{"id":140856,"date":"2025-04-23T05:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=140856"},"modified":"2025-04-23T05:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:26:21","slug":"gi-dles-soyeon-spills-the-tea-idols-should-be-able-to-date-smoke-and-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/gi-dles-soyeon-spills-the-tea-idols-should-be-able-to-date-smoke-and-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"(G)I-DLE\u2019s Soyeon spills the tea: idols should be able to date, smoke, and drink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(G)I-DLE\u2019s Soyeon<\/strong> is done playing nice! On a recent variety show, she clapped back at Korea\u2019s unrealistic expectations of K-pop idols when they become adults, especially when it comes to smoking, drinking, and dating. Her message? We\u2019re adults, not robots.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dunY-htkwzc\" title=\"\uc544\uc774\ub3cc, \uc5f0\uc560\ud574\ub3c4 \ub420\uae4c?\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dunY-htkwzc?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<p>Sitting down alongside SE SO NEON\u2019s Soyoon, Soyeon called out the hate idols face for doing perfectly legal adult things. \u201c<em><strong>Smoking isn\u2019t illegal<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d she said bluntly. \u201c<em><strong>Adults can smoke, adults can drink<\/strong><\/em>.\u201d She then roasted the idea that idols can\u2019t date, saying that love is as natural as breathing.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/1912442604240744761\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(G)I-DLE&#39;s Soyeon opens up about smoking and dating rules among kpop idols:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;One of the things people think is bad but isn&#39;t, is smoking. Smoking isn&#39;t illegal. Adults can smoke, adults can drink. If someone wants to date, they should.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JT1oaFgWa1\">pic.twitter.com\/JT1oaFgWa1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; About Music (@AboutMusicYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AboutMusicYT\/status\/1912442604240744761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The (G)I-DLE member admitted that idols face real consequences for having a life. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to hide it,\u201d she said about dating, but she prepared for the \u201c<strong><em>consequences<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d she said. The \u201cSe\u00f1orita\u201d hitmaker said that idols often have no privacy, and she\u2019s not wrong\u2014Some K-pop stars have their every move treated like a scandal. This is not the first time Soyeon has given strong opinions on taboo topics in South Korea! Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/2024\/07\/24\/gi-dles-soyeon-makes-bold-statements-about-feminism-and-lgbtq-rights\/\">she mentioned the double standard for men talking about sexual themes in their music and defended LGBTQ people<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(G)I-DLE\u2019s Soyeon is done playing nice! On a recent variety show, she clapped back at Korea\u2019s unrealistic expectations of K-pop idols when they become adults, especially when it comes to smoking, drinking, and dating. Her message? We\u2019re adults, not robots. Sitting down alongside SE SO NEON\u2019s Soyoon, Soyeon called out the hate idols face for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":140857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-140856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140856","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=140856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140856"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=140856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}