{"id":110120,"date":"2024-04-10T14:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=110120"},"modified":"2024-04-10T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T18:51:18","slug":"edited-photos-of-aespa-cause-controversy-due-to-skin-tone-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/edited-photos-of-aespa-cause-controversy-due-to-skin-tone-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Edited photos of aespa cause controversy due to skin tone standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet gives no break to girl group <strong>aespa<\/strong>! <strong>This time, controversy sparked due to some photos of the group members, where they can be seen with their natural skin tones<\/strong>. The snaps were the catalyst for debate between fans and non-fans, giving their points of view on beauty standards and skin tones.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here&#8217;s that Kpop tea: it all went down at a <strong>New York Yankees game<\/strong>, where members Karina, Winter, and NingNing were photographed. In the pictures, the trio seem to have their natural skin tones, with no trace of editing from other users.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-110126\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/aespa-new-york-game.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/aespa-new-york-game.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/aespa-new-york-game-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/aespa-new-york-game-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/aespa-new-york-game-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/aespa-new-york-game-750x500.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/aespa-new-york-game-1140x760.jpeg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The pictures in question can be found in an article titled \u201c<em>This Is The Reason Why Foreigners Criticize Korean Editing<\/em>,\u201d which the author used to call out South Korean users and media for creating unrealistic <strong>beauty standards<\/strong>. The reason? Some Koreans edit photos to look much paler or white.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as the article was posted, users reacted with mixed opinions. Some said these pictures really show a problem with Korean editing, while others expressed this was no problem international fans should mind. What&#8217;s your take on this?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dzgRuj1eyUE&amp;ab_channel=ArirangNews\" title=\"K-pop girl group Aespa throws ceremonial first pitch for New York Yankees\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dzgRuj1eyUE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet gives no break to girl group aespa! This time, controversy sparked due to some photos of the group members, where they can be seen with their natural skin tones. The snaps were the catalyst for debate between fans and non-fans, giving their points of view on beauty standards and skin tones. Now, here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":110127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[1019],"class_list":{"0":"post-110120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-aespa"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110120","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\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}