MBC's "Home Alone" issues statement regarding outfit worn by Hwasa

[rockerista03.livejournal.com]

MBC's "Home Alone" Issues Statement Regarding Outfit Worn By MAMAMOO's Hwasahttps://t.co/epGntoN8tq pic.twitter.com/zRAhWBY6E1

— Soompi (@soompi) July 26, 2020

MBC’s “Home Alone: Girls’ Secret Party,” a spin-off of “Home Alone,” has responded to concerns regarding an outfit worn by MAMAMOO’s Hwasa on the show.

Previously, Hwasa, along with fellow cast members Han Hye Jin and Park Na Rae, participated in a live broadcast on the show’s official YouTube channel. In the broadcast, Hwasa appeared wearing an outfit that looked similar to a buba, which is a traditional Nigerian blouse.

The outfit raised concerns among international viewers, who worried that she was showing a lack of cultural awareness by presenting the country’s traditional outfit in a comedic light.

On July 25, producers from the show responded to viewer concerns through a statement posted as a comment under the YouTube video in question. The statement reads:

We have received negative messages regarding Hwasa’s outfit.

We want to clarify that this outfit originated from a Korean ‘sauna’ outfit that Hwasa often wore on our program. We had no intention of comically presenting a traditional outfit from a particular country.

We realize that some of you have falsely identified Hwasa’s outfit as a reflection of a traditional Nigerian outfit. Furthermore, due to the comedic genre of our show, some of you have shown concerns suggesting a comical reflection of traditional outfits and the possibility of it leading to racism. However, we want to assure you that that we had no intention of relating her outfit to one from a specific culture.

We hope this provides an explanation for your concerns.

Thank you for all of your love and support for our program.

Source: Insight via Soompi, @soompi, @bomiverse

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Comments

[nudrive.livejournal.com]

We want to clarify that this outfit originated from a Korean ‘sauna’ outfit that Hwasa often wore on our program.

looking at the outfit in question, that's such BS

[cairistiona.livejournal.com]

apparently it's supposed to be "luxury sauna wear"; the design of the outfit fits with sauna wear but the material is silk and the print is traditional

the twitter account that first reported the outfit as "for comedy/shock purposes" has been removed and the first that translated it to english and repeated it is now being mass reported and being told to apologise to hwasa for misleading and rumour-mongering......it's a mess

[nudrive.livejournal.com]

idk man i've never see sauna wear cut or designed like that

also fans are so ridiculous wtf

[cairistiona.livejournal.com]

apparently hwasa is known for arriving at events looking like she's just bathed or visited a sauna; https://twitter.com/ohohyknow/status/1287566291511869441

the idea was to make hwasa's particular sauna look more luxurious so that's why they gave her a kaftan made from korean nida/satin (i wrote it as silk the first time by mistake); https://twitter.com/ewwwwwwurb/status/1287498204360126478

the pattern is shady imo, it's a really specific design, but apparently people are calling it batik and saying batik can be used by anyone?

yeah fans really are ridiculous >.

[nudrive.livejournal.com]

idky they took a sc of that when what she's wearing a completely different top lmfao

[cairistiona.livejournal.com]

i think it's just meant to show the style of dress/material used? in the video clip it definitely looks more like a dress than a top

[nudrive.livejournal.com]

They're completely just assuming, it's not even a screenshot from a korean brand or whatever. They're truly reaching

[thebloomroom.livejournal.com]

This is a reach omg... fans are the worst

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

that's kinda a reach for calling it batik

[cairistiona.livejournal.com]

i think i meant barit but i couldn't find an explanation for what that is lol, but yeah i'm suspicious too

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

Which korean sauna would that be????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[greasetastic-x.livejournal.com]

Lol that is all i have to say

Also just becasuse your intention wasn't to cause harm, it doesn't mean that it does not cause harm. That is not how things work ffs

[rose-potion.livejournal.com]

Couldn't just put her in a funny and cute bathrobe like the ones Miss Fine wore ?

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

you can't go wrong with style pointers from miss fine tbh

[thebloomroom.livejournal.com]

Uhhh lmao that “explanation” makes no sense.

[rolezeira.livejournal.com]

Lmao yeah we understand that she wanted a reinterpretation of her sloppy look, but it's obvious that the inspiration is African, maybe not purely Nigerian but African in the diaspora or the already whitewashed 70s Boho version of it.
It's offensive because she wore for a gag/shock moment.
Funny how all white people in the internet decided that Black people were overreacting, the reddit thread about it.... yiiiiikes

[jazzygyu.livejournal.com]

The reddit kpop community is the worse. They hid behind ethnocentrism for any kind of criticism aimed at idols. Average reddit user comment: “They not racism you just don’t understand korean culture not everything revolves around America” is 90 percent of comments.

[rojounotori.livejournal.com]

The "not everything revolves around America” comments on the kpop subreddit are always so annoying (and racist). These idols/artists often actively promote/tour in some way outside of SK, while having a diverse set of fans, so obviously their actions will be held to some sort of "standard" (not saying it's very high, but still).
And there's always a lot of "well I don't feel offended" and claiming that the only ones "offended" are twitter trolls/stans.

[sciencebottle.livejournal.com]

kpop reddit really does the absolute most to derail any sort of discussion on CA its wild

[thebloomroom.livejournal.com]

Totally. They're so far up these idols' asses, and never make any negative comments or believe in racism or CA unless it is against the certain asians they care about. Whack. The unpopular opinions community was good at first but it's basically r/kpop now infiltrated with psycho stans. Its weird too bc most of the members are American-- reddit is an American forum for the most part.

[jazzygyu.livejournal.com]

I’m black but I’m not sure if I can have an opinion as I’m from America and don’t know much about certain African clothing. With that being said this was clearly inspire by African clothing and lets not forget that there is picture where mamamoo calls Hwasa a black women and Solar a white women. Hwasa in particular is really bad with culture appropriation and thinking she can wear black as custom so I don’t put it past her to do this with the intent of appearing “African”.

[jackieee94.livejournal.com]

I don’t believe them. She and her group are well known for pulling stunts like this.

[blck-ink.livejournal.com]

they really want us to believe this bullshit? you clearly offended a lot of people and insted of apologizing you're bending iver backwards to come up with this wack ass explanation. also, the fact that one of these mamamoo girls is always involved in something racist makes this look extra shady.

[dio-elaclaire.livejournal.com]

It obviously was supposed to look like an "African" outfit (the argument some fans pull that it's not Nigerian is also absurd because it's not like anyone went and bought an actual Nigerian dress...) so this attempt at damage control is pathetic. I don't believe that anyone could see what she wore and think "oh, what a luxurious sauna look!" :////

[belintuchiha.livejournal.com]

This is definitely BS cause Korean netizens never talked about it being from a sauna when this first came out. They were all saying it was indeed African inspired and how international fans or iroaches were exaggerating about it. Most of them defended Hwasa lol
At least netizens aren’t defending Yuta’s mess, unlike fans.

[kimbafierce.livejournal.com]

Cuz it's against them. They know what's wrong when they're the ones being wronged. Otherwise they're mute, deaf, & blind.

[belintuchiha.livejournal.com]

Yep, it is always like that.

[purpleglaceon]

Just a regular day for Mamamoo at this point

[sciencebottle.livejournal.com]

And...of course its Hwasa. Of course. How many times has it been now?

[xoxkenzxox.livejournal.com]

yeah....that looks pretty blatant to me.

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

sure, jan.

[aeries-amethyst.livejournal.com]

Just another day where yet another member of Mamamoo does CA and finds some half-assed excuse to explain their actions.

[dior-chic.livejournal.com]

Yep, when they do stuff like this - thats why I don’t follow them

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

“she apologized” pic.twitter.com/dTWaWBwX97 (https://t.co/dTWaWBwX97)

— Jinuyasha 𖧵⁷ (@namsfilter) July 25, 2020 (https://twitter.com/namsfilter/status/1286971995259838464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

CHILE, ANYWAY

[aeries-amethyst.livejournal.com]

This pretty much sums up my thoughts on the hot mess that is Hwasa.

i don’t like the fact that people feel the need to forgive her and pretend like she never done any of this offensive shit just because “sHes bReaKinG kOreaN bEauTy stAndArds” or whatever else they say

— hi ✌🏾 (@multingga) July 25, 2020 (https://twitter.com/multingga/status/1287089079352467458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

[dior-chic.livejournal.com]

I still see that she/they apologized~ and god it’s so annoying

[frequency.livejournal.com]

yeah that's the nonsense i hate. "oh [idol here] apologized!" so?? it means nothing when they keep doing the same shit over and over again.

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

right!! with their track record, it means nothing. she'll do it again and again, she doesn't care

[myungung.livejournal.com]

the influence seems obvious, and the dressing doesn't look like sauna luxury with those earrings. I guess it's hard to just admit and apologise eh

[kimbafierce.livejournal.com]

Nobody thought it was sauna inspired, not even her probably, and that's what I'mgonna say about their explanation.