Recently, a topic entitled “Wow, Kim Soo-Hyun’s controversy was buried thanks to Newjeans?”, He was published on the Korean CEPER for forum, attracting enormous attention with over 147,000 views and almost 300 comments.
Here, the author of the topic stressed that despite the case of Kim Soo-Hyun it has not been resolved, the online forums remain full of posts that criticize the Newjeans, pushing the controversy of Kim Soo-Hyun out of the spotlight.
“How is it that the entire trend section is full of posts relating to the Newjeans up to the top 20, and somehow the dispute of Kim Soo-Hyun has just disappeared? And is not even a resolved one. They wrote, adding, “People will probably support:” Well, Newjeans is a group of idol and Kim Soo-Hyun is an actor, so obviously the controversy linked to the actor would not generate so much discussion. “But look at what happened with Han so-hee last year (referring to the scandal of love involving Han so-hee, Hyeri and Ryu Jun-Yeol).”
The author therefore expressed frustration, questioning the reason why scandals involving female idols often receive prolonged control while the disputes of male celebrities vanish much faster.
In response, many Netizen agree, stating that the current situation reflects a wider trend of female celebrities who face disproportionately harder criticism. In the meantime, others replied that Newjeans fans were exclusively responsible for the hatred that the women’s group is receiving. Below are some comments by Netizens:
- If a female celebrity makes an error, it is dragged for months, even years. In the meantime, male celebrities are criticized for a few days and then ended.
- People spend more time to analyze the facial expression of a second idol that discuss real crimes committed by male celebrities
- Han so-hee was only clarifying his position, but people called her a career of attention, making it the most hated celebrity for months. In the meantime, the Kim Soo-Hyun scandal has been swept away in a few days. Many fans still defend him
- Some people will forgive male celebrities for the crime of S*X, school violence, assault and drunk guide, but will make the bully incessantly female celebrities for plastic surgery and reaches excessively to 1 second video of them
- You are just angry because the Newjeans are criticized
