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Hyorin also on the chopping block for attitude towards fans, issues a quick apology
Article: Hyorin on the chopping block... "How can a person only be smiling for 24 hours 365 days a year"
Source: Star Today via Nate
Hyorin has been swept into a 'straight face' controversy due to a fan signing SISTAR held on the 13th. A fancam started spreading of Hyorin greeting fans with a 'cold/straight face'. Fans pointed it out and she explained, "I came out of the car after sleeping so it's not that I was in a bad mood, I was just trying to wake up."
Fans told her, "It scared us. Our hands are still shaking." Hyorin replied, "How can a person only be smiling for 24 hours 365 days a year, right? I wasn't in a bad mood, I just didn't have a facial expression."
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1. [+1,675, -145] A fan signing is not even meant for fan service but purely for themselves to sell more albums. You cannot treat someone who is out there to spend their money on you like that. Just because she came out of the car sleeping, she expects fans to put up with that kind of attitude? You guys really need to throw away that iljin mindset.
2. [+1,506, -120] A fan signing is still a job... Who does she think she is saying that kind of stuff while on the job??
3. [+1,483, -111] As a celebrity, fan signings are just one of many jobs you're expected to perform in. Just because you're tired does not grant you the liberty of cringing at your customers (fans). You would not expect anyone else in the service industry to greet their customers in such a poor manner.
4. [+173, -7] Getting cocky now that she's popular. You would never imagine this coming out of a rookie's mouth.
5. [+173, -11] No one asked you guys to smile for 24 hours 365 days a year. You are barely with your fans for 1 hour out of 24 hours. No one gives a crap what expression you wear when the cameras are off or when you're in the car... but when you're out in the spotlight at events for brief amounts of time, you expect fans to have to put up with your cold attitude? Even your fans were scared and didn't understand why you would do that to them. What a ridiculous clarification.
6. [+134, -6] Just don't be a celebrity if you can't manage yourself. No one will be sad if SISTAR left the industry right at this moment.
7. [+129, -9] Total celebrity disease ㅋㅋㅋ Do you even know that your fans are the ones putting food on your table?~~
8. [+123, -5] Are you crazy? No one is asking you to smile for 24 fu*king hours. People are criticizing you because you should be grateful for the fans who waited hours for your fan meet instead of greeting them with a cold face. Since when did you think you got so popular? Are your fans a joke to you? They're the ones breaking their backs to buy your albums and CF products... What a joke.
9. [+110, -9] Just quit if you're tired~ Your entire career relies on you selling your smile.
10. [+92, -6] So I guess you run fan signings for 24 hours 365 days a year. If you weren't able to manage your facial expression for that one brief moment, you don't even deserve to call yourself a celebrity. No one's asking you to smile for 24 hours, they're asking you to smile for that brief moment you're meeting with your fans while cameras are rolling. Just because you're getting popular now, don't let that upturned nose poke the sky.
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Article: Hyorin formally issues apology for 'striaght face controversy', "Actions brought about misunderstanding"
Source: Star News via Naver
Hyorin, "I apologize for unintentionally disappointing everyone with the fan signing. I had a fun time at the signing with everyone and I think what I said brought misunderstandings because they were said out of the closeness and comfortableness I feel with my fans. I will not be disappointing you any further. I apologize. I'll be a Hyorin who works harder."
Agency, "Hyorin has no walls when it comes to interacting with her fans. She treats them just like she would treat her friends. Her fans were not angered at all by what she said so we hope there are no misunderstandings."
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1. [+2,825, -124] She can have a straight face... but I'll never accept the fact that she said, "It's raining and the day's all gloomy so let's hurry up with the fan signing and end this quickly." Please apologize for this statement.
2. [+1,566, -56] It's not because of your straight face that you're on the chopping block... It's because of the statement "It's raining and the day's all gloomy so let's hurry up with the fan signing and end this quickly." Getting so cocky now that you're a bit popular.
3. [+1,756, -291] While Hyorin's issuing formal apologies for not managing her facial expression, another kid who said a Chinese swear on broadcast isn't saying anything other than an apology from the PD ㅎㅎ
4. [+1,404, -64] I was at the fan signing and I still can't forget the way Hyorin looked pissed off to be there
5. [+1,345, -27] For Hyorin, it might just be a brief event where she slaps on a few autographs and leaves but fans have been waiting for her for hours with excited, fluttering hearts just to be able to have a glimpse at her face. No matter how tired she was, she could've smiled for them. Now I know why SISTAR doesn't have a big fandom.
6. [+1,302, -11] Wanna know why Robert Downey Jr. and Brad Pitt are so expected? Because we all know they have killer schedules a hundred times busier than yours but they still make sure to smile to each of their fans even in Korea. Just singing or acting isn't your only job, promoting yourself and meeting your fans are also included as a part of your 'job'.
7. [+779, -25] I knew while watching Beatles Code that Hyorin or Soyu would screw up like this one day. They suck at managing their facial expressions, especially in front of seniors, and speak informally without regard.
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Source: Nate
1. [+469, -66] At least she apologized. What are plagiarism Roy Kim and cao ni ma Sulli doing other than making excuses?
2. [+350, -41] There was a lot of room for misunderstanding for anyone from the outside looking in because it's not like they'd know how close she is with her fans. There will also, of course, be people who feel uncomfortable with how 'open' or 'cool' she is. There's a very thin line between being cool and looking disrespectful, so I hope she takes this opportunity to grow and learn from it. It's good that she recognized the situation and apologized right away for it.
3. [+336, -103] There was room for misunderstanding and not very humble on her end. The people who were actually there said that the atmosphere was great ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Are all the people hating on her people who were even there? ㅋㅋㅋ Why is it the people who weren't there that are getting more worked up over this????
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