The name of YENA‘s title track, “Hate Rodrigo“, generated a wave of criticism, which seems pretty clearly what it intended to do from the start. Of course, anybody with a …
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If you haven’t been following along with who the targets of ire from Korean netizens typically are, I wouldn’t blame you, but one that has minimal reasoning behind it is …
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Most definitely know Kangnam for being a variety star more than for being a member of M.I.B back in the day, but while guesting on the Tanakase (I assume this …
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In international-fandoms-trying-to-butt-into-Korean-cultural-norms-and-getting-their-faves-hate news, Stray Kids member Bang Chan has issued an apology for recent comments he made on a livestream about some juniors not greeting him properly, as it led …
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I generally try to ignore Pann bullshit as it’s not even that relevant of a portal in Korea, and I almost resent that what they say gets taken seriously as …
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2PM member Taecyeon humorously responded to an account sending hate tweets about his body, notably labeling him as being a “fridge”. He countered this simply, by leaning into the joke …
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Lovelyz are on hiatus after leaving their company, but member Jin is active on YouTube and what not. That recently got her in trouble with (deluded) fans, as she basically …
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A couple months ago, the “big” story about Song Hye Kyo was not her new drama The Glory, but rather comments that the 41-year-old actress started to look somewhat like …
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ADOR and NewJeans creative director Min Hee Jin has been no stranger to the headlines recently, though she’s seemingly been making them for worse than better. Well, she’s found herself …
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ENHYPEN member Jay is currently getting grilled by netizens for making quite frankly a stupid-ass comment about Korean history being like a ‘short story’. Basically the controversy is he went …
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