Scandal of Bolbbalgan4’s Members
On January 24th, 2017, there was a piece of highlight news that has been circulating around that one of the members of Bolbbalgan4, Ji-young, was caught liking a post by an anti-fan of IU on Instagram.
The group that consists of two members, Ji-young and Ji-yoon, recently made a cover of a song from IU, but there was a fan who was not happy about it and decided to post a message for Bolbbalgan4 on Instagram.
The fan who wasn’t amused with Bolbbalgan4’s cover of IU’s song complained that the singer has a lolita controversy and it is not recommended to sing like her. The fan’s post read, “Ji-young-ah, Ji-yoon-ah… ㅠㅠ You can sing any singer’s songs during the concert but please do not sing songs from artists who have caused controversies, especially IU… Because she had a lolita controversy and it wasn’t allowed since it’s being hateful against women or being lolita so, please don’t ever sing IU’s songs anymore… ㅠㅠ”
The fans who caught on that Ji-young liked the post made by IU’s anti-fan, quickly asked her to unlike the post before it gathered negative responses to Bolbbalgan4.
Right after receiving a caution from her fans on Instagram, Ji-young made an apology through an Instagram post in a whole white picture and explained the situation that caused the trouble. Here’s the apology from Bolbbalgan4’s Ji-young’s Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPjs6KFBvMQ/?utm_source=ig_embed
“On my Instagram account, I have seen a lot of support for me and my group since I debuted. I would like to give “love” on the posts I was tagged in. Since I have more fans now, there are a lot of posts that I received and due to the large number of posts, I couldn’t reach every single post and could only see them from the pictures without realizing that it was a hateful comment for IU sunbaenim [refers to a senior]. I deeply apologize for my mistakes, to IU, and everyone who found this offensive.”– @hey_miss_true
The scandal was cleared up and it was obvious that Ji-young is not a hater of IU, but it was clearly a mistake since she wasn’t aware of the caption on the Instagram post.
