Yerin, from the popular girl group GFRIEND, released her second mini album "Ready, Set, LOVE" on the 23rd of last month, making her return to the music industry. Recently, while appearing on a variety show on the YouTube channel "the_myeonsang", she faced distasteful treatment by the host, sparking anger among netizens.
On the 23rd, a netizen shared a post titled "Yerin being treated disgustingly by a host" on an online discussion forum. The post includes a clip from a YouTube channel.
As seen in the video, Yerin first greeted the camera, after which the host immediately made a gesture as if wanting to hug her. Seeing this, Yerin immediately crouched down intentionally to avoid him.
Not only that, during the interview, the host held up his own picture and pretended to kiss Yerin by sticking it on her face, causing Yerin to reveal an awkward and helpless smile. He also attempted to pretend as if he wanted to touch Yerin's chest.
Next, the host invited Yerin to join him in a dance challenge. The main move involved twisting your thumb and index finger. However, the host intentionally dug his finger into his nostrils while performing the move, even purposefully smearing it on Yerin's pillow that was placed on her lap, which startled Yerin and made her quickly dodge away.
After the video was exposed, netizens were very angry, leaving comments like "Why keep saying you don't want to have physical contact with Yerin, but continuously cross the line. Didn't you see Yerin's eyes? Apologize now", "It's really disgusting. Can you keeps filming? This is too absurd".
"Any normal person would find this clip disgusting," "I hate these self-proclaimed funny hosts," "I can totally see how helpless and scared Yerin was at that moment," "Apologize now!", "Don't touch Yerin," "Oh! It's so annoying, don't pretend to touch Yerin," and such, rising voices of anger.
