South Korean girl group “fromis_9”. (Picture / Retrieved from Twitter)
The South Korean girl group “fromis_9” debuted on the show “Idol School” in 2017 and is now a girl group under Pledis Entertainment. However, when the group participated in a music festival filming a few days ago, it was ridiculed by the on-site photographer for refusing to take off the mask to take pictures. It looks indifferent”, “Do they think they are BTS?”
according to《Kpop Starz》According to reports, on the 9th of this month, a Korean netizen posted on the social platformPost by “Nate Pann”pointed out that the girl group fromis_9 attended the video of the music program “Music Bank” a few days ago. During the filming of “Road to Work”, the photographers on the scene asked them to take off their masks, but they were declined, which caused the reporters to be dissatisfied and began to speak bitterly. People laughed loudly, “Don’t stand there, let’s go!”, and some reporters said, “If you want to wear a mask, it should be as fun as VIVIZ”, “Yes, VIVIZ is very good at acting like a spoiled child.”
Some reporters said that fromis_9 has been taking photos without taking off their masks for 3 weeks, so they screamed “They know this and still do it all the time, alas”, “Do they think they are BTS?”, “Yeah. They are BTS-level girl groups.” Then another reporter asked once more, “Please take off the mask and give us a simple team greeting.” At this time, fromis_9 captain Saerom (Saerom) replied that he would do so next week.
After the incident was exposed, it immediately caused a lot of heated discussions among fans. Many fans expressed their grievances for their idols, “Isn’t it their choice?”, “Isn’t this their choice? Who do those reporters think they are?” , are all of you responsible for this?”, but some people think that “taking off the mask is not that difficult”, “the reporters are angry not because they don’t take off the mask, but because they exude an indifferent atmosphere”.
In addition, this conversation was originally recorded by the relevant media and put on the Youtube channel. Although the video was re-edited and uploaded following the controversy broke out, it still caused a large number of fans to bombard “Haha, I now know what the level of entertainment reporters is. ”, “It’s ridiculous, I doubt my ears”, “The standard of journalists is really poor now”.
