{"id":142320,"date":"2025-05-16T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=142320"},"modified":"2025-05-16T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T19:45:00","slug":"illit-booed-at-the-sogang-festival-heres-what-went-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/illit-booed-at-the-sogang-festival-heres-what-went-down\/","title":{"rendered":"ILLIT booed at the Sogang Festival? Here\u2019s what went down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie girl group <strong>ILLIT<\/strong> had their <strong>Sogang University<\/strong> performance shaken\u2014not by their dancing, but by fandom drama. Right before they hit the stage, a fan loudly shouted, \u201c<strong>It\u2019s NewJeans Haerin\u2019s birthday!<\/strong>\u201d during a crowd warm-up. The result? A wave of awkward booing, turning what should\u2019ve been ILLIT\u2019s shining moment into an internet moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a1071364\/status\/1923019127846752751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/a1071364\/status\/1923019127846752751<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The MC tried damage control, steering the mood back to celebration. But the tension was real, especially considering that ILLIT and NewJeans have been previously involved in legal drama. Back on March 7, 2025, <strong>NewJeans\u2019 Hanni<\/strong> revealed that a HYBE (the company both groups share) staff member instructed the ILLIT members to ignore her in the building. Then, NewJeans\u2019 former CEO, <strong>Min Hee Jin<\/strong>, accused ILLIT of copying NewJeans.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Splias\/status\/1877640622854561988\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Belift has ultimately admitted That they plagiarised NewJeans with their girl group ILLIT they claim in court that even if min heejins claims are true they want to sue her for exposing them <\/p>\n<p>Min heejins has submitted over 1000 pieces of evidence privately to the court <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mOErm7eBGA\">pic.twitter.com\/mOErm7eBGA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lia (@Liaovux) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liaovux\/status\/1877640622854561988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 10, 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>Consequently, online forums lit up, with Sogang students calling the moment \u201cdisrespectful\u201d and criticizing the fan\u2019s timing. To be clear: the boos weren\u2019t directed at ILLIT, but the situation only added fuel to the already sizzling fandom feud. While the girls kept it professional and performed as planned, this incident shows how fragile things are in K-pop\u2019s internal label wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rookie girl group ILLIT had their Sogang University performance shaken\u2014not by their dancing, but by fandom drama. Right before they hit the stage, a fan loudly shouted, \u201cIt\u2019s NewJeans Haerin\u2019s birthday!\u201d during a crowd warm-up. The result? A wave of awkward booing, turning what should\u2019ve been ILLIT\u2019s shining moment into an internet moment. The MC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":142321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[3160],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-142320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-illit"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142320","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=142320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142320"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=142320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}