{"id":21858,"date":"2022-02-12T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T22:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=21858"},"modified":"2022-02-12T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T22:44:09","slug":"aespas-karina-and-boa-under-fire-for-alleged-racist-comment-against-snsds-hyoyeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/aespas-karina-and-boa-under-fire-for-alleged-racist-comment-against-snsds-hyoyeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Aespa&#8217;s Karina and BoA under fire for alleged &#8220;racist&#8221; joke against SNSD\u2019s Hyoyeon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The members of SM Entertainment&#8217;s new group &#8216;<strong>Girls on Top<\/strong>&#8216; are currently coming under criticism after alleged &#8220;<em><strong>racist comments<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; in their latest YouTube video. In particular, netizens have expressed concern about the current problem of &#8220;<em>colorism<\/em>&#8221; within Korean society.<\/p>\n<p>On February 9th, the members appeared in a YouTube video where they sat in groups and answered questions about each other. In particular, soloist <strong>BoA<\/strong>, aespa&#8217;s Karina, and Girls&#8217; Generation&#8217;s <strong>Hyoyeon<\/strong> were in a group chatting with each other.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rSIT_LRgopQ&amp;t=223s\" title=\"\ud83d\udca5Girls On Top : Let\u2019s get to the TOP\ud83d\udca5\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rSIT_LRgopQ?start=223&#038;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>However, one comment set social media on fire, but not in a good way. The girls had to describe their first impressions of each other in five characters. While some of the girls used really sweet comments like \u201c<em><strong>a cute teddy bea<\/strong><strong>r<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, BoA&#8217;s comment to Hyoyeon was somewhat \u201c<em>offensive<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>BoA said that her first impression of Hyoyeon was, &#8220;<em><strong>She&#8217;s really tanned<\/strong><\/em>.&#8221; Korean beauty standards are known to consist of having \u201cpale skin,\u201d and many thought that BoA&#8217;s comment had negative connotations.<\/p>\n<p>However, Karina was also criticized after she was seen laughing out loud at the comment. Although Hyoyeon did the same and replied, \u201c<em><strong>Why was I so tanned?<\/strong><\/em>\u201d It felt as if Karina and BoA were laughing at Hyoyeon, who also seemed to find it funny.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/orbitwolz\/status\/1491864100464439304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491864100464439304%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.koreaboo.com%2Fnews%2Fboa-aespa-karina-girls-generation-hyoyeon-colorist-remarks%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/orbitwolz\/status\/1491864100464439304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491864100464439304%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.koreaboo.com%2Fnews%2Fboa-aespa-karina-girls-generation-hyoyeon-colorist-remarks%2F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Netizens emphasized this attitude in Korean society which is still considered normalized. Others expressed their disappointment that the <strong>idols<\/strong> were so open with their reactions to a comment that could be taken as offensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The members of SM Entertainment&#8217;s new group &#8216;Girls on Top&#8216; are currently coming under criticism after alleged &#8220;racist comments&#8221; in their latest YouTube video. In particular, netizens have expressed concern about the current problem of &#8220;colorism&#8221; within Korean society. On February 9th, the members appeared in a YouTube video where they sat in groups and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3106,"featured_media":21859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,950,1361],"tags":[1019,1415],"class_list":{"0":"post-21858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"category-showbiz","10":"category-social-network","11":"tag-aespa","12":"tag-karina"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858","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\/3106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}