I just hope this doesn't affect Secret and Hyosung too much. It shouldn't be that big of a deal, people are just way too quick to assume things >_<. Just like T-ara's case, had the korean netizens not make a big deal out of their tweets, KKS wouldn't have made such ridiculous comments about it and make matters worse
. At least in this case TSENT immediately claimed Hyosung didn't know what the word meant, and Hyosung apologized right away and will "reflect" upon her actions.
The only good that comes out of this at the moment, is that the ilbe users are buying a lot of Secret stuff. Sales are sales right?
A little extra info on why people have associated her with the ilbe community.
only ilbe users say 민주화시키다(forcibly democratize). its different from 민주화하다(democratize). there's no way she could've heard it from non ilbe users. not sure she read ilbe boards though. ilbe users are everywhere. you can easily find them on nate, dc gallery etc. but still this is very disappointing. she sounded so stupid...
I'd like to think people would probably just be calling her stupid and that would be the end of if she used 민주화하다(democratize), since that word has no connection with the ilbe community and has no extra meaning behind it. But since she didn't, well yea
. There was also a comment on why Koreans despise the ilbe community so much but I can't find it anymore. But they are
really looked down upon by society.