SENSITIVE CONTENT [2/8] Kpop News Roundup (Madein, Dara, Ive, and more)

[RussianRoulette]

Howdy Howdy Everyone

In today's news update I have kind of a bit of sensitive content so please take caution.

I'm going to start with the sensitive content and then jump into the regular news updates.

(Sensitive content will have the titles in red)
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Madein Controversy Continues
Madein has made their comeback and as mentioned here before there has been a push for a mass boycott of the comeback.

The group has been in many controversies recently regarding mistreatment of the members and this comeback is not the end of it.

In the music video for their comeback people have become upset over the group's youngest member, Nagomi, being styled in an inappropriate bodysuit.

Nagomi is a minor and is currently only 17 years old.

Here is a censored picture of Nagomi under spoiler along with a picture of the inappropriate bodysuit from the product's website:

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Fans are still continuing to push for the boycott of the comeback and have begun trending the hashtag #PROTECTNAGOMI online, and once again Madein's company 143 has been mass blocking people online who are supporting the boycott.

2NE1 Dara underfire
2NE1's Dara, aka Sandra Park, has been getting attacked online due to a clip from her youtube show "Dara TV' from 8 months ago circulating online.

In the clip (which I will include under spoiler) Dara is laughing and sharing a story of how when she was 19 she dated a 14 yr old boy in the Philippines who she thought was cute by lying to him and saying she was only 16.

Fans are deeply disturbed by how she was lying about her age to date someone so much younger, and are additionally disturbed by how she's just laughing it off.

Here is the trending clip and the full youtube episode:

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Now we are onto our regular news updates

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Jisoo's Advice

Jisoo answering random questions online have been trending a lot recently!

Here is a compilation of some of her life advice:

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Many people across twitter are now wishing she will start her own podcast or youtube series so we may all continue to heart Jisoo's thoughts and advice on the world.

Keep slaying Jisoo!


German Liz

So from IVE's Eleven music video a meme started by fans calling Liz german based on the outfit she wore in the music video which people said made her look german:

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Liz has recently acknowledged the ongoing joke by addressing it on a recent show with their latest album promotions:



Fans are laughing and are really happy Liz called out the joke and also finds it funny!

Jackson Karaoke

Speaking of funny, fans everywhere has been laughing at a video of Jackson from Got7's recent concert!

During Just Right Jackson stole one of the lyric monitors and turned it to the audience to have them sing the song.

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Youngjae later joined him and BamBam was laughing when he saw it.
It seems staff was struggling a bit to get the monitor back as well.

Glad you all had a good concert Got7!

Chuu Commercial Feature

Chuu has recently became the new spokesperson (?) for worker's rights and fair wages in Korea!
She was recently in a commercial advocating for employment insurance & worker's compensation registrations.

I've never really seen a Kpop idol (or celebrity in general?) become a spokesperson for something like this before, so I think this is really cool! I'm happy to see Chuu use her celebrity status to advocate for worker's right!

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Way to go Chuu!

T.O.P Future Activities

TOP 최승현🌙 on Instagram

1M likes, 38K comments - ttt on February 4, 2025

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Top has been posting what seems to be new profile shots on his instagram over the past few days.

In TOP's netflix interviews for Netflix he did express that he planned on releasing new music this year.

I think it's also up in the air whether or not Thanos will be making a return in season 3 of squid games?

The rumors I am hearing are that he will make a return as a hallucination that Namgyu sees? I haven't kept up with the Netflix stuff recently so I have no idea if there's a source confirming this or not. Netflix has been heavily implying Thanos will be somehow be involved in season 3 though.

He hasn't addressed whether he will be continuing acting, but with all of these profile shots that he's been releasing Korean media outlets are speculating he will be formally returning to acting soon. Here is an article speculating it.

Happy Birthday

There's two people I would like to wish a happy birthday to today, Johnny and Chungha!

Happy 30th Birthday to Johnny! I feel like you debuted just yesterday, how are you 30 years old already?


May you have many blessings in your 30's!

Happy 29th birthday to Chungha! My favorite female soloist! Good luck on your comeback on the 12th! May you get a lot of success from it!




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Since it's a slow weekend today's QOTD is:
What are your weekend plans?

Aside from work, my weekend plans are just netflix (I am currently streaming the Kdrama: The Trama Code: Hero's On Call)
and making a valentines day present for my grandma

See you next time for a kpop news roundup!
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[choively]

The city here is boring , there's nothing fun here

 

[hatmixx]

idk what reaction to even give this post. theres so much....wtf and then jisoo xD

 

[BianTwo]

Weekend plan is to mostly rest



As for the news :

Madein is stuck, all the fans can do is to not give the company any money and hope that the members will get out as soon as possible.

Why would Dara even tell such a story

Jisoo's answers are quite unique, it's an fresh air from classic and generic replies.

Liz is obviously aware of this, as long as it's fun for everyone

 

[Beefy]

Dara has seemed like an airhead like how have we not grown and learned when something is appropriate is to say or not at her big age?


and I’ll be seeing aespa tonight! The rest of the weekend will be sleeping