xxyumekaxx.livejournal.com]

Nah, I think it's more like whole South Korea. N and Hyorin get a lot of flack for their dark skin...and beauty is almost everything in this country.

[babyonions.livejournal.com]

Idiot
I choose to believe he's a good person with some questionable beliefs he should keep to himself, pls Hoon

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

OMG the moment I started reading this you were the first person I thought of...glad you are so capable of divorcing your affection from his idiocy...please continue to be an example for those who are ridiculously stanning AND defending problematic people

[angela-derp-otp.livejournal.com]

jfc

[parkjsun.livejournal.com]

[twnty7.livejournal.com]

Ugh.

[pepper.livejournal.com]

Gross.

[yuzuruhanyu.livejournal.com]

kpop idol saying something colourist/shadeist/racist, what else is new. sky is blue, grass is green, watch, rinse, repeat. it's so fucking sad.

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

Why do I feel this way too...it's time to take a break

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised

[kitty9163.livejournal.com]

:(

[dbsk-2pm.livejournal.com]

I don't know why, but while reading this post I had this in my mind:



Oh, well. I don't get it what's with Koreans and dark skin/weight. >.< Most of the scandals idols get in are related to these. And you'd think they learned the lesson until now.

A bit (more) offtopic: Has anyone seen who is in the latest dating scandal/rumor? :3 I'm getting a bit excited. 2014 coming for all the faves.

[parkjsun.livejournal.com]

Do you mean Kyungsoo? I hope it's true lol, it'd be so cute.

[yumett.livejournal.com]

i'd tend to say "not (really) my fandom not my problem" but if i could say a word... i read the interview and, well, first of all he didn't say it was "horrible", but he said he was kinda scared of him. plus, it's precised that he used japanese to express it (the word "scared/scary") so it's also possible that he couldn't use the proper word he had in mind. but whatever.
as i read it i understand it as, Mino was a massive(?) and impressive tanned boy (compared to the pale/white and tiny/skinny flower boys that Seunghoon was used to see in kpop, i guess?) so he was kinda scared of him.
i understand it can be problematic but personally i wouldn't consider him as a douche for that...

[nekokonneko.livejournal.com]

how the fuck is being scared of someone for being heavy-set and dark not problematic and douchey?

[aeries-amethyst.livejournal.com]

Why is it that every single time I find a new bias, this kind of thing always happens?! OTL I was rooting for you Hoon! T_T

[nekokonneko.livejournal.com]

i'd heard he said some shit, but i hadn't read the direct translation. smh, iirc he also teased mino about his weight backstage during a music show

[edanz-castle.livejournal.com]

Where's the surprise? Same ol' same ol'. Good thing I don't pay much attention to him anyway.

[atopworld.livejournal.com]

Kpop being colorist and making body shaming remarks? Is it Monday already? No Save My Fave November is in effect.

[bauci.livejournal.com]

Wow, the many odd meanings of "rebellious" ice

[blkjck.livejournal.com]

I always thought it would be Jinwoo who would fuck up first.

Hoonie, I am so disappointed.

[nekokonneko.livejournal.com]

really, why's that?

[happydirections.livejournal.com]

oh hoon...
these people need to be educated.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Its more so annoying because Mino has made it clear that comments about his weight pierce him to his heart. I really fucking hope this is the end to it because this isn't cute. Esp comments about his skin colour. Not on. Stop. I'm glad Jinwoo is in this group raising mino up.

[blkjck.livejournal.com]

That's what bothered me the most too. I was so sad when he wrote in his letter that he wanted Yoon to leave him alone about it. And was pissed when Seungyoon laughed it off.

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

[unbroken-glass.livejournal.com]

read the magazine, and the word Seunghoon used isn't "horrible", he used (kowai) コワイ and in japanese, not korean. Kowai meaning scary but not in an exactly negative way, Japanese people use kowai all the time. Reading the interview in Japanese, rather than his skin colour being scary, I think what he meant was that Minho's overall first impression was scary.

Idk why the translator used "horrible", i would have thought the colloquial use for "horrible" would have been something like "hidoi".

So...yeah Seunghoon didn't say horrible.

[parkjsun.livejournal.com]

[vvipforseungri.livejournal.com]

no one mentioning taehyun i see

or is that a given

winner our problematic faves since predebut

[nekokonneko.livejournal.com]

taehyun's the one who got into fights, right? what else has he done?

[babyonions.livejournal.com]

This sad truth

[boiinks2.livejournal.com]

2k14 just has everyone showing their asses (and not in good way).

tbh I'm disappointed but not surprised. It seems like most idols have these ideals in terms of skin color and weight. Some of them are just smart enough to keep their damn mouths shut and know that some stories don't need to be told.

Hasn't KSY also said some body-shaming comments? Mess...

[babyonions.livejournal.com]

Yoon calls/called Mino a pig which is nagl, especially bc Mino is sensitive about it and he asked him to stop....