In a recent broadcast, WINNER Seunghoon made a remark that netizens deemed was careless, earning him mixed reactions.
Keep on reading to know more.
WINNER Seunghoon Allegedly Makes 'Careless' Remark in Latest Broadcast
Recently on August 22, Dingo Music shared a new video through their Youtube channel. In their new video, YG Entertainment boy group WINNER made a guest appearance, where they drank alcohol, sang their new songs live, and talked about anything.
During the members' chat, they began talking about K-pop idols taking part in challenges. These days, "challenges" have become a popular type of content, in which idols interact with other idols and usually do a dance challenge of their own songs.
These types of challenges have brought numerous idol interactions that fans loved to see. However, Seunghoon's recent take on these challenges have sparked mixed reactions for the WINNER member's "careless" remark.
Seungyoon talked about being a "slave" for challenges on music shows, but Seunghoon pipes in to say that he sees these challenges as a pretext for romance.
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"But the way that I am seeing it is that the challenges are just one of the pretexts. But within the challenges, I feel like we can feel each other's spark [in a romantic way]," Seunghoon said.
Seunghoon then confesses to having felt that spark with many people, with the rest of the members asking who he felt it with.
WINNER Seunghoon's 'Careless' Remark on Broadcast Earns Mixed Reactions
Following his remark, the netizens who saw the video had divided reactions. On one hand people found it funny that Seunghoon talked about the challenges in an interesting way, while others criticized the idol as such a remark could possibly prevent male and female idols from casually interacting with each other without stirring up rumors.
Some comments read:
"Because of his careless remark, all of the female idols who did a challenge with him will get into all sorts of rumors."
"And now I can't view the challenges with an innocent eye anymore. It feels like listening to the IAC anecdotes all over again.... Damn thanks."
"And just like that, Lee Seunghoon won't be able to ask people to shoot challenges with him anymore. I can't believe he ran his mouth like that kkkk For real, kids like that are not funny."
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Many have also praised member Jinwoo for how he tried to "save" the situation.
Some comments read:
"That member on the left was the only one who grabbed his arm haha... He probably wanted him to stop... Anyways, I don't know if he said it as a joke, but that is not something an idol should joke about in front of the camera. And the female idols are probably just smiling at him because he is a sunbae. What spark?"
"Kim Jinwoo is the only one who has tact."
"Kim Jinwoo is working 10 miles an hour kkkkk."
What do you think of Seunghoon's remark?
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