{"id":101706,"date":"2024-01-16T14:20:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=101706"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T21:50:25","slug":"newjeans-minji-apologizes-for-a-strong-controversy-due-to-fan-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/newjeans-minji-apologizes-for-a-strong-controversy-due-to-fan-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"NewJeans&#8217; Minji apologizes for a strong controversy due to fan harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 16th, <strong>NewJeans<\/strong> member <strong>Minji<\/strong> had to <strong>apologize<\/strong> through a long letter to Phoning for a recent and strong controversy that went viral on social networks and even made the idol receive fan harassment.<\/p>\n<p>All started when the K-Pop group members appeared on a broadcast with the streamer <strong>ChimChakMan<\/strong>, where they were talking about the types of noodles when Minji asked, &#8220;<em><strong>What is kalguksu?<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; which shocked fans who started sending negative comments for not knowing this food.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, the artist explained that she did not mean what it was but how it tastes; due to being a picky eater, <strong>she hasn&#8217;t eaten it<\/strong>. However, without knowing her reason, <strong>she was attacked by fans<\/strong> who claimed that she was &#8220;<em>pretending to have the concept of a rich, luxurious girl who studied overseas<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9t8QSoIz6a4&#038;t=21s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9t8QSoIz6a4&amp;t=21s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On January 2nd, the idol responded to all comments in a livestream, saying, &#8220;<em>Everyone, do you think I wouldn\u2019t know what kalguksu is? So, what\u2019s kalguksu mean, like&#8230; Would I not know, everyone? Think about it twice. <strong>That\u2019s right. I didn\u2019t know; that\u2019s why I said I didn\u2019t<\/strong>. Do you all know how many types of kalguksu there are and the ingredients that go into them?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later, Minji recognized her hard words and sent an apology letter where she explained her position in the controversy and apologized for her actions: &#8220;<em><strong>I am truly sorry<\/strong> to the Bunnies, who must have been surprised and hurt that I showed a bad attitude during a live broadcast<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/minnie_jii\/status\/1747257349457523061<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 16th, NewJeans member Minji had to apologize through a long letter to Phoning for a recent and strong controversy that went viral on social networks and even made the idol receive fan harassment. All started when the K-Pop group members appeared on a broadcast with the streamer ChimChakMan, where they were talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":101720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[1747],"class_list":{"0":"post-101706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-newjeans"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}