Friday, May 17, 2024

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They have couple shirts

theqoo

-Just date already!

-Just have the wedding in Sangam...

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Anyway, best wishes

-They don't seem to want to hide it ㅋㅋ

-Glad they’re staying together for so long.

-They've both been in the industry long enough, just leave them be,,

-Honestly, this is exactly why I don't trust "lovestagram" edits anymore.

-ㅋㅋㅋ Here we go again ㅋㅋ

-Whoa, are they dating???

-Caught red-handed.

-Crazy ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Undeniable

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Again? Did they think no one would notice?

-They look good together.

-If it's true, it's something to celebrate.

-❤️❤️Rosé❤️❤️Suzy❤️❤️

Another evidence suggesting Rosé and Suzy are couple surface online

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by Journalist Jo Eunbyul

"We purposely airing ILLIT's episode on New Jeans' comeback date? That's something that someone who knows nothing about broadcasting mechanisms would say."

On the 17th, 'Knowing Brothers' PD Min Cheolgi responded with disbelief regarding the controversy surrounding ILLIT's appearance on the show. 

The controversy arose when it was reported that CEO Min Heejin brought up the issue of her request to stop HYBE from practicing their voting rights on her dismissal. The hearing took place in Seoul Central District Court on the morning of that day. During the hearing, ADOR's representatives argued that although ILLIT's promotions had ended, the girls would still appear on variety shows, overlapping with New Jeans' comeback. They claimed that this would interfere New Jeans' comeback. 

However, this claim does not make sense at all. Generally, the appearance of guests on variety shows are arranged at least 2 months in advance. According to Min CP's explanation, ILLIT had discussed about their appearance on 'Knowing Brothers' way before their debut. However, due to 'Knowing Brothers' circumstances, the episode will be broadcasted on May 25th. This was before the conflict between Min Heejin and HYBE was publicly revealed. 

Min CP stated, "'Knowing Brothers' often invites guests for outdoor filming. Recently, YG Ent.'s rookie group, Baby Monster, filmed at a camping site in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province. Typically, top stars' appearances are scheduled according to their promotions, but since ILLIT is a rookie group, the production team couldn't align with their schedule. We asked understanding from ILLIT's side and proceeded with outdoor filming on May 16th in Jebsu Island, Hwaseong city."

The broadcast date was chosen by the local government. Generally, in the case of outdoor filming, the broadcast follows the date designated by the local government. Hwaseong City wanted the episode to be aired on May 25th. 

Min CP emphasized, "The production team had no idea when New Jeans are going to have their comeback. Despite the coincidental timing and the conflict between two sides, there is no reason for 'Knowing Brothers' to be dragged into this incident."

theqoo

-This is too much of a reach.

-"There's no reason for 'Knowing Brothers' to be dragged into this incident." That's true.

-Will Min Heejin apologize to ILLIT for this?ㅋㅋㅋ

-What's their label doing?ㅋㅋㅋ They share the same PR team and they couldn't coordinate this?

-It’s just a coincidence; there's no reason for 'Knowing Brothers' to do such a thing.

-Isn't it HYBE's job to arrange the schedule? The PD's job is to arrange the casting and broadcast.

-It's more of a HYBE problem than 'Knowing Brothers' problemㅋㅋㅋ

-Most idols usually appear on variety shows during their promotion period. HYBE messed up.

-Of course, 'Knowing Brothers' wouldn't have known about New Jeans' comeback date. But shouldn't HYBE have known?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-It is already stated that the broadcast date was decided by the local government. Criticizing them for this is a bit too much. 

-No one blamed the PD.

-From a rookie group's perspective, should they really reject an offer to appear on a variety show just because another group from their label is making a comeback that week? I don't get why this is a problem. 

'Knowing Brothers' CP, "ILLIT's Episode Coincides with New Jeans' Comeback? The Airing Date was Discussed with the Authorities, We Don't Know When is New Jeans Having Their Comeback"

by Journalist Yoon Hyojung

As the last episode of 'Lovely Runner' approaches, the drama is set to hold a special gathering for the cast and viewers. 

According to reports on the 17th, drama 'Lovely Runner' will host a group viewing event for its final episode on the 28th. Details such as the venue, event format, and more are currently being organized. Lead cast of the drama including Byun Wooseok, Kim Hyeyoon, Song Gunhee, and Lee Seunghyub will also attend the event to bid farewell to 'Lovely Runner.'

theqoo

-I want to go.

-How do we even go to things like this?ㅠㅠ

-I want to go too..ㅠㅠㅠ

-I love it... But it makes me realize that the drama is coming to an endㅠㅠㅠ This drama should've been a 100-episode series.

-Wow, I'm so jealous.

-Wow, insane!!! Even the cast too????? 

-Aaaaa I'm already jealous!!!

-Do it in Jamsil...ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-With the cast?

-I feel like tvN is doing their best to repay the fansㅋㅋㅋ

-So jealous, being in the countryside sucks

-So jealous, as someone who lives in the countryside, I will just watch it from home...

-For now, I'll try applying...

-It would be so fun.

-Wow?????? Damnㅠㅠㅠㅠ If I get chosen, I'm going to wear a school uniform with a yellow umbrella!!!!!!

-I wonder if there's a spot for me.

Watch 'Lovely Runner' with Byun Wooseok and Kim Hyeyoon ... Group Viewing Event for the Final Episode

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Nominee 1: Han Sohee 

Nominee 2: Min Heejin


Nominee 3: HYBE


Nominee 4: Byun Wooseok (Lovely Runner)


Nominee 5: The original 'Theqoo Trending Post' guy

theqoo

-2, 3

-4

-I filtered them all out except for 4

-HYBE and Min Heejin

-I choose to only see good things. So, Byun Wooseok^^

-Only see good things, you guys. It's good for your mental health.

-Byun Wooseok. Seeing him uplifts my mood.

-I think I saw a lot of HYBE-related posts.

-I think I saw a lot of HYBE-related posts. But I only clicked on Byun Wooseok-related posts.

-There have been a lot of Byun Wooseok-related posts lately. HYBE-related posts are probably the most visited ones, but I avoid clicking on them because it just stresses me out.

-Byun Wooseok. He becomes trending even with the smallest things he does.

-HYBE. At this point, I think there are dozens of HYBE-related posts being constantly trending on Theqoo these days.

-1, 4

-I only click on Byun Wooseok-related posts for the sake of my mental health.

-HYBE, Min Heejin, Byun Wooseok

-The whole Min Heejin-HYBE dispute just seems to crazy for me, so I muted their keywords.

What did you see the most on (Theqoo) Trending Posts this year?

 

He filmed 'Salon Drip' with Kim Hyeyoon today. In the articles, it stated that they were going to film the episode on the 17th.

theqoo 

-Wow, so handsome.

-Sunjae!!!

-His smile is beautiful.

-Ah, I want to see it quickly.

-I wonder which brand the shirt he's wearing is from...

-Wow, so handsome, I'm really looking forward to it.

-Wow, look at that smile. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

-Don't smile like that.

-He's shining.

-How does he always smile like that? It's beautiful.

-This guy is strange, he doesn't do anything special but keeps making my heart races, am I falling for him?

-Every time I see him, he's affectionate to the fans, that's why he's likable.

-He makes me want him.

-That's Sunjaeㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-My heart is pounding, it was already beating, but now it's stronger and faster.

-Ah, I'm going crazy, Wooseok ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Preview of Byun Wooseok on his way to film 'Salon Drip 2'



(TOP 50 First-Week Sales According to Hanteo)
(L-R: Ranking, Release Date, Singer, Album's name, First-week sales)

Top singer Taylor Swift sold 2.6 M copies in the US on the first day of release. Combining sales from all countries, she only sold around 3.3 M copies. 

theqoo

-You can't compare K-pop albums to Taylor Swift's albums, she doesn't have photo cards or hold fanmeetings. 

-Wow, Seventeen and Stray Kids's sales are impressive...

-Taylor doesn't do fan meetings. K-pop is truly crazy.

-While K-pop culture might be strange, it's not unreasonable. It makes sense for fans to buy multiple copies since they have random photo cards.

-To think that a person buys multiple copies of the same album... It just seems insane to me.

-There are idol groups in Japan that sell a million copies just domestically, so I think 2-3 million is possible and still makes sense.

-Are those 5 million copies really being bought by 5 million people?ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-It's bizarre. Just bizarre.

-Aren't photocards just... photos? Do people really buy albums just for that? I used to be a fangirl myself, but I don't understand their obsession with stuff like that.

-Honestly, just sell the photocardsㅠㅠ....

-It's going to cause massive environmental destruction... 

-It's really annoying that it's become so natural to encourage fans to buy dozens or hundreds of copies...

-It's a bizarre culture. They're trying to enter Billboard chart and set records with this.

-As a fangirl myself, I realized first-week sales to be meaningless. I have stopped buying physical albums since then.

-Let's stop obsessing over first-week sales nowㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-K-pop is becoming bizarre.

-It would be better if they sold photocards separately and did fan signings with random draws.

-It's both bizarre and environmentally destructive.

The reason why first-week sales in K-pop doesn't make sense

Left to right: Date, Ranking, Number of Listeners

The song reached its highest ranking at 120th place

User count +3818

Songs around 101-120 are referred to as the 'Wall' as many songs cannot climb up any higher from there.


theqoo

-The song is really good.

-The song is so good... The performance is great tooㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-I listen to it every day.

-Girls, fighting.... climb up more.

-I listen to it on my way to work these days, the song is good... and the members are pretty too.

-With 4,000 more listeners, only one rank up?? It's tough.
ㄴYeah, it's really tough. To enter the top 100, it needs over 55,000 streams.

-The song is good, I think it can climb up.

-Climb up!!!

-Wow, the song is good, I should listen to it more often.

-It's impressive to have made it this far!!

-I'll give it a listen.

-The song is so good.

TripleS 'Girls Never Die' Melon Daily Ranking Trend

 

Jungkook's album, which set a new record for male solo singer's first-week sales







Seventeen's album, which set a new record for boy group singer's first-week sales

The amount of waste generated by K-POP entertainment companies has increased more than 14 times in 6 years,  "HYBE ranking first, followed by JYP and Kakao"

As for waste disposal fees, as of 2022, 11 music production companies paid over 190 M KRW. HYBE paid the most, with over 130 M KRW, followed by JYP with around 27 M KRW. 

Min Heejin questioned, "If HYBE was confident enough to persuade groups like New Jeans, who already had high album sales without any deceiving methods, to surpass the records of other groups, what about the other groups? This shows HYBE's lack of ethical awareness." She urged, "Although it is already known as a common practice within HYBE's label, I strongly request thorough investigation and transparent handling of any transactions."

theqoo

-Please buy albums moderately... How many people actually listen to CDs nowadays?

-If they're just going to throw those albums away, why bother buying them in the first place?

-Please, just release digital songs and sell photo cards separately...

-The whole K-pop industry is going in the wrong direction now, and it's all because of HYBE. If it wasn't for HYBE, this situation wouldn't have gotten this bad. It's ruining the entire K-pop industry. 

-It's really upsetting to see them treating those albums like trash. Can't they at least buy some garbage bags before throwing them away?

-It's such a waste, the idol culture these days is so bizarre.

-Earth, I'm sorry...

-K-pop is ruined.

-They should stop giving out random photo cards.

-They should get rid of physical albums and just sell photo cards at a higher price.

-Wow, isn't this a waste of resources?

-Increased 14 times in 6 years, that's insane.

-At this point, isn't it the company's obsession with sales numbers that's the problem? I don't think the photo cards are the ones at fault here.

-Unless the government makes new laws about this, I think this will continue to happen for God-knows how long

-The whole world is moving forward, and only Korea is regressing. Ridiculous.

-Seriously, if only this kind of wasteful behavior stopped...

-Random photo cards really need to be eliminated. It's too harmful.

-Environmental pollution...

-What's so special about those damn photo cards...

-How are we going to find a solution for that?

-But why aren't environmental protection organizations speaking out on this...??

-Environmental destroyers.

BTS Jungkook and Seventeen's albums discarded on the street

tvN drama 'Lovely Runner' is a fantasy romance where the protagonist, Im Sol (played by Kim Hyeyoon), receives encouragement and comfort from a famous artist, Ryu Sunjae (played by Byun Wooseok) at a moment when she has lost the will to live. However, her favorite artist whom she has admired for over a decade suddenly dies one day. In the moment of despair, Im Sol travels back in time to 2008, when Ryu Sunjae is still an ordinary high school student and she herself is a 19 y.o student. After realizing the time slip, Im Sol has only one goal: to protect her beloved Ryu Sunjae! However, there's an important aspect to address in this youth romance: Im Sol's disability.

Im Sol becomes paralyzed from the waist down after a car accident at the age of nineteen. This aspect of Im Sol's disability was not present in the original Webtoon, which means that it was purposely added into the drama as it serves a crucial role in the storyline. Before slipping back in time, the drama briefly shows the struggles Im Sol faces in daily life. On the other hand, Im Sol who has returned to the time before the accident, is unstoppable. The drama uses Im Sol's disability to show her 'powerlessness'. In the future of the story, Im Sol's accident will be just as important as Sunjae's tragedy. As viewers speculate, Im Sol might avoid the accident and achieve her dreams that she couldn't because of her disability. 

https://www.khan.co.kr/culture/culture-general/article/202404250600005

Looking at the original post, you might think that Im Sol's disability was unnecessary for the storyline. I didn't bring this up with ill intentions! I brought it up because I have family members with disabilities and there are some aspects in the original post that I can relate to. I hope you don't criticize excessively. 

theqoo

-I also wondered if such a storyline was necessary as I watched the drama. It also reminds me of IU's MV. I wish they would stop portraying going back in time as returning to a body without disabilities. In reality, people with disabilities try to live positively with their conditions. 

-I find it interesting how some people view this drama this way, even when the drama is actually really good.

-There was a similar article before, I thought people would watch the drama first before talking about it. Im Sol wasn't even pessimistic about her disabilities in the first episode. Besides, she didn't go back in time to fix her disability. 

-I also found it a bit disappointing. I think this topic is worth discussing. 

-Honestly, if you had the ability to turn back time, wouldn't you try to make everything better?

-The content of the article is good. It seems they added the disability to the drama, which wasn't originally there, to make it more dramatic. But rather than portraying someone who overcomes discomfort while having a disability, it would have been better if they hadn't made the disability disappear.

-This is exactly the same reaction as when IU's "Love wins all" music video came outㅋㅋㅋ

-The perception that sets disabilities as something to overcome is the problem. Why can't someone just live with a disability?

-I'm annoyed and dislike this drama because of this.

-Ah... seriously, this is too much. I haven't watched this drama, and I don't think I will in the future.

-I don't understand why they keep using disabilities as dramatic material.

'Lovely Runner' ... Reframing Disabilities as Faults