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Photo: Lee Young-ho/Sipa USA/Alamy Stock Photo On April 5, Source Music and HYBE unveiled the second member of their brand-new girl group, Le Sserafim: 16-year-old Kim Garam. By May 20, the labels had announced that Garam would go on an indefinite hiatus due to bullying allegations that had metastasized on Korean internet forums and K-pop Twitter.
So in addition to these horny cartoons, there were bullying allegations? Various anecdotes, which more or less amounted to hearsay from classmates, set the internet aflame. “She was popular in middle school for being a same-grade school violence assailant,” someone alleged in text messages translated by Pannchoa. These same texts accuse Garam of bullying those younger than her through Facebook messages if they didn’t greet her, smoking and drinking, and extorting students.
You’re telling me that Source Music and HYBE debuted the group despite Garam’s online controversies? After the release of the group’s first EP, Fearless, Le Sserafim immediately enjoyed success both at home and abroad. Both the album and its eponymous lead single appeared on the Korean Gaon, Billboard 200, Billboard Global 200, and Billboard Japan charts. As is standard in K-pop, the group performed their singles on a variety of Korean music shows, gave interviews, and had a debut showcase.
Yoo Eunseo was receiving messages on social media saying she is maliciously slandering Kim Garam or that she is an orc who was just jealous of pretty girls. More comments like, ‘She redid everything on her face, but she’s still ugly,’ ‘She’s slandering because she’s jealous,’ were also received. What was worse, some messages and posts even shared photos of Yoo Eunseo, blurring her out and threatening her with messages like, ‘Thanks for taking care of the blur.
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